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Foodie Guide for St. Patrick's Day at the Disney Parks 2024

Welcome to the ultimate foodie guide for celebrating St. Patrick's Day 2024 at the Disney theme parks! Both Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort are pulling out all the stops this year with festive decor, entertainment, and of course, food and drinks galore across their resorts in honor of the luck o’ the Irish. In this guide, you’ll find extensive details on all the restaurants, lounges, kiosks, and more that will be serving up specialty St. Patrick’s Day dishes, drinks, desserts and snacks at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World for 2024. We've organized this guide by land to make it easy to navigate. So get ready to go green as we dive into all the delicious details! May the road rise up to meet you, and the wind be always at your back as you eat and drink your way through the Disney parks this St. Patrick’s Day.

Walt Disney World Resort

Disney Resort Hotels Disney’s Beach Club Resort Beaches & Cream Soda Shop (Available March 1 through 17) - Mickey Shamrock Milk Shake: Mint milk shake with chocolate drizzle, shamrock sprinkles, and a specialty vanilla cupcake (Non-alcoholic beverage) Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Gasparilla Island Grill (Available March 1 through 31; mobile order available) - Irish Cream Cheesecake: Bailey’s Irish Cream cheesecake with Chantilly cream and gold ‘coins’ (New) Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Roaring Fork (Available March 1 through 17; mobile order available) - The Nugget: Vanilla bean mousse, stout cake, and a salted caramel ganache center

Available at Various Locations at Disney Resort Hotels - Pot O’ Gold Mousse: Irish stout cake, Irish cream mousse, and a candy rainbow (Available March 1 through 17 at the following) - Beach Club Marketplace at Disney’s Beach Club Resort - BoardWalk Deli at Disney’s BoardWalk - Good's Food to Go at Disney’s Old Key West Resort - The Artist's Palette at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa - The Market at Ale & Compass at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort - Lucky (Plant-based) Clover Cupcake: Chocolate cupcake with a golden vanilla buttercream swirl and shamrock sprinkles (Plant-based) (Available March 1 through 31at the following) - World Premiere Food Court at Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort - Intermission Food Court at Disney’s All-Star Music Resort - End Zone Food Court at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort - Landscape of Flavors at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort - Centertown Market at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort - Spyglass Grill at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort - Everything POP Shopping & Dining at Disney’s Pop Century Resort - Riverside Mill Food Court at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside - Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter

Disney Springs Amorette's Patisserie (Available March 1 through 17; mobile order available) - End of the Rainbow Crème Brûlée: Chocolate and coffee crème brûlée with Bailey’s Irish Cream whipped cream (New)

City Works Eatery & Pour House (Available March 13 through 17) - Shepherd’s Pie Flatbread: Stewed seasoned beef, roasted garlic purée, peas, mozzarella, mashed potatoes, and green onion - Pastrami Reuben: House-made pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing, and bacon-braised sauerkraut on marble rye - Irish Mac N’ Cheese: Caramelized cabbage, beer-braised onions, bacon lardons, shredded corned beef, beer cheese sauce, smoked cheddar, garlic herb crumble, and cavatappi - Jameson Honey Mule: Jameson, lemon juice, honey syrup, orange bitters, and ginger beer - Lucky Grasshopper: Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur, crème de menthe, heavy cream, and lucky marshmallow - Dark Side of The Moon: Blue Moon Belgian White and Guinness - Snakebite: Angry Orchard Crisp Apple and Guinness - Voodoo: Rubaeus and Guinness

D-Luxe Burger (Available March 1 through 18; mobile order available) - St Patrick's Day Shake: Vanilla gelato blended with dark caramel sauce, Irish cream syrup, and toasted marshmallow syrup topped with whipped cream, caramel, and green sprinkles (Non-alcoholic beverage)

