If you are heading to Walt Disney World this month there are some amazing Disney Food options you have to check out. Here are some of the Best Bites recommended by Disney Parks Blog.
First off Disney’s Animal Kingdom has as prix fix menu at Tiffins, offered during lunch. The meal comes with a trio of appetizers with black-eyed pea fritters, heirloom tomatoes and marinated grilled octopus. The entrée selections include a vegetable noodle bowl, swordfish, braised wagyu beef pozole or grilled chicken. You can then end your meal with a delicious dessert trio consisting of chocolate ganache, lime cheesecake and guava mousse! Stop by Tiffins on Discovery Island to try out this amazing new menu.
Right next door to Tiffins is Pandora – The World of Avatar, when you can now find some breakfast options at Pongu Pongu. The new offerings include a chocolate-stuffed brioche, colorful coffee cake, the popular pineapple Lumpia, and a Wolf Paw, which is a cinnamon bun topped with almonds!
Creature Comforts now offers two all-new sandwiches. The first is a roast beef sandwich with rosemary mayonnaise, Comté cheese, lettuce and tomato on a ciabatta bread. The second is a delicious chicken salad sandwich with apples, dried cherries, lettuce and tomato on a split croissant.
Over at Epcot, the Rose & Crown Pub in the United Kingdom Pavilion now offers British Butty. This unique offering from across the pond consists of your choice of chips (fries), bacon or banger (sausage) served on a brioche roll with crisps and house-made pickled onions.
Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen in Magic Kingdom Park has recently added a few new items to the menu. The first dish is a favorite of our friend Pamela Perkins, the President of the Adventurers Club. The Perkins Thai Noodles consist of chicken, tofu, seasonal vegetables and rice noodles tossed in a spicy soy-chili-garlic sauce.
You’ll be betting it all on the next dish, the “A Lot At Steak” Salad! This leafy dish comes with grilled steak, romaine lettuce, Spring mix, pickled jalapeños, red onion, queso fresco and pumpkin seeds tossed in a chimichurri vinaigrette. The last dish is the Baa Baa Berber Lamb Chops. These berbere-spiced lambchops come with roasted carrot purée and arugula-cauliflower salad tossed in a citrus vinaigrette.
In Frontierland, Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe now offers a taco trio. Choose from seasoned ground beef, seasoned chicken, spicy beef or the new spicy cauliflower! This new lightly-breaded cauliflower comes with pineapple salsa and a five-spice yogurt. All these tacos are served in flour tortillas and include a trip to the toppings bar.
For the holiday season, Magic Kingdom Park has also added a few special offerings, like December’s Hot Dog of the Month at Casey’s Corner – the Hot Diggity Holiday Hot Dog with cranberry cole slaw and pulled pork. Columbia Harbour House now offers a holiday salad with turkey, bacon bits, cheese, cranberries, onions, tomatoes and a cranberry vinaigrette as well as Fa La La Fondant Fries – fries topped with cinnamon sugar and red and green fondant. At Pinocchio Village Haus you’ll find a holiday flatbread with roasted turkey, cheese, stuffing, cranberry BBQ sauce and gravy. And lastly, Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café now has a Bahumburger with angus beef, cornbread stuffing and a special Scrooge Sauce cranberry aioli.
Trattoria Al Forno at Disney’s BoardWalk has extended the hours of its popular Bon Voyage Adventure Breakfast. Starting December 17th, this experience will be from 7:30am-12:00 p.m. daily. Reservations for these extended hours are available now. Meet Ariel with Prince Eric and Rapunzel with Flynn Rider while you dine on a variety of breakfast entrées like the Tower of Pancakes or Tangled Eggs!
For more portable versions, go to the Mint Julep Bar in New Orleans Square, where an order of three comes in a paper bag and is dusted with plenty of powdered sugar. (Note: Those lime-and-mint beverages in question are non-alcoholic.) With the return of the Fantasmic evening pyrotechnics show in Frontierland, the Mint Julep Bar is now also serving purple-sprinkles-covered Blackberry Beignets.
This non-dairy frozen treat debuted at Disneyland in 1976, created exclusively for Adventureland by the folks at Dole Pineapple. It has developed a passionate cult following—it has been called “a work of art” and has a podcast named after it—and is now offered at other Disney parks, as well as a few other scattered locations. The original, though, is at the Tiki Juice Bar stand outside the Enchanted Tiki Room. Order yours as a soft-serve, a float with pineapple juice, or be a rebel and ask for the lone pineapple spear. A pleasant surprise: the classic Dole Whip soft serve has only about 100 calories.
These mountain-shaped coconut treats—covered with white-chocolate icing and sugary “snow”—are a rarity among Disney-themed goodies in that they’re based not on a character, but an actual ride. The classic Matterhorn coaster is even within view of the macaroons’ Main Street home, the Mary Poppins-themed Jolly Holiday Bakery Café (look for the telltale weather vane on top).
The jumbo drumsticks offered at hot-food carts around the two parks—like Edelweiss Snacks in Fantasyland and the hot-foods cart in Hollywood Land—have inspired so much awe that an urban legend once floated around that they actually came from ostriches (they don’t). Granted, the hickory-smoked legs look large, even for a turkey (they come from male Toms) and the salt curing gives them an almost ham-like flavor. To be sure, they are a commitment: Each one weighs 1.5 pounds.
There are more than a dozen churro carts dotting the parks—from outside The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland to A Bug’s Land in California Adventure—and the fried-dough treats have even inspired their own souvenir shirts over the years. Keep an eye out for limited-release variations, like golden-sugar-dusted churros in honor of Pirates of the Caribbean, or the Jedi-worthy, red- and blue-sugared “light-saber” churros in Tomorrowland.
In its cultural and culinary rendering of the Golden State, Disney California Adventure Park has embraced one key representative of San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate. The Disney branch of the Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop, located in the Pacific Wharf section, offers up scoops and chocolate-doused sundaes, as well as the clearly-meant-for-sharing Earthquake, with eight scoops of ice cream, eight toppings, bananas, whipped cream, and more. Don’t miss the mural of San Francisco in the shop, which reacts to your order: Buildings shake when you order an Earthquake, and a prospector pans for gold if you get the hot-fudge-and-peanut-butter Gold Rush.
In the Cars Land area of California Adventure, “refueling” takes on new meaning at the Cozy Cone Motel, a snack stand with five different cone-based treat options, from the chili-filled Chili Cone Queso to breakfast scrambles. Reviewers have especially loved the stand’s Chicken Verde Cone and the Red’s Apple Freeze, a slushy made with apple juice, passion fruit, toasted marshmallow syrup, and mango foam.
