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Smucker’s Uncrustables presents the new PB&J Garden at this year’s EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival. The garden is on the bridge to World Showcase.
PB&J Garden Presented by Smucker’s Uncrustables
The garden is located at the old Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure station. There are signs in nearby flowerbeds, plus flower towers and trellises.
Follow your nose and form lasting memories with the help of fresh, unforgettable fragrances.
A “PB&J Garden” sign features two Uncrustables.
Signs in the flowerbeds have fun facts and jokes about the ingredients of a peanut, butter, and jelly sandwich. For example, this “grainular” fact is that wheat seeds are technically a cereal.
What is a jelly’s favorite insect? A peanut butterfly!
Why does bread love to garden? Because it’s made with flower!
Where does peanut butter get its gossip? Through the grapevine.
Strawberries aren’t really berries, this sign states. They’re part of the rose family and are called a “false fruit.”
No trip to Flower & Garden is complete without the fan-favorite Orange Bird! Keep reading to discover all the places you can spot him throughout EPCOT this festival season.
Iwájú is a new coming-of-age series that follows a girl who is a young heiress from a wealthy island, and a poor boy from the mainland as they face a terrible threat to their lives. Wow, that sounds serious — check out the trailer below!
What’s extra special about this series is that Disney teamed up with a Pan-African entertainment company called Kugali to ensure the show has an authentic focus on African stories by African artists.
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We’re talking about the Magnolia Terrace booth — one of the Outdoor Kitchens (also known as Food Booths) at the park’s springtime celebration! Stop here while enjoying the Festival’s famous Disney topiaries, garden displays, and entertainment. Join us as we review Magnolia Terrace to see if it lives up to its reputation as a deserving fan-favorite booth once again this year!
Menu
At Magnolia Terrace, many items are returning, but this year also brings us 2 new beers. The menu here is inspired by food from the Gulf region. Three of the four food items here are new and we can’t wait to dig into the Muffuletta Panini, Crawfish Pie, and Bananas Foster Bread Pudding (yes, we’re wiping some drool off as we write this). There’s also a good selection of beers here, including a Beer Flight.
2024 Magnolia Terrace Menu
This booth is full of new items, and we can’t wait to dig in!
Eats
First up, we grabbed the Muffuletta Panini with ham, salami, mortadella, provolone, and Swiss with olive salad. This is a returning item from last year, but to be honest, we weren’t big fans. It was VERY HEAVY on the olive salad. So, how does it taste this year? You can grab this tasty dish for $6.25.
Muffuletta Panini
This was a great mix of all the ingredients this year — last year it was pretty olive-heavy. The bread is crunchy on the outside but nice and fluffy as you bite through. The meats aren’t too greasy for deli meat, but our main complaint is that the cheese was pretty thick and wasn’t quite melted like it should have been.
Next up, we grabbed the other returning item at this booth, the Spicy Chicken Gumbo with Andouille sausage with long grain & wild rice.This has been a long-term favorite of ours, and we are excited to see how it measures up this year! Grab the Spicy Chicken Gumbofor $6.25.
Spicy Chicken Gumbo
This had a bit of a kick to it! The chicken was tender, moist, and had a great blackened spice going on as well. The sausage had a nice smokiness and the rice was soft and fluffy. We’ve loved this in the past and this year is no different — it made our Best of the Fest list!
Finally, theBananas Foster Bread Pudding! Just the idea of these flavors with bread pudding is giving us happy thoughts. Brown sugar + cinnamon + banana = delicious, right? We’ll let’s find out! You can pick one up for $4.75
Bananas Foster Bread Pudding
This is dangerously good. We got a good mix of the banana flavor along with the brown sugar and cinnamon. The bread itself was so soft, that it nearly melted in our mouth. This is definitely a must-try if you like bananas or bread pudding.
And to go along with your dishes…
Drinks
In terms of drinks on this menu, we got the Beer Flight. Why just try one beer when you can try three? The Urban Artifact Capy Snacks Fruit Punch Fruit Ale and the Schneider Weisse LoveBeer Weissbier are new beer options this year. And returning for a repeat appearance this year is the Parish Brewing Co. Ghost in the Machine Double IPA. You can grab this flight for $10.25.
Beer Flight
The Urban Artifact Capy Snacks Fruit Punch Fruit Ale was by far the most approachable beer in the flight. It was certainly fruity, but didn’t have that artificial fruit punch flavor you might expect.
Urban Artifact Capy Snacks Fruit Punch Fruit Ale
The Schneider Weisse LoveBeer Weissbier was on the drier side, but it was still light and would make for a great “walking around” beer. It was also on the fruity side, but more from the traditional flavor of a weissbier than any additional fruit like the Ale.
Schneider Weisse LoveBeer Weissbier
And finally, the fruity cocktail that we’re pretty sure Mama Odie mastered the recipe for, the Bayou Cocktail. The nectar of the bayou is Spiced rum, coconut rum, fruit punch, and orange juice, and you can grab it for $12.50.
