food IS a theme park
“Jambo!” from Disney’s Animal Kingdom! We’ve had quite the adventure exploring the park today, and we enjoyed our time so much, we thought we would share some of our experiences with you!
Tree of Life
We recently shared 25 videos from our visit to Magic Kingdom, so today we thought we would look back on TWENTY videos we took today from Animal Kingdom!
If you’re like us, you probably fell in love with the idea of Wakanda the first time you saw Black Panther. Turns out, we definitely weren’t the only ones.
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Black Panther and Wakanda are super inspiring on several levels, which is part of the reason that star Chadwick Boseman’s passing earlier this week was so saddening. Still, his work ultimately spurred creativity and hope for many of us. Wakanda even inspired one man to decide to construct a real-life Wakanda for a price tag of $6 billion.
He must’ve been busy for a little while, “brushin’ up on looking down, and workin’ on” his ROAR…
Simba Pretzel!!
… but SIMBA is BACK at Disney’s Animal Kingdom thanks to the return of the Simba Pretzel at Harambe Fruit Market! [Read more…]
The 2020 Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is upon us! We’ve got an extra-long festival season in store this year to take in the sights, sounds, and TASTES of this new hybrid EPCOT festival!
Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival
No surprise here, but we’re most concerned with the TASTES! This year, the festival features 20 Festival Marketplaces, each with a menu full of specialty eats and drinks. We’ve eaten our way around the World (Showcase) and back again — and we have some thoughts.
Now that we know Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival will be returning (in a modified and slightly smaller [but LONGER!] form), we’re looking forward to seeing which food booths will be returning!
2019 Epcot Food and Wine Festival
Disney has told us a Taste of EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival will feature 20 signature global marketplaces and will “continue into the fall” making it Epcot’s longest festival of ALL TIME! But with only 20 slots to fill, some of our favorite food booths won’t be coming back this year!
Because ranking the lands of Magic Kingdom by its snacks wasn’t torturous enough for us, we’ve decided to do the impossible yet AGAIN!
Animal Kingdom
That’s right — we’re going to delve once more into these strange, uncharted waters of ranking all the Disney snacks we love for sheer entertainment purposes ONLY! (We not-so-secretly love most of these snacks, so it’s too hard to choose!) Let’s see how the rankings work out for all the lands in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened in Walt Disney World on April 22, 1998.
Animal Kingdom’s Tree of Life
And even though we can’t be in the park to celebrate its 22nd Anniversary, we still think it fitting to celebrate all that Animal Kingdom has given Disney World guests throughout the years. [Read more…]
We have our sights set on the 2020 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. While the official dates and menus haven’t been announced yet, we’re already thinking of our dream food and beverage must-try list!
2019 Epcot Food and Wine Festival
Unfortunately, we don’t know at this time if ANY of our favorites are returning this year. Since the festival dates and menus haven’t been announced yet, all we can do is cross our fingers, hope, and PRAY that these festival faves will return in 2020! So, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and look back on some of our most beloved Food and Wine Festival eats.
Update: This event is currently sold out!
We’re always game for some good eats and better company. That’s why we’re so excited about the return of Tiffins Talks at Disney’s Animal Kingdom this year!
Tiffins
If you’ve never heard of Tiffins Talks before, it’s a special dining experience where you get to enjoy a four-course meal hand-crafted by Tiffins chefs, but the best part is the extraordinary stories you will hear.
We’re steppin’ out in Animal Kingdom today to see what news the day brings!
Discovery Island
January can be a slower month around Disney World, so updates tend to be a little more few and far between. Animal Kingdom definitely doesn’t have TOO much in the way of new stuff going on, but they do have a new cocktail and isn’t that enough? For us, yes! Here’s everything new in Animal Kingdom in food, construction, and merchandise!
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