Tom Bricker Archive
Spread across the Global Marketplace booths around Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival are some 70+ different snack-sized food options of varying quality: some good, some bad, and some ugly (I’m looking at you, Vegan Korean BBQ). This post shares our picks for the best food at the event. If you are so inclined, you can
Liberty Tree Tavern is a Thanksgiving-style and table service restaurant in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, with a colonial American theme. By Thanksgiving-style, I mean that dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern is served family style, and the foods served in the “Patriot’s Platter” are what was consumed for the first Thanksgiving. Liberty Tree Tavern is
For years, we’ve recommended most prospective Disney Vacation Club buyers purchase at Saratoga Springs Resort. Heck, we have an entire section devoted to it in our Disney Vacation Club Buying Guide! However, if we were in the market to purchase another DVC contract, we would buy at Bay Lake Tower. So…what’s changed? For starters, when
Bonjour from France! We are at Marne-la-Vallée, having just finished the Disneyland Paris Half Marathon in the midst of our real-life “Impressions de Brickers” tour of locales featured in Impressions de France. There’s a lot to cover in terms of changes to Disneyland Paris since our last visit, and we’ll get to that in due
Steakhouse 55 is a restaurant in Disneyland Hotel, and attached to that restaurant is a bar & lounge, serving drinks and appetizers. (You can also order the full Steakhouse 55 menu at the bar.) In this review, we’ll take a look at some things we recently ordered at this new favorite of ours, which we
Boatwright’s Dining Hall is the table service restaurant at Port Orleans Riverside in Walt Disney World, serving southern cooking. This review details our meal here, with food photos, thoughts on ambiance, and other details about Boatwright’s. In terms of basic info for vacation planners, this is a 1-credit table service restaurant on the Disney Dining
On Sunday, we attended Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. This recap features photos and our take on the party, including crowds, characters, a value assessment, and random tips. We’re currently still at Walt Disney World, but we’ll have a few “reports” like this, including one from Food & Wine Festival
Today is Hong Kong Disneyland’s 11th Anniversary, so we’re a bit late to the punch with this one…but HKDL has been celebrating its 10th Anniversary for the last year, with the festivities now winding down and the park currently transitioning over to its ever-popular Haunted Halloween at Hong Kong Disneyland festivities. Still, with everything new
There are some crazy urban legends and myths out there about Walt Disney World. Most fans have the good sense to dismiss the more outlandish of these out of hand (we’re looking at you, “Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen and locked away in the Utilidors below Magic Kingdom“). Other rumors are plausible or have a
For 2016 Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend, Sarah ran the 5K and I ran the Half Marathon. We picked up our race bibs on Thursday afternoon before heading to Disneyland and checking into Anaheim Maingate Inn, which we split with Guy Selga. This hotel overtakes Alamo Inn (the one where the roof collapsed on guests) for
One of the things we love about Disneyland Resort is its frequent seasonal menu updates and special items. This is especially true during the Halloween and Christmas seasons, when dozens of special items are added to the menus throughout Disneyland. By and large, these snacks are delicious. Granted, desserts at Disneyland are normally pretty good,
