Top 5 in EPCOT: Ranking the Best QUICK SERVICE Restaurants

Today we're discussing our top 5 ranking of our favorite quick service, affordable restaurants in Epcot in Walt Disney World resort! Our ultimate recommendations + your favorite spots to eat in Epcot & World Showcase!

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Our Top 5 Rankings for Quick Service at Epcot

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Welcome to the Disneyville Podcast, episode 51.

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Where we talk about the Disney parks, Disney Cruise, and all the magic in between. Today, okay, I am feeling a little awkward. We've adjusted our chairs a bit. We're messing with our setup, and now I have to like actually turn. So I might turn my body. I know not all.

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If you listen to our last episode, we talked about we're about to redo the whole space here, but just temporarily, we have this big old table in between us. If you look at the video version, and we're like, okay, maybe if we scooch a little closer. Anyway, no.

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Yeah, we're just messing with stuff, guys. I know most of you guys are like, we don't care.

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What's funny is that's actually how we started out. Do you remember we we used to sit at a table in our first episodes and we were just staring at the end. We were like newscasters.

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And now we're back to it, baby. Back to basics. Okay.

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We're we're we're we're gonna miss it. We're work shopping it. So today we have a very fun episode all about Epcot. And I actually got my my Epcot muggy on the show.

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And I'm wearing my Epcot shirt. It's well, where can you see it? It says just one spark, and it's got a little Figment moment. Is Figment actually on it? Oh, the the K. Okay. Anyway, I'm trying to remember what shop. I'm sure I got this on Etsy or somewhere. Sorry, I have like a dog hair on my lip gloss, and it there we go. I got it. Oh, it was making me crazy. All right. But before we get to our episode, yes, we have a little announcement here. We do. Okay. Back by popular. No, I'm kidding. This is new. Uh, so many of you guys asked us if we were dropping any holiday merch, Disneyville holiday merch. And we are. So we are hoping for the merch to be ready to shop by the time you are hearing or seeing this episode. So check below. You can go to welcome to disneyville.com. You will see it right there. It is very cute. It is just Disneyville, but if you are a citizen of Disneyville like we are, well, I think we're the mayors. What are we? The mayor and mayorette? Wait.

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Where would Catholicism be without the popes?

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That's right. Uh, do you get that reference? Not the Catholic. I mean the actual show. Okay. Uh, anyway.

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We are the mayors.

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We're the mayors of the co-mayors. Yeah. You're the first lady, and I am the mayor. I think that not the mayor.

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Yeah, that works for me.

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I think we're co-mayors, truly. Anyway, it's just really cute. Some of them say citizen of Disneyland with a little holiday touch. Even if you're not celebrating Christmas, we've got other like more general, like wintery vibes. So I hope you guys love them as much as we do. We are very excited. So yeah, check out welcome to Disneyville.com. You'll see it there. We also still always have, I see you're wearing your hat. Just our traditional, classic, my favorite Disneyville merch too. So if you guys ever purchase anything, any of our merch, it does support the show. It's one way you can do that if it's something you were interested in. Okay, you don't have to buy it. No pressure. Um, but with the holidays coming up, I mean, that's something you can ask for for Christmas. I don't know.

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All right. So we are gonna talk today. Do you ever tired my voice is?

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You know, you ran a marathon. You know what that does? It wears out your uh vocal cords, of course.

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Actually, no, I screamed the whole time. I don't I just run and scream. No, I don't think that's what it is. I think my voice, I think my voice is tired because we saw Le Miz on tour on Friday. Yeah, so I've been singing it ever since my voice Master of the House. You know what's amazing though? We were talking about it. The guy that we saw play Valjean was an amazing, and so was Javier. I mean, all of them were amazing. He's a great cast. And I'm like, the guy that we saw play Valjean has done over 1,500 performances. I'm like, how old does he still have a voice left?

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He must be singing very properly, genuinely.

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He has to. I mean, it's insane. The guy that I saw when I was younger, I actually just looked him up. His name was Randall Keith. He was unbelievable.

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He was good. We were watching videos.

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We were watching videos. He uh he also had done it for years and years and years. Colin Wilkins did it for years. I mean, it's just anyway, you have to have such amazing technique in order to do that show eight times a week, over and over and over again.

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And that's their athletes, you know. I'm watching some of them belting up there, and I'm like, man, these are truly vocal athletes. Like, it's incredible the muscles that you work over and over again. And anyway, we we obviously love musicals. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 4:33

Anyway. Okay. So moving on, I'm gonna try and get through this with my voice that is not in good shape. Well, I haven't sang in 10 years. So we are going to talk about Epcot quick service restaurants.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Now, sometimes when we do this, it takes a long time to go through and do our rankings. This took me about 12 seconds to make these rankings. This was very easy. I stand by what I wrote. I'm very happy with it.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

I'm thrilled with what I wrote. I know. I'm I feel good about my ranking too. I think mine might be a little surprising.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

I'll be curious. I'd like some of the ones I know certain ones you're gonna say, but I'll be curious if any of ours match up, like if our number ones match up. But of course, we will also share in the latter half of this episode what you guys think your rankings. And uh, I've read through a few of them just before we sat down to film, and some of them surprised me too. But a lot of agreement on certain things that I don't know that I would have thought of. Ooh, I know. So I'm excited to read that too.

