Contempo Café — Restaurant in Bay Lake

This quick service eatery is located in the Contemporary and right under the monorail. That's about it for the wow factor here!

I stayed at this hotel for one night before I met family in the Orlando area, so I got the chance to eat here twice.

I stopped in here in the evening after a visit to the Magic Kingdom. I'm not the biggest fan of the food on property, but I was hungry and didn't want to drive anyplace.

I was looking for something small to eat, so I ended up with a kids meal flatbread pizza for $6.99. Apparently, it came with sides but that was not clearly communicated to me, which is a bit frustrating.

The pizza I had from here was a decent portion for someone moderately hungry and it actually tasted good. I would eat it again, it was a lot better than some of the other Disney pizzas at the parks.

The set up for ordering is reverse what you would find at most cafeteria style restaurants. Usually you pick up something and THEN go pay, but it's the opposite here. I was also confused about whether I needed to wait at a counter for the food or if it would be brought out to me.

The next morning I was crunched for time, but wanted a hot breakfast item so I got the mickey waffle with strawberries for $7.99. It was a small size and came with one strawberry, the waffle was pretty average.

I see that they sell the refillable mugs, so that is probably something to consider buying if you are staying...

We stayed at bay lake for a night on our way down to Vero beach, and to maximize our stays we got the quick service dining plan. For a one night visit it makes sense if you continue to stay on property as the mugs alone make up for half the cost of the plan. So for lunch we headed to contemporary Cafe, we all had some pretty ok food, the flatbread and patty melt were the clear winners, but the burger and the Italian sub were pretty ok too. Finding a seat here can be a challenge, especially if you like to eat at traditional meal times, so plan accordingly. For dinner we were still stuffed from lunch, so we just had cinnamon rolls and used a snack credit, essentially anything over $7 is where the sweet spot lies for snack credit usage. Anyways, the cinnamon rolls were good, but they were not warmed as advertised, so I took a star off cos I've been up since 4am and drove 7 hours to get here, you could of warmed my darn cinnamon roll. Also atmosphere sucks, so many angry grumpy people, it's disney for goodness sake, but God forbid you get a soda before someone or reach over to use the mug wash... oh well, breakfast...

We had a good experience for lunch. We ate in the dining room. Kierston rang up our order, She was very nice and helpful. She said there wasn't a charge for a cup of ice for water, We were pleasantly surprised for a tourist place like Disney not charging. We order toasted turkey sandwiches and fries. It was very good. Here's the good service reason for 5 stars. We waited about 25 minutes, and our food never showed. There was only a handful of customers in the dining room. We never said anything, but Kierston came over and said the kitchen must have lost our order and asked for our receipt. She came back a few minutes later with 2 large cookies, she apologize and said these were complimentary for us because of how long our food was taken. About 5 minutes later, our food was brought to us. I've owned a restaurant for 26 years, and this is what I would expect my employees to do. Great customer care! Kudos to Kierston! Oh! BTW... It's pretty cool to watch the monorail glide through the hotel while...