The Disappointment In Disney California Adventure’s Food and Wine Festival is REAL 2025

This year, I had the opportunity to head over to the west coast and visit Disneyland in California for the first time!

We love Disney and always go to Disney World in Florida because it is closer, but I was excited to see Disneyland!

Plus, it just so happened that we were going to be there at the same time as the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival! I love Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival so I knew that I wanted to check it out.

This year’s Disney California Adventure’s Food and Wine Festival features 8 Festival Booths. Seemed like a small amount but there were also other kiosks and restaurants around the park that had special menu items just for the festival.

Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Festival Booths:

• Peppers Cali-Ente
• Golden Dreams
• Mercado de Antojos
• Garlic Kissed
• California Craft Brews
• LA Style
• Cluck-A-Doodle-Moo
• Uncork California

There are 2 options for the Sip and Savor passes in 2025:

Option 1: Sip and Savor Card with eight (8) item credits for $63.00

Option 2: Sip and Savor Card with four item (4) credits for $32.00.

We got the card with 8 item credits because there were 8 booths.

Now onto the booths and food!

Food Items:

• Shrimp Papas Locas: Cheddar-bacon potatoes with jalapeño cheese sauce and spicy shrimp featuring Tajín chipotle sauce — $9.25
• Corn Chip Chili Pie featuring IMPOSSIBLE Beef: Seasoned IMPOSSIBLE Beef, spicy cheese sauce, tomatoes, sliced jalapeños, and cream  — $8.00

Beverages:

• Pickle Whiskey Sour Cocktail: Bourbon, pickle juice, lime juice, and sweet and sour, garnished with Tajín Chile Lime Sauce, Tajín, and a pickle spear  — $18.25

Pros:

• Made like a Walking Taco, which was easy to carry
• vibrant colors
• tasted good
• was made with IMPOSSIBLE Beef.

Cons:

• Nothing really wrong with it
• didn’t look like the picture and wasn’t expecting it to be crammed in a Frito bag based on advertisement photos haha
• if you don’t like spice, leave off the sliced jalapeños!

Food:

• Musubi Fried Rice: Aulani Resort-inspired steamed rice with egg, glazed spiced ham, umami mayo, and furikake — $8.50
• Cherry Cobbler Pot de Crème: Vanilla custard, cherry filling, and oat crumble — $7.50

Beverages:

• Blueberry Pancake Cold Brew: Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Co. Mexico Origin Coffee, oat milk, demerara, maple & brown butter syrups, topped with blueberry sweet cream, garnished with cinnamon-flavored cereal crumble — $7.25

Pros:

• Reminded me of our trip to Hawaii where Thomas fell in love with Musubi
• presentation was good
• umami mayo was fantastic
• glaze on spam was ok

Cons:

• Rice was cold and hard

Food:

• Birria Mac & Cheese with onion-cilantro sauce and tortilla crunch  — $9.00
• Café de Olla Tres Leches Cake: Café de olla-infused tres leches topped with piloncillo chantilly, cinnamon, and a Mickey-shaped cookie  — $7.75

Beverages:

• Raspberry Horchata: Raspberry, almond and cinnamon syrups, rice pudding, milk, and condensed milk garnished with skewered raspberries (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $7.50
• Watermelon Cucumber Mojito: White rum, watermelon liqueur, mojito and cucumber syrups, watermelon purée, and lime juice topped with Topo Chico garnished with watermelon and Tajín twist — $18.00

Pros:

• Super Cute
• Whipped Cream was good
• Cast Member said, “it taste like a sugar cookie on steriods”
• Smelled Amazing

Cons:

• cake was watery and mushy sludge
• tasted burnt

Food Items:

• Sirloin Gruyére Mac & Cheese with black garlic chimichurri and garlic butter crunch — $9.00

Beverages:

Guava Lychee Mule: Vodka, guava nectar, ginger and lychee syrups, lemon juice, and ACE Guava Hard Cider garnished with a lemon wheel — $17.50

Huckleberry-Citrus Cooler: Huckleberry and agave syrups, grapefruit soda, lemon and orange juices, and Gold Peak Black Tea garnished with an orange wedge (Non-alcoholic beverage) — $7.00

Pros:

• Mac and Cheese was good
• black garlic chimichurri wasn’t overpoweringly hot

Cons:

• The sirloin was tough and chewy

Food:

• Lemon Pepper Wings with garlic ranch — $7.00
• Sloppy Joe Slider featuring IMPOSSIBLE Beef with cheese — $8.00

Beverages:

• California Punch: Mango purée, guava nectar, cucumber syrup and lemon juice, garnished with a mango chile lollipop (Non-alcoholic beverage)  — $8.00
• Mango Guava Cocktail: Vodka, mango purée, guava nectar, cucumber syrup, and lemon juice garnished with a rainbow sour belt gummy — $17.00
• Chapman Crafted Orange Plaza Pale  — $16.25
• Noble Ale Works Flamigle Hard Seltzer  — $16.25
• Stereo Brewing a More Perfect Day Double IPA  — $16.25
• Green Cheek Guava in Berlin Berliner-style Weisse — $17.75
• Spring Beer Flight — $18.00

Pros:

• Wings were cooked perfectly
• lots of flavor
• ranch was great

Cons:

• If you don’t like lemon, these wings are NOT for you. Super Lemon Taste
• The sizes of the wings were inconsistent, and 1 of our “wings” was a 1/2 broken wing

Food Items:

• Mini LA Street Dog with jalapeño mayo, pepper and onion relish, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, and crispy onions (New) — $8.00
• Western BBQ Burger Bao with sweet barbecue sauce, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, and crispy onions  — $9.50

Beverages:

• Cantarito-Style Paloma: Reposado tequila, lime and habanero-infused pineapple juices, rock melon syrup, and Fresca garnished with a pineapple wheel and Tajín — $17.25

Pros:

• filling had flavor
• bun dough was better than the Bao we had in Disneyland
• sauce was good

Cons:

• bacon was burnt

Food:

• Asa’DOS: Grilled skirt steak and chipotle chicken with Spanish rice and salsa verde  — $9.75

Beverages:

• Açai Passion Tea-ki Cocktail: Pineapple rum, dark rum, passion fruit syrup, Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Co. Açai Black Tea, and lime juice garnished with a skewered Luxardo cherry and pineapple wedge  — $18.00
• Estrella Jalisco Mexican Lager  — $14.50
• Estrella Jalisco Michelada  — $18.50
• Golden Road Ride on Tropical Hazy IPA (New) — $16.25
• LA Bodega Költura Kölsch (New) — $16.25
• Russian River Blind Pig IPA (New) — $16.25
• Study Break LA Punch Hard Seltzer (New) — $16.25
• Festival Beer Flight

Pros:

• Presentation looked good

Cons:

• rice was cold
• chicken was cold but sitting right in the salsa verde, so spicy but cold
• skirt steak was like tough rubber leather
• salsa verde was way too spicy for us (it’ll clear out your sinuses for sure)

Food Items:

• Mickey-shaped macaron made with SNICKERS bar pieces: Chocolate Mickey-shaped macaron filled with caramel ganache made with SNICKERS bar pieces — $8.50

Beverages:

• Lychee Melon Cocktail: White wine aperitif, vodka, lychee and lime juices, and rock melon syrup garnished with a skewered lychee — $18.00
• California Wine Cocktail: White wine, gin, peach purée, lemon juice, and blue curaçao syrup garnished with blue rock candy — $18.50
• Strawberry and Cola Cocktail: Central Coast Pinot Noir, whiskey, Italian amaro, Coca-Cola, strawberry purée, and lime juice garnished with a skewered lime gummy — $18.00
• Green Apple Slush Cocktail: Green Apple BeatBox, blue curaçao syrup, melon liqueur, kiwi purée, and lime juice garnished with a shark gummy — $18.50
• Cocktail Flight) — $20.00
• Kendall Jackson, Vintner’s Reserve Chardonnay  — $17.00
• Duckhorn Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc — $21.00
• Daou Vineyards, Chemin de Fleurs — $21.00
• J. Lohr Vineyards, Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon  — $17.00
• Silverado Vineyards, Mt. George Merlot  — $21.00
• Presqu’ile Winery Syrah — $21.00
• J Vineyards & Winery, J Cuvée Sparkling Wine — $21.00
• White Wine Flight  — $19.00
• Red Wine Flight  — $19.00

What we ordered: Mickey-shaped macaron made with SNICKERS bar pieces: Chocolate Mickey-shaped macaron filled with caramel ganache made with SNICKERS bar pieces.

Pros:

• Great Taste
• Tasted JUST like a snickers
• Big enough to share

Cons:

• Will make you very thirsity haha

What we ordered: Green Apple Slush Cocktail: Green Apple BeatBox, blue curaçao syrup, melon liqueur, kiwi purée, and lime juice garnished with a shark gummy

Pros:

• Great Taste
• Didn’t Skimp on the Alcohol (got your moneys worth)

Cons:

• Price – $18 for a tiny drink
• Gummy Shark is cute but gets hard as a rock due to icey drink so eat the shark as soon as you get it