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We'll have to look at them. All right, so let me grab my thing here.

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I've already cheated on mine. Okay, I'm gonna let you guys know right off the bat when you you'll hear it in a sec.

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All right, I actually didn't. I I was going to, and then I I rethought through mine for a second, and I was like, no, I'm I'm I don't have I have one honorable mention.

unknown 5:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

But we'll get to that. So all right, so your number five.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

This is where I was cheating because I picked two and I don't care. Because really, it could have just been an honorable mention, but I couldn't pick which one I wanted to be the honorable mention. I bet I know what it is. I bet you don't. Oh, okay. Uh connections.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

And Sunshine Seasons?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

No.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Don't look at mine. No.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

Because in my head, those are very similar. So we'll get it. They are. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

So, okay. Connections, of course, is there's Connections Cafe, which is the Starbucks, and then Connections eatery. Yeah. I don't think a lot of people actually like connections from what I've heard, the rumblins, the rumblins online, but there's a lot of options there. Our kids can always find something they like there. And sometimes once you go back into the countries, it gets a little bit trickier, you know, depending on we've got one pick your eater, one that generally will eat anything. How do you plan? Who can plan for that? So, anyway, I think I like it for that reason. So, just the season of life we're in. Yeah, all of us can find something we like there. There's a lot of seating, and I feel like this should matter. Like, yes, the food should be paramount. That should be the most important. But I think sometimes your experience there should matter too. Like, there's certain places where I would love to eat there, but you can never find a place to seat. And it's so stressful that I'm like, I don't want to do it. I don't want to eat there. Anyway, so connections, but it is tied with only because the reasons I said Lotus Blossom Cafe. Remember that little area in the China Pavilion. Some of our oldest memories in Disney Parks are eating there. Listen, it's gonna taste like mall food court. And I'm saying this in a loving way because I love the taste of that in all the right ways. Yeah. So when you're wanting like orange chicken, you know, whatever, it's so good. Like it tastes exactly like that. And sometimes that's exactly what you want. And they're little ice cream cups you can get, like their ginger ice cream, whatever it was. Oh, that is so good.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Very good.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Almost spicy.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

We went there the last time we were there, we went back there and it was already closed.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Um, but I I I want to try it again because it has been a very, very long time. But yeah, it was it was mall food court Chinese in all the right ways. And when that's what you're good. So that was not on my list.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

And I don't think most people talk about that place. So that's why I had to bring it up because I do think it's good. We next time we go, here soon, we should hit it up again.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

Yeah, maybe. So Lotus Blossom was on my not mentioned list. Okay, but it is good, and then that's and worth the doing. But so I'll just worth the doing. I'll go ahead and say my honorable mention because it kind of coincides with this. So my honorable mention was the connections eatery slash sunshine seasons. Now, stick with me. Don't click off if you're a Disney, Disney person and you're like, oh, if that's where they're starting, then I'm out of here. Hear me out. Mostly the same reasons that Jessica just said. The food is okay, but there's a lot of options. It's loud. So if the kids are being loud, it doesn't really matter. There's just kind of something for everybody. It's just those those those two places are so low stakes. They're honorable mentions. For some reason, we end up eating both of them a lot. We can always get something quickly. We can always get whatever the kids want to eat that they'll actually eat.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Yeah, there's never usually a crazy way, especially at sunshine seasons. Connections, I feel like sometimes there's a way. You just got a mobile order. Okay. Okay, that's it. That's the key, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

So anyway, so those are my two honorable mentions. As far as the food goes, maybe not the greatest, but I do end up liking both of them. And we end up eating at them quite a bit just for those reasons.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

So then my actual number five is Tangerine Cafe.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

Is that still open?

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Yeah, should be. The the one in the back isn't open anymore. That's now the whatever the it's not, no, no, not DVC. It's uh annual passholder lounge, I think, right? But the Tangerine Cafe is still there.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Moroccan bread, pistachio cake, a Moroccan wrap. That's it. So they've really oh, it says food and wine festival. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Yeah, they have a folding new, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:48

No, it's a festival kiosk now. What? Man, that's crazy. That's what it says. I'm telling you. What do they do? Limited time dining location.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

It's Tangerine Cafe, Flavors of the Medina.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

Is really that all there, no, no, no. The whole space is still there, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:03

And then there's a place called Tangerine at the Swan Reserve, not the one we're talking about. All right. Well, you know what though?

SPEAKER_02 10:08

I didn't realize that they closed that too. I knew they closed.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

I remember there was just weirdness to it with all the things, yeah, with them closing the thing. I just feel like Morocco is so in flux right now, that pavilion. But ever since like the pandemic, that food used to be so good. I know. I feel like it just closed and never reopened type thing. And now they're just using it how they please. So I would be very curious how that area changes in the next few years.