The Ganachery - Patty's Mickey Chocolate Piñata: Dark chocolate piñata filled with chocolate treats (Available March 1 through 17) - Irish Cream Ganache Square: Bailey’s Irish Cream ganache enrobed in milk chocolate (Available March 1 through 31) Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop (Currently available) - Mint Bliss Hot Fudge Sundae: Mint chocolate chip and chocolate ice cream layered with handmade dark chocolate hot fudge and topped with whipped cream and a dark chocolate mint square

Swirls on the Water - Patrick's Day Cone: Pistachio and chocolate soft-serve swirled in a black vanilla cone with shamrock sprinkles and a chocolate Mickey garnish (New) (Available March 1 through April 30) - Chocolate and Coffee Float: Pistachio soft-serve, chocolate soft-serve, Joffrey’s Coffee Cold Brew, and shamrock sprinkles (New) (Available March 1 through 31) (Non-alcoholic beverage) - Cold Brew-Pistachio-Mocha Float: Pistachio and chocolate soft-serve swirled together with Joffrey's Coffee Cold Brew and Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur (New) (Available March 1 through April 30) Vivoli il Gelato (Available March 1 through April 30) - Shamrock Shake: Mint chocolate chip and pistachio gelato with whipped cream and chocolate shavings - Guinness Tiramisu: Mascarpone cream with layers of Guinness-soaked lady fingers (New)

DISNEYLAND RESORT

Disneyland Park Red Rose Taverne (Available March 1 through 19; mobile order available) - Green Stuff: Mint-white-chocolate mousse, chocolate cake, mint chocolate chips, and chocolate cookie crumbs on a shortbread cookie

Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa GCH Craftsman Grill (Available March 13 through TBD; mobile order available) - Patrick’s Day Cupcake - Patrick’s Day Donut

Pixar Place Hotel Great Maple (Available March 1 through 31) - Cereal Milk Doughnut: Classic vanilla, yeast-raised doughnut with cereal milk glaze, flavored marshmallows, and gold glitter garnish (New) Downtown Disney District Salt & Straw (Available March 1 through April 4) - Pots of Gold & Rainbows: Hand-sorted rainbow marshmallows tossed into cereal milk ice cream

Available at Various Candy Locations Around Disneyland Resort Including Marceline’s Confectionery, Trolley Treats, Bing Bong’s Sweet Stuff, Candy Palace and Candy Kitchen, and Pooh Corner (Available March 15 through 17) - Mint Chocolate and Cream Cookie Marshmallow Wand: Three marshmallows dipped in caramel and mint-milk chocolate then rolled in crushed chocolate cookies and drizzled with white and green chocolate - Shamrock Cereal Treat: Shamrock-shaped cereal treat dipped in green, white chocolate and decorated in light green, white chocolate and a yellow, white chocolate Mickey

Conclusion We hope this guide has whet your appetite and gotten you excited to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2024 in serious foodie style at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts! With festive decorations, entertainment, food, and drinks galore, it’s certain to be an incredible and delicious holiday at the Disney Parks. Just follow this guide on where to find all the specialty Irish eats and sips. And don’t forget to wear green so you don’t get pinched! May the luck of the Irish be with you as you eat and drink your way through Disneyland and Disney World this St. Patrick’s Day. Sláinte! Need help planning your next Disney trip? Check out our new Disney Planning Forum! Read the full article

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wineanddinosaur · 6 years ago

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A Snob’s Guide to Finding Good Drinks in Disney World

Anyone who ever aspired to drink with intergalactic droids will soon be in luck: Disney Parks is set to debut a new bar, Oga’s Cantina, a “hotly anticipated” Star Wars attraction, in Florida’s Disney World and California’s Disneyland later this year.

Oga’s Cantina marks the first Disneyland bar serving alcohol to the general public (provided they are over 21, of course). Disney World, on the other hand, actually has a number of places to have a pint, cocktail, or glass of vino.

