One thing’s sure about this returning food booth: the eats and drinks are sure to be… D-Lish!!!

The sun is shining, it’s a beautiful day, and we’re hanging out on the West Coast for day one of the 2024 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival in Disneyland Resort! Woohoo! The festival officially started up today and will run through April 22nd. Wondering just what you can eat at the D-Lish booth? Well, we’ve checked it out and now we’re sharing our FULL thoughts.

But enough about the logistics, let’s talk about that festival FUN! Now, of course, the fest comes with all sorts of special events, seminars, and more; but we’re focusing on the food (shocker, we know). There are over 10 Festival Marketplaces at this year’s festival, and each one serves up a twist on California-inspired cuisine!

Over at the D-Lish booth, we have:

🍰 Olive Oil Cake glazed with lemon curd, topped with vanilla bean Chantilly
🍝 Carbonara Garlic Mac & Cheese
🍹 Huckleberry-Citrus Cooler

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Menu

Over at the D-Lish booth, this booth is small but mighty! And it’s hosting one our blast from the past Best of the Fest picks from 2020!

Now that we’ve taken a look at the menu, let’s dive into the food itself!

Eats

First up, we grabbed the Carbonara Garlic Mac & Cheese featuring Nueske’s Peppered Bacon for $9. This hearty beauty won over our hearts in 2020, when it was featured at the Garlic Kissed booth. And for good reason. Garlic + Pasta + Cheese + Bacon = DFB heartthrob 💗. All of those key ingredients have returned, but does it hold up to the memory?

The answer is “Yes!” It’s super cheesy (and you know we LOVE that) and we love the texture the crunchy topping gives it. The bacon adds a nice saltiness.

After our savory walk down memory lane, reminiscing about cheesy, bacony, mouthfuls, we saddled up for a little something sweet and NEW for this both. For dessert, we grabbed the Olive Oil Cake for $7. The Olive Oil Cake is glazed with lemon curd, topped with vanilla bean Chantilly, and finished with fresh candied lemons, strawberry crunch, and lemon-lime gelée. What better to help cut through the rich cheesy, salty, and rich pasta dish, than with a sweet and tart citrusy dessert?!

This cake has so much wonderful flavor with a mix of tart and sweetness. It’s refreshing and really tastes like spring. The cake is dense but moist. The vanilla bean Chantilly cream is light and airy and adds just an extra hint of sweetness. Confession time: we couldn’t stop eating this cake. Yes, D-Lish, we WILL be back.

So what about something to wash this food down with?

Drinks

And last but not least, we needed a little something to wash it all down with. We grabbed the Huckleberry-Citrus Cooler for $7. The Huckleberry-Citrus Cooler is non-alcoholic but still gives us those “treat yo’self” vibes. It is made with Gold Peak Black Tea, huckleberry and agave syrups, grapefruit soda, and lemon and orange juices garnished with an orange wedge. Perhaps the perfect drink to sippin’ on while you are in a rocking chair on your front porch watching the sunset.

It really is delicious and so refreshing. You get a nice tart lemonade flavor, but it’s still on the sweeter side. Both flavors balance each other out, though. We’re thinking this drink might be SUPER popular.

OVERALL

We’re just going to tell you that if you only visit ONE food booth at this year’s festival, make it this one. Everything here was a 10 out of 10 for us and we’re already making plans to return later. Get the mac and cheese, get the cake, get the drink. Trust us.

That’s it for this booth, but there’s a LOT more where that came from!

Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Food & Wine Festival at Disneyland Resort!

Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:

• See our full page on the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival here
• Check out ALL of the Festival menus here

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