SPEAKER_02 10:33

But the spice road table is still open.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

Yeah, it is. So that's one of my favorite things.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

If that's still available, why wouldn't Tangerine Cafe still be available? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

It didn't do as well. I don't know. I don't know. Gosh, they can almost just make it in the kitchens at well.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Never mind. Forget everything.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

But still, the food was good. So if they've got the festival, I'm assuming you get the festival food in there, you probably still go in there.

SPEAKER_02 10:52

Into the restaurant, yeah. They had like baklava, they had like so much good stuff. And it was so obviously stuff that you can't get anywhere else. Oh my gosh. They had like kebabs, they had um um did they have falafel? Probably falafel, they had so good. Shawarma. Well, never mind them.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

It still counts. Maybe they'll reopen. All right, number four. All right, Leal.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Les Hales.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

Les Hales.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

This is a place that you can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner because you can get like an eggy dish, get a little their quiche. Yes. You can get pastries, things like that, but then you can also get things later. I mean, I think all of that's available all day long. But you can kind of get what you feel like eating. And sometimes when we're in the parks for multiple days in a row, you start to feel like it's always, and it's not always burgers and fries, obviously. We all are Disney people, we all know that. But you start to kind of feel like it always is somehow, or like a sandwich and fries or whatever. And so when you can feel that you have a little more control because it's kind of cafeteria style, all these beautiful French delicious things. I love that. Now I will say it feels every time we go in there to get food a little stressful.

unknown 12:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

And I don't know, I don't think I like cafeteria style where you're like, I'll take that, that, and it's loud, and yeah. Yeah, I don't know. But the food is always so, so good. Yeah. And it's just something different.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Yeah. We'll we'll get to my oh, okay. We'll come back to mine there. Okay. So then my number four.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

La Cantina de Sananhale.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

That's my joke.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Everything there is very good. So I mean, food-wise, you can't go wrong. Everything we've had there has been delicious Mexican food. You get to sit on the water, which is so cool. And I just love that whole area they did. My one gripe is that there's not enough seating. And I feel like every time we end up getting food there, it is so stressful to try and find a seat there. And I remember one time we ended up taking our food and leaving and like eating over a trash can. Literally, yeah. Because we couldn't find a seat there. So that's my one gripe. And that's I think the reason that one is not higher on my list. It's number four. But the food is so good.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

And the location's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

The location's great. If you can get a good seat there, like if you can kind of wait it out and wait till somebody leaves and get a good seat on the water there. I mean, come on. Who doesn't want to sit on World Showcase Lagoon and eat some awesome Mexican street?

SPEAKER_01 13:18

They should have they should have lakeside, if you will, seating for every single country.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

They do for a lot of them now.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

I know. The more I'm thinking about it, I'm like, well, okay. Number three, Regal Eagle. That legal beagle, Regal Eagle.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

The legal beagle, regal eagle.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Um, it's so good. So if you've never been, it's in the American Pavilion and it used to be what was it?

SPEAKER_02 13:42

Oh, what did they call it? It was um gosh, I can't remember what it's called.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Oh my gosh, what was it? Someone's shouting it right now in their car, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

If you hadn't asked me, I'd have been able to tell you.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

I know. Used to be Liberty Inn. I wouldn't have guessed that. So the Liberty Inn served, I didn't remember this. Burgers, hot dogs, and chicken. It's standard American American fare. But the idea that also very common American fare is barbecue and like and the fact that they have different kinds of barbecue sauce from across the country, like absolutely genius swerve. Yeah. Because you can get hamburgers and hot dogs at connections and anywhere and whatever. The food is so incredible. They got like mac and cheese coles. It really does feel American. Yeah. Like the different version of American than just burgers and fries.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

And I love the coolest thing about barbecue is that there is so there are so many different styles of it from all across America. You know, you've got Texas style, Kansas style. There's North Carolina in there somewhere. Yeah, and you've got like, I mean, there's just so many different I mean, if if you're in Texas, you've got like brisket is king, but then you've got, you know, just and so it's kind of a cool amalgam of all these different areas of the United States. And then they do have all the different sauces. It's it's it's a very cool. It was a smart, yeah, sort of. I'll tell them, I'll talk more about that in a minute. So all right. So my number Oh, wait, I want to add on.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

So one awesome memory we have from the Regal Eagle Eagle Beagle is we got our food, and instead of sitting in there, because that's another place that there's a lot of seating, but there's also not enough seating at like height times. So we took our food and we took it out in the like courtyard area, and there were, I think it was Boys to Men. Yep, it was performing at the theater there on the water. And so we ate it back there. We weren't we couldn't see him, but we could hear him, feel the vibes. I could dance to the songs.