This may come as a surprise to those who envision both Walt Disney and his eponymous theme parks as wholesomely teetotaling affairs. But Walt was not a prohibitionist. Despite what countless people on the internet claim, Walt Disney was a man who boozed it up quite a bit—usually starting with a Scotch cocktail at 5 o’clock sharp. He simply wanted his theme parks and public persona to be a little more, ahem, dry than he actually was.

“Walt Disney doesn’t drink,” he once told a friend. “I drink.”

Well, we drink, too.

Luckily, it’s become easier and easier over the years to drink pretty well in Disney World — if you know where to look. The entire property is a massive 40 square miles divided into four unique theme parks (plus resort accommodations). Consider this your guide to finding the top beer, wine, booze, and cocktails throughout Disney World.

Cinderella’s Royal Table at the Magic Kingdom serves top-shelf Champagne. Credit: Disneyworld.disney.go.com

Magic Kingdom Park

The main theme park was dry until Be Our Guest, a Beauty & the Beast-themed restaurant, opened in 2012. In 2015 four more restaurants with alcohol opened. Today it’s up to eight, meaning every single sit-down restaurant in the park serves booze. All require advanced reservations, so plan your dipsomania accordingly. We have loosely ranked them in order of quality:

Cinderella’s Royal Table

Your children can dine with princesses while you get blotto on $320 bottles of Dom. Bottle service has never felt so… baller.

Be Our Guest Restaurant

Look for an adequate selection of wine and Champagne like Veuve Clicquot at this faux-opulent spot. Beers lean toward Belgian classics, like Saison Dupont and Chimay Blue. (There is also an app, Beers and Ears, that helps you locate specific ales and lagers in the park.)

Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen

This fairly problematic “jungle-themed” restaurant serves a mishmash of Asian, South American, and African beverages. You’ll find everything from Kenyan lagers to Argentinian Malbec to Sangria to, uh, Michelob Ultra.

The Diamond Horseshoe

There’s a small selection of beer and wine at this rootin’ tootin’ Old West hall, but it does have the solid Cigar City Jai Alai IPA, which hails from nearby Tampa, Fla.

The Crystal Palace

Blue Moon, J.Lohr Cabernet Sauvignon, some solid Columbia Valley sparkling wine, and Cigar City Jai Alai IPA are available at this The Winnie the Pooh-themed restaurant. There’s also costumed characters roaming about. (Come on, Eeyore, my drinking buddies back home are depressing enough!)

Liberty Tree Tavern

The selections at this early-America-inspired inn are classic if a bit uninspired, and include Mimosas and Napa Valley Cab, just like ol’ George Washington used to drink.

Tony’s Town Square Restaurant

There are no red-checkered tablecloths at this spot modeled after the place where Lady and the Tramp had their first kiss, but there is a sizable selection of “vino” and “birra.” Both lists only play the hits, pouring Peroni and Stella Artois plus Banfi Chianti. Surprisingly, the restaurant is not dog-friendly.

The Plaza Restaurant

This heavily-mirrored restaurant has some of the most bland booze options in the entire park. Think Bellinis and Mich Ultra.

Skip the sugary cocktails and sip sparkling wines at Epcot’s China pavilion. Credit: Disneyworld.disney.go.com.

Epcot

There are 11 pavilions styled after different countries at this “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.” All offer alcoholic beverages with varying degrees of authenticity, cultural sensitivity, and drinkability. Here are the most interesting options in each “country.”

United States of America

Look for craft beers like Founders Rubaeus at the Block & Hans kiosk.

Japan

There’s sake, obvi, plus frozen Ichiban beer, available at the Kabuki Cafe.

Morocco

Although the actual Morocco is home to winelands that some American somms feel have international potential, Epcot’s Morocco focuses on cocktails like The Casablanca Sunset (a gross combination of apricot brandy and peach schnapps) and the frozen Sultan’s Colada.

