REVIEW: Don't Waste Your Time at This Restaurant During Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party…Unless

Who’s ready for some more eats, treats, and drinks at Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party?!

Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party!

The special ticketed Halloween party at Magic Kingdom has a TON of good bites this year. Exclusive food and beverage items are available on select party nights across the park. This year, Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe has FOUR brand-new items, and we obviously weren’t passing up on them!

You better be coming to Pecos Bill hungry, because there are a lot of new items here that look like they should be on the must-try list. Pecos has been a great spot for exclusive eats, treats, and drinks at Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party in the past, and this year they have four scary-good-looking new items on the menu! The quick-service restaurant in Frontierland will be open until 10 PM during party nights.

We wasted no time getting right into the new menu! The first thing we grabbed was the Cursed Cowboy Fries for $10.49. These were sweet potato fries topped with barbecue burnt ends, chipotle queso, pico de gallo, and crispy jalapeños.

Cursed Cowboy Fries

The sweet potato fries are really good, and we loved the chipotle queso on this dish. It had a little bit of a kick to it, with a nice full peppery flavor. We didn’t get a lot of crispy jalapeños on our dish, but the diced tomato was great. Our issue with the dish was that barbecue burnt ends weren’t crispy burnt ends, which made the dish all one texture. That texture was more soggy and chewy, and we weren’t a fan of that. We found it tough to eat from the texture alone, and it was a big dish, which made it even tougher.

This just wasn’t our favorite

After that, we tried the Frightful Black Bean Burger for $12.99. This plant-based burger is topped with jalapeño-ranch slaw and jalapeño chips, served with french fries. Oh, did we mention that the bun is purple?!

Frightful Black Bean Burger

This offering rocked our world! It’s the only thing at Pecos worth going for during Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. This black bean patty is smoky, hearty, and packed with awesome plant-based protein. It has a smokiness to it that makes it taste sort of barbecued, and it’s topped with a pretty mild and really delicious slaw, and it’s not that tangy. In fact, we actually would’ve liked it if it had more sweetness and more of a vinegar flavor to it, but it was still really delicious.

It comes with fries!

The pumpernickel bun reminded us of the Doom Burger, which was offered during the 50th anniversary at Columbia Harbour House. Instead of the plant-based crab cake, they offer this with the black bean burger. They still have the slaw on it, but removed the red onion. All in all, this is something we hope they will bring to a permanent menu somewhere. We love the plant-based bowl that they offer at Pecos Bill, but we think this is something we would get more often.

Let’s take a bite!

Then we had the Skull-icious Cake for dessert for $6.29. This is a chocolate cake, with chocolate mousse and peanut butter buttercream with chocolate popping candies and a chocolate cookie crust.

Skull-icious Cake

The presentation of this dessert was really cool; we’ll give them that! The dessert was sweet and rich, but not off-the-wall sweet. The flavors came together well, without anything being overwhelming.

This thing looks so cool!

The only problem we have with this dish is that a massive load of white chocolate needed to be used for the skull. So, all of the overwhelming sweetness comes from the skull alone. The cake itself is good, but the skull is way too much for our liking.

The white chocolate was a little much

To drink, we grabbed the returning Guava Lemonade Slushy for $6.79. This is a non-alcoholic guava lemonade slushy with cheesecake foam, Halloween sprinkles, and a sugar spider.

Guava Lemonade Slushy

We hate to say it, but we did not like this thing whatsoever. We’d go as far as to say this is one of the worst things we’ve EVER had at Disney World. It’s guava lemonade topped with cheesecake foam…what else were we really expecting with this?! That just doesn’t mix well. It’s a sour drink with the dairy cheesecake; it just wasn’t it. We don’t even think a kiddo would like this drink because it’s more sour than sweet. Yeah, this isn’t for us.

This was NOT good!

As we mentioned before, that’s not all you can get at Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe during the party. The following have returned for another year, and will be available:

Buzzard Wings — Whole chicken wings tossed with grilled onions, jalapeños, and lime.
Pumpkin Patch Mini Churros — These are mini churros rolled in orange sugar and served with pumpkin cheesecake dip. Just so you know, we think this is a TOP 5 snack that you can get at MNSSHP!

Pumpkin Patch Mini Churros

We’re going to be trying everything that the Halloween party has to offer. For more Not-So-Scary Disney food reviews, make sure to follow us at the Disney Food Blog!

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