Foodies flocked to Disney California Adventure once again as the annual Food & Wine Festival got underway with 12 food booths offering small plates highlighting California-grown ingredients.
The 2023 Food & Wine Fest kicked off Friday, March 3 and runs through April 25 with local, celebrity and Disney chefs offering cooking tips during culinary demonstrations, tasting seminars and signature events.
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The centerpiece of the festival are the 12 marketplace booths offering 11 new food items during this year’s event. DCA eateries and food stands as well Downtown Disney restaurants also serve festival fare.
A Sip and Savor card with eight tabs good for individual items at food and beverage stands throughout the festival costs $59 with a $5 discount for Magic Key annual passholders.
You don’t have to buy your food at the booth where it’s served. The best bet is to figure out everything you want to eat and order it all at once from the register stand with the shortest line. Then you can pick up your food whenever you want. The Peppers Cali-ente booth had the shortest line on opening day next to the rusty water wheel for the Grizzly River Run — way off the beaten path of all the festival traffic.
The festival is great for foodies who love to sample and share while grazing from one booth to the next while on an epicurean adventure.
I tried all 11 new foods on the menus of the festival marketplace booths and here’s what I liked from best to worst at DCA’s 2023 Food & Wine Festival.
1) Artichoke Pizzetta
Artichoke and roasted garlic cream cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, pickled onions and lemon olive oil-drizzled microgreens — $7.25 at I Heart Artichokes
It doesn’t sound good, but the Artichoke Pizzetta was the best thing I tried at the festival booths. I wanted a full-size pizza of this tiny pizzetta. I couldn’t stop eating it.
The artichoke and roasted…
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