Disneys California Food and Wine Festival Day 1

Home News Planning Accommodations Dining Theme Parks Beyond the Parks BLOG CENTRAL Disney Cruise Line Disneyland Resort Universal Orlando Resort Search Laura s Disney Lines From sunny southern California miles from Disneyland Laura Gilbreath AllEarsNet.com s Disneyland correspondent brings a west coast perspective as she talks about her trips to Disneyland and occasional pilgrimages to Walt Disney World. DCA Food and Wine Festival Update Main Disney s California Food and Wine Festival Day Finally The first weekend of Disney s California Food and Wine Festival at Disney s California Adventure. The Festival will have daily events from April May . Lee and I will be here at Disneyland for the first weekend of the Festival we are spending two nights at the Grand Californian and I will be attempting to submit daily blog entries while we are here. Disney certainly got a gorgeous weekend for their Festival though a little warmer than they would like I think. It was supposed to be to! day Friday though I m not sure it was quite that warm. Still when you were standing in full sun waiting in line for an event it was very warm There was a nice breeze though. So.what s new with the Festival this year A lot actually. As I mentioned it s daily this year with complimentary cooking demos and wine and beer tasting each day. More on the weekends of course. They have new venues this year in addition to the Golden Vine Winery and Pacific Wharf areas they ve used the last two years they have also expanded into the Bountiful Farm area with a new larger demonstration kitchen area there which seats people. The Jr. Chef program has relocated there also. The upper terrace of the Golden Vine Winery formerly a demonstration kitchen is now the Sparkling Bar where they serve flights of wines as well as tapas like cheese platters bruschetta and flatbread. The demonstration kitchen in the Pacific Wharf area has also been expanded and seats people. The Festival Welcome Center ha! s been relocated to Sunshine Plaza. One really great in my opinion addition this year all of the counter service restaurants in DCA with the exception of Burger Invasion are offering special food and or beverage items during the Festival. One of my complaints in the past has been that there just isn t a lot of variety in the Festival food items and that with Festival foods served just at the Lucky Fortune Cookery that you can t wander around and eat. This goes a long way to helping with that Though these food items are full size orders and not appetizer sized so unless you re sharing with a group it s hard to try too many of them in a day. Anyway.the food items are themed to the restaurant serving them and for the most part they look really wonderful to me. Farmer s Market has a California Wrap Award Wieners has the Portabello Philly yes made with mushrooms no meat Cocina Cucamonga offers Bunuelo Fritters Pacific Wharf Cafe is serving a Chinese Chicken Salad in a bread bowl there s a Gourmet Cheese Corn Dog at Corn Dog Castle and Pizza Oom Mow! Mow has a Chilled Shrimp Pasta Salad . Taste Pilot s Grill is only offering an additional wine and beer as far as I can tell. A number of these offerings are healthier lighter fare than the normal theme park foods but yet they sound delicious. Lee and I tried the California Wrap which is a spinach tortilla filled with marinated chicken mandarin oranges sliced red flame grapes apricots cilantro and baby spinach with a light honey low fat yogurt dressing. It was quite tasty though a bit heavy on the cilantro for my taste since I really don t like cilantro. The Lucky Fortune Cookery is still serving appetizer sized offerings for the Festival but I don t think there are as many selections this year. I m running out of time so more on those later this weekend. Another thing that s new this year.crowds Even the first events on Friday were at capacity and of the people we talked to in line most had come because of the Festival not a lot of people just walked up and participated. ! All of the events we attended today Delicious Desserts and BBQ cooking demos and Flora Springs and Rosenthal the Malibu Estate wine tastings were turning people away. You were ok if you got in line at least minutes in advance.but I ll bet that won t be true tomorrow Marinated BBQ Pork on Rice Cake wrapped with English Cucumber While we were wandering around the Festival today we ran into Jim Ames Producer of the Festival who of course is busy busy busy but took several minutes to chat with us. He gave me the menu for Taste I will get that on line after I get home and told us who the entertainment will be for Taste this year jazz guitarist and two time Grammy winner Paul Brown accompanied by a band led by the guy who leads the band on Dancing with the Stars. If I watched the show I might know who that was but I don t. Anyway.it will be quite a different experience from Barrage last year. Flora Springs Winetasting Tonight we attended the Winemaker Dinner at Steakhouse featuring the wines of Chappellet Winery . Dinner was quite good especially th! e dessert goat cheese cheesecake and Valhrona Chocolate Pate. The latter was especially good. I ll have more on that later too. It ll be a busy day tomorrow starting off with early entry at Disneyland where hopefully Lee will finally get a chance to ride the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage . I ll write more as I have time. A special hello to AllEars reader Don and his family we had a nice chat with them after the Rosenthal winetasting. 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