Guest Comments Disney’s California Food and Wine Weekends Disney’s California Adventure
From Chelsi Murphy:
My DH and I and a couple friends went to the 1st Sunday of Disneyland's Food and Wine weekends. We will be trying to go at least one day each weekend. We also are going to Taste! Can't wait. This is the 2nd year they have done this officially at California Adventure. It doesn't compare with WDW Food and Wine Festival at all, but it is a lot of fun and getting bigger each year. Here are some things we did.
1st stop of the day was Sweet Sundays at the Upper Terrace of the Golden Vine Winery. This was a demo of Chocolate Ice Cream with Caramel Swirl and candy pecans with salt. It was amazing. They limit the number of people to 45 or so in the classes and you could see and hear very well. The chef was nervous but did well showing how to make ice cream to a crowd.
Throughout the day we attended three of the 5 wine tasting sessions – Brassfield, Silverado and Scherrer. All three speakers were very informative but we liked the winemaker from Scherrer the best. You received three tastes from each winery. The only downside to the wine talks are they are held on the lower winery patio and every time the High School Musical announcement is made or the pep rally goes by you miss most of what is said. They only have a 1/2 hour per class so it can be very annoying when a lot of the time is taken up by this.
We also did a food demo at the demonstration pavilion next to the Lucky Fortune Cookery. We chose the Oh, So Risotto class. This was horrible. The area is so loud you cannot hear a thing. They had mariachis playing right behind you almost the whole time. You would think someone helping to think this thing up would say, OK NO MUSIC behind the food classes. What we tasted and could hear was good but I don't know I'd wait to do anything at this site again.
The "Taste of California Marketplace" is what they have set up instead of Food Booths like WDW. The food tastes are just as small but more expensive. Most was not worth the price.
What we sampled:
Lobster and Shrimp Quesadilla – This was $5 and OK! Tasted fine but not $5.
Beef – $5. I did not try but my friends said it wasn't great.
Beer Cheese Soup – $5. Made from Karl Strauss beer and served in a bread bowl. I have to say it was better to me then the one in WDW from Canada but again about twice the price.
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RELATED LINKS
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Food and Wine Weekends General Information
2007 Food and Wine Weekends Review
2007 Silverado Vineyards Winemaker Dinner Review
Festival Marketplace Menus and Prices
Food and Wine Weekends Photo Gallery
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