Dining and Event News

The Disney On Broadway Concert Series is back for the 2025 Epcot Festival of the Arts ... along with the Disney On Broadway dining package.  The popular show features a pair of award-winning Broadway stars performing songs from Disney’s Broadway productions with a small live band. The stars that perform alternate each night, so that you can (usually) go two days in a row and not see the same performers (but the set list generally stays the same). On the last day of the festival (February 24th, ... ( read more ... )

The Holiday Kitchen Food Booths are a big part of Epcot's Festival of the Holidays — which takes place this year from November 29th, 2024 through December 30th, 2024. The food and beverage booths are similar to those at the Food & Wine Festival and are open from 11:00am until park close. The cost of each item is only revealed once the festival starts and we get a closer look at the actual menu boards. Items marked with (PB) means "plant-based" (there's 6 this year… one more than last ... ( read more ... )

Christmas Town at Busch Gardens, Tampa begins on Friday November 15th, 2024 and takes place every day through January 5th, 2025! There's all kinds of festive holiday offering including Santa's North Pole Experience, Rudolph's Winter Wonderland, an Ice Skating show, holiday lights, fireworks, and of course — holiday food and beverages! Some of the Christmas Town Village Food & Beverage Cabins are located in the "festival food loop" (around the Garden Gate Cafe), but there's too many cabins to ... ( read more ... )

The Sesame Street Christmas Breakfast has been added to the SeaWorld Christmas Celebration calendar once again this year. Yay!  There was no mention of the popular holiday favorite when info about this year's Christmas Celebration started popping up — so we were a little worried it had disappeared. But it's back!The Sesame Street Christmas Breakfast is a very limited time holiday breakfast that takes place in SeaWorld, Orlando's SeaFire Grill. It's actually a really good deal as far as ... ( read more ... )

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 ... )