Friday music and dining in the bluezoo lounge

On a recent Friday evening, we visited Todd English’s bluezoo for an evening of music and food.

This was the last night that the Beu Sisters were scheduled to play at the bluezoo lounge and we wanted to be there to say “so long” and “hope to see you again”… We’ll miss them. If you

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Wine Luncheon at Artists Point with John Bernau from Willamette Valley Vineyards

 

So, why would we want to do a Wine Luncheon at Artist Point with Jim Bernau from Willamette Valley Vineyards? After all, we know that wine dinners don’t usually end up being really enjoyable for us and we’ve figured out that we aren’t huge wine people… Well, we had met Jim Bernau during

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Culinary Tour of Jiko at Jambo House, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Walt Disney World

The culinary tour of Jiko at Jambo House, Animal Kingdom Lodge is the second part of the combined Boma and Jiko Culinary Tour. To the best of our knowledge, this tour is offered at 4:00 pm everyday and is free.

Although we’ve eaten a Jiko a number of times, it doesn’t go on our “must

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Culinary Tour of Boma at Jambo House, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Walt Disney World

The culinary tour of Boma at Jambo House, Animal Kingdom Lodge begins at 4:00 pm daily. You simply show up and wait in the seating area in front of the restaurant desk (it’s free).

We’ve only had breakfast at Boma (years ago when a friend visited from Martha’s Vineyard and we did a “no theme

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Dining with an Imagineer, Dinner at Flying Fish Cafe, Boardwalk Inn & Villas, Walt Disney World – Part 2: The Food

Our notes and thoughts regarding the Imagineering part of the evening are in another post. This one is solely about the food.

To set the stage for the Dining with an Imagineer at the Flying Fish Cafe, we have photos of the restaurant itself (by the way, we’ve never eaten here – the menu has

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Dining with an Imagineer, Dinner at Flying Fish Cafe, Boardwalk Inn & Villas, Walt Disney World – Part 1: The Imagineer

We’ve talked about doing a Dining with an Imagineer event for a couple of years, the dinner event at Flying Fish Cafe is relatively new (the lunch event at The Brown Derby has been around longer).

There’s so much information and so much detail about food to share with our readers that we split it

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Dine with an Animal Specialist at Sanaa, Kidani Village, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge and Villas

We recently went to the “Dine with an Animal Specialist” luncheon at Sanaa, Kidani Village.

Yaraila, our animal specialist; David Njorge, head chef at Sanaa; and Stephanie Galvanga, manager at Sanaa

Yaraila was our animal specialist, she works in animal husbandry at the Pembe Savannah. Yaraila has been at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

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Dinner at Sanaa, Kidani Village, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge

After our “African-Inspired Disney-Designed” tour, we decided to have dinner at Sanaa. We went to the check-in desk and were able to get an ADR for a 5:00 dinner. We took our buzzer and went to wait in the hallway (away from the raucous children). We were seated soon, at a window table.

During our

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Breakfast at Kona Cafe, Polynesian Resort – A special offering

Nick recently saw an announcement online that Kona Cafe was going to be offering a Breakfast Special (and you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day) AND it was a pancake special. So we were ready to head to the Polynesian Resort and get some Red Velvet Pancakes…

PANCAKES!

Did

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Dinner at California Grill, Contemporary Resort, Walt Disney World

We had made ADRs for dinner at California Grill in mid-January with an eye towards the refurbishment of this Contemporary Resort establishment beginning in February. We soon learned that our friends, Lisa and Andy, were going to be at Walt Disney World that evening and so we added them to the ADR – Good news

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