food IS a theme park
When we’re at Disney World, we love heading to Ale & Compass. This table-service restaurant serves New England-style cuisine at an affordable price, only a 5-minute walk from EPCOT‘s International Gateway at Yacht Club.
Our Ale & Compass breakfast spread
Disney just announced ten brand-new menu items are coming to Ale & Compass today, but we’re massively side-eyeing Disney for this, because we’ve already eaten these “new” foods!
Disney has just announced that a fan favorite restaurant will be closing soon. So, if you’re planning a Disney trip this summer, you’ll want to hear this!
Yacht and Beach Club
Especially if you’re planning on grabbing dinner around the EPCOT resort area, which is one of our favorite ways to escape the chaos of EPCOT without fully leaving the parks. We’ll walk out by the International Gateway, grab a quick meal, and then slide back in for an evening of fireworks.
We’ve found all the best eats at Disney World, and we’re letting you in on some of our favorites!
Indian-style Bread Service
If your favorite part of a delicious meal is bread service, you’re not alone. The unsung hero of your lunch or dinner, decadent rolls, or an adventurous bread service can leave a lasting impression. This is especially the case at Disney World, where several restaurants have turned bread into an art form. While we could spend hours upon hours listing everywhere you can get great bread service (we have), but for this one, we’re giving you three of our favorites!
Sometimes, the trick to a perfect meal at Disney World is stepping outside of the theme parks and heading to a Disney Resort. While it might feel out of the way, there are lots of resorts only a few steps away from the parks, waiting to offer you what could be your new favorite restaurant.
Disney’s Yacht Club
Just a short walk from EPCOT, you’ll find Ale & Compass, located in Disney’s Yacht Club Resort. We’re bringing you a full lunch review to see if it’s worth the stop on your next Disney World vacation.
We’ve eaten EVERYWHERE in Disney World, and we’ve tried it all. Still, some snacks, entrees, and desserts continue to surprise us!
Ale & Compass spread
We recently stopped by Disney’s Yacht Club Resort for a meal at Ale & Compass — a consistently delicious Disney World hotel restaurant option. During our visit, we wanted to try as much as possible, including the restaurant’s Seasonal Flatbread — which admittedly had us scratching our heads at first…
Disney World has announced a limited-time dining discount exclusively for Annual Passholders this July 2025 — and we want to be sure you don’t forget about it.
Whispering Canyon Cafe
Through July 31st—passholders can enjoy a 40% discount on meals at select table-service restaurants when dining Monday through Thursday!
Breakfast at Disney World is no easy feat. When you’re ready to head into the parks, the last thing you want to think about is breakfast, but you know what they say: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. For this restaurant, breakfast might be the best meal of the day.
Disney’s Yacht Club
EPCOT can be an especially hard place to grab breakfast — your table-service choices are two character meals (at Akershus and Garden Grill), and while we love them some days just aren’t a character breakfast kind of day. And your quick service choices? Well, you’ll be relegated to a few pre-made breakfast sandwiches. But what if we told you there’s a GREAT breakfast option a short walk from EPCOT’s back gate?
Well, it’s been another week in Disney World, just basically eating our way around, well, EVERYTHING.
Grand Marnier Orange Slush
This week saw more Easter snacks popping up (so of course, we’re trying them) PLUS the Easter Egg displays are now up at the hotels (and you should TOTALLY check them out if you’re around). Disney World restaurant menus have changed this week, too, so let’s check out those updates.
It’s been a HUGE week in Disney World — at least for food.
We’ve been eating and drinking our way around EPCOT this week
That’s because the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays has officially kicked off and have spent the past few days eating and drinking our way around this year’s food booths. Let’s just say we also ate a lot of cookies and enjoyed the first Candlelight Processional of the year where we got to see the voice of Olaf himself, Josh Gad, (who also voiced Le Fou in the live-action Beauty and the Beast) narrate the Christmas story. However, Disney World restaurants still had a few changes this week, so we’re going to tell you all about them between bites of cookie.
Yes, we’re still enjoying the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival and we will be enjoying it through November 23rd.
Tiki Torch drink from Disney’s Coronado Springs
We even recently discovered a SECRET drink that’s VERY exclusive (and it’s DELICIOUS) at the festival. We also got more details about Disney World’s OTHER food and wine festival, the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Food and Wine Classic. We’ve also been keeping an eye on Disney World restaurant menus because they are ALWAYS changing, so let’s take a look at the menu changes we found this week.
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