Maria & Enzo’s Ristorante is a table-service Italian restaurant in The Landing at Disney Springs, set inside one of the district’s most visually dramatic dining spaces. The restaurant is themed as a restored 1930s airline terminal, tying into Disney Springs’ larger backstory of a waterfront town that grew around travel, commerce, and entertainment. Its soaring interior, grand staircase, vintage aviation details, and large windows overlooking Lake Buena Vista give it a more cinematic personality than a typical Italian restaurant. Disney describes the dining room as having 50-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling water views, vintage maps, and aviation artifacts that reinforce the golden-age-of-travel theme.
The restaurant opened on January 4, 2018, as part of a larger cluster of Patina Group venues that also includes Enzo’s Hideaway and Pizza Ponte. Its space replaced the former BET Soundstage, tying the location to the broader transformation of Downtown Disney and Pleasure Island into the more polished Disney Springs dining and shopping district. That history matters because Maria & Enzo’s is not just a restaurant dropped into a shopping center; it is part of Disney Springs’ effort to give individual buildings their own fictional past and architectural personality.
The menu is built around Italian and Sicilian-inspired cooking, with lunch and dinner offerings that include antipasti, salads, panini, handmade pastas, seafood, steak, desserts, cocktails, and Italian wines. Current dinner items include house-made pastas such as campanelle with Italian sausage, paccheri with cauliflower ragù, and rosetta di lasagna with short rib and pork ragù, reflecting the restaurant’s emphasis on hearty, polished Italian comfort food rather than quick-service simplicity.
In current-day Disney Springs, Maria & Enzo’s occupies a useful middle ground. It is more elevated than a casual pizza window, less formal than a signature resort restaurant, and highly convenient for guests spending an evening in The Landing. Reservations are strongly recommended, which reflects both its table-service status and its appeal as a scenic, full-meal option in one of Disney Springs’ busiest dining areas.
Today, Maria & Enzo’s Ristorante is notable because it combines good placemaking with accessible Italian dining. Its food, water views, and aviation-terminal design make it feel connected to the larger Disney Springs story, while its menu remains approachable enough for families, couples, and groups looking for a comfortable sit-down meal. It is not the most experimental restaurant at Walt Disney World, but it succeeds as an atmospheric Italian dining destination with a strong sense of location and a memorable architectural identity.