Dining and Event News

Even though you can still enjoy all the cookies and cocoa that you want to at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, there are many more special food items to purchase, that are available exclusively (mostly) to the MVMCP event nights. These special menu food and drink items are not available until 7pm (the digital menu boards will show the menu items starting right at 7pm) and only until the location's posted "closing" time. While most of these special items are available for purchase on MVMCP event ... ( read more ... )

We just received some updated information about a popular holiday buffet offering over at SeaWorld… "Dinner with Santa" will be back for 2024 (yay), but still no word on any breakfast buffets this year (boo), but there is a refreshed cookie party called "Cookies, Cocoa, & Milk at SeaWorld" that's returning (yay). Dinner with Santa at SeaWorld Orlando takes place in a special outdoor (covered) event space called the Sea Harbor Pavilion — and as far as themed, all-you-care-to-eat character ... ( read more ... )

SeaWorld Orlando's Christmas Celebration begins on Saturday, November 16, 2024 and takes place on select dates until January 2, 2025. There are all kinds of festive holiday offering including special stage shows, a Sesame Street Holiday Parade, nightly snow flurries, holiday lights, fireworks, and of course — holiday food and beverages!  The Christmas Celebration Tasting and Brew Sampler Lanyard will return this year! There's a 5 and 10 Sampler Lanyards and both are a great way to try the food ... ( read more ... )

Now that the Halloween season is finally here, we can start thinking about the Holidays!!! Over at Loews Portofino Bay "the" holiday event that kicks off the season is Holiday Harbor Nights — and after a one-year hiatus, this year's event will take place on Friday, November 29th, 2024 (one day after Thanksgiving), from 6:30pm - 9:00pm in the Harbor Piazza. Right now (I'm writing this) all the ticket levels are still available... but they do tend to sell out quickly (especially the VIP Tickets). The ... ( read more ... )

The Candlelight Processional is a holiday tradition at Epcot that takes place during the park's Festival of the Holidays. It's a full-scale 40(ish) minute production where a celebrity narrator tells the story of Christmas — recounting the biblical tale of a savior born in Bethlehem. The production features a 50-piece orchestra and a large choir. This very popular annual show takes place nightly at 5:00 PM, 6:45 PM or 8:15 PM at the America Gardens Theatre at Epcot (that's 15 minutes earlier than ... ( read more ... )

This is our first year posting a dedicated menu page for the Disney Jollywood Nights event at Hollywood Studios — because it looks like Disney is putting quite a bit of effort into providing a special food and beverage menu for the new holiday themed, hard-ticketed event. These special menu food and drink items are not available until the event starts at 7:30pm (the digital menu boards will switch over to these special items right at the event start time) and they will only be available until the ... ( read more ... )

Harbor Nights had been one of my favorite large-scale dining events in year's past, but recently — it's gone missing. We have just received word that Harbor Nights 2.0 La Dolce Vita has re-emerged over at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel ... and there have been some subtle (and not so subtle) changes to the menu and to the pricing structure. This year's Harbor Nights La Dolce Vita event will take place on Friday, October 18th, 2024 from 6:30pm until 9:00pm. Here's a quick link to the Eventbrite ... ( read more ... )

We're getting our first look at the Swan and Dolphin Food and Wine Classic Menus for 2024! The main event nights this year are on Friday, November 15th and Saturday, 16th, 2024 — from 5:30pm until 9:30pm (30 minutes longer than last year's event)! That's four full hours of walking around, sampling different food and beverage station offerings and listening to some pretty great bands playing in the different areas. This is a big year for the Swan & Dolphin Food and Wine Classic — it's ... ( read more ... )