Downtown Disney | Shopping and Dinner at Naples Ristorante

 

The personal sized Pepperoni Pizza from Naples Ristorante in Downtown Disney.

After visiting the Pixar Place Hotel and then dining at the Disneyland Hotel on our non-park day, we did some shopping in Downtown Disney. Then we relaxed in our hotel room, and our boys spent some time in the pool. We walked back to Downtown Disney for our reservation at Naples Ristorante, a pizza and pasta restaurant. 

New since our last visit is Wonderful World of Sweets. This Disney candy and dessert shop took over the old The Dress Shop and Marceline's Confectionary, which we visited last time. The store is now twice the size and chock full of Disney confectionaries. It was hard to choose what to buy! 

They have fresh-popped caramel corn sold by the bag, which is the same Werther's Original you can buy in Epcot. I purchased a bag and brought it home to eat! I also selected a Peanut Butter Square treat which was huge and took a few days to polish off. It was really rich and perfect for the peanut butter and chocolate lovers. My son bought a Mickey Lollipop which also took some time to finish. We also tried two 70th Anniversary treats, which you can read about here. 

Next, we checked out the Storyland Boutique close by. Here I was so happy to see some Duffy and Friends merchandise! I bought a Duffy pin which I love, and I contemplated buying a Duffy, but I settled on a selfie with him instead. I should have bought him and I have regrets. The Duffy and Friends merch had arrived on the day we visited and I heard it flew off the shelfs right away. 

Then we went to World of Disney where I bought my boys each a hat. One was a Baymax bucket hat and the other chose a Pluto hat with flopping ears and everything! I didn't buy anything here for myself, but I did see some really neat Baymax and Up ears. 

When we arrived for our dinner reservation at Naples, we were asked if we wanted to sit outside or inside. I told them inside and we had to go upstairs into another dining room. The second-floor dining room didn't look as upscale as downstairs. There was also an upstairs patio that would have been fun. My husband started with a Manhattan to drink. I had a Diet Coke. We all started with the Garlic Pull-Apart Bread. This looked really fancy and unique. But the texture was pretty mushy for us and it wasn't a favorite. 

We also shared a Ceasar Salad that was pretty plain and didn't have enough dressing. Our boys each got a pizza from the kid's menu and they really enjoyed it. My husband and I shared a personal sized pepperoni pizza. For a personal size, it was big enough for two, especially with the salad and appetizer we shared. The pizza style was wood fired which was fine, but I was expecting more of an authentic Neapolitan style for some reason, probably my own silly assumptions. 

We have a lot of solid pizza in Seattle, so when we travel around the U.S it can be hard to find incredible pizza. All this to say, Naples satisfies a pizza craving and when I go on trips I like to eat pizza at least once. And Naples pizza is a whole heck of a lot better than the pizza in the parks. I'm looking at you, Pizza Planet. 

A Manhattan from Naples Ristorante. This was made well and the sip I got hit the spot! 

The upstairs dining room was just ok, but I loved the look of the main dining room downstairs.

This appetizer looked fab, but the filling was quite mushy.

The view of Downtown Disney from the upstairs patio at Naples.

Such a pretty dining room at Naples! Request to sit in this area if you can. Check out Naples to scratch that itch for pizza on your Disneyland trip. But there are plenty of other great restaurants at the hotels and in Downtown Disney to visit for other types of food. 

We had a relaxing and fun day checking out two Disneyland hotels, see those posts here and here, shopping and eating in Downtown Disney, and some down time at our hotel! This is essential for any Disney trip, and pro-tip- take your rest day in between your park days to rest those feet.