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Billy's back again.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

We hey, we better be careful, get a copy. Sounded just like them. Anyway, but it was just such a happy memory of like sitting there and eating our food and hearing that, and I don't know. And of course, food's so good. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

Yeah, all right, I'll come back to that. So my number three, number two, this is the only place where I your number three, number two? My number three and my number two are the ones that I struggled with going back and forth where I was gonna rank these two, and I'll explain why in a minute. So my number three is Yorkshire County Fish Shop. It could have been number two, and I actually had it as number two, and then I switched it, and I'll explain why in a minute. But as far as like if I were to eat one thing at a quick service restaurant in Epcot, yeah, it would be the fish and chips. That's hands down, the best thing. But my only issue is that is the only thing they have. So that's kind of why it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

But listen, they got their specialty and they sent it so good. Let me pop up. If you're watching, we're gonna pop up a picture I got of one of the honking. It is a honker sticks, if you will. Or do you even call it like a fish leg? It's a fish breast. Just a leg of fish. A fish breast. Anyway, whatever it was. This was like a fish loin, like a tenderloin. Like an Indiana tenderloin is like as big as your head. This was uh bigger than my head. It was unbelievably big.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

It was a side of sandwich.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

It was offensively big. A side of sand. Yeah. It was delicious though, but it was humaneous.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

Anyway, so every and every time I get it, it's so good. Now, well, I'm not even gonna go into it. Oh, you're getting me excited for a trip. Oh my gosh. There are purists out there who will who will disagree with me. But it is so good.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Now, I'm just we've had plenty of fish and chips, okay, in the actual UK. All right.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

Right, but what that's what I was gonna get into. I'm not gonna get into it. But a lot of people say that you can't get good, you cannot get good fish and chips in London. You have to go outside of London to get good fish and chips, which we have not done. So we can't truly say that's what we've had amazing fish and chips.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Can you get fish and chips in Ireland? Does it count?

SPEAKER_02 17:34

We did. I don't know that that counts.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

Purist, please let us know.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

Anyway, so but as far as as far as America goes, that's the best you can get. Yeah, that's probably true. But that's handed out easy.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

That's probably true.

SPEAKER_02 17:44

All right.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

My number two is La Cantina de San on Hell. This one wriggled its way up the ranks because I think you cannot discount how important it is that you can sit with a view and pay quick service prices. A lot of the ones that are on the water in upcot, this might be the only one because in Morocco it is um delicious, but it's not quick service. It's more it's a sit-down. What's the why am I spicy or table? And then in the UK, it is I can't think of anything today. What's it?

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Yorkshire County Fish Shop.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

No, no, the um oh, that's true. There's a little seating area.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

That's true. And so the Yorkshire County Fish Shop, by the way, is just a walk-up. You there's really no like restaurant there. You just kind of take it and you can kind of take it over. There are like a few tables and chairs outside, but there's not an indoor area.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

It's not like Rosen Crown. Again, it's not quick service. You're paying higher prices, but you can sit on the water. That's j is that it? I think that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's the only one that has an actual dedicated water view, tables and chairs. You're actually shaded if it's raining, if it's super sunny and hot. I just think that's amazing. And then the food is always good. So you just gotta kind of stick it out to try to find the problem is everyone knows that.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

A. And B, it's the first country you come to. So people get theirone's going the Mexico route.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

And yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Or you've done the whole world showcase and you've landed back. Yeah, you're starving by the end if you went the Canada route.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Yeah, very true.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Okay, what's your number two?

SPEAKER_02 19:10

All right, so my number two is Layol.

unknown 19:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

And the reason that one snuck to number two instead of number three is because everything there is so good. Yeah. Yorkshire County Fish Up has one thing and it is better. But Leol has a hundred things that are extremely good. Like so, like you said, their quiche. I want to go get more.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

I want to try different things we've never tried there.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

Done. But I'm everything we have ever tried there.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

All the like pastry light.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Yeah. The quiche, like I said, the the crust on the quiche alone. I would you could scoop all the inside out and just give me the crust. It is that good.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

I'll eat your inside.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

But everything. Everything that we've had there is good. And that's why I'm like, you really can't go wrong from some like the sweets they have to the more savory stuff. It's all just very, very good.

unknown 19:55

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

It's just getting me wrong.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

I do think it's an space, though. That is the weird where it's like it's like half just like. Oh yeah, like the spit out of the movie. And then I'm like, this it does not feel like this was thought out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

I would fully agree with that.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

It's like a yeah, I don't know what they they just threw, they plopped it all together. But anyway, the food is very good.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Yeah, I agree. If only they had, but it's also fun to get what you get from there. Usually we will eat it out by all the fountains as you head into France, right?