Bayou Cocktail
This thing was delicious — but pretty darn sweet! We could definitely taste the rum but it wasn’t overpowering, and we tasted more orange than fruit punch, but both flavors were still present. If you like fruity, rum-based cocktails, you’ll probably enjoy this!
So, is this booth worth a visit?
OVERALL
Magnolia Terrace was a hit for us yet again. That gumbo was so phenomenal and made our Best of the Fest list, so we’d definitely recommend giving it a try. Plus, that bread pudding and Bayou Cocktail are just added bonuses!
Magnolia Terrace Full Spread
Stay tuned to DFB as we bring you even more reviews from the festival!
Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:
DFB’s Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.
It includes all the must-have information for navigating this one of the most BEAUTIFUL festivals at Disney World, including:
Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
All the details on special events, topiaries, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!
You’ll find the UK Beer Cart near the Rose & Crown in EPCOT’s United Kingdom Pavilion, and for this year’s festival, it’s added a NEW drink! Let’s stop by to check it out!
Menu
Over at the United Kingdom Beer Cart, you’ll find a special Festival-themed drink, the Scottish Thistle.
2024 Menu
We’re intrigued! Based on the picture, it looks pretty good. Let’s see how it tastes!
Drinks
Since it’s the only festival item at the beer cart, we bellied up to the bar and ordered the Scottish Thistle. This drink is made with Fords Gin with lemon and blackcurrant-cucumber syrup garnished with cucumber. You can get it for $9.75. Now, let’s talk drinks. This one has a BEAUTIFUL presentation. Just look at it — we’d argue our drink was even prettier than the one in Disney’s stock photo! When you hold this one up to the light, it practically shimmers.
Scottish Thistle
OK, ok; this isn’t a fashion show, so let’s talk about the flavor. This one has a very prominent cucumber taste — it’s the first thing we noticed. The drink itself has an almost slushy-like consistency, and our beverage was nice and refreshing. As we said, this one is super cucumber-y, so be prepared for that bright, cool flavor to stick out. There is also a hint of berry flavor here, thanks to the blackcurrant syrup.
Yum!
Overall, this is a light, sweet drink that’s perfect for people who aren’t afraid of a cucumber-heavy beverage.
OVERALL
If you find yourself traveling through the UK Pavilion, stop by the Beer Cart and check out this special Festival item! It’s a fun addition to the festival and makes a great pick-me-up in the middle of a hot Florida day.
Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the 2024 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:
DFB’s Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.
It includes all the must-have information for navigating this one of the most BEAUTIFUL festivals at Disney World, including:
Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
All the details on special events, topiaries, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!
Well, you’ll find plenty of options all around EPCOT to satisfy that craving. But right now, we’re heading over to a favorite spot that never fails to impress us! We’re talking about the Funnel Cake booth — one of the Outdoor Kitchens (also known as Food Booths) at the park’s springtime celebration! Stop here while enjoying the Festival’s famous Disney topiaries, garden displays, and entertainment. Join us as we review Pineapple Promenade to see if it lives up to its reputation as a deserving fan-favorite booth once again this year!
Menu
At Funnel Cake, they do one thing, and they do it really well — funnel cakes. (Who woulda thunk it?)
Funnel Cake Menu
Not a big or broad menu, but we like what they’ve got!
Eats
So, we’re not gonna build up the suspense. We’re digging right in! We grabbed the funnel cake with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, strawberries, whipped cream, strawberry glaze, and strawberry crunch.
Funnel Cake
You can grab this tasty dessert for $12. What did we think?
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS! If you have a sweet tooth, here’s your weakness.
This year’s funnel cake is topped with vanilla ice cream, strawberries, whipped cream, strawberry glaze, and a strawberry crunch for $12! pic.twitter.com/KXyIwBrH7E
Well, it’s a nice, fluffy, crispy funnel cake. The tart flavor from the fresh strawberries really compliments the sweetness of the funnel cake and vanilla ice cream.
Funnel Cake
We also really loved the texture that the sugar crystals on top added to the dish! This is good, don’t get us wrong, but we’re not sure it’s worth the $12 when you could get a cheaper one from Disney’s Hollywood Studios. (BTW, you can take the Skyliner from EPCOT to Hollywood Studios and get there pronto.)
OVERALL
While we enjoyed the funnel cake, we’d probably skip it. It’s nothing special. You can get a similar one in Hollywood Studios, OR you could literally whip it up at home with a batter recipe from Pinterest and a squirty bottle from Dollar Tree. Yep, we’re gonna save our cash. However, we tried so many AWESOME treats that we do recommend you spend your money on. Check out all of our reviews below!
Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:
DFB’s Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.
It includes all the must-have information for navigating this one of the most BEAUTIFUL festivals at Disney World, including:
Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
All the details on special events, topiaries, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!
