by Beth Keating
News
DisneyBizJournal.com
September 24, 2023
A day late, but ahead of schedule? It sounds like an oxymoron, I think.
The last of the four new Global Marketplaces at the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival opened Saturday (September 23, 2023), a day after the other three new booths, but earlier than Disney’s “date to be announced later.” The fourth booth is called “Swirled Showcase,” and it opened in the former Starbucks location at the entrance to World Showcase.
The four new booths will stay open throughout the next festival, the Festival of the Holidays, to give guests more time to try them out. This year’s Food & Wine Festival runs through November 18, while the Festival of the Holidays runs November 24-December 30, 2023.
The three booths which opened on Friday were Wine & Wedge; Char & Chop; and Bubbles & Brine. See our DisneyBizJournal article about their menus here.
The new Swirled Showcase is serving:
Food Items:
• Mickey-shaped Liquid Nitro Cake
• Soft-serve in a Waffle Cone
• Vanilla
• Apple-Cinnamon
• Salted Caramel
• Cream Soda Float with vanilla soft-serve
• Fanta Grape Float with vanilla soft-serve
Beverages:
• Frozen Apple Pie (Non-alcoholic)
• Cinnamon Apple Cider (Non-alcoholic)
• 3 Daughters Toasted Coconut Porter
• 3 Daughters Toasted Coconut Porter Float with salted-caramel soft-serve
• Berry Fizz Fragolino Red Sparkling Wine Float with vanilla soft-serve
The lines at many of the food booths at the Food & Wine festival on Saturday were lengthy, perhaps because of the new 100th Anniversary activities kicking off and the superb Florida weather. Swirled Showcase, offering predominantly ice cream selections, was no exception to the extended lines on its first day.
We, of course, gave it a try. Would we go back? Maybe. (The Mickey-shaped Liquid Nitro Cake sounds interesting.) The ice cream at Swirled Showcase was good quality soft serve, nice on a warm Florida afternoon, but the size of the selection that we ordered was on the small size for the price. (You’d definitely get more bang for your buck at one of the year-round locations.)
Our choice was the Cream Soda Float with Vanilla Soft Serve. It was more of a “sampler size,” just slightly larger than our breakfast juice glasses at home at roughly 4 ½ inches tall. For $6.25, we were expecting a bit larger of a drink. It was good, but gone way too fast. And if you are looking at the photo of the float, yes, it does have a pinkish cast to it, though the flavor was distinctly cream soda.
The drink was exactly what you’d expect from a soda float: a bit fizzy, but otherwise a standard combo of cold soda and delicious vanilla soft serve to scoop up with a spoon. If you’re looking for a cold treat, this is a good one – it’s just going to leave you wishing there was more.
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Beth Keating is a theme parks, restaurant and entertainment reporter for DisneyBizJournal.
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