Effective March 28, 2019. Disney announced major changes regarding strollers and wagons for all of its parks, including Disneyland & Walt Disney World. Many in the MouseDining community have wondered how this affects them, and we’ve broken it down for you here.
May 1, 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort. In addition to new attractions, entertainment, and merchandise, there will be an incredible menu of limited-time offerings starting May 1 as well as a few legacy menu items that have been offered since the park opened. You won’t want to miss out on these yummy treats.
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These dishes have withstood the test of time and have been offered throughout the history of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, dating all the way back to the parks opening day in 1989. These original dishes are some of the most iconic and popular items offered throughout the park. In addition to being featured throughout this momentous celebration, these dishes are offered year-round.
The Hollywood Brown Derby Legacy Dishes
50’s Prime Time Café Legacy Dishes
Book reservations by calling 407-WDW-DINE or via Disneyworld.com/Dine. Walt Disney World Resort dining page.
Spring is here and that means another month full of sweets and treats! This month we have Briar Rose Gold desserts on both coasts, yummy soft-serve delights, character cupcakes, and more.
Our most recent line of Briar Rose Gold merchandise has once again inspired our chefs to create a few new colorful confections! At Disneyland Resort, you can find this lovely Briar Rose Gold Cake Pop at various candy shops throughout the resort including Bing Bong’s Sweet Stuff, Marceline’s Confectionery, Trolley Treats, and Candy Palace.
At Walt Disney World Resort – you can get your rose gold fix with several options throughout our resort hotels. At Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resort, you’ll find a Rose Gold Orange Cream Tart at the Marketplace at Ale & Compass as well as the Beach Club Marketplace. This orange custard curd tart is finished with vanilla bean mousse and white chocolate glacage and is topped with white chocolate ears. Across the lagoon at Disney’s BoardWalk, the BoardWalk Bakery is serving up a Briar Rose Gold Scooter Pie – a Minnie-shaped cookie sandwich with marshmallow, raspberry white chocolate, and a Briar Rose Gold Minnie bow.
At Disney’s Contemporary Resort, satisfy that cake craving with the Briar Rose Gold Raspberry Cake filled with vanilla custard at Contempo Café. A Briar Rose Gold Cupcake can also be found at Disney’s All-Star Resorts, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, Disney’s Pop Century Resort, Disney’s Port Orleans Resort, Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, and Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa. It’s a chocolate cupcake with strawberry filling topped with buttercream, a mini waffle cone, and rose gold chocolate ears.
And at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, you can find a Rose Gold Vanilla Cupcake filled with guava custard and topped with rose gold buttercream and fondant at Capt. Cook’s. Or if a drink by the pool is more your style, grab a refreshing Rose Gold Sunset Margarita with tequila and orange liqueur mixed with flavors of mango, guava, and ginger from the Oasis and Barefoot Pool Bars.
The last Briar Rose Gold treat is at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The Rose Gold Brownie can be found at Creature Comforts and is topped with a strawberry mousse dome decorated with white chocolate ears. And while you’re at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, stop by Harambe Market to try the new Most Beautiful Cake inspired by one of the popular murals found in the marketplace’s courtyard. This delicious coconut cake is filled with a tangy pineapple center and topped with creamy coconut mousse and accompanied with coconut crisps.
Back at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, you just HAVE to stop by the Pineapple Lanai to try the new Te Fiti Cone with lime soft-serve! It’s SO CUTE and also refreshing! Another refreshing option for adults is the Corazon Blanco Tequila Frozen Margarita blended with Dole Whip lime – YUM.
Rounding out the list this month, Disney’s All-Star Music Resort is featuring two fabulous character cupcakes. The first is the Herbie the Love Bug Cupcake with devil’s food cake, chocolate mousse, and white chocolate available through May 31. Available through the end of April is the Tinkerbell Cupcake made with chocolate cake, key lime filling, key lime buttercream, white chocolate fairy wings, and just a little bit of pixie dust! Both of these cupcakes can be found at the Intermission Food Court.