DISCLAIMER! We are NOT responsible for any of the actions you may take after reading this post, which may include but are not limited to, suddenly ordering delicious food at home, booking a trip immediately to EPCOT, or expanding that Disney World budget so you can eat even more food.
Florida Fresh
We’ve been snacking around EPCOT at this year’s Flower & Garden Festival, but we had to stop and talk about this one booth that’s HIDING!
We’re talking about Florida Fresh — one of the Outdoor Kitchens (also known as Food Booths) at the park’s springtime celebration! The Florida Fresh booth is located over near the Imagination pavilion, but that’s NOT where you’ll find the food. Confused? Let us explain.
Florida Fresh Booth
When we hopped over to the Florida Fresh booth, a Cast Member informed us that the booth itself wasn’t quite ready to open yet, so there’s a temporary Florida Fresh booth located at the Odyssey pavilion instead! It’s the same menu that will be at the booth in the future, just in a different spot, so it’s easy to accidentally MISS this booth!
This booth is full of new items, and we can’t wait to dig in!
Eats
Did someone say Grilled Warm Water Lobster Tail?! If lobster tail wasn’t enticing enough, it comes with Key lime butter. You can grab this tasty dish for $11.25. Interestingly enough, we didn’t get any of the key lime flavor or butter. It was creamy, but not flavorful.
Grilled Warm Water Lobster Tail
Some pieces of the lobster were tender, but there were still a lot of tendons and shell pieces, meaning this was very difficult to eat. We had to pull it apart with our fingers to get to the good bits and there’s quite a bit of inedible stuff left over. It WAS tasty, but way too much work.
Hard to eat
Lobster is a tough act to follow, but this next dish has brought its A-game! Mojo-marinated pork belly, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and stone ground mustard sauce are all coming together for the Cubanito!Grab it for $6.50. So this is basically a Cuban sandwich, albeit a good one.
Cubanito
The bread was toasted and it was a bit on the crunchy side. There was also a lot of meat, but the pickle and mustard gave it a bit of tang. We thought it was delicious!
Cubanito
Ready for something sweet? Let’s dig into the Florida Strawberry Shortcake for $5.But you can leave your guilt at the door with this fruity dessert because it’s plant-based! This dish is also eligible for a stamp if you’re attempting to complete the Garden Graze food crawl. This was literally just a piece of cake with strawberries and whipped topping.
Strawberry Shortcake
We did admire the whipped topping for not melting on us, even after sitting in the hot sun for a while. The cake itself was dense, but not dry. It’s just a regular strawberry shortcake, though. Nothing to see here…moving along…
Florida Strawberry Shortcake
And to go along with your dishes…
Drinks
Raise a glass of Cucumber-Watermelon Slushy for $5. This just keeps the theme of this booth going: basic. We did like that the watermelon did not taste artificial. We could also taste the cucumber, which brightens up the drink and makes it fresh. It is, however, a little small.
Cucumber-Watermelon Slushy
You can also add some gin to transform this into a cocktail for $13.
OVERALL
About the only thing we can say about this booth is that it’s fine. There are no real standouts here, and we wouldn’t eat the lobster again because it’s entirely too complicated to eat. The Cubanito is great if you just want a sandwich, but there are so many other interesting savory dishes to try at the festival. The same goes for the strawberry shortcake and drink. It’s just all a little too basic.
The best news — even if none of these bites appeal you, you can come back in a few weeks and try the next items on this rotating dining menu!
Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:
DFB’s Guide to the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.
It includes all the must-have information for navigating this one of the most BEAUTIFUL festivals at Disney World, including:
Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
All the details on special events, topiaries, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!
One of the new gardens at this year’s EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival is the China Penjing Garden, located at the China Pavilion in World Showcase.
China Penjing Garden
Discover ancient Chinese art that recreates miniature landscapes.
“Penjing” refers to the Chinese art of forming trees and other natural elements into mini landscapes. It’s similar, but not exactly the same, as the Japanese art of bonsai.
The garden displays the miniature landscapes in wide pots atop red pedestals.
This Bougainvillea glabra, a.k.a. “paper flower,” is 50 years old with nine years of training. It’s presented by Daniel Lacich and is “forest” style. This means multiple trees of the same species were planted together and then shaped.
This Taxodium distichum (bald cypress) is 13 years old. Presented by Lawrence Naeder III, it’s “clump” style, which means several trunks come from the same root system.
The Portulacaria afra (dwarf jade) is also forest style. It’s 10 years old and has been trained for four years. It’s presented by Antonio Castillo.
This “bunjin”-style tree is a Pithecellobium tortum — a Brazilian rain tree. It’s 25 years old, with 20 years in training, and presented by Ed Trout. “Bunjin” means the branches don’t start until relatively high on the trunk. It’s inspired by Chinese scroll paintings.
See these landscapes and more at the China Penjing Garden through the end of the festival on May 27, 2024.
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Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
All the details on special events, topiaries, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!
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