The Empanada de Manzana:Puff pastry filled with sauteed caramel apples, served with dulce de leche ice cream and cajeta (caramel sauce). The meat was tender without being fatty.īoth dishes are served with sides of shareable rice and beans.Īfter dinner, you’ll want to give into temptation and choose from one of the four desserts offered.
The Costillas en Salsa de Chile: Braised shorts ribs, served with potato puree and chile de árbol sauce. I can’t wait to go back and order this again. Everything tasted fresh and the sauce was amazing. The Tacos de Camarones: Fried shrimp, chipotle-lime aioli, cabbage, lime and salsa verde, all served over flour tortillas. La Hacienda has about 7 entrees to choose from with dishes including beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, and tilapia. If you are in the mood for something stronger, they also offer a variety of tequila flights and specialty single shots such as the Mezcalero #7. The rim had a chili powder mixed in with the salt that added some mild warmth. This was very good although not quite as good as the margaritas found at La Cava Del Tequila across the way inside the Mexico Pavilion. Exótíco 100% agave premium silver tequila, orange liqueur, and lime mix, served on the rocks with salt on the rim. The Mango Blueberry Basil Margarita sounded like an interesting choice. The drink menu offers many types of specialty margaritas. Our server promptly brought out warm tortilla chips with two kinds of salsa. The restaurant was uncrowded and quiet at this time but began to fill up during dinner. I requested a table by the window and was seated immediately with a beautiful view. Patrick’s always excited about Mexican food, and I’m always excited about good views of fireworks! We made the reservation for 8pm, which turned out to be perfect timing for IllumiNations at 9pm.I had an advanced dining reservation at 5:45 and arrived 15 minutes early. The plan that evening was to try out the new Hacienda de San Angel and see what its view was like for IllumiNations. to make a hotel reservation during Magic & Merriment before Patrick could get back and talk some sense into me again. Turns out they finally got banned! (Now the only place to trade is inside Epcot.) Meanwhile I was frantically dialing the Walt Disney Travel Co. Patrick made a quick trip to Downtown Disney to trade with the pin sharks outside, uh, Mickey’s Pin-porium & Olde Tyme Vinylmation Station. We went back to the room and got cleaned up. In the end, Patrick had a swell time and I lived to tell the tale… the tale of how I am DEFINITELY, 100% not a water-park person. Then it was back for more punishment on the one you do lying on your tummy and get a huge blast of water in your snoot and splash down coughing so hard that you scare the crap outta the lifeguard. We took a break to ride a raft in Teamboat Springs. Next up was the tallest one, Summit Plummet, which also features battery by water jets. The first slide we rode was the second-highest one, Slush Gusher, on which you get battered with water jets while your butt catches major air at least twice. Somewhere in the middle of the tweet-up I discovered that the jig was up when Jeffrey made a comment about seeing “those of you I know and those of you who think I don’t know you-Lurkyloo!!!” Gulp. I think we played some trivia games for pins (not patches-PINS!!!), and he revealed the agenda for that year’s Magic & Merriment event, which had me mentally planning a quick trip back until Patrick pointed out that the only new things were brunch at Top of the World Lounge and a sure-to-be-foodless reception inside the Walt Disney Story. In true D23 fashion, all the fans were already lurking about the Swan Boat Landing well before Jeffrey was due to show up. (Speaking of which, have I mentioned that, 2 weeks after they went on sale, this year’s $195 Sip & Stroll tickets are *still* not sold out? I think the word must be spreading about the PowerPoints….). It was exciting to actually be in the Magic Kingdom when one of these happened, though I s’pose that was kind of a given, what with this being Sip & Stroll weekend and all. Finally it was time for the D23 tweet-up.
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