Favorite Things Marketplace Actually Has Two of Our Favorite Things at the 2024 Festival of Holidays

Favorite Things is bringing back some of our not-so-favorite things at the 2024 Festival of Holidays, alongside a new macaron and cocktail.

Favorite Things Marketplace

At the 2024 Festival of Holidays, a festive food booth with an orange awning charms visitors in the vibrant Favorite Things Marketplace. A friendly server in a red shirt stands at a blue table, ready to serve delights under the sunny sky.

The Favorite Things Marketplace is in Hollywood Land near Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!

Menu

The "Favorite Things" menu board at the Marketplace features delightful 2024 additions like Braised Pork Belly Adobo, Sticky Toffee Pudding Macaron, and a Spiced Coconut Cocktail. Perfect for the Festival of Holidays crowd, it also offers a Smartwater option alongside tempting prices.

Food:

  • 🆕 Sticky Toffee Pudding Macaron
  • Braised Pork Belly Adobo

Beverages

  • 🆕 Spiced Coconut Cocktail
A cup of iced yellow beverage with a straw sits beside a gingerbread man-shaped macaron on a white table, making it one of my favorite things.

Menu Items

*NEW* Sticky Toffee Pudding Macaron – $8

Mickey-shaped chocolate macaron filled with vanilla buttercream, date cake, and salted toffee sauce

A hand holding one of my favorite things, a Mickey Mouse-shaped chocolate macaron with a creamy filling and a red bow, beautifully decorated with icing details.
A person holds a partially eaten dessert with chocolate, cream, and a cookie base on a foil wrapper—one of their favorite things. In the background, another person captures the moment on their phone.

This is delicious and creamy inside with a crispy. delicate texture on the outside. The buttercream played well with the other ingredients. The presentation is great, and it was a crowd pleaser. 

Rating out of 7: 7

Braised Pork Belly Adobo – $9.50

with garlic rice  

A cardboard tray from the Holiday Duets Marketplace 2019 holds a serving of grilled meat on rice, garnished with chopped green onions and crispy pieces.
Close-up of crispy pork belly atop rice, garnished with chopped green onions and pork rinds in a cardboard container from the Holiday Duets Marketplace 2019.

This dish keeps coming back, but it’s not one of our favorite things. The pork rinds are usually stale and the rice crunchy. The pork belly is decent, though. It’s garlicky and falls apart easily.

Rating out of 7: 4

*NEW* Spiced Coconut Cocktail – $17.50

Dark rum, spice tea, coconut purée, and evaporated and condensed milks garnished with nutmeg and a wafer stick

A hand holds a yellow cup filled with an iced yellow drink topped with a chocolate wafer, capturing one of life's favorite things. The background showcases a colorful outdoor setting, adding to the delightful scene.

This has a lot of ingredients that come together as what basically tastes like a delicious crafted Rumchata. It’s too bad that Disneyland Resort has to use the yellow cups to designate alcoholic beverages, because the presentation would’ve been really nice if it looked like the one on the menu. Appearances aside, we loved this.

Rating out of 7: 7

Festival of Holidays at Disney California Adventure runs from November 15, 2024 – January 6, 2025, with Festive Foods Marketplaces, special entertainment, character meet and greets, and more.

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