The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Food & Wine Festival rolls out its menu
Disneyland has released the full menu lineup for this year’s Food & Wine Festival, which will bring California-centric food, beer and wine; celebrity chefs; and Disney characters dressed in their best foodie attire to Disney California Adventure.
The gathering runs March 1 through April 22 with local, celebrity and Disney chefs offering cooking tips during culinary demonstrations, tasting seminars and signature events.
Ten festival marketplace booths will offer small plates highlighting California-grown ingredients. California Adventure eateries and food stands as well as Downtown Disney restaurants will also serve festival fare.
Sip and Savor passes are back this year: prepaid cards with eight tabs good for individual items at food and beverage stands throughout the event. Disney has not released prices for the cards, but last year they cost $59, with a $5 discount for Magic Key annual passholders.
Fans of the ride Soarin’ Over California will get another chance to hang glide over Napa Valley, Monterey Bay and Redwood Creek when the classic version of the flight simulator returns during the fest.
Here’s the menu lineup for its food booths and restaurants.
California Craft Brews
• Cheeseburger bao with Thousand Island dressing, grilled onions, and pickle and tomato relish
• S’mores Caramel Tart: Graham cracker tart shell filled with caramel and chocolate ganache topped with a toasted marshmallow
• Frozen Mangonada beer slush: Brewery X Baja Boi, mango purée, rock melon syrup, grapefruit juice and mango-chamoy glaze
• Brewery X Baja Mexican Lager with and lime
Boi salt
• La Bodega Brewing Co. Pay the Piper Double IPA
• Eagle Rock Brewery Golden Ale
• Unsung Brewing Co. Intracore IPA
• Bottle Logic Brewing Watermelon Lemonade Seltzer
• Crowns & Hops Inglewood Sun West Coast IPA
• Left Coast Brewing Co. Del Mar St. Dortmunderstyle Export Lager
• Full Circle Brewing Co. Peachy Vibes Wheat Ale
• Mission Brewing Foggy Shores Hefeweizen
• Russian River Brewing Blind Pig IPA
• Stone Brewing Stone Ruination Double IPA
• Delahunt Brewing Co. Salvatore Italian Pilsner
• CAL-IPA beer flight
• Spring favorites beer flight
• West Coast beer flight
Cluck-a-doodle-moo
• Cheese pizza-flavored wings with ranch dip
• Barbecue beef brisket slider with smoked white cheddar and dill pickles on salt and pepper brioche
• Kiwi-apple lemonade: lemonade, apple juice and kiwi and Granny Smith apple syrups garnished with a purple orchid
• Tangerine Tiki Cocktail: dark rum, vanillacitrus liqueur, tangerine and lime juices, and honey syrup garnished with a dried red pineapple wheel
D-lish
• Carbonara garlic mac and cheese with peppered bacon
• Olive oil cake glazed with lemon curd, topped with vanilla bean chantilly, and finished with fresh candied lemons, strawberry crunch and lemonlime gelée
• Huckleberry-citrus Cooler: Black tea, huckleberry and agave syrups, grapefruit soda, and lemon and orange juices garnished with an orange wedge
Earth Eats
• Impossible Chicken Parm Bites with tomato and cheese sauces and grated Parmesan
• Impossible beef stroganoff: egg noodles tossed in a mushroom cream sauce with Impossible beef and sour cream
• Watermelon cucumber mojito: white rum, watermelon liqueur, mojito and cucumber syrups, watermelon purée and lime juice topped with Topo Chico and garnished with a watermelon spear with Tajín twist
Garlic Kissed
• Grilled top sirloin with roasted garlic-gruyère smashed potatoes and black garlic chimichurri
• Guava-litchi mule: vodka, guava nectar, ginger and litchi syrups, and lemon juice topped with guava cider and garnished with a lemon wheel
Golden Dreams
• Frozen Old Fashioned: nonalcoholic bourbon-flavored ice cream, bitters crema, orange zest glaze and cherry spheres
• Fig matcha latte: matcha, soy milk, and coconut and simple syrups topped
with a fig oat sweet cream and garnished with matcha powder
• Blueberry pancake cold brew: Mexico origin coffee, maple syrup, brown butter and demerara syrups, and oat milk with a blueberry sweet cream garnished with cinnamon-flavored cereal crumble
• Peach Cobbler Cocktail: moonshine, peach and amaretto liqueur, peach nectar, condensed milk, vanilla and cinnamon syrups, and lemon juice garnished with frozen peaches
L.A. Style
• Carnitas-style pork belly with esquites corn mac salad featuring Tajin Habanero
• Baja-style fish taco with cabbage slaw, cilantro-lime crema and pico de gallo
• Spicy Strawberry Cocktail: gin, strawberry and tamarind purees, strawberry syrup, pineapple juice, chile spices and Tajín chamoy garnished with a Tamarindo straw
Nuts About Cheese
• Barbecue pulled pork mac and cheese with crisp dill pickle onions
• Mickey-shaped macaron made with Snickers bar pieces
• PB&J Whiskey Shake: Peanut butter whiskey, raspberry liqueur, vanilla ice cream, Mexico origin coffee, and peanut butter & raspberry syrups garnished with a raspberry
Peppers Cali-ente
• Shrimp Papas Locas: cheddar-bacon potatoes with jalapeno cheese sauce and chipotle shrimp
• Chile relleno empanada with arbol pepper salsa and Oaxaca and cotija cheeses
• Cantarito-style Paloma: reposado tequila, habanero-infused pineapple juice, lime juice, rock melon syrup and Fresca garnished with a pineapple wheel and Tajin Clasico
Uncork California
• Raspberry almond cake: almond cake with raspberry mousse and fresh raspberries
• Chrysanthemum mimosa: prosecco with lemonade and rock melon and chrysanthemum syrups
• Hibiscus-rose mimosa: prosecco with hibiscus tea and rose syrup
• Apricot-lavender mimosa: prosecco with apricot puree and lavender syrup
• Rose margarita: blanco tequila, rose, lemon juice, white peach and agave syrups, and cantaloupe puree garnished with a lemon wheel
• Scharffenberger Cellars Brut Excellence
• Rodney Strong Chalk Hill Chardonnay
• Conundrum Blend
• Daou Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc
• Cline Old Vine Zinfandel
• Fess Parker
Red Blend
• Robert Mondavi Private Selection Cabernet Sauvignon
• White wine flight
• Red wine flight
• Springtime Bouquet mimosa flight
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