France

Les Vins des Chefs de France, a counter-service wine bar, has a decent selection of wines by the glass, including Jean-Luc Colombo Cotes du Rhone and Nicolas Feuillate Champagne. If that sounds too rich for your blood, there’s also a silly frozen drink, the Grand Marnier-based Orange Slush.

United Kingdom

The pub Rose & Crown serves pints of Boddingtons and Guinness, flights of single malts, and one extremely curious cocktail. The Leaping Leprechaun features Jameson (sure), rum (OK), vodka (wha?), as well as melon liqueur, sour mix, and Sprite.

Canada

Our neighbors to the north might actually offer Epcot’s best beers at Le Cellier, which serves a full menu of boozy Unibroue options. There’s also Molsons, Labatts, and one of the world’s premier drunk foods, poutine!

Tony’s Town Square is modeled after the fictional restaurant where Lady and the Tramp had their first kiss. Surprisingly, it is not dog-friendly. Credit: Disneyworld.disney.go.com.

Mexico

Bypass the sugar-bomb Margs at stands throughout the pavillion, and head to La Cava de Tequila. It offers a quality selection of sipping tequilas and legitimately interesting Margaritas, included a frozen avocado one.

Norway

Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe’s shot of Linie Aquavit is surely one of the most esoteric and, quite frankly, quality offerings in the entire Epcot complex.

China

Nine Dragons restaurant serves Chinese-American fare like General Tso’s Chicken with an array of aggressively sweet cocktails like frozen mango Daiquiris and the South Sea Breeze, a blend of pineapple and orange juices spiked with coconut rum and grenadine. However, there’s also a lengthy wine list with some surprisingly solid options, like Mumm Brut Prestige sparkling wine and Valkenberg Gewurtzraminer.

Germany

Expect to see knuckleheads aplenty hoisting steins of, unfortunately, humdrum Deutschland beer like Beck’s. Where’s the Weihenstephaner?! Your better bet is to opt for a spate of adequate, easy-drinking Riesling, like Valckenberg Madonna. Or maybe just get $9 shots of Jager.

Italy

A surprisingly cozy place to drink, The Tutto Gusto Wine Cellar touts over 200 bottles of wine—and some aren’t bad! Look for Greco di Tufo Mastroberardino, Vermentino Guado al Tasso and Fiano Avellino Mastroberardino.

Animal Kingdom Park

The drinking options at this zoologically themed park skirt a fine line between esoteric and nonsensical. Beers and wines are mostly sourced directly from across Africa —Bellingham Chenin Blanc from South Africa, for instance—but the cocktails lean that direction in name only. Additionally, far too many primate puns abound.

The Rainforest Cafe

Part of the same 1990s tide that brought Planet Hollywoods to tourist destinations worldwide, this theme restaurant is located near the entrance to Animal Kingdom. The beer and wine is fairly pedestrian, featuring Bud Light and Rodney Strong Chardonnay but the sugary and “tropical” cocktails, like the Mongoose Mai Tai, come in souvenir glasses worth take a walk with.

Jiko – The Cooking Place

This upscale restaurant offers over one-hundred South African wines, with solid staples from Raats and DeMorgenzon and higher-end bottlings from Philip Jonker and Sadie Family. On Wednesdays there are $30 tasting flights, which sounds more fun than riding the Teacups.

Dawa Bar

One of Disney World’s more intriguing international beer selections is at this so-called “bamboo bar” in Harambe village. Most of the beers, such as Tusker Lager, are industrial beers not as available in the U.S., and thus more interesting than a Bud Light in name only. Opt for a Hakim Stout from Ethiopia, or Dawa’s takes on classic cocktails, like a Margarita made with Van der Hum, South Africa’s tangerine-flavored liqueur.

Nomad Lounge

Numerous craft cocktails are available at this lounge on Discovery Island and, though many have African-inspired names, few use any sort of ingredients sourced on the continent.

There are $30 tasting flights Wednesdays at Jiko, an upscale restaurant in Animal Kingdom. Credit: Disneyworld.disney.go.com.