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

We'll just go over there and eat it. All right, all right. What's your okay? Well, I think it's gonna surprise you all, and I'm gonna have some explaining to do. Okay. Sunshine seasons.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

And I know I don't care what you think. We're gonna get some emails. I can so my reasoning is all the things you said. I've never had bad food from there. They, I'm gonna pull up their menu right now. I want to prove myself right. Okay, because I didn't double check it because we we literally go to sunshine seasons every time we go there. Yeah, it's easy to find it. You can always find a seat. You're indoors. So if it is raining or it's wildly hot, you're comfortable. You have rides and shows there. You can get on living with the land. You could trade off. We have sat there and I'll watch the youngest kid while you rode Soren, and then we swapped and I rode Soren. Like there's Which is great. Now we find the little Pumba or the Great Earth, whatever it's called.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

With Cyber L, yeah. Um, it's cool because now Felicity, as of our last trip, is tall enough. So now we can all ride Soren together. But that it that it's been years since that's been an option for us.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Here's the other thing it's one of the few places you can get quick service breakfast, an actual breakfast. And that is why we started going there in the first place because we would always be in there and be like, other than Starbucks, what are we gonna eat? You know? Um, so they got breakfast sandwiches, croissants, yogurts, all kinds of stuff. For lunch, do they not do dinner? Oh, it just says lunch and snack. I do they not? I've I guess we've never been in there at dinner.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

I guess not.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Um, they've got rotisserie chicken with black beans and yellow rice. They have oak-grilled salmon with mashed potatoes and ratatouille, stir-fried chicken with sweet and sour sauce, green onions, peppers over white rice, Mongolian beef bowls, stir-fried shrimp, a roast beef sandwich. Then they also have flatbreads and caprazi sandwiches, tons of kids' options, tons of those like power pack grab and go things. They've got it all. And I think they have really stepped up because back in the day when we used to go there, they had their breakfast, which was their lunch stuff. I feel like was probably like meh. Now it's like actually kind of different stuff. There's some healthy options, and every time I've gotten anything there, it's been really good. So I want to shout its praises because it's not burgers and fries and stuff. Like I think, if I'm remembering right, it used to be. It's really good stuff. Yeah, the lunch.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Good job, Disney. We did eat there and we got, I don't know, some kind of I think we got like sweet and sour chicken balls. We got the sweet and sour chicken bowl. Pretty good, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Um, and I also have gotten the caprizi sandwich there. It was great. You might have gotten, have we gotten the salmon there? Maybe. But you see what I mean? It's just like different stuff, but then you can still get the kids' stuff they want, they want to eat.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

And I'll give you the one thing too. It does have the the old school Epcot nostalgia.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

I mean, at sprinkle a little of that on top. You've got my number one.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Okay. Yes, I know there's better, and I love all the food. Okay. And there's a few. You know what we didn't mention? I know you still need to share your number one, but I know this is not your number one. The crapery. Now I know the one is the sit-down, but the walk out window, those craper.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

So I have a little list of things that we didn't cover. So we'll go over that in a minute. Okay, cool. Um, so my number one.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Yeah, what is it? Wait. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

Do you know?

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Regal Eagle.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

Yeah. Jason Siegel's Legal Beagle Regal Eagle.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

It is Make Me a Deagle.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

That was supposed to be deal. That didn't work. Oh, I liked it though. So everything about all the things we already mentioned, we don't have to go over it again. But on top of the things we did mention, the sides are so good. The baked beans are really good. I mean, everything, everything on your place is so good. The mac and cheese is good. I mean, and again, you get you get the pulled pork, you get they have the the platter that has a little bit of everything, a little bit of brisket, a little bit of pulled pork, a little bit, and you can dip all the different sauces, and then you got your baked beans.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Everyone is hungry now listening to this episode.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Us too. It it's so good. Yeah. Everything about that, you get a little pickle on it too. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

The vibes are good there, too.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

And they have that tap house there in front too, that always has some really good draft beers in the front. So you can walk.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Doesn't it have like IPAs, which is a very American thing, which makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

It gets you an awesome, yeah. It's anyway. So definitely, definitely a huge upgrade there from what it used to be. But it just, and then you walk by, it smells so good.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

Oh, yeah. They're they gotta be pumping that smell out on purpose. Like, whew.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

So the ones that we didn't mention, yeah, uh, Ketsura, that's the only one in Epcot we have not tried. And I think the last time we went, we tried to go and it uh was close or something.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Something going on, like, yeah. Well, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

But that's the only one. I think she might be the only one in Disney World we haven't tried. Might be true. Summerfest in Germany, Lotus Blossom Cafe, you did mention, um, Kringla Bakery.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Um, but that's not real, I wouldn't even really consider it.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

No, because it's more like a bakery.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

The crepe walk-up.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Yep.

