1st Sunday of Food and Wine Weekends

[kabuki]

My DH and I and a couple friends went to the 1st Sunday of Disneyland's Food and Wine weekends. We will be trying to go at least one day each weekend. We also are going to Taste! Can't wait. This is the 2nd year they have done this officially at California Adventure. It doesn't compare with WDW Food and Wine Festival at all, but it is a lot of fun and getting bigger each year. Here are some things we did and some pictures.

1st stop of the day was Sweet Sundays at the Upper Terrace of the Golden
Vine Winery. This was a demo of Chocolate Ice Cream with Carmel Swirl and candy pecans with salt. It was amazing but my DH got so excited he ate the sample before he took the shot. They limit the number of people to 45 or so in the classes and you could see and hear very well. The chef was nervous but did well showing how to make ice cream to a crowd.

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Through out the day we attended three of the 5 wine tasting. Brassfield, Silverado and Scherrer. All three speakers were very informative but we liked the Wine maker from Scherrer the best. You received three tastes from each winery. The only down side to the wine talks are they are held on the lower winery patio and every time the High School Musical announcement is made or the parade goes by you miss most of what is said. They only have a 1/2 hour per class so it can be very annoying when a lot of the time is taken up by this.

This is what the set up looked like for all the tasting!
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We also did a food demo at the demonstration pavilion next to the lucky fortune cookery. We chose the Oh, so Risotto class. This was horrible. The area is so loud you cannot hear a thing. They had mariachis playing right behind you almost the whole time. You would think someone helping to think this thing up would say, OK NO MUSIC behind the food classes. What we tasted and could hear was good but I don't know I'd wait to do anything at this sight again.

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The last this is the Market Place "Taste of California" menu and food. This is what they have set up instead of Food Booths like WDW. They Food tastes are just as small but more expensive. Most was not worth the price.

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This was the Pork Couscous $5 and Bland!

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Lobster and Shrimp Quesadilla.
This was $5 and OK! Tasted fine but not $5.

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Beef $5 I did not try but my friends said it wasn't great

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Beer Cheese Soup $5
Made from Karl Strauss beer and served in a bread bowl.
I have to say it was better to me then the one in WDW from Canada but again about twice the price.

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[AJA55]

I’ve wondered about this event. Thanks for the report. If you go every weekend, does this mean that we’ll be getting weekly reports? (hint hint…nudge nudge…drool drool)

 

[kabuki]

You can count on it! I know we will be there the weekend of the 12th, so if you don't see one next week if will happen the 15th!

I'm happy you liked the report!