Happy Anniversary, Disney California Adventure!
To celebrate their birthday, Disney just announced some BIG plans for the park coming SOON!
food IS a theme park
Happy Anniversary, Disney California Adventure!
To celebrate their birthday, Disney just announced some BIG plans for the park coming SOON!
We’ve been waiting ever so patiently to experience Avengers Campus at Disneyland Resort.
The closure of the Disneyland theme parks delayed the opening of the upcoming Avengers-themed land in Disney California Adventure. We’re not sure when Disneyland will reopen and we’re not sure if Avengers Campus will open with the parks, but the new land was looking a little different above the construction barriers last night.
While Disneyland Resort still remains closed, Buena Vista Street in Disney California Adventure Park has been offering up limited shopping and dining since the Fall.
Today, while we were strolling through the shops, we spotted a NEW Beauty and The Beast Collection at the Kingswell Camera Shop that can totally be our guest! The new line features an array of kitchen and household items with iconic characters from the classic Disney animated film. We must say, it’s pretty cute to see these little guys doing their jobs like they would in the movie!
Disney California Adventure Park officially opened at Disneyland Resort on February 8th 2001, and it has definitely changed quite a bit over the years. This year, we’re celebrating 20 years of getting to enjoy this unique Disney theme park!

Disney California Adventure
At the moment, Disney California Adventure Park is closed, but guests can still visit parts of it and even eat at some of the park’s restaurants since Downtown Disney has expanded onto part of Buena Vista Street. And soon fans of Disneyland Resort’s second park will be able to celebrate this special 20th anniversary with limited edition merchandise!
The situation with eating and drinking in Disney World has been kind of complex.
Until today, Southern California has been under a stay-at-home order for more than a month. During the order, all on-location dining was prohibited in Downtown Disney. Now, the stay-at-home order has been lifted, so we’re checking in on the current dining policy at Disneyland Resort.
Being long-time Disney fans, we’ve seen some things… .
Some of those things include videos of malfunctioning attractions, missing characters, and other Disney-related things that not only made us laugh, shocked us, or surprised us, but stayed with us a LONG time after we saw them. Or maybe it’s that we can’t UNSEE them. That’s why we’re sharing 5 videos that live in our heads rent free.
Last month, Southern California entered a new regional stay-at-home order which mandated the closure of seated dining, allowing only takeout or delivery options. For the Disneyland Resort, this meant the closure of all of their dining locations in Downtown Disney as well as Buena Vista Street. Not only that, but Disney doubled down and have temporarily banned all eating and drinking on property.
Prior to this new mandate, you could remove your face mask to eat and drink so long as you were stationary and socially distanced, much like the current policy in Disney World. But with no eating or drinking allowed at all, what does it look like to actually purchase food in Disneyland right now?
It might be hard to believe, but Avengers Campus was originally scheduled to open at Disney California Adventure five months ago, in July of 2020! Disneyland Resort’s extended closure may have delayed the opening of this expansion, but we’re still over here geeking out over some of the incredible details that will be a part of this new land!
Let’s do a little recap of what we can expect once Avengers Campus finally opens!
Disney dining can be a curious thing, and at times it can almost seem like a tale of two dining experiences. On the one hand, you can easily find your fair share of cheeseburgers, pizza, plastic cheese, chicken fingers, and corndogs. On the other hand, Disney is no stranger to cranking out solid signature dining restaurants with top-notch service and dishes that would rival many fine-dining restaurants around the world.
Our recent visit to Buena Vista Street in Disney’s California Adventure, the newest extension of Downtown Disney to reopen on November 19th, was a perfect example of this juxtaposition. After chowing down on our beloved corndogs over at Award Wieners and eating a rather…sad…cheeseburger at Smokejumpers Grill, we sat down at Carthay Circle Lounge Alfresco Dining for a “total 180.”
For the first time since March, guests are once again able to explore Disney California Adventure! Well…kind of. If you ask Disney, Buena Vista Street (and its immediate surrounding area) has reopened as an extension of Downtown Disney. California Adventure as a theme park remains “closed” at this time.
However, you can’t deny that getting to eat an Original Corndog, as well as dining at Carthay Circle Lounge, doesn’t remind you of what it’s like to eat at a Disneyland park! There’s another dining option available to guests we haven’t shown you yet — Smokejumpers Grill!
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