Whether you’re looking for a meal, dessert, or both, you’ll enjoy the atmosphere and nostalgia at the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant. Sit inside near the old-fashioned ice cream counter or outside under red-and-white umbrellas. Best of all, you’ll be served by a friendly waiter or waitress. It’s great to relax at a real, table-service restaurant during a hectic theme park visit.

Choose from a variety of sandwiches, salads, soups, and natural specialties. Or how about Mickey’s Chunky Pot Pie for lunch?

Ready for dessert? Try a Matterhorn Sundae or a Victorian Banana Split. Maybe you’d rather have a Big Thunder Sundae, made with large scoops of rocky road, chocolate chip, and coffee ice cream, with hot fudge, hot caramel, whipped cream, toasted almonds, and a cherry.

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In Disneyland, the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor was a Main Street institution dating back to opening day in 1955. In 1977, the restaurant expanded to fill West Center Street with an outdoor dining area. In January 1997, the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor closed.

The good news is that the outdoor area has survived as the Carnation Café after an extensive remodeling, completed March 1997. Guests can order from a traditional breakfast menu or new lunch and dinner menus. Along with the Blue Bayou Restaurant and the revived Cafe Orleans, the Carnation Café is one of three public table-service restaurants in Disneyland Park.

The space occupied by the Carnation Ice Cream Parlor since 1955 is now the counter-service Blue Ribbon Bakery, hosted by Nestlé Toll House. Offering today’s trendy foods in a turn-of-the-century atmosphere, the bakery serves items such as:

• Fresh-baked cinnamon rolls, fruit-filled croissants, and scones
• Sandwiches made on fresh baguettes and focaccia bread
• Gourmet coffee drinks such as expresso and cappuccino

Next door, guests will find a new place to buy ice cream—the Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor, hosted by Nestlé Ice Cream—in the space that had been the old Blue Ribbon Bakery (and previously the Sunkist Citrus House).

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Updated August 9, 2007.

Photograph of Carnation Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant: 1996 by Werner Weiss
Photograph of Carnation Ice Cream Parlor and Restaurant patio: 1996 by Werner Weiss
Photograph of girl eating a sundae: 1996 by Werner Weiss