It’s happening! The EPCOT’s 2024 Flower & Garden Festival has officially kicked off!

We’re talking about the Northern Bloom booth — one of the Outdoor Kitchens (also known as Food Booths) at the park’s springtime celebration! Stop here while enjoying the Festival’s famous Disney topiaries, garden displays, and entertainment. Join us as we review Northern Bloom to see if it lives up to its reputation as a deserving fan-favorite booth once again this year.

Menu

At Northern Bloom, many items are returning, but this year also brings us two new beers. We can’t wait to dig into the Beef Tenderloin Tips, Seared Scallops, and Chocolate Maple Whisky Cake (yes, we’re wiping some drool off as we write this). There’s also a good selection of beers here, including a Beer Flight.

We can’t wait to dig in!

Eats

First up, we grabbed the Beef Tenderloin Tips with mushroom bordelaise sauce, whipped potatoes, and garden vegetables. This is a returning item from last year, but to be honest, we weren’t big fans. One year, this dish was very hearty and savory in the past, and we really liked it! When it reappeared last year, we thought they were a hit yet again — though we do think the whipped potatoes could have been a bit saltier (that could have just been us, though!). So, is the third year the charm here?

Turns out…it is! We really enjoyed the Beef Tenderloin Tips. They pull apart really easily, just like a pot roast would. This dish has a lot of flavor, and we also thought the meat had a nice, tangy flavor to it. The mashed potatoes had a lot of butter! We could even taste the buttery goodness underneath all of the sauce.

You can grab this tasty dish for $7.25.

Next up, we grabbed the other returning item at this booth, the Seared Scallops. These are served with French Green Beans, marble potatoes, and bacon vinaigrette! Yep, you read that right, BACON vinaigrette!

The seared scallops were great as well! They were really buttery and the bacon vinaigrette came through a lot. Unfortunately, we only got one scallop (though the picture showed two) so we were disappointed in that. This was probably just a first-day-of-the-festival mishap.

Grab the Seared Scallops for $7.75.

And finally, we grabbed the other returning item at this booth, the Chocolate Maple Whisky Cake. This is a rich chocolate cake with maple and whisky sauce, and we are excited to see how it measures up this year!

LOVE! The Chocolate Maple Whisky Cake was wonderful! Definitely a best of the fest! It is gooey, decadent, and chocolatey. The cake is moist and easy to cut into. It is all the best parts of dessert, and we love it!

Grab the Chocolate Maple Whisky Cake for $4.50.

And to go along with your dishes…

Drinks

In terms of drinks on this menu, we got the Beer Flight. Why just try one beer when you can try three? The Collective Arts Brewing Beyond Reason Micro Pale Ale and the Collective Arts Brewing Grapefruit Lime Sour are new beer options this year. And returning for a repeat appearance this year is the Glutenberg Blonde Ale.

You can grab this flight for $10.25.

The Collective Arts Brewing Grapefruit Lime Sour was tasty! We would describe it more as a hard cider, but we did enjoy this one!

The Glutenberg Blonde Ale was not one of our favorites, mostly because there wasn’t anything too special about it. It just tasted like a blonde beer, so we weren’t super impressed with it.

Next up is the Collective Arts Brewing Beyond Reason Micro Pale Ale — this ale has a little bit of flavor to it but overall, it fell flat for us as well.

And finally, the fruity wine, the Florida Orange Groves Sparkling Blackberry Wine. This wine could be a bright and crisp delight, or could be a fruit-flavored cough syrup in disguise. So, which side of the spectrum does this wine lean toward?

The Florida Orange Groves Sparkling Blackberry Wine is a nice, sweet blackberry wine. The wine itself is not super heavy on the alcohol and it is very palatable. We think this would be a great wine for walking around the World Showcase and sipping on!

You can grab it for $12.00.

Overall

Overall, we thought this booth had some really great dishes. The Chocolate Maple Whisky Cake is a must-get and one of the best dishes of the festival! We also recommend the Beef Tenderloin Tips and Seared Scallops, although we were disappointed that we only received one scallop. We did not feel like the beer flight was anything special, but if you are a fan of the types of beers in the flight, you would really like this!

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