When River Belle Terrace reopened after a fairly lengthy refurbishment in December 2007, it opened with a new menu, featuring sandwiches and salads rather than fried chicken and ribs. Though Lee and I have eaten breakfast here several times since then (love those Mickey Mouse pancakes!), we hadn’t tried the regular menu until recently.

The meat in the sandwiches (and salads) is either hand-carved turkey or prime rib, or pulled pork. (Vegetarian versions are also available.) Lee and I tried the turkey and pork sandwiches. The sandwiches come with no condiments or toppings at all – instead you help yourself at the toppings bar after you pay. There are selections like lettuce and tomato, onions, pepperoncinis, pickles, and mayo, mustard and bbq sauce. I’m sure there were others that I don’t remember.

You get beans and one cold side dish (which you choose yourself from the refrigerated case) with your sandwich. They had pasta salad, coleslaw, lentil salad, and fruit. Maybe potato salad as well.

As you can see from this picture, the sandwich pretty much filled the plate, which made it difficult to pile on the toppings. The turkey was very tasty, though – it was slices of white meat and not at all dry.

The pork came with BBQ sauce already on it, and it was pretty good – but not very spicy or sweet. I would’ve liked a little more flavor. I didn’t detect any fat or gristle in it, though.

The beans were very good, and Lee really liked the pasta salad. They are expensive sandwiches, though – $12.99 each, and they aren’t really that big – if we had split one that would not have been enough food.

Would we eat here again? Yes, though only if the lines were too long at the Disneyland restaurants we like better (and where we feel we get better value for the money) – Plaza Inn, Redd Rocket’s, and Rancho del Zocalo. Though we’ll be still be eating breakfast at River Belle!

You can see the menu HERE.