We’re just a little obsessed with Disney food (yes, we know, SHOCKER, right? 😉).
We spend a lot of time visiting restaurants in Disney World, trying out new snacks, and checking out all the fun food festivals and events. Right now, a fun festival is happening in Disney Springs, called Flavors of Florida, and it focuses on all the great food the state of Florida has to offer imagined by Disney Springs chefs. We’ve already told you about some of the food you’ll be able to get at this year’s Flavors of Florida event, but there’s also a cool culinary series where you can watch these chefs live in action!
We got a sneak peek at one of the Culinary Series hosted by Kroger Delivery during a recent event. During this series, you’ll get to watch Disney chefs create their signature Flavors of Florida dishes. We got to watch Chef Takeshi Ikeuchi from Morimoto Asia prepare the delicious Florida Key West Pink Shrimp Salad right in front of our eyes! First, the chefs showed us what the finished dish would look like.
Culinary Series
Then they go to work preparing it. So we got to see exactly how this special food item is prepared and put together.
Creating the dish
The Florida Key West Pink Shrimp Salad is made with green tea-infused Japanese soba noodles tossed with shrimp, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, and ponzu sauce.
How it’s made
Here’s what the final dish looks like.
Florida Key West Pink Shrimp Salad
It’s always so interesting to see these chefs do their thing. If you’re interested in watching the Flavors of Florida Culinary series, here’s the schedule for the full event:
- July 12th, 9:30AM — Chef Mike Tiva from Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill Grill will create Mushroom Gnocchi
- July 19th, 9:30AM — Maneet Chauhan from eet by Maneet Chauhan will create Sloppy Joe Rock Shrimp
- July 26th, 9:30AM — Celebrity Chef Georg Paulusse (who is also the Disney World regional executive chef) will make Orange Pilsner Goat Cheese Dip and St. Augustine Pepper Frites
- August 2nd, 9:30AM — Chef Josh Williams from Summer House at the Lake will create Key West Shrimp Tostones
- August 9th, 9:30AM — Chef Bradley Warner from The BOATHOUSE will make Roasted Golden Tilefish
To register for any of these events, visit and follow the Disney Springs Instagram page. (If you have trouble finding registration info, search for your preferred Culinary Demonstration on Eventbrite.) All events will take place at Waterview Park.
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Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend a preview as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Today, we were invited by Disney World to attend their media preview of Flavors of Florida at Disney Springs. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ
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