You love beignets? You love burgers? This might be right up your alley!
New Beignet Burger at Sassagoula
Debuting today at Port Orleans French Quarter’s Sassagoula Floatworks food court in Disney World is a sweet-meets-savory entree that seems like the perfect combo: the Beignet Burger.
Beignet Burger menu
This starts with the house made beignet bun and piles on a freshly cooked burger, American cheese, bacon jam, shredded lettuce, pickled onions, and homemade pickles.
Beignet Burger
The bun is thicker and more substantial than a standard beignet, so they’re not just using one of the regular beignets for this one.
Inside the beignet burger
So — here are my thoughts: this burger is a great concept. I love the sweet/savory idea, which has been done a few times before at Disney (one example is the cinnamon bun burger on the All Star Movies secret menu). But the beignet bun was tough and difficult to bite through, which seemed odd (beignets are supposed to be soft — they’re similar to donuts). Maybe it was overcooked.
In this case, I liked that the burger was freshly made when I ordered it (though it was not made *to* order — I couldn’t specify doneness level, so it was a little overcooked for me as is the case with most Disney counter service burgers). But personally I would have preferred the burger without the lettuce, tomato, pickled onions, and pickles. I felt that to make the beignet’s sweetness stand out, there needed to be less going on in the burger overall. As-is, it’s too busy and just seems to be a regular burger with a slightly tougher bun and powdered sugar on top.
So, while I wanted to love it, I think I would modify it a bit for myself on the next go-round for sure. But that jambalaya and praline are still incredible over at Sassagoula, so I’d definitely recommend those!
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Wow, this looks amazing! Too bad for the tough bun, I hate hard bread.
And wow, all this on top of touring the Holiday Kitchens? How do you get so much done in so little time? What’s your secret? 😀
Hey maybe that could be a video idea – “how to maximize your time at WDW”, haha.
Thanks for all the wonderful photos, videos, and reviews – I love your blog <3
Ugh. I don’t eat much meat, but unless you are talking something like ham glaze with pineapple or sauerbraten, I don’t particularly like sweetness with meat (chicken is a different story). That’s why I don’t order the McD’s breakfast sandwich that uses waffles instead of a decent biscuit or English muffin.
So far as how done Disney does their burgers, they do the same as Five Guys, cooking them until done all the way through and to a specific temperature, to make sure guests don’t get wiped out by salmonella or e-coli. My late husband, an RN, loved that he didn’t have to worry about getting something from a half-cooked burger while at WDW.
How is the bacon jam? Are there big onion pieces in the jam?
Jessica, AJ says she didn’t notice large pieces of onion in the jam.
Just no. stop messing with the classic beignetz!!!