Disney has shared a sneak peek on the enjoyable meals coming to 2 “new” eating spots within the reimagined Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland. This publish shares photographs of the menu objects, a breakdown of the place these are situated, Mobile Order particulars, and added commentary.
As beforehand reported, Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland reopens on March 19, 2023. The land was initially scheduled to return 11 days earlier, on March 8. However, attributable to development delays brought on by winter storms, it has been delayed. (The climate has solely gotten worse because the resolution was made to push again the reopening, so right here’s hoping Toontown makes the March 19 opening date!)
Along with the reimagined land, there are new tasty treats and two “new” eating places in Toontown: Café Daisy and Good Boy Grocers. Let’s dig into what’ll be on the menus at each of those places, the place they’re situated, what they substitute, and extra…
For starters, Good Boy Grocers is a Pluto-themed roadside stand providing grab-and-go snacks and drinks. This replaces the previous Goofy’s Gas Station which provided the identical fare in a comparatively comparable setup. You can see Good Boy Grocers within the Toontown mannequin under–it’s the situation on the far left.
According to Disney, Good Boy Grocers is the house of the Toontown Farmers Market. Good Boy Grocers gives a spot to refuel with wholesome treats and thirst-quenching refreshments. This pleasant roadside stand is the paw-fect place to take a fast break and get your tail wagging once more. (So in different phrases, it’s a typical open-air contemporary meals stand.)
Next door to Good Boy Grocers is the rethemed Café Daisy, a quick-service window serving up diner classics. This was beforehand a really comparable walk-up window referred to as Daisy’s Diner that served the identical varieties of stereotypical theme park fare. It truly seems that Café Daisy could be bigger than its predecessor–at the least on the within–because the ice cream window that was beforehand to the correct of it’s gone.
According to Disney, Café Daisy is the go-to spot in Mickey’s Toontown for scrumptious eats and good firm. Café Daisy is the consolation meals restaurant “where the food is fresh, and the service is friendly.” Enjoy diner favorites served up with a smile—together with mouth watering all-beef sizzling canine, tacky pizzas and healthful backyard wraps. If you’re a child, you’re in luck, as a result of Daisy Duck has give you one thing particular. Take your choose between a kid-sized pizza, fun-sized corn canine or mini mac and cheese.
Café Daisy will supply each a walk-up window for ordering upon arrival and cell order pick-up window. Now let’s check out what’s on the brand new menu at Café Daisy in Mickey’s Toontown…
There are fairly a couple of dishes Daisy has put collectively for adults. The Daisy’s Dressed-up Dog options an all-beef foot-long sizzling canine, chili-cheese sauce, mac & cheese, and parmesan potato crispies with house-made chips.
For these on the lookout for an easier sizzling canine, The Daisy Dog is an all-beef foot-long sizzling canine with house-made chips and provides you the choice of including on some chili-cheese sauce.
If you’re a pizza lover, there are two choices.
The Cheesy Pizza Flop-Over options mozzarella and provolone with tomato sauce whereas the Pepperoni Pizza Flop-Over has pepperoni, mozzarella, and provolone with tomato sauce. Allergy-friendly choices can be found too – simply ask on the location!
If you’re on the lookout for a plant-based providing, the Spring Garden Wrap can also be out there at Café Daisy.
This dish combines romaine and quinoa right into a wrap with a creamy lemon dressing and toasted pumpkin seeds accompanied with house-made chips.
Kids can benefit from the Cheese Please Pizza with cheese and tomato sauce or the Pepperoni Please Pizza with pepperoni, cheese, and tomato sauce.
Café Daisy additionally serves up bite-size Minnie’s Mini Corn Dogs and the tasty Mini Mac & Cheesy.
You may also order a facet of Toontown ‘Tater Chips – house-made chips with chili-cheese sauce – so as to add on to your meal.
Finally, there’s dessert at Café Daisy. The Daisy’s Goody-Goody Donuts with cinnamon sugar are to not be missed and are the proper candy end to your eating expertise.
In addition to those dishes, there are some specialty drinks out there at Café Daisy. The Picnic Time Watermelon Lemonade is a refreshing alternative with Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade, watermelon premium syrup, and watermelon gummies.
Next, there’s the Specialty Cold Brrr-ew made up of Caramel Mudslide Cold Brew from Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Co. with sea salt and whipped topping.
In addition to Café Daisy, there’s Good Boy! Grocers. This pleasant roadside stand has grab-and-go drinks and attractive treats so that you can take pleasure in, and a few new novelties to go together with them.
Some of the snack-sized objects you may choose up embrace pickles, Mini Babybel snack cheese, Coca-Cola drinks, waters, Topo Chico Sparkling Mineral Water, gluten-allergy-friendly cookies, fruit bars, and entire fruit. Grab as many as you’d like to finish your personal picnic outing in Mickey’s Toontown.
There’s additionally the Perfect Picnic Basket novelty merchandise. After selecting up your basket, you may select three snack-sized objects comparable to Cuties Mandarin Orange, yogurt smoothie, applesauce, granola bar, gluten-allergy-friendly fig bar, and extra.
You’ll additionally be capable of select between a small DASANI water or Minute Maid Juice Box. If you wish to improve your outing much more, you may also get a Perfect Picnic Blanket to go together with your basket.
In phrases of commentary, let’s begin with the Perfect Picnic Basket & Blanket. Given all the inexperienced area within the reimagined Toontown, I believe it is a unbelievable concept. Or slightly, the kernel of a unbelievable concept. Doing takeaway picnic baskets is sensible, and turning them into novelty objects is a pleasant contact for individuals who need that.
Filling them with solely snacks and making their main focus be the souvenirs is what loses me. This needs to be just like the Hungry Bear On-The-Go Package, which gives up takeaway meals that may be loved elsewhere within the park. Do that at these spots, however with precise meals of substance. Due to the seating state of affairs, that’s already how visitors are going to do meals at Café Daisy, so why not make it simpler for them…and promote picnic basket bundles within the course of?
My solely quibble is that the meals isn’t cute. Disney has began recognizing the “importance” of photogenic meals, however that has largely been through colourful drinks and desserts. (Unfortunately, lots of these don’t style superb and are loaded with synthetic colours and flavors.) There’s an entire untapped market of adorably-shaped meals that each look enjoyable and style unbelievable.
This is a minor criticism, however ever since seeing how Tokyo Disneyland turned its equally peculiar walk-up window in Toontown into one thing particular (and extremely widespread), I’ve wished one thing comparable at Disneyland. For a have a look at all the lovely meals there–a few of that are surprisingly scrumptious, too–see our Huey, Dewey & Louie’s Good Time Cafe Review.
As for the menu at Café Daisy, I’m intrigued by the distinctive sizzling canine and pizza flop-overs. We solely ever ate at Daisy’s Diner twice (again in my overzealous ‘completionist’ days of eager to evaluate each single Disney restaurant in every single place), and it was nothing particular. Very peculiar theme park delicacies. I wouldn’t even name it one of many worst eating places in Disneyland as a result of it didn’t aspire to be an actual restaurant.
Ultimately, Café Daisy will simply surpass its predecessor primarily based on the menu revealed so far. If it manages to have a standout menu merchandise or two, it’ll be an enormous win for Toontown, and additional cement this as turning into a bona fide land that may maintain its personal towards the remainder of Disneyland. The Perfect Picnic Basket & Blanket concept is sensible, and I actually hope this idea is given room to evolve. Meal time on the family-friendly eating places in Disneyland could be crowded and chaotic, and a Perfect Picnic could possibly be the excellent antidote to that. All in all, we’re very excited to expertise the reimagined Mickey’s Toontown!
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