Hollywood Studios

When was the last time you saw Buzz Lightyear getting buzzed? Probably the last time you came here. Disney World’s least-visited theme park doesn’t have many drinking destinations, but there are a few solid options.

Tune-In Lounge

The lobby to the Prime Time Café acts as a retro ’50s bar showing TV from the era and, thankfully, offering drinks from this era. Craft beers include mainstream bottles like New Belgium Fat Tire, wile cocktails are kicked up a notch for the distressed parent, like in the Ultimate Long Island Iced Tea. Hopefully your kids knows what hotel you’re staying in.

The Hollywood Brown Derby Lounge

A wannabe facsimile of the see-and-be-seen Hollywood haunt of yore, Golden Age-era cocktails are the name of the game here—opt for a Manhattan or Martini.

Top Picks in Resort Areas Outside the Parks

Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto and Tiki Bar (Magic Kingdom Resort Area / Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort)

The best drinking destination in all of Disney World is this surprisingly legit tiki bar. Of course the traditionally kitschy, high seas aesthetic is a perfect fit for the pirate-friendly theme park—but the drinks, in highly-collectable mugs, will please tikiphiles too.

Located outside the park and opened in 2015 after the immense success of a Disneyland version, it becomes adult-only after 8PM, though the wait to get in often stretches into hours. Drinks like the Polynesian Pearl and the Tahitian Torch are well-made if a tad sweet; there’s also tiki-ish “no-booze brews” for the kiddos. Drinks are prepared by actors, not bartenders (no jokes here), and animatronic effects (such as an exploding volcano) are triggered when certain drinks are ordered. That’s admittedly a little Chuck E. Cheese-esque, but, you know, you’re drinking in a theme park bar that’s technically classified as a “ride,” not Smuggler’s Cove.

Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar (Disney Springs)

This 1940s dive bar claims to be where Indiana Jones’ sidekick used to hang his pilot’s hat. Turns out he was drinking pretty well then! There’s a decent single malt selection and massive cocktail list, including long drinks like Singapore Slings and Mojitos.

Raglan Road Irish Pub (Disney Springs)

This Emerald Isle pub is pretty plain Jane. Guinness abounds in this Emerald Isle-inspired pub, with a few other Irish and American draughts. There is, of course, Bailey’s and Jameson in many of the mixed drinks.

AbracadaBar (Disney World’s Boardwalk)

This so-called “speakeasy” (with a gigantic marquee loudly announcing its location) is meant to resemble a 1940’s magicians’ hangout. Alrighty. More like an airport Ruby Tuesday, the bar offers $12.50 “handcrafted” cocktails, which are more of a rarity in this area of the park than you’d think. Many of the drinks are vodka and Bacardi heavy, and though the ice is not the kind of crystal clear stuff a pretentious cocktailian expects, you will find some pretty solid offerings. Try the Coney Negroni, which is made with Eagle Rare Bourbon instead of gin, and resembles a Boulevardier. The Collins Double is a Tom Collins variant actually made with freshly-squeezed juices.

A totally solid tiki bar lies in the resort area beyond the parks. Credit: Disneyworld.disney.go.com.

Jellyrolls (Disney World’s Boardwalk)

This 21-and-over dueling piano bar is perhaps the most fun bar in the entire park. The alcohol selection is purely straightforward, though good for aiding your heartfelt rendition of “A Whole New World.”

Ample Hills Creamery (Disney World’s Boardwalk)

One of the park’s best boozing secrets is this Brooklyn-based ice cream shop with an outpost in Orlando. While the kiddos grab a cone, adults can snag a alcoholic floats made with Coney Island Hard Root Beer.

Club 33 (Four locations in Disney World Resort)

If you have a spare $25,000, you can become a member of these newly opened, invite-only private clubs. There’s one in each of the four parks. With yearly dues of $15,000, they’ll surely have something better than light beer.

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