Today, Whispering Canyon Café at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge launches a new menu, offering skillets galore! The fun-filled restaurant is known for its sassy cast members, Old Western games, and fine frontier fare, which now includes a whole new array of all-you-care-to-enjoy signature skillets for lunch and dinner (starting today), as well as breakfast skillets (starting March 26). And while you can chow down on these signature skillets, the rowdy canyon townsfolk are there to serve them, and their boisterous goings-on aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Do the hokey pokey, ring the dinner bell, and even ask for ketchup (at your own risk, of course). But that’s enough hootin’ and hollerin’ for right now – let’s get right into these delicious new items!
Starting with a hearty lunch option, the Signature Lunch Skillet comes with maple-chipotle BBQ slow-smoked pork ribs, barbecued pulled pork, and citrus-herb chicken.
On the dinner menu, you can try the Traditional Dinner Skillet with oak-smoked mustard BBQ beef brisket, maple-chipotle BBQ pork ribs, slow-smoked pulled pork, and citrus-herb chicken. You can also pig out on The “Pig” Dinner Skillet with heaping helpings of braised pork belly, maple-chipotle BBQ pork ribs, slow-smoked pulled pork, and mustard BBQ “piggy wings.” Both of these particular skillets come with western-style sausage as well.
Sea-farers can order the Land and Sea Dinner Skillet, which comes with house-smoked salmon, citrus herb chicken, vegan sausage, and charred portabellas.
Feast on the Vegan Dinner Skillet – filled with maple-chipotle BBQ jackfruit, spicy vegan sausage, mustard-glazed beefless tips, and herb-brushed trick’n chick’n.
In addition, each one of these hearty all-you-care-to-enjoy skillets comes with a different assortment of sides that may include coleslaw, sautéed green beans, buttered corn, oven-roasted carrots, charred peppers, BBQ cauliflower, Yukon mashed potatoes, or roasted potatoes. Plus, chow down on freshly-baked cornbread served with delicious honey butter with every dinner skillet.
For dessert, order the Apple Pie. This mouth-watering slice of pie comes dusted with powdered sugar and is served with a big ol’ scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Thirsty cowpokes will also enjoy a selection of newly-themed cocktails such as the Bourbon Cowboy, which comes garnished with apple slices and pairs great with any lunch and dinner skillet. Selections of wines and draft beers are also available.
In addition, starting on March 26, you’ll also be able to feast on an array of breakfast skillets. Rise and shine to a delicious chuck wagon breakfast with the Heritage Skillet or the Carnivore Skillet. The Heritage Skillet comes with country potatoes, hickory-smoked bacon, and pork sausage links. For the meat-lovers, the Carnivore Skillet comes loaded with house-smoked ham, hickory-smoked bacon, pork sausage links, and oak-smoked beef brisket. Both of these skillets come with house-made buttermilk-cheddar biscuits, scrambled eggs, and Mickey Waffles.
For those looking for a lighter start to their morning, the Lighter Side Breakfast Skillet is a great option. It comes with Bircher Muesli (Swiss oatmeal), egg white spinach frittata, turkey bacon and turkey sausage, country potatoes, fresh fruit, yogurt, and of course, more Mickey waffles!
Only a select few restaurants are approved and highly rated with either the prestigious AAA Diamond or Forbes Travel Guide Stars awards each year. Today we announce two of Disney’s restaurants received these impressive accolades for 2019 – Victoria & Albert’sat Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa and Napa Rose at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
Victoria & Albert’s has received the renowned AAA Five Diamond Award each year since 2000 and, for the second year, the coveted Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Award. Victoria & Albert’s is the only restaurant in the state of Florida to be awarded both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Awards – with only 26 other restaurants in the Unites States holding both awards. Every night, Victoria & Albert’s brings guests the ultimate in fine dining with classic Victorian elegance, haute American cuisine, and an atmosphere of refined opulence.
For each consecutive year since 2012, Napa Rose has been honored with the AAA Four Diamond – a distinctive rating for restaurants offering a culinary experience to savor and enjoy. Celebrating the diverse tastes of California, from its coast to its farms, ranches and vineyards, the Napa Rose menu, which changes seasonally, reflects the restaurant’s commitment to sourcing California’s finest, freshest ingredients.
