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Disney Food Post Round-Up: December 19, 2010

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Chocolate Candy Canes at Disney's Contemporary Resort

Disney food news! Here we gooooo:

**There’re only three days left to vote in our DFB Choice Awards for your favorite Disney restaurants and foods! By voting, you’re helping other Disney Food Blog readers to plan the best possible dining locations for their trips!**

Also, don’t forget to check out our Disney Food Blog Guide to the Holidays in Disney! Lots of fun info and updates…and more on the way!

Now — on to the Round-Up!!

Walt Disney World for Grown-Ups shares a list of some great beer stops in Disney World!

Stitch Kingdom shares news of a Disney patent for interactive cakes! Not sure what that means — take a look!

Outside the Berm uncovers a mysterious photo that might shed some light on the beginnings of Holidayland…

Parkeology hones in on an early “interactive element” at a Disney World counter-service restaurant.

Main St Gazette has photos of those brand new hot dogs at Lunching Pad in Disney World!! Which one do you want to try?

Everything WDW reviews Disney World’s Babycakes NYC.

Disney Parks Blog has an incredible series of photos from restaurants in the nearly finished Disney Dream Cruise Ship! Plus — a bonus video!

Reservations For Dine With An Imagineer, Wishes Dessert Party, and More Now Available Online

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Great news from the Disney Parks Blog! The online reservations system at DisneyWorld.com is getting better and better, and now you can book some of Disney’s special event meals there, too!

Special Event Dining Reservations

Head over to DisneyWorld.com/dining to book Dine with an Imagineer, the Tomorrowland Terrace Fireworks Dessert Party (also known to us as the Wishes Dessert Party), Fantasmic Meal Packages, the Chef’s Tasting dinner at Flying Fish, and Candlelight Dinner Packages!

New Year’s Eve Dining Events in Disney World

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Time to plan your favorite way to celebrate in style! Disney World is offering some fun, cool, and downright romantic ways to ring in 2011!

Epcot
La Hacienda de San Angel: Enjoy a six-course menu accompanied by live music. Menu includes a margarita, ceviche, Chiles Toreados y Chorizitos, Sope de Chilorio, and cheese empanada with green sauce. Meat and Seafood platters and dessert — a sweet guava tamal — will be included. The new year will be marked by champagne and a Spanish tradition — eating 12 grapes that are said to predict how your upcoming year will play out.

9pm
$199 ($255 with wine and spirits) + tax for adults
$49.95 for kids ages 3-9.
TO BOOK: 407-842-1107 or [email protected]

Bistro de Paris: A New Year’s Eve menu includes smoked salmon with stuffed with crab, horseradish and caviar cream; lobster and vegetable salad or truffle soup; scallops or sea bass; grilled filet of beef or roasted venison. Assiette de dessert de réveillon (that’s [Read more…]

Dining in Disneyland: The Race For Hand Made Candy Canes

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She gave you the dates of the 2010 Disneyland candy canes, and now she’s back…with the real thing!! Heather Sievers, our Dining in Disneyland guru, reports on the mad rush for canes at Disneyland’s Candy Palace!

Candy Palace Candy Cane Signs

After hearing about Disneyland’s hand made candy canes, I put it on my bucket list. Something I’d have to do at least once in my lifetime. So, why not take care of it now and share it here on the Disney Food Blog?

Let me start by saying that [Read more…]

Sometimes a Cigar…

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As you know, a big trend in the food industry today is making edible replicas of real-life things. Well check this out…

Waldorf Astoria Orlando Chocolate Cigar Tray

The only thing that isn’t edible (and delicious!) on this tray is the beautiful, real ashtray serving as a platform for these dark [Read more…]

Disney Food Post Round-Up: December 5, 2010

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Welcome to the first Disney Food Post Round-Up of December 2010!! As always, we’ll begin with the news:

  • Don’t forget to vote in our DFB Choice Awards! The awards have been set up so that Disney Food Blog readers can help future Disney-trippers by letting their favorite restaurants be known! You can vote through December 22nd.
  • Disney’s launched its own snack chip line in the parks!
  • Take a look at some new Le Cellier menu items.
  • The Coke Freestyle Machine, featuring 106 flavors, is now at WDW’s Downtown Disney movie theater.
  • Disney World Annual Passholders can get a free (small) bag of Karamell Kuche caramel corn from December 4-11! Just show a valid photo ID with your Annual Pass to get the treat.

