Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival 2024 Begins

The annual Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival kicks off at the Disneyland Resort, in Anaheim, CA, today. Until April 22, guests can enjoy heaping helpings of limited-time food and beverages, entertainment, merchandise, cooking demonstrations, seminars, and more inspired by California’s diverse culinary scene.

This year’s festival introduces Earth Eats, a new plant-forward festival marketplace. With a variety of chefs, regions and businesses represented at the festival, locals and visitors alike can explore the state’s vast culinary landscape — all in one destination — and with a distinctly Disney twist.

For the first time, guests can now purchase their choice of two Sip and Savor Pass types: a new four-coupon option and the returning eight-coupon option, redeemable for select food or nonalcoholic beverages from participating festival marketplaces or dining locations at Disney California Adventure Park. Featuring must-try items such as the carnitas-style pork belly and chicken musakhan, and more.

During the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival, more than one hundred choices of food and beverages, including plant-forward options, will be available at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif., with selections spread across ten festival marketplaces, select carts and participating dining locations. For event dates and more details, visit Disneyland.com. (Christian Thompson/Disneyland Resort)

There are more than 80 new items, so you better bring your appetite! Among this menu lineup, you can enjoy soon-to-be favorites like the S’mores Caramel Tart at California Craft Brews and IMPOSSIBLE Chicken Parm Bites at Earth Eats. But no need to worry. There are plenty of returning California staples back to fill your bellies, like the Grilled Top Sirloin at Garlic Kissed and Mickey-shaped Macaron made with SNICKERS bar pieces at Nuts About Cheese.

If you’re in the mood for even more foodie fun, there are various bookable culinary experiences offered at the resort for an additional cost. Venture over to the Disneyland Hotel for the Trader Sam’s Tiki Mixology Seminar where you’ll learn to make one of their legendary libations, and even get a souvenir mug to take home with you. Hearthstone Lounge will play host to A Walk on the Silverado Trail filled with delicious bites and beverages, including some of the finest California wines at the hotel. Be sure to check out availability for these exciting experiences and even more offered throughout the resort this year.

Seminars and demonstrations will be held by Local, celebrity and Disney chefs host engaging cooking demonstrations on the weekends.

For those who want to have a more expansive Food and Wine festival experience inside the park, guests can enjoy a reimagined Soaring Over California. Just in time for the food festival, the classic hang glider ride takes guests over Napa Valley, Monterey Bay and Redwood Creek.

Guests looking for a Napa experience without the traveling may want to consider the Carthay Circle Winemaker Receptions. Vintners in California and the Baja region of Mexico share their favorite wine which will be paired with an appetizer created by the incomparable Carthay Circle Restaurant culinary team.

“Confection Purrfection with the SuperKitties” debuts at the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., March 1, 2024. For event dates and more details, visit Disneyland.com. (Christian Thompson/Disneyland Resort)

Finally, for the kids who may not be old enough to reach the top shelf wine (or even drink it), they can enjoy, Disney Junior’s hit animated series SuperKitties is the inspiration behind a new, interactive and entertainment offering in Hollywood Land.“Confection Purrfection with the SuperKitties,” is where junior chefs ages 3 through 11 can decorate cupcakes and discover how the magic of food saves the day.