We worked our way through every food item at the Festival of Holidays marketplaces on Thursday, the day the booths soft opened at Disney California Adventure ahead of the festival’s official start on Friday. That covers every dish on the six Festival Marketplace menus, and here is what each one looks like and how it tasted.
The upload has been increased to 20 photos per post so here’s everything we ate at the soft opening of the Festival of Holidays today! This is every festival marketplace food item!
— Matt Desmond (@DisneyScoopGuy) November 12, 2026
The festival runs November 13, 2026, through January 6, 2027, and every dish below is on the marketplace menus for the festival. All of them are also eligible for the Sip and Savor Pass, so any one can go on a coupon. Disney’s Festival of Holidays foodie guide has the full drink list as well.
Holiday Duets
Holiday Duets is all KRAFT mac and cheese this year. The Duet of KRAFT Deluxe Mac & Cheese gives you a half portion of both flavors in one paper tray. The Holiday Brisket side is the original cheddar topped with brisket, KRAFT BBQ sauce and dill pickle crispy onions. The French Onion side is white cheddar with caramelized onions and a garlic crouton crunch. The cheeses paired perfectly with the toppings on both sides, and if you can’t pick one, the duet is the way to go.
A Twist On Tradition
The Shrimp & Grits comes in a black bowl with seasoned shrimp and andouille sausage over grits, finished with a pile of sliced green onions.
The new Chicken Pot Pie Wings are exactly what the name promises. Crispy wings come smothered in gravy with peas and carrots, then get a scattering of herb pie crust crumble on top. They were so good we had to go back for a second portion.
Merry Mashups
The Reimagined Beef Wellington is one of the festival’s headline new items. Instead of a pastry-wrapped roast, it is beef in jus over mashed potatoes with a mushroom duxelles cream sauce and crispy prosciutto, crowned with a big puff of pastry. It looks great, but ours was too salty.
For dessert here, the Cookie Butter & Jelly Cheesecake Tart is cookie butter cheesecake topped with strawberry jam in a graham cracker tart shell. It was the best dessert we tried at the festival.
Favorite Things
The returning Braised Pork Belly Adobo sits over a bed of garlic rice and comes finished with sliced green onions. The portion seemed smaller than last year, but it was still a 10 out of 10, just like it is every year.
Brews & Bites And Grandma’s Recipes
At Brews & Bites, the Chorizo Queso Fundido is a cup of melted cheese with chorizo on top and a tray of tortilla chips, and the Hot Cocoa Macaron is a big chocolate macaron filled with marshmallow cream cheese and milk chocolate ganache under a pile of mini marshmallows. The macaron was delicious, but it is super rich. We covered both when the booths soft opened with new order-ahead signs.
Grandma’s Recipes rounds out the list with the Turkey Tamale, topped with gravy, roasted mirepoix and cranberry relish, and the Sweet Potato Pecan Pie with pecan streusel, spiced chantilly and a candied pecan on top. The Turkey Tamale was amazing. All the flavors blended together perfectly, and it tasted like Thanksgiving dinner.
Which Ones To Get
If you only have room for a few, start with the Chicken Pot Pie Wings and the Braised Pork Belly Adobo, then add the mac and cheese duet so you get both flavors in one stop. Don’t skip the Turkey Tamale either. Save room for the Cookie Butter & Jelly Cheesecake Tart, our favorite dessert of the day. The shrimp and grits were delicious too. The Beef Wellington is the one we would skip, and the Hot Cocoa Macaron is best when you are ready for something very rich. With the order-ahead system, you can grab several of these in a single line.
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