Flower & Garden & Food Kiosks

The 2014 Epcot Flower & Garden festival will just be drawing to a close during out honeymoon in Disney World, and it appears as though we'll be able to catch the tail end of something I've only seen once during all of my trips to Disney World. While I'm sure that Girl Scout Fiancée will enjoy strolling through all of the beautiful flowers and checking out Epcot at what some would call its loveliest, I've recently learned of another reason to look forward to this special event: food.

Get these flowers out of the way, I have food to find.

Food is a big deal in Seattle, Portland, and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. One of our favorite things about living in Seattle is the variety of food we get to sample, and the quantity of high-caliber restaurants to choose from on any given night. Of course, the trendy thing to do for food is to find a food truck (restaurants that are so hip that a single location cannot even pin them down!) and chow down on food that is invariably bad for you and occasionally better quality that anything we would eat at a traditional sit-down restaurant. Food trucks are so hip that Girl Scout Fiancée and I, being not-hipsters-but-still-not-hip, are even having one cater our Seattle reception.

It just so happens that Disney, for this year's Flower & Garden Festival, decided to add some special food options in a similar vein to those that appear during the fall's Food & Wine Festival. It seems as though someone at Disney World realized that special, limited-time food is a big deal to the travel-savvy, and decided to bring it back in a different season. This year's kiosks were apparently a big hit, because they have already been confirmed for next year's Flower & Garden Festival. I, for one, am completely fine with that. Of course, it's only a matter of time before there are special kiosks out for some summer and winter festivals, and then you'll only have a few, sad weeks where there is no special food each year.

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This new information, while filling me with excitement at the prospects of something really fun and different for our Disney honeymoon, is also wreaking havoc with my well-laid plans. Now our Epcot days are going to be filled with strife, as delicious food kiosks struggle against the amazing restaurants in the World Showcase. I've already been struggling to try and figure out how to eat at all of the restaurants that made my short list, and now I'm tempted to simply cut out an entire sit-down dinner in favor of just snacking our way across Epcot at the various pavilions. Looks like Biergarten or Coral Reef might be on the chopping block.