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Which again is very, very good. They have both the savory crepes and the sweet crepes.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Tyler makes a mean crepe at home, though, so it's uh we're very snobby because his are so good. But those are really good.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

They are very good.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

We were we're hoping to, on our next trip, do we'll see the sit-down crepey because we've never actually done that.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

As far as like a table service.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Savory crepe, if you've never had one, like ham and cheese, please. So good.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

And then pizza al taglio is. Oh, is that the walk-up? The walk-up pizza.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I that man, all right.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

But again, that I that one wasn't included because it's kind of

What we DIDN'T mention

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a one-trick pony. Now, Yorkshire County Fish Shop is also one trick pony. Yeah, I was like, I can't. But I can't count I can get pizza anywhere. There's a million pizzas. But uh it's much harder to find good fish and chips, I think.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

All right. So I'll start on Instagram. Okay. Do you want to start on Facebook and YouTube? So if you don't follow us on all of these different things, you don't have to follow us on all of them. We would love if you did, but you certainly don't have to. Uh, it is DisneyVool Podcast everywhere. Facebook, YouTube, of course. I know some of you guys are watching the video version, but yeah, okay. And then Instagram too. So we asked you guys for your ranking. Some of you guys gave us your full ranking, some of you guys just gave us some of your faves. So we're gonna kind of pop through these. Well, let's start strong with Princess Nicole, who said the only right answer is the pizza window in the Italy pavilion.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yeah. Now don't get me wrong, that pizza is very extremely good.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

And when you're just hungry and you're like, I just want something fast, it's you can't beat it. That's a different window. There's also a window. No, no, I think it's the same. You can walk up and get like um wine.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

I think that's a I think that's a separate one over on the well.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

There's also the bar area you can go to, but I'm pretty sure they have a couple you can get at the pizza window too, if I remember right. I want to say I did it when I was with my mom. I was getting, I got her like a glass of champagne or like prosecco or what it was a spa. I remember it was a bubbly one.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Yeah.

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It was delightful.

Listener's Rankings & Favorites at Epcot

SPEAKER_01 26:51

I got myself one too, okay.

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All right. So, starting on Facebook here for me. So, Kelly Woodard Buskirk said, This is such a tough choice. Katsura grill.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Gosh, we gotta try it.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

I know. The bakery in France, Yorkshire Fish Shop, Connections, the Quick Surf Pizza Place in Italy, Regal Eagle. They are all fantastic. It's so hard to choose. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

And and this is not even to mention the festival booths. Because honestly, if you're going, there's a festival always going on. Nine months, if you're going, yeah, literally. If you're going during any all of those times, you're gonna want to try some of those. So it's wild because you don't even, we don't even need the quick service, but yeah, we do. We do.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

And she said at the end, she said, love your podcast. It's a go, it's a go to when I've had a rough day. It always makes me happy.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

Oh, that's very so much. Thank you. Gosh. Okay. Frankly Katie says, Leal boulangerie pâtisserie. Nice. Uh, number two, La Cantina, De San Angel. Three, Kringla Bakery, four Regal Eagle, five, Yorkshire County Fish Shop. There's a lot of love for that. Yeah. I know three and five technically aren't quick service, but I can get a full meal from both. And maybe that's exactly the, you know, if you can get a full meal, yeah, why not? Also, the coffees at Kringla Bakery in Norway. They have they even have alcoholic caffeines.

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Well, coffees.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

If you're into that, like it was like a frozen, you got that once.

SPEAKER_02 28:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

It was like uh I think I got a hot horn. I wanted to call it a troll horn again. You guys, somebody rescue me and buy me a troll horn. I don't even think they make them anymore. Yeah, it was like called Viking coffee. Maybe it was hot. Anyway, different kinds of coffees there, too, that are really good.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Ooh, okay. So we got From the Rays, both so from Amanda and Jeremy Ray. So Amanda said, France and Mexico. Now that I live here, we really need to explore some more. Ooh. And then Jeremy said, number two, the refreshment port, because poutine, nothing else needs to be said. He said, number one, Leol. Before moving to Disney, one of the things we looked forward to most was catching the first flight of the day to Orlando, dropping our stuff off at the resort, then heading to Layall so we could have an early lunch while people watching and thinking we're finally here.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Oh, that sounds awesome. Also, hey, Amanda and Jeremy.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

I love that. Like when that that fountain area is so beautiful with the it really is. So I totally, I totally get that.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

And that like late morning sun, just like relaxing. Oh, so good. Sounds awesome. Ashley Ved Turtle said the correct answer is none because the only thing you need at Epcot or the only thing you eat at Epcot is festival food. LOL. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Yeah. Most of the year you definitely can't.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Hold on. Also, let me go back. Poutine is where? Refreshment port?

SPEAKER_02 29:29

That's what he said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

That's the one right by Canada, right? Like you're going that way. Oh, that makes sense because you're heading. Also, lest we forget, and again, we're talking just food here now. The maple popcorn on the way towards Canada, too. If you're getting popcorn refills, this is my favorite little tri tip. If you're getting popcorn refills, like in your bucket, you can get your refill at the maple popcorn stand, which is insane. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

Yeah, I gotta say, poutine, I haven't had a good one yet.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

I love them all. You're wrong. I I can easily tell you you are very, very wrong. I guess you don't like you you don't like them. You don't like the sogginess of it all. That's not true. Although no, because you like skyline like sloppy, wet.

SPEAKER_02 30:15

I don't know. I feel like I've made I I feel like I've not had good poutine.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

I've I may that may be true, but I even the bad poutine I like.

