Originally Posted By Zoidburg Notice for all empty nesters out there. We are pre-grand kids so we have shifted our focus to EPCOT. Our adult Children and their significant others maximize our time there with wonderful food and plenty of beer. But we save the Wine and Food festival for our oldest and special friends, Debbie and Eric. We spend two full days drifting from one stand to the next. All sample the food but the girls go for the wine and Eric and I hit the beers. This is the ultimate adult time. We take a break in the piazza San Marco and drink Bellini’s and Peronie beer then we finish with a dinner in a different restaurant each night. The Bistro de Paris is very nice but it is French haute cuisine and every dish has a fatal ingredient that grates against the American pallet. The Chefs de France is more pedestrian and a lot more fun- they have beer. No trip to EPCOT would be complete unless you take a place at the salon bar in the Rose and Crown for a pint or two. Be sure to follow up your first day with either MGM or The Animal Kingdom. Remember that the MK is D-R-Y and that is not good for the morning after headache. Skip the last week of the festival in November as that is New Jersey Teachers convention and we all cannot possibly fit in Atlantic City so 60% of us are in Disney. That may explain all the over taxed, rude people! Enjoy.
Originally Posted By CMDad Once a year I get to travel to WDW to spend a few days with my daughter without my wife. This comes during the Food and Wine Festival's time at Epcot. (Had the pleasure of meeting Labuda last solo trip.)
Originally Posted By Labuda OT: Hey, Fe Maiden - are you familiar with the group Iron Maidens? Check 'em out!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>That may explain all the over taxed, rude people! Enjoy.<< I thought it was the MK being overpriced and pretty lame what made people rude.
Originally Posted By danyoung >The Bistro de Paris is very nice but it is French haute cuisine and every dish has a fatal ingredient that grates against the American pallet.< I have no idea what you mean here. I've eaten at the Bistro many times, and there's not a single fatal ingredient that grates against my palette. In fact it's become one of my favorite restaurants in all the World! And just to be picky, it's the Food & Wine Festival, not the other way around.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden <<Hey, Fe Maiden - are you familiar with the group Iron Maidens? Check 'em out!>> I've never seen them live, they play mostly out west, but I've heard them and they are good. I know the real Maiden has seen them and were impressed. They were nice enough to allow them to use their logo. Even Derek Riggs, their long time illustrator, and the creator of Eddie, has done artwork for them.
Originally Posted By AuroraRose i don't mean to derail this topic, but i just got fe maiden's name duh i was thinking fairy girl, not by any means along to lines of the periodic chart very clever!