Also, I’d like to share with you a very special holiday request from a very special colleague. The SamLand’s Disney Adventures Blog is reaching out to the Disney Community to help raise funds for Women at Work, a nonprofit focused on helping people learn career skills and find employment. Please stop over to SamLand to read his request on behalf of this great organization.

Now, on to the round-up!

ABC News has a showcase of Mickey Shaped Food! (Thanks to Erin Foster for the heads up!)

Main Street Gazette reviews the WDW Contemporary Resort’s Contempo Cafe.

DLRP Magic shares the great news that Disneyland Paris has just added restaurant menus to their site!

Yesterland shares the history of L’ Originale Alfredo di Roma Ristorante in Epcot (an oldie, but a goodie).

DisneyShawn gives us more Club 33 goodness.

Party Through the Parks highlights more holiday drinks at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

DFB Choice Awards Voting Now Open

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Thanks to all who submitted nominations for the 2010 DFB Choice Awards! After going through nearly 500 nomination forms, the front-runners in each category have earned a spot in the polls.

These nominees were chosen by the readers of the Disney Food Blog, and each one was nominated dozens — or, in some cases, hundreds — of times. If your favorite didn’t make it into the top three, don’t forget to nominate it again next year!

Voting has begun; make your views known below! Voting will remain open until December 22nd, and winners will be announced on December 31st! We’ll leave the results viewable for now, so you can root for your favorite! As we get closer to the final voting deadline, we’ll remove the results so the winners will be a surprise! 🙂

Thank you for voting! Polls are now closed. We will reveal the DFB Choice Award Winners on December 31st!

Guest Review: New Menus and Menu Items at Le Cellier Steakhouse

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Guest author Sarah Holodick has once again brought us some incredible info and a great review! Here’re her thoughts and photos from a recent lunch at Le Cellier — along with pics of the new menus and new menu items! Take it away, Sarah!

Back in May, yes MAY, I booked a lunch at Le Cellier for Matt and myself on October 23rd. Comparing it to the dinner I had there about a week prior, there was no contest; lunch was MUCH better. We had a 12:20 reservation and checked in just after noon. There were fairly heavy crowds that day – here is the line for [Read more…]

Disney Food Post Round-Up: November 28, 2010

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Happy Turkey Day Weekend, everyone! Here’s a bit-o-news to start your week.

Eating (and Drinking) Around the World

has a photo-filled review of the Swan and Dolphin Food & Wine Classic tasting stations.

OC Register takes us inside Disneyland’s Club 33 and reports on the first day of Disneyland Candy Canes this year.

Theme Park Insider reviews Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant.

Touring Plans‘ blogger Todd Perlmutter reviews Disney World’s Kouzzina, Le Cellier, and The Wave…of American Flavors. And, oh, by the way, he got to meet Cat Cora!

The Disney Chick makes Apple Caramel Pie from Wilderness Lodge’s Whispering Canyon Cafe.

Main Street Gazette has a mouth-watering review of his Aloha Pork Sandwich at Captain Cook’s in Disney’s Polynesian Resort. Just goes to show, deliciousness is around every corner in WDW!

AllEarsNet blogger Jack Spence has some great food pics from Pollo Campero in Disney World’s Downtown Disney.

Magical Kingdoms has a great review of their free Disney Dining Plan usage, including how much it saved them over a 19-day trip to Disney World.

Watch Me Eat heads to Earl of Sandwich in Disney World’s Downtown Disney!

Tomorrowland Terrace Parties: New Year’s Eve Details

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Our Goodies at the Wishes Dessert Party

Disney World has introduced a new way to celebrate New Year’s Eve — dessert and dinner parties!

On December 30th, Fireworks Dessert Parties will be held at 7:30pm and 10:50pm. On December 31st, the party will be held at 10:30pm. Adults: $39.99; Kids: $21.99. You can see photos from our Wishes Dessert Party (and others!) on our Wishes Dessert Party page.

Even better, a Dinner and Dessert party will be held [Read more…]

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