SPEAKER_02 30:26

Jokes on you. There's no such thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

That's right. Schmiddy or Schmeit 2 are family favorite spots we go to all the time. One, lay all after writing Remy. Yeah, good idea to do it after and not before. Although they're taking away the 3D effect.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Yeah, I heard that.

SPEAKER_01 30:40

2D. Tutie. Tutie. Fruity. Tootie Fruity. Number two, Regal Eagle. Great vegetarian option. That's cool to know.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

I wonder what is it like is it gotta lose that?

SPEAKER_01 30:50

No, I gotta know.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Fake meat? Or is it actually just like impossible meat type thing? Or is it or is it a totally different Regal Eagle, Legal Beagle? Alright. Jason Siegel's Legal Beagle, Regal Eagle.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Steven Segal. No, no. No. I was too excited about the name. They do barbecue jackfruit. A barbecue jackfruit sandwich with coesalon pickles.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

Oh, I bet that's really good.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

I like toast and a choice of a side. Oh my gosh. They've got eye rings there, you guys that are to die for the cornbread. We had lunch only an hour and a half ago, already hungry. Didn't eat enough. A and B. This is really just okay. All right. So Oh, I didn't finish it. Sorry. Chose number three, Chosa day margarita drinks, sure, but the street corn is killer. I'm pretty sure we've gotten that street corn before, unless I'm confusing it with like a festival pavilion street corn.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

That sounds familiar.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

But it was really, really good.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Um, four sunshine seasons, drink refills.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

And then number five, connections, fries, and the general sew chicken salad. That sounds sounds awesome. Yeah, that does. I'm like trying to picture that. Great answers. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Nice. All right. So uh moving over here to YouTube. So U.S. Road Tripper said, I miss the electric umbrella. Eating chicken strips and fries in the patio while watching Fountains of Nations, Fountain of Nations was such a vibe. Sigh. But anyway, yeah, I missed that too. That was and you you walked in there and it's just straight up felt like the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

It fully did. But you know, I forgot they did have the outdoor seating, which was so nice. And you could kind of, yeah, look out at the fountain.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Oh, so good.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

It's Sean Connor said, it doesn't matter. After three orange slushies in France, all food is good. Yeah, those Grand Marnier slushies are so good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

They're Santa Brown's favorite, too.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

They are Samantha Brown. If you know her, a little travel little, please. Yeah. Travel host. Extraordinaire.

SPEAKER_02 32:43

Love her. Oh my gosh. So, first of all, this name to Infinity and Blom.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Yeah, we've read it many. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Okay. Epcot has my favorite bites in all of Disney World. If I had to place them in order, I would do as follows. One, La Cantina de Saint on Hell. The food is absolutely amazing and fresh. Two, Layall Boulangerie Petiserie, fresh baguette, need I say more.

unknown 33:02

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Three, Regal Eagle Smokehouse. If you're in the mood for some good barbecue, it's a great spot to listen to music. If a concert's going on, yes. Yep. Four, refreshment port. I'm Canadian, so poutine is always on the table. So a lot of love for refreshment port. We need to go to Canada and get real poutine. Actual Canada. Yeah, actual Canada. Five, Yorkshire County Fish Shop. Uh, good place to grab some food and beer and people watch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Agreed on all, on all.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Okay. Am Oz Good said number one, food booth. Yeah. Uh, number two, Sunshine Seasons. Yes. I like to buy a bunch of grab and go and make it a meal. Yes. Thank you. Three, Leal, the quiche. Is this us? Did we write this? Four, anything Mexico, booth, La Cantina, La Cava, it all counts. Yes. Five, caramel couche. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong. It's where you get the caram corn. I know it's not quick service, but oh my, my mouth watered instantly. But a gingerbread sandwich and caramel shortbread is a quick meal for me. I will slap you across the face. That sounds so good. My mouth is actually watering. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

All right. So radishes and pickles said easy peasy. Love the name. Five, Katsura Grill. Four, La Cantina de San on Hell. Three, Regal Eagle Smokehouse. Two, Yorkshire County Fish Shop. One, crepes a importée by La Crepperie de Paris. All right. So wow, that number one for that's that's pretty is really good, though. And said, but if all else fails, just do space 220. So young. Yeah. We've only done that once. We've got to do that again. Space 220, I mean.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Yes. Yeah. Tay Fairborn said, food allergies here. So number one, sunshine season. Tons of options all on the healthy side.

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Oh, okay. Good to know.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Amen. Two, Regal Eagle, delicious. No notes needed. Correct. Three, connections eatery. This is my last choice on property. Honestly, very chaotic. Lines always seem to be super long. Agreed. Mobile order only. The theme is giving Dead Mall cafeteria. Also agree. I kind of hate it here, honestly. Oh well, okay, but I love it. But I I agree with all of that. But sometimes I like the dead mall. Um, but those are the only ones I can eat at. Hashtag gluten free. Good to know next time we bring my mom along. And good for any of you guys to know if you were gluten-free as well.

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Jamie O'Malley. 8321 said, five, Regal Eagle, four, sunshine seasons, specifically for their chocolate chip cookies. Three, does the pizza window in Italy count? Yes. Absolutely. Fruitly, it does. Two, connections, sincerely, a picky eater. And then one, this is cheating, but Pop Eats during Festival of the Arts.

SPEAKER_01 35:41

Pop Eats? I wonder what's there. Tyler, you're gonna love this one. So strep in. Rog Dog25 said, My top five are Regal Eagle Smokehouse, Leal, Kringla Bakery, Tangerine Cafe.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

Right. We gotta reopen it. We gotta Yorkshire Fish Shop. Get somebody on the phone.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Hot take, not a big fan of Sunshine Seasons. That's okay. I'll keep it for me. You know what?

SPEAKER_02 36:04

I wonder though. I mean, the food, all the all your points aside, I wonder if like younger generations won't like it as much because they wouldn't have that like nostalgia.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

Not that we don't know how old you are. No, no, no. But I'm just no, that's a good point. They they don't have like a the the basis of they don't have that memory.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Going to the mall. Yeah, nostalgia has to be base.

SPEAKER_01 36:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

That's that idea just came to me. So no, no. Yeah. Nora Rose V Viljoan. Sounds pretty five connections, four Regal Eagle, three Summerfest, purely for the pretzel pretzel bread pudding. We've had the pretzels there. I don't think we have the pretzel bread pudding, though. Two La Cantina, one Yorkshire County Fish Shop. She said this was hard to rank. So many good choices. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what?

SPEAKER_01 36:55

I want to add that. We need to create a list. So we are going soon-ish to the parks. We are very excited. I think we need to make it a goal to try all these things. Like, certainly the quick service in Japan. Try this bread pudding, like all these things. Like I've never heard of that. That sounds incredible. And I do feel like Germany, they, you know, I first of all, I love the Germany restaurant. Like the that's so fun. Yeah. But yeah, their quick service is like there's really not much. I'm like, gosh, they could do so much more with that. They could have like, do they brat worse there? Maybe they do.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

I think they do.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

Okay. Well, either way, I want to try the bread pudding.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

When we went over there, I think we only got pretzels, but it's been so, it's been gosh, I can't even remember now.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Okay. Kaylee Loreland said, ooh, this is a good one. I haven't tried all the quick service yet, but out of the ones I have, this is my ranking. Sunshine seasons, number one. Yes. Number two, Yorkshire County Fish Shop. Three, Regal Eagle, four connections five, refreshment port in Canada. A lot of love for that. Yeah. Honorable mention goes to the food and wine booths, specifically in China, and flavors from fire. Okay. Market down.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

I say I got one more here from YouTube. So Aaron Sykes M8P said, La Cantina for sure, number one. Also love the fish shop in UK because it is very consistent. That's so true.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

Every time for the last 15 years, take out of always, always good.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

And it's always very consistently what I want. Like, I mean, what I remember. Like when I go back, I'm like, yep, it's exactly as good as I remember.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

Yeah. Okay. Megan Nedgar said, I love Regal Eagle. If I could swim in that mac and cheese, I would. Although, although now that I've typed that out, it makes me feel a bit sick. Imagine swimming in mac and cheese. You'd smell for weeks. I love it. All right. Wow. There were so many more, you guys. I wish we could sit and read them all. But this was a fun episode. If you missed our episodes, we did a top five quick service in Magic Kingdom, and we've also done five top five quick service in Hollywood Studios. You know what that leaves? Eventually we need to take Disney Springs. Oh, whoa. Also, obviously Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom is so in flux right now with things closing. So I'm like, we might have to wait. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. But yeah, maybe Disney Springs. We haven't done a Disney Springs episode in a while.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

It's been a while, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:07

Might be time. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 39:09

All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this. I hope if you are heading there soon, this helps if you are planning. And uh we'll see you guys here in a couple weeks. We are uh, if you are curious, we are doing Vlogmas on my channel this year coming up here.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

You search Tyler Braun on YouTube B-R-A-U-N.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

Yep, which is when we do here

Coming Up + Closing Chat

SPEAKER_02 39:27

in December, which is crazy to believe it's already December coming up. Yeah. But we in years past, we've done a video every single day in December. This year we're doing three videos a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So if you're curious to watch that.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

So you'll still see pretty much every day. It's just we're combining them, trying to, it's it's a hard season as it is. And we didn't want to not do Vlogmas, so this is our way of like being able to still do it, but still have some time to actually enjoy the yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:51

So anyway, so if you're curious about that, we do it every year. That's coming up here soon. Um, and but the nice thing about doing it that way too is in years past, we've taken a break during December for the podcast. We are planning on, if things go to plan, right, continuing on with the podcast in December, though, since we're alleviating some of that. So we'll keep going with the podcast, though. Otherwise, this might have been our last episode until next year.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Or it would have been, yeah. So we should be continuing on straight on through the season. So you'll get to hear our annoying voices in December, too.

SPEAKER_02 40:21

All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this, and we will see you on the next one.

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Bye, friends.

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Bye.