Credit: DisneyDisney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa occupies an interesting position in the Walt Disney World Resort hierarchy. As one of the largest Disney Vacation Club properties on property, spread across multiple sections with Victorian-style architecture, tree-lined pathways, and a walking path and boat transportation connection to Disney Springs, it has a loyal base of guests who return to it consistently and a significant number of occasional visitors who pass through without fully engaging with what the resort offers beyond their room and the proximity to Disney Springs shopping and dining.
The resort’s primary table-service restaurant, the Turf Club Bar and Grill, has long been the signature dining destination for guests staying on property, offering elevated American fare in a refined setting overlooking the golf course and waterways. For guests who have made the Turf Club a reliable part of their Saratoga Springs stays, 2026 has brought an inconvenient reality. The restaurant is in the middle of a lengthy phased closure and refurbishment that began in early April and is not expected to be fully resolved until mid-September.
During that window, guests staying at Saratoga Springs who want to eat on property without making the walk or taking the boat to Disney Springs are increasingly reliant on The Artist’s Palette, the resort’s quick-service dining location that has historically been easy to overlook in favor of the Turf Club’s more elevated offerings or the broader dining landscape available at Disney Springs just minutes away. The Artist’s Palette is positioned as a grab-and-go quick-service restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with gourmet sandwiches, salads, and pastries, in a setting themed to the artistic heritage that runs through Saratoga Springs’ design identity.
With the Turf Club sidelined for most of the summer and The Artist’s Palette carrying more of the resort’s dining load than usual, the timing of a significant menu overhaul at the quick-service location could not be more relevant for guests planning Saratoga Springs stays in the coming months.
The Artist’s Palette just received one of the most extensive menu updates it has seen in recent memory across breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with dozens of items added and several removed. Here is what changed and what it means for guests dining at Saratoga Springs this summer.
Breakfast Changes
The breakfast menu saw a meaningful refresh with several new items added alongside the removal of some existing offerings. The Hole in One, Bears in Dirt, Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake, and Milk and Cookies Cupcakes were removed from the breakfast menu. In their place, The Artist’s Palette is now offering an Everything Bagel with Smoked Salmon at $10.29, a Cannoli Cupcake at $6.99, a Pistachio-Chocolate Cream Puff at $6.49, a Cookies and Cream Cheesecake at $6.29, and a Pineapple-Coconut Cheesecake at $6.29. Sweet additions also include a Toasted Marshmallow Brownie at $5.99 and a Lemon-Poppy Seed Breakfast Bread at $5.99. On the savory and beverage side, a Protein Pack at $7.49 and a Chocolate-Hazelnut Latte at $5.79 are new, alongside Surfside Iced Tea, Lemonade, and Vodka Hard Tea at $11.75 for guests who want something stronger with their morning pastry.
Lunch Changes
The lunch menu removed the Plant-based Gyro and its allergy-friendly variant, replacing it with a Plant-based Barbecue Jackfruit Sandwich at $11.99. New sides and soups that appear across both lunch and dinner include Roasted Zucchini Squash and Tomato at $4.99, a Marinated Cucumber, Tomato, and Red Onion Salad at $4.59, and Potato, Bacon, and Leek Soup at $4.49. The lunch update also introduced a Chicken-Bacon Alfredo Pasta at $11.99 and a Brisket Sandwich at $11.99, both of which are available with a comprehensive range of allergy-friendly preparations covering egg, fish and shellfish, milk, peanut and tree nut, sesame, and soy allergy accommodations. The breadth of allergy-friendly options across the new lunch additions is one of the more notable aspects of this update, reflecting a deliberate effort to make The Artist’s Palette accessible to a wider range of guests with dietary restrictions.
Dinner Changes
The dinner menu removed the Mojo Pork at $14.99 and the Baked Ziti at $11.99. In its place, Disney has added an Herb-roasted Salmon with Garlic Gremolata at $17.99, which represents the most elevated new addition across any meal period and signals an attempt to bring a more dinner-appropriate option to the quick-service format. A BBQ Pork Macaroni and Cheese at $13.99 rounds out the new dinner entrees, alongside the Chicken-Bacon Alfredo Pasta and the Brisket Sandwich, which also appear on the lunch menu. The full range of new sides, soups, pastries, and beverages added at breakfast and lunch carries through to the dinner menu as well.
Why This Matters This Summer
The scale of this update at The Artist’s Palette is significant, both in terms of the sheer number of changes and in terms of what the changes aim to accomplish. The addition of a salmon entree at dinner, the comprehensive allergy-friendly labeling across multiple new items, and the range of new pastry options at breakfast collectively suggest that Disney is treating The Artist’s Palette as a more serious dining destination than its quick service positioning might typically imply.
For guests staying at Saratoga Springs this summer while the Turf Club works through its phased closure and refurbishment, an Artist’s Palette with a refreshed, more ambitious menu is a meaningfully better dining option than the one that existed before these changes. The quick service location that was easy to overlook when the Turf Club was fully operational is now carrying more weight, and the menu update suggests Disney recognizes the moment.