AAA rates and approves nearly 32,000 restaurants throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Only 0.2 percent of the restaurants are awarded the AAA Five Diamond rating and 2.1 percent receive the AAA Four Diamond. These ratings represent a combination of overall food, service, décor, and ambiance.
Out of the over 1,600 restaurants across the globe rated by Forbes Travel Guide, only 69 restaurants received the preeminent Five-Star rating. Forbes Travel Guide’s expert inspectors anonymously test each restaurant against up to 900 rigorous standards. Only the best of the best achieves the esteemed Five-Star rating.
Congratulations to both the Victoria & Albert’s and Napa Rose teams for earning these distinguished and celebrated awards.
To book reservations at Victoria & Albert’s, call 407-WDW-DVNA (407-939-3862) or go online to book the Dining Room or Queen Victoria’s Room up to 180 days in advance. For more information, visit www.victoria-alberts.com.
Reservations for Napa Rose can be made by calling (714) 781-DINE (3463) or by visiting the Napa Rose page on the Disneyland Resort website.
The Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival returns to the Disneyland Resort on March 1, 2019! Celebrating the beauty and bounty of California, this festival features unforgettable cuisine and beverages from regions across the Golden State. In addition to 14 Festival Marketplaces with incredible menus, enjoy family-friendly seminars, celebrity chef sightings, a dinner with Disney chefs, and so much more!
The Marketplace menus this year are jam-packed with a delicious array of new items, as well as some returning favorites. Located throughout Disney California Adventure park, you’ll want to make a stop at every kiosk! Paradise Garden Grill and the Festival Beer Garden are also featuring their own offerings, including a wonderful selection of beer flights and unique dishes.
In addition, the Sip and Savor Pass, which is now available to all Guests, is a great way for you to taste your way through the festival. This pass includes a souvenir lanyard and credential, entitling Guests to eight select food or non-alcoholic beverage items from any participating Marketplaces, Paradise Garden Grill and select Festival Food & Beverage Carts. Guests can use all eight coupons in a single day, or spread them out over multiple visits – the choice is up to you! Purchase the Sip and Savor Pass at various locations throughout the park, including Trolley Treats, Elias & Co., Seaside Souvenirs, the Sip and Savor Cart, the Festival Marketplaces, Festival Gift and Artist Corner and Studio Store in Hollywood Land.
Here’s a look at menu details and Marketplace locations for the 2019 Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival. Be sure to pick up a Tasting Passport, which includes all of this information and more!
NUTS ABOUT CHEESE (near Carthay Circle Restaurant at the Festival Entrance)
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UNCORK CALIFORNIA (near Carthay Circle Restaurant at the Festival Entrance)
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AVOCADO TIME (near Wine Country Trattoria)
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I <3 ARTICHOKES (near Pacific Wharf Bridge)
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GARLIC KISSED (near Golden Zephyr)
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OFF THE COB (near Golden Zephyr)
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LA STYLE (located near Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!)
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FESTIVAL BEER GARDEN (near Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta)
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PARADISE GARDEN GRILL (near Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta)
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SIGNATURE EVENTS
The festival’s signature events are also experiences worth checking out! Returning this year is Sweet Sundays. This popular event makes for a sweet start to the day, allowing your Clients to join a celebrity pastry chef for an entertaining dessert-centric demonstration, an interview with the chef, and a light brunch buffet featuring one of the chef’s dishes! It’s a great opportunity for Guests to hone their pastry and baking techniques and indulge in yummy desserts. This event occurs on select Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Palisades Stage in Paradise Gardens Park for the duration of the festival, and space is limited, so be sure to book your Clients today!
Another exciting event is the Dinner with the Disney Chefs. This sumptuous dinner is on Thursday, March 28, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Vineyard Room at Wine Country Trattoria. Here, your Clients will get to meet the Disneyland Resort chefs and sommeliers featured in the new Disney Festivals Cookbook, all while enjoying a four-course dinner with dishes inspired by the festival recipes and paired with hand-selected wines and cocktails. This event is a great way to enhance your Clients’ Food & Wine Festival experience.
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Spring is upon us and that means the 2019 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival is about to begin! Starting March 6, 2019, you can enjoy fun, flowers, and food! This year’s festival features 17 Outdoor Kitchens and several other locations through the park that will be offering delectable festival bites and libations.
