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Catal Restaurant Presents a 5-Course Coppola Wine Dinner & Giveaway!

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Catal Restaurant Presents a 5-Course Coppola Wine Dinner & Giveaway!

By Erin

*I was invited to a media preview of this delicious dinner for purposes of this post. All thoughts and opinions remain my own!*

I love dinning in Downtown Disney as you have probably noticed by now. There are so many delicious options to choose from. One of my favorite places to dine at though is at Catal Restaurant and they have a very special dinner coming up! If you keep reading, you also will have a chance to enter for a chance to win a $50 Gift Card to go dine at Catal!

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant's Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines.

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant’s Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines.

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant's Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines.

Here’s the special menu you can look forward to enjoying!

🍷1st Course: Scallop Crudo, made with coconut milk, tomato water, young pickled ginger, mango, crispy garlic, fish skin Chicharrón paired with Coppola’s Directors Cut Chardonnay.

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant's Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines.

🍷2nd Course: Poached Halibut made with white asparagus, rhubarb, brown butter radish, paired with Coppola’s Diamond Collection Pinot Noir!

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant's Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines.

🍷3rd Course: Maple Leaf Duck Breast made with tangerine, Peruvian potatoes, lavender sesame vinaigrette paired with Coppola’s Directors Cut Cabernet Sauvignon.

If you love good food and good wine you will want to attend this special night on March 12th at 6pm at Catal! I had the opportunity to preview Catal Restaurant's Five-Course Coppola Wine Dinner in Downtown Disney the other night. Catal Restaurant is featuring five special dishes & five Coppola Wines. Continue reading »

Knott’s Peanuts Celebration!

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Knott’s Peanuts Celebration!

By Kirstin

My favorite thing about bringing my family to Knotts Berry Farm is that there is always something new to experience.  We love the rides, food and especially the characters!  We were invited to Knott’s to experience the new Peanuts Celebration that is running on weekends until March 10th plus February 11th, 15th and 18th for the holiday weekends!  

Besides rides, everyone talks about the food.  What is new on the menu?  Every season brings new tastes to tickle our buds.   My family comes some days just to get Mrs. Knotts fried chicken and boysenberry cobbler!  What is new for the Peanuts Celebration?  Peanut butter and Raspberry jam!  Classic tastes with new twists, you really can’t go wrong.  What will be your favorite?  The Charlie Brown brownies?  Peanut butter and boysenberry jelly cupcakes?  Fruitloop bars?  There are so many different choices, it’s hard to decide! What would you choose?

Fruit Loop Bars

Jelly Jelly Bean Funnel Cake, topped with jelly beans & Strawberry Sauce 


 Charlie Brownies

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Raspberry Bundt Cake

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Grand Re-Opening of Naples Ristorante E Bar & Napolini Pizzeria in Downtown Disney

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Grand Re-Opening of Naples Ristorante E Bar in Downtown Disney

By Erin

*I was invited as media to come check out the newly remodeled Naples Ristorante E Bar in Downtown Disney. All thoughts and opinions remain my own!*

I go to Disneyland a lot. So you can find me dining and exploring all that the Disneyland Resort has to offer often. Last week I was honored to be in attendance as Patina Restaurant Group showed off their newly remodeled restaurant in Downtown Disney® District, the Naples Ristorante E Bar. The renovations started last year and is now complete so we were all finally able to see the beautiful additions to this delicious restaurant.

New design elements include:

• A mural of photographs by Naples photographer Mimmo Fontanella

• A fire-themed mosaic glass tile above a trio of new wood-burning pizza ovens

• An expanded outdoor patio with a new outside bar and fountain wall

• A large “infinite loop” lighting fixture

The celebration included executives from Disney and Patina Restaurant Group joined by special guests Chef Mickey Mouse and Chef Goofy. Following the dedication, we got to partake in the food and friendly hospitality at Naples.

Thank you Naples Ristorante e Bar for inviting us to the grand reopening!

Chef Umberto Rubelli hails from Milan, Italy and brings an authentic Italian touch to the food.

New menu items include a variety of fresh seafood, simply prepared fish selections with lemon, olive oil and tomato. There is a new build-your-own pizza menu at Napolini that Pizzaiolo Charlie Restivo runs.

The pizzeria’s signature pies include Vesuvio(mozzarella, tomato, Calabrian chili, green olives, anchovies, capers), California (chicken, bbq sauce, red onions, cilantro, smoked mozzarella), and Capri (shrimp, mozzarella, fontina, lemon, pesto). Most ingredients are imported from Italy and they use locally grown vegetables. Chef Umberto also recommended all the desserts, but his favorite is the Tiramisu as it is his grandmother recipe. I will need to go back just to try this! I really love their cheesecake too!

A dedication ceremony included members of the restaurant’s staff and executives from Disney and Patina Restaurant Group. Special guests Chef Mickey Mouse and Chef Goofy joined in the fun to round out the magical celebration.

Here are a few other fun photos from the restaurant:

This is the hand gesture wall, and each hand means something different! It is really cool!

If you like Mules, you MUST try the Mule Flight! It was so good, I loved them all, it was too hard to pick a favorite of the three.

And of course the pizza, you cannot come here and NOT have some pizza! Yum!

Cheers! Be sure to come down soon and check it out for yourself! 🙂

Naples is open for lunch and dinner. Napolini is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with to-go options.  Both restaurants are located at Downtown Disney District, 1510 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, CA 92802.