The Unlucky Nugget Saloon returns to Disneyland Paris on September 26, and this year Melanie Ravenswood’s ruined wedding spills out past the restaurant doors. The Lucky Nugget Saloon takes on its haunted alter ego through November 1 as part of Disney Halloween Festival, with a portrait gallery installed upstairs and two neighboring Frontierland spots pulled into the story.
The Story, For Anyone Who Missed Last Year
The conceit is borrowed from Phantom Manor, the Paris version of the Haunted Mansion. A grand reception was supposedly to be held at the saloon in honor of the neighboring Ravenswoods, celebrating the coming wedding of their daughter Melanie. The groom vanished, the reception never happened, and the building fell into disrepair, which is how locals came to call it the Unlucky Nugget.
The restaurant stays open to guests. Disney’s own warning is that a visit should be expected to be somewhat spirited. It debuted during the 2025 festival and was arguably the biggest addition to that year’s Halloween season at the resort.
Upstairs Is New
The expansion this year runs upstairs, reimagined with new decor and artwork inspired by Phantom Manor’s portraits. The gallery sits in the mezzanine and carries faces Phantom Manor fans will recognize immediately.
Thomas Levert, a show designer at Walt Disney Imagineering Paris, said the team wanted to keep enriching the story for guests who already visited last year, adding new lighting and sound effects along with an abandoned guestbook holding messages from mysterious visitors, perhaps recognizable ones, addressed to the bride-to-be.
Last Chance Cafe And The Popcorn Cart Join In
A few steps away, Last Chance Cafe takes on decorations and bunting proclaiming “Celebrating the Ravenswoods,” weathered and worn because the wedding never took place, with ghostly voices echoing through the venue. The popcorn kiosk opposite the saloon gets themed decor as well, including a new popcorn box carrying Phantom Manor’s wallpaper design, filled with popcorn sprinkled with Cheetos.
A Slice Of The Wedding Cake
Imagineers worked with the food and beverage teams on a menu built around the Phantom Manor world, and the standout is a slice of cake that appears to have been cut from the towering wedding cake displayed on the saloon stage.
Isabelle Soltys, a producer at Walt Disney Imagineering Paris, said the resin cake took around 40 hours to make and paint, and that the pastry chefs’ new dessert exists because a slice was cut out of the prop to give guests the illusion of being served the real thing. Emmanuel Onillon, executive chef at Disneyland Paris, framed the food as part of the immersion rather than an add-on to it.
The Wider Season
Disney Halloween Festival runs September 26 through November 1 across the resort, with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy in new Victorian style attire, around 40 new pumpkins and 170 new candles on Main Street, U.S.A., and Jack Skellington and Sally meeting guests in Frontierland through a virtual queue. The resort turns over to its holiday season on November 7, when World of Frozen celebrates Christmas for the first time.
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