The dining in California Adventure is as unique as its many lands. Enjoy diner food or a "Cozy Cone" in Cars Land or dine in luxury at Carthay Circle Restaurant on Buena Vista Street. For the grown-ups, several lounges will have you sipping California wine or sampling food & drink inspired by Pixar animators. California Adventure also features seasonal food options like the Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival and the Festival of Holidays.
Mortimer's Market (Quick Snack):
Enjoy fresh fruit, bottled water and soft drinks.
Clarabelle's Hand-Scooped Ice Cream (Counter Service):
Clarabelle's serves Dreyer's ice cream, including bars dipped in milk or dark chocolate that you can finish with sprinkles, pop rocks or other fun toppings. Sundaes and other frozen treats are also available.
Fiddler Fifer and Practical Cafe (Counter Service):
Enjoy Starbuck's coffee, espresso, blended beverages, breakfast items and pasteries plus other signature sandwiches, soups and desserts.
Carthay Circle Restaurant (Full Service):
Award-winning Executive Chef Andrew Sutton offers a menu that focuses on seasonal products and the diverse flavors found in Southern California.
For lunch try a signature salad or pasta. Dinner features the finest cuts of beef, pork, lamb and more. Menus change seasonally, but always include the signature biscuits and spicy firecracker duck wings!
Reservations are recommended.
Carthay Circle Restaurant also offers the World of Color Dining Package, which includes a 3-course lunch or dinner, followed by reserved viewing.
For an upscale, yet casual snack or meal, a special small-plate menu is available in the Carthay Circle Restaurant lounge.
Flo's V8 Cafe (Counter Service):
This indoor/outdoor venue features food inspired by cafes along Route 66 and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Flo serves diner food including burgers, sandwiches, fried chicken and pot pie.
Breakfast specialties include French toast with salted caramel and bananas or chicken tamales with scrambled eggs.
For dessert, it's all about the shakes...vanilla, chocolate or strawberry...all topped with cookie "road gravel".
Get your favorite cone-themed snacks! With a different menu at each cone, you can always taste something different.
Try the churro or pretzel bites, soft serve ice cream, "route