food IS a theme park
May the Force Be With You, DFB Friends!
Star Wars Nite guide and Badge
It is officially Season of the Force in Disneyland, and we’ve been enjoying all kinds of special entertainment, activities, and — more importantly — food. Well, we’ve also now been to the first EVER Star Wars Nite of the year, and that means we also got to try out some food EXCLUSIVE to that party. So let’s chat about it!
You could spend SO much time at Universal’s brand-new theme park, Epic Universe. With five themed lands, there is no shortage of attractions, shops, and restaurants to discover — and we’ve started exploring it all!
Isle of Berk
We’ve had the chance to experience Epic Universe ahead of its official opening on May 22nd, 2025 a few times now and we still haven’t even seen all that this new park has to offer. Over in the Isle of Berk, the How To Train Your Dragon-themed land at Epic Universe, they’re serving up mac and cheese cones — and we’re bringing you along to try one!
Why, Disney…why? Seriously, we need answers over this latest menu change, as you’ve taken yet another beloved FAVORITE snack away!
They’re GONE
Disney World is known to be ever-changing, and we’re used to seeing things come and go in its restaurants around the parks. However, when Disney World recently released a whole slew of loaded fries in various flavors, we had no idea what we’d done to hit the jackpot, and hunting them all down proved to be quite the challenge! But if you’ve had your heart set on trying one of these latest creations on your next trip, we’ve got some disappointing news to share.
The EPCOT Resort Area at Disney World is full of interesting dining options — especially because you can easily get to FIVE different resorts by just walking in a circle.
Disney’s BoardWalk
This area is located just minutes from EPCOT by foot, and while you can take a Friendship Boat to travel to Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, Disney’s Beach Club Resort, The Walt Disney World Swan Resort, The Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, AND Disney’s BoardWalk Inn, you can also walk to each one relatively quickly. While there are a few different places to grab ice cream, the one that may stick out the most to you is Beaches and Cream, specifically the To-Go window if you don’t have a reservation for the restaurant. But are these shakes and treats really worth the trip over? We found out!
Disney’s Pop Century Resort has been undergoing a pretty extensive refurbishment in Everything POP!, the main dining location, for many months now.
Everything POP!
We’ve gotten to see the new design come to life, and to be honest, we’re fans of it! But that’s not all — the hotel recently announced that multiple new menu options would be arriving at the dining spot soon, and we just got a chance to try two of them out and see if they’re really worth your hard-earned money.
The Cake Bake Shop by Gwendolyn Rogers is a splurge-worthy restaurant in Disney World. That place is capital “F” FANCY. We’ll be the first to admit that for that high price, you do get some pretty spectacular menu items and a fantastic experience.
The Cake Bake Shop
We keep an eye on the menu to see when any new items debut, and our mouths immediately started watering when we learned that there was a new ice cream sundae available ONLY at the restaurant. Do you know what we did? That’s right, we immediately booked a reservation to tell you if this sundae is really worth the visit, and you may be surprised by what we found!
We’re about to say something controversial. We know how people feel about Lightning Lanes (Disney’s skip-the-line option for popular attractions). We know the standby lines are long. We know it stinks to pay to skip the lines when the same option was previously free (ah…the good old days). But there is one place where we stand in some LONG lines…and we could really use a Lightning Lane. What if our Lightning Lane Multi Pass came with the ability to jump to the front of SNACK lines? Hear us out.
EPCOT
Listen, we know what you might be thinking. “Is nothing safe from an upcharge in Disney World?!” True. Pretty much all those free perks of the past are, well, not free anymore. But Test Track is currently closed in EPCOT, and that’s one less place we can use our Lightning Lane in EPCOT. And those Multi Passes aren’t cheap! So, what if Disney started adding a skip-the-line option to its popular Festival Food Booths? Let’s talk about what that could look like.
Gideon’s Bakehouse is one of our favorite places to get a sweet treat in Disney Springs!
Gideon’s Bakehouse
There’s no April fools joke here; Gideon’s Bakehouse is bringing us a brand-new treat, and it looks DELICIOUS!
Okay, it’s no secret we get excited about new food at Disney World — “Food” is literally our middle name.
Pop Century Resort
We’ve been enjoying some of the Easter and spring snacks at Disney World (as well as the fun Easter egg displays), but we just got word that some NEW snacks have dropped at one particular Disney World hotel — well, new snacks AND drinks. So we have to tell you about all the new food and drinks you can grab, STARTING NOW, at Disney’s Pop Century Resort.
We’ve got some AWESOME Disney World dining news to share with you!
2025 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival — Moana Entrance Topiary
The 2025 EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival is underway now through June 2nd, 2025 and we’ve been covering all the festival’s offerings and latest updates. Speaking of updates, one festival booth is about to undergo a significant menu change and we’re all about it!
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