The Turf Club Reopens September 30 With a Menu That Drops the New York Strip, the Pork Chop and the Scallop Pasta

Disney said Wednesday that The Turf Club Bar and Grill reopens at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa on September 30, and published the restaurant's new menu. No prices came with it, which is standard for a first look, and it leaves the most useful question open a week out.

There are two places to fill that gap from, and both of them are Disney's own. The company's dining page for the restaurant is still carrying the pre-refurbishment menu, prices and all, seven days out from the reopening. The page for The Turf Club Lounge next door, which came back at the end of August with the same rebuilt bar and a shorter version of the same kitchen's list, has already switched over to the new dishes with prices attached. Read against each other, those two pages fill in most of what the announcement leaves out.

Five of the eight entrees are being replaced

Disney has not called any of these dishes replacements. But both menus carry exactly eight entrees, three names appear on both, and lined up, the rest pair off cleanly.

The Char-grill New York Strip Steak, $39, gives way to a Char-grilled Butcher's Steak with roasted garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and a house-made steak sauce. Disney has not said what cut that is, and the name is a long-standing butcher's nickname for the hanger. The Bourbon-Apple Glazed Pork Chop, $33, gives way to a Braised Pork Shank with New York cheddar grits and a bacon-bourbon glaze. The Buttermilk-fried Herb Chicken, $29, becomes Corn Flake-breaded Fried Chicken and Waffle with roasted jalapeño maple syrup and candied bacon butter. The Tempura-fried Hen of the Wood Mushroom, $26, the kitchen's meatless entree, becomes a Spinach and Mushroom Linguini that Disney labels plant-based, built on a mushroom cream sauce and a basil-tofu ricotta.

The fifth swap is the quiet one. Pappardelle Scallop Pasta, $35, keeps its asparagus and its truffle sauce and becomes Pappardelle Shrimp Pasta. Carrying over unchanged in name: the Slow-roasted Prime Rib at $39, the Smoked Salmon-wrapped Halibut at $36 and the Turf Club Burger at $25.

One appetizer is simply gone. The Onion Ring Tower, $12, is on neither the new restaurant list nor the rebuilt lounge menu, which also no longer carries the Buffalo Chicken Dip.

A caution on what is missing: the old menu's paid enhancements included Caramelized Scallops with Bacon Glaze at $12, Parmesan-crusted Shrimp at $8 and a $6 Turf Club Butter Board, and Disney's post lists no enhancements at all. Read that as unconfirmed rather than cut. The same post also leaves out the entire kids' menu, the fountain drinks and every price, and nobody thinks the kids' menu is going anywhere. Absence from a first look is not proof of removal. What is fair to say is that with the scallop pasta becoming shrimp, there is no scallop anywhere in what Disney published.

What is arriving

Crispy Chicken Wings join the appetizers with a choice of buffalo or garlic-Parmesan sauce. The Golden-fried Calamari keeps the calamari and changes cuisine entirely: the old plate was classic aïoli, Roma tomato sauce, pepperoncini and lemon, and the new one, renamed Golden-fried Calamari with Shishito Peppers, is toasted sesame aïoli and sweet chili-lime sauce. Sautéed Shrimp is renamed Lemon Butter Shrimp and picks up toasted bread. The French Onion Soup gains sherry in the broth.

Every dessert turns over, and every one lands in the slot it vacated. The Signature Chocolate Cake becomes a Chocolate-Hazelnut Cake. The Salted Caramel Crème Brûlée becomes a Salted Caramel Pot de Crème. The plant-based Seasonal Cobbler becomes a plant-based Apple Tart. And the New York-style Cheesecake, vanilla-cherry with a cherry panna cotta, becomes a Vanilla Bean Cheesecake with strawberry sauce, which leaves a restaurant themed to upstate New York without a New York cheesecake. The state keeps its other footholds: the new pork shank arrives on New York cheddar grits, and the New York Sour and the New York Old Fashioned both stay behind the bar.

The Land pavilion credit falls from seven dishes to two

Disney's announcement made a point of the halibut's nasturtium garnish, grown at The Land pavilion at EPCOT. That garnish used to have a lot more company.

The menu Disney's site is still showing credits The Land on seven dishes: pea tendrils on the Brussels sprouts, marigold on the wedge salad, nasturtium on the halibut, nasturtium again on the mushroom entree, mixed greens on the burger, viola on the chocolate cake and begonia on the cheesecake. The menu Disney published Wednesday credits it on two, the wedge salad and the halibut.

A blog post is not a printed menu, so the fair test is the lounge page, which is Disney's own live menu data rather than a summary. Three of those seven dishes appear on it, and they split two to one. The rebuilt Brussels sprouts description drops the pea tendrils entirely. The burger description now reads "lettuce" where the restaurant's read "mixed greens from The Land Pavilion at EPCOT." The wedge salad is the exception, and still credits its marigold.

What it will cost

The lounge page prices the new versions of the dishes that appear on both lists, and five of the six held exactly flat against the old restaurant menu: French Onion Soup at $11, Wedge Salad at $12, Sweet-and-Spicy Brussels Sprouts at $13, Lemon Butter Shrimp at $18 and the Turf Club Burger at $25. The sixth, the Crispy Chicken Wings at $16, is new to the restaurant and has no old price to compare against.

One caveat on using the lounge as a guide: the two rooms do not always build the same dish the same way. The lounge wedge salad comes with shredded hard-boiled egg, and the restaurant version Disney published on Wednesday comes with pickled red onions instead. Same name, same $12, different salad.

The bar is where the numbers moved, and it moved more than one slot. The Millionaire Margarita, $18.50 on 1800 Reposado, is gone, and the Winner's Circle Margarita that replaces it is $21 on Don Julio Reposado. The Saratoga Cocktail, the new house drink, also lands at $21. Joining them: the New York Old Fashioned at $19.50, the Grandstand Martini and the Colt Cooler at $18.50 each, and the Raspberry Mojito at $17. The Pineapple Mule went from $18.50 to $19. The Blood Orange Margarita held at $17.50 and the New York Sour at $24.50. The Sparkling Lavender Rosé at $13.50 did not survive. The Mint Julep may have gone up as well, but the lounge page is not reliable on that one: it lists the drink twice, at $19 and at $18.50, with the same description under both.

Entree prices are the real unknown, and Disney has published none of them. The old list ran $25 to $39 across its eight entrees, three of those dishes carry over by name, and every shared dish that has been repriced held flat. Flat is the reasonable expectation, which makes that $25 to $39 band the sensible number to plan against. Worth noting that Disney's restaurant page still advertises dinner at $15 to $34.99 per adult, a range the prime rib was already above before any of this started.

Disney's own page has not caught up

As of Wednesday, a week out, the restaurant's page still carries the refurbishment notice saying it is closed from late August through late September. Its dinner menu page still returns the old menu in full, New York Strip and Onion Ring Tower and all. And the descriptive copy underneath still invites guests to play a round of pool in the lounge, which is a problem, because the billiards table moved across the building to the check-in side when the lounge was rebuilt. The same copy promises pan-seared salmon and a chopped salad, and neither appears on the old adult menu or the new one.

None of this is unusual for a venue mid-refurbishment, and it will almost certainly be fixed by opening day. It matters for the next week only: the restaurant's page is the first thing a search turns up and the last thing to update, so read the lounge menu instead until it catches up.

If you are going

The date: Wednesday, September 30. Disney lists only a dinner menu for the restaurant.

The week: WDWInfo reported on September 17 that the reservation calendar shows the restaurant closed Mondays and Tuesdays, with availability Wednesday through Sunday, which matches the pattern it kept before the closure. That puts the reopening on the first day of its operating week rather than mid-week. Disney has not published an operating schedule of its own; its page currently shows no available times at all, which is what you would expect while the restaurant is dark. The lounge next door is listed at 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and is the fallback on the two days the dining room does not serve.

Reservations: WDWInfo reported in the same piece that reservations are available for September 30 and beyond. Disney's booking tool requires a signed-in account, so we were not able to check the inventory ourselves. The restaurant carries Disney's standard cancellation and modification policy, with a per-person fee against the card on file for a no-show.

Sources

• Disney Parks Blog, Disney Eats: First Look at The Turf Club Bar and Grill Reopening, September 23, 2026
• Walt Disney World, The Turf Club Bar and Grill dinner menu, checked September 23, 2026
• Walt Disney World, The Turf Club Lounge menu, checked September 23, 2026
• WDWInfo, Turf Club Bar and Grill Reopens Sept. 30 at Disney World, September 17, 2026

Image credits: all photos by Disney.