Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival

Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival
Status	active
Genre	Food and drink festival
Begins	To be announced
Ends	To be announced
Frequency	Annually
Venue	Disney California Adventure
Location(s)	Anaheim, California
Country	United States
Years active	2006-2010,2016
Inaugurated	2006
Activity	Wine, Food Tasting, Social Events

The Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival is a food and drink festival that takes place each spring in Disney California Adventure in the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The festival includes a number of themed kiosks, each featuring food and beverages from a particular aspect of California cuisine. Other offerings include wine and beer tastings, seminars, and cooking demonstrations. This event was inspired by the similar but much larger Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. This festival was held annual from 2006 through 2010, and was cancelled in 2011 when Disney California Adventure began a period of major construction. The event returned in the spring of 2016.

History

The festival took place annually from 2006 through 2010, and then went on hiatus when the park went under major construction.^[1] The festival returned in the spring of 2016.^[2][3][4][5]

2006

The inaugural event featured two food service kiosks with 12 food offerings, each offering wine pairings and beer samples as well. The Golden Vine Winery patio hosted culinary demonstrations, wine, beer, and spirits seminars, guest sommelier education, a wine shop, and event merchandise shop.^[6]

Fesitval Marketplaces

• Bountiful Valley Farmers Market
  • Grilled artichoke with lemon aioli - $4
  • White cheddar cheese soup with bacon crumble in a bread bowl - $4
  • Strawberries in creme fraiche - $5
• Lucky Fortune Cookery
  • Lobster quesadilla with pepper jack cheese - $5
  • Chicken skewers with wild mushroom / chardonnay sauce - $5
  • Mixed berries with chardonnay sabayon creme - $4
  • Beef skewer with chipotle-orange sauce - $5
  • Tomato salad with goat cheese - $4
  • Bruchetta with five-olive tepanade - $4
  • Beer-batter halibut with remoulade - $5
  • Knockwurst with peppers and amber lager mustard sauce - $4
  • Peach cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream - $4

2016

The 2016 edition of the festival featured eight Festival Marketplace kiosks situated along the Disney California Adventure parade route.

See also

Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

References

1. MacDonald, Brandy (2010-11-04). "Construction forces Disney California Adventure to cancel annual food festival". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
2. MacDonald, Brandy (2016-04-04). "Food fest returns to Disney California Adventure with pricey VIP offerings". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
3. Luna, Nancy (2016-03-28). "Disney's Food and Wine Festival returns". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
4. Luna, Nancy (2016-04-05). "Wine and food take center stage at Disney California Adventure festival". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
5. Luna, Nancy (2016-02-16). "Disney food and wine festival returns in April: 12 things we hope to see". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
6. Vincent-Phoenix, Adrienne (2006-05-02). "Disneyland Park Update". Mouseplanet. Mouseplanet. Retrieved 2016-11-25.