Special dining packages are also available for the Garden Rocks Concert Series. This concert series runs for 90 nights and features over 270 performances by tons of popular artists. This dining package allows you to have either breakfast, lunch, or dinner at nearly any table-service restaurant in the park and grants you guaranteed seating at one of three concert performances that day. Be sure to reserve these early so you can savor every single minute!
This year’s menus are incredible and you won’t want to miss out on any of these delicious bites! In addition to the returning Outdoor Kitchens like The Honey Bee-stro, the festival has four new Outdoor Kitchens this year: Arbor, The Citrus Blossom, Trowel & Trellis, and Flavor Full Kitchen! Fried green tomatoes, tuna tataki, blood orange aqua fresca, and grilled street corn on the cob are just a few of the new mouthwatering items featured on the menus. Check out these and all of the offerings for the 2019 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival detailed below. The festival runs March 6–June 3, 2019.
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ARBOR (Located at The Gardeners Terrace in The Odyssey Center)
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LA ISLA FRESCA (Located in Showcase Plaza East)
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THE CITRUS BLOSSOM (Located near Refreshment Port)
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PINEAPPLE PROMENADE (Located near Refreshment Port)
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THE HONEY BEE-STRO Hosted by National Honey Board (Located near Refreshment Port)
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FLAVOR FULL KITCHEN Hosted by AdventHealth (Located near the Honey Bee-stro Garden)
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REFRESHMENT PORT (Located near the Canada Pavilion)
NORTHERN BLOOM (Located in the Canada Pavilion)
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FLORIDA FRESH (Located between the France and Morocco Pavilions)
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TASTE OF MARRAKESH (Located in the Morocco Pavilion)
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HANAMI (Located in the Japan Pavilion)
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FUNNEL CAKES (Located in The American Adventure)
THE SMOKEHOUSE: BARBECUE AND BREWS (Located in The American Adventure)
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FIFE & DRUM (Located in The American Adventure)
PRIMAVERA KITCHEN (Located in the Italy Pavilion)
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LOTUS HOUSE (Located in the China Pavilion)
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JARDIN DE FIESTAS (Located in the Mexico Pavilion)
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TROWEL & TRELLIS Hosted by IMPOSSIBLE Foods (Located near the Mexico Pavilion)
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TASTE TRACK (Located in Future World East)
Sunshine Seasons (Located in The Land Pavilion)
JOFFREY’S COFFEE & TEA (Located throughout the park)
Gran Destino Tower opens this summer, and sitting atop this grand new expansion to Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort is Toledo – Tapas, Steak & Seafood. The unique restaurant will offer a menu featuring dishes and small plates inspired by the flavors of Spain. Guests of Toledo will enjoy a surrealistic rooftop dining experience along with classic tapas, steaks, seafood, and delightful desserts.
An on-stage tapas kitchen will serve charcuteríá and cheeses as well as pintxos (small plates) and cazuelas (soups). House boards include a cured meat selection, an artisanal manchego cheese selection, and a grand platter of signature artisanal meats and mixed cheeses.
The pintxos selections feature an array of items like Salt Cod-stuffed Piquillo Peppers with goat cheese and toast, Olive Oil-poached Tuna, and Tortilla de Día wrapped in jamón serrano. Cazuelas include options such as Shrimp Pil Pil, Charred Octopus with romesco and chimichurri, and Rioja-braised Chorizo with field onions..
If Guests are looking for larger appetizers, you can enjoy several selections including Heirloom Tomatoes with stone fruit and farmer cheese, Jamón Serrano with compressed melon, and Savory Churros.
For the entrées, Guests can enjoy Wine-braised Chicken and steak lovers can savor the Hanger Steak with crushed new potatoes or the Manhattan Filet. There’s also the Rib-Eye For Two – an aged, hand-cut 32-ounce Spanish chuletón for two.
The restaurant will serve 100% sustainable seafood with options such as Scallops with hummus, olives, and roasted carrots and Golden Tile Fish with petite potatoes and cauliflower. There’s also a creative plant-based take on a seafood platter that includes mushroom scallops, calamari, and ceviche as well as hearts of palm crab cake.
For a sweet ending to the meal, Guests can try one of several unique signature desserts created by Disney’s Master Pastry Chef: Classic Crema Catalana with Valencia oranges and chocolate tuile, “Café con Leche” Choux with dark chocolate mousse and vanilla “nata montada,” and “The Toledo Tapas Bar” – a progressive bite-sized sweet tasting, tapas style, featuring a crunchy chocolate bar with bite-sized flavors of Spanish coffee mousse, chocolate cake, “frambuesa” raspberry mousse, and lemon curd. Kids can also enjoy Mickey-shaped raspberry mousse topped with yummy strawberries.
There’s even a plant-based dessert option on the menu. The Chocolate Avocado Mousse with strawberry-basil sorbet and coconut crumble is a decadent option that you definitely won’t want to miss out on.
The beverage menu shines the spotlight on Spanish and California wines with over 75 selections hand-selected by our Master Sommelier. Other drinks include handcrafted cocktails such as the “Gin Tonic” with house-made saffron tonic and sangria as well as beers and ciders from Spanish and American Craft Breweries, a selection of non-alcoholic artisanal cocktails, and dinner beverages showcasing Spanish coffees, brandies, and dessert wines.
Reservations are now open for Toledo – Tapas, Steak & Seafood for bookings starting in July, when Gran Destino Tower opens at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort. To book reservations for your Clients, please visit the Walt Disney World Resort website or call 407 WDW-DINE (407 939-3463).
You can please your palate with the colorful flavors of the 2019 Epcot International Festival of the Arts! Highlighting the visual, performing, and culinary arts, the festival runs from Jan. 18-Feb. 25, 2019, and features 13 Food Studios along with other festival-exclusive dishes served at various locations throughout the park.
From sweet and savory to spicy and scrumptious, this year’s menus are decorated with a whole gallery of items including returning favorites as well as new items that will dazzle your taste buds. This colorful fare paints a yummy picture of culinary perfection presented throughout Future World and World Showcase.
Savor show-stopping cuisine with a side of sizzling Disney Broadway hits with the Disney on Broadway Concert Series Dining Packages. Feast on the finest fare from around the world at participating restaurants before enjoying guaranteed seating at one of three concerts held the same day. To book a dining package, visit the Walt Disney World Resort website or call 407 WDW-DINE (407 939-3463). Bookings are available for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
As for the menus for the wonderful Food Studios sprinkled throughout the park, here’s the official Disney Parks Foodie Guide (brought to us by our partners at the Disney Parks Blog) with all the info a budding, hungry artist could ever want!
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The Deconstructed Dish (Located in Showcase Plaza)
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Cuisine Classique (Located in the Germany Pavilion)
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Pop Eats! (Located in Showcase Plaza)
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Masterpiece Kitchen (Located in the Canada Pavilion)
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Painter’s Palate (Located in the Odyssey Festival Showplace)
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Funnel Cakes (Located in The American Adventure)
Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company
Jaleo by José Andrés is expected to debut this winter at Disney Springs, and when the doors open in the coming weeks, Guests will discover a 22,000 square foot wonder that will house Andrés’ largest restaurant to date.
The venue will bring the spirit and flavors of Spain to Disney Springs visitors via a freestanding, two-story building with a design that was strongly influenced by the artichoke – a vegetable native to Andrés’ homeland. Renowned Spanish design firm Capella Garcia Arquitectura used it as their ultimate inspiration, working closely with José Andrés’ ThinkFoodGroup to ensure that every detail of the striking design was just right. In this rendition, an artichoke structure opens up with “petals” that form pergolas, seamlessly extending to the outdoors. With no solid walls, the space is completely open to the outside and features large windows that offer picturesque lake views and an impressive central courtyard that visually connects both floors. Juli Capella, principal for the design firm shared, “There are no cubic forms, no opaque walls, no straight lines: here reigns a plant-like organicism with its dynamic forms. An avant-garde, expressionist and welcoming architecture.”
It sounds like a work of art with a color palette showcasing citrus shades like orange and lemon paired with stunning photos and paintings from some of Spain’s most celebrated photographers and artists.