REVIEW: Great Grilled Kebabs and Almond Spice Cake from Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina for the 2021 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

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 “Travel to the Morocco Pavilion for delicious kebabs and cocktails” is how Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina is described for the 2021 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays. We’re excited to give this booth a try with a new menu full of kebabs, cake, and cocktails!

Menu for Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina at the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

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Food:

  • 🆕 Grilled Kebabs with Carrot-Chickpea Salad and Garlic Aïoli – $5.75
    • Lamb Kefta (Gluten/Wheat-Friendly)
    • Harissa Chicken (Guten/Wheat-Friendly)
  • Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with Hummus, Fig Tapenade, and Zhoug Dip – $5.00
  • 🆕 Almond-spiced Cake with Ginger Mousse, Orange Ganache and Sesame Tuille – $4.75

Beverages:

All returning items to this location were previously available at the 2021 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival, while the Moroccan bread welcomes a fig tapenade to the dip assortment in place of the zaalouk.

Photos of Menu Items for Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina at the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

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*NEW* Grilled Kebabs with Carrot-Chickpea Salad and Garlic Aïoli (Lamb Kefta, Harissa Chicken) – $5.75

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The lamb has quite a kick to it. It’s a tender and well-cooked, hearty kebab.

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The chicken is tender and flavorful, covered in spices. The carrot-chickpea salad is fresh. It’s served quite cold, but it didn’t hinder the meat.

Both options are great.

Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with Hummus, Fig Tapenade, and Zhoug Dip – $5.00

*NEW* Almond-spiced Cake with Ginger Mousse, Orange Ganache and Sesame Tuille – $4.75

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This is a nice, light cake with subtle orange flavor, well complemented by the chocolate piece. The ginger mousse is even more subtle, despite being the largest ingredient.

*NEW* Stem Ciders Lavender Apple Hard Cider, Denver, CO (5.8% ABV) – $5.00

Stem Ciders describes their Lavender Apple Hard Cider as being “infused with dried lavender” while having “floral, cinnamon and cardamom spice notes,” a “bright” color, and an “off-dry” finish.

*NEW* Woodchuck Cinnamon Nutmeg Hard Cider, Middlebury, VT (5.0% ABV) – $5.00

From correspondence with Woodchuck Cidery, the Cinnamon Nutmeg Hard Cider, also known as Spiced Apple Hard Cider, is “a balanced cider with notes of apple and bright cinnamon and a nutmeg finish.”

*NEW* Bold Rock Ginger Turmeric Hard Cider, Nellysford, VA (4.7% ABV) – $5.00

From Bold Rock Hard Cider: “Ginger Turmeric is an herbal tea-inspired cider made with locally grown Blue Ridge Mountain apples paired with the distinctive spice of ginger root and aromatic earthiness of turmeric.”

Fig Cocktail with Sparkling Wine, Fig Vodka, and Cranberry Juice – $11.00

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There’s probably not a lot of alcohol in this one, but it was well-balanced. It’s not syrupy like other festival drinks, which was nice. It’s quite refreshing and takes a pretty picture for the budding food photographers out there. We highly recommend this one.

Location of Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina at the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina is on the western side of the Morocco Pavilion, opposite the entrance to Spice Road Table. You can find it at number 13 on the map below.

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If any of these new items sound tasty, you have from November 26th to December 30th, 2021, to try them out.

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