food IS a theme park
Disney's California Adventure's World of Color Show (c) Disney
While the Wine Country Trattoria and Ariel’s Grotto World of Color Dinner Packages have been popular, Disney California Adventure is now introducing a the Prix Fixe Lunch package at Wine Country Trattoria (see our dinner review here!)! By booking ahead, you and your guests will receive reserved viewing for Disney’s World of Color — the new nighttime [Read more…]
Concept art and details were released today about the new Hyperion Wharf, the name of the project formerly known as Pleasure Island in Disney World’s Downtown Disney, and they look pretty stunning.
While the plans are vague and don’t seem to include a central theme, yet, we do know that the 120-acre “waterfront complex” themed after an old-fashioned entertainment pier will include “diverse eateries, [which] will expand dining availability at Downtown Disney by more than 25 percent.”
A couple of the new dining options will take place somewhere you’d least expect them: the AMC Movie Theater! The Disney Parks Blog promises that the theater will add a “Concession Stand of the Future” along with “Florida’s first Fork & Screen Theater” (think Studio Movie Grill to get an idea of what [Read more…]
Our Disneyland columnist, Heather Sievers, is back with some photos of Holiday treats in Disneyland! Be sure to check out her other posts in her Dining in Disneyland column.
Here are some fun things I found today at Disneyland! Baked goods were from the Blue Ribbon Bakery on Main Street and the candy items were found at the Candy Palace on Main Street.
Holiday Cupcakes
Homemade Peppermint Bark
Holiday Drinks in Disneyland
My son devoured the Gingerbread Man! I did have a bite, and while [Read more…]
Our Disneyland columnist, Heather Sievers, is back with some photos of Thanksgiving treats in Disneyland! Be sure to check out her other posts in her Dining in Disneyland column.
Let’s be Thankful!
Although I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas time at Disneyland, I do feel sort of bad for Thanksgiving. Halloween pretty much turns into Christmas overnight. Today, at The Blue Ribbon Bakery and The Candy Palace, both on Disneyland’s Main Street USA, I found two treats that made me THANKFUL.
I know AJ recently posted a photo of the pumpkin muffin, well guess what? I got to taste one today and let me tell you this, if you like pumpkin desserts, you need to get your hands on one of these before they are gone for the season.
Pumpkin Muffin
Honestly, this “muffin” seems more like a cupcake to me. It size is enormous, it’s super moist, and it has the perfect amount of pumpkin flavor. Not too overpowering, just [Read more…]
Thanks to Leigh Caldwell for putting together this great review of Babycakes NYC, Disney World’s newest cupcake shop, which opened in Downtown Disney this weekend. Leigh writes about Walt Disney World and theme parks in general on her site, ThemeParkMom.com, and for AOL’s travel blog, Gadling.com.
My love of all things cupcake is pretty well documented online and on Twitter, so of course I was excited to hear that a branch of Babycakes NYC had opened at the Downtown Disney Marketplace.
Atmosphere
Babycakes NYC is a vegan bakery on New York’s Lower East Side. A downtown L.A. outpost opened recently, and now a third outpost has appeared at Walt Disney World.
It occupies a corner of the former McDonald’s building, sharing space with [Read more…]
Thanks to Leigh Caldwell for putting together this great review of Pollo Campero, Disney World’s newest quick service restaurant, which opened in Downtown Disney this weekend. Leigh writes about Walt Disney World and theme parks in general on her site, ThemeParkMom.com, and for AOL’s travel blog, Gadling.com.
My daughter and I made a visit to the Festival of the Masters at Downtown Disney this weekend, and we had to stop in to try the new Pollo Campero restaurant for lunch.
Pollo Campero is a counter service restaurant, which shares space with two other eateries – Fresh A-Peel and Babycakes NYC. It’s part of a chain of chicken restaurants that serve up Latin flavors.
The new restaurants opened Nov. 12 at Downtown Disney, in the building formerly occupied by McDonald’s, in between T-Rex Cafe and the Lego store.
Atmosphere
At Pollo Campero and Fresh A-Peel guests order at the counter, get their food and proceed to a central bank of cash registers to pay, much like the Sunshine Seasons set-up. There was a long line when [Read more…]
Thanks to @RadioCarla and @StudiosCentral for sending pics of these festive favorites, now available at Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
They’re being served at High Octane Refreshments, and a cart is being brought in to sell them in the evenings by Sci-Fi Dine-In.
Disney's Hollywood Studios Holiday Drinks
Holiday and Winter Cookies
In Disney Food news this week:
Plus, sadly, today is the final day to enjoy the Epcot Food & Wine Festival of 2010. It’s been a great ride; be sure to check out all of our coverage here and let us know how we can do better next year! Have a drink for me! I’ll see you September 30, 2011!!
And now, on to the Round-Up!
Outside the Berm has a blast from the past: a 1942 menu from Walt Disney’s Studio Restaurant. One Monte Cristo sandwich fried in butter, please! (Thanks to George Taylor for the heads up!)
DF ’82 shows us around some of the dining establishments in Disneyland Resort Paris’ Hotel Cheyenne!
Pasture Prime Family Farm shows what the Epcot Food and Wine Festival looks like from the perspective of the food — their Mangalitsa Pork was the star of a demo done by bluezoo Chef Chris Windus!
Samland’s Disney Adventures has pics of some of my favorite Disneyland treats, along with the Halloween “Oogie Boogie” Roastie-Toastie at the Haunted Mansion popcorn cart!
etckt showcases a few more incredible photographs from his lunch around the World at the Epcot Food and Wine Festival.
Main Street Gazette has an incredible (and thorough) collection of photographs of the Italy travel posters that hang in the back of the new Via Napoli. Definitely worth a look!
Disney Everyday has the details on the Wine & Dine Walk at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic this weekend.
Everything Walt Disney World looks at Annual Passholder dining discounts vs. Tables in Wonderland discounts.
This Fall Disneyland gets a cupcake stand, and so does Disney World!
Along with Pollo Campero and Fresh Apeel, Babycakes NYC Bakery opened up in the Downtown Disney Marketplace this week!
This bakery, featuring gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, soy-free, vegan, agave-sweetened, and kosher products (among others) is an ideal place to finish off a meal and a great place to cater to special diets. Check out the menu from the shop’s NYC location to get an idea of what they’ll be offering.
Thanks to @PlazaandMainSt for this pic from the new bakery: a chocolate cupcake top: $2
Chocolate Cupcake Top
Yowza!! Thanks to Amanda Tinney, who writes Disney Every Day, for sending along these photos of the brand new snack and coffee stand outside of Epcot.
New Epcot Snack Stand and Coffee Kiosk
This is located next to the monorail station outside of the main entrance of Future World. I love the EPCOT Center-esque fonts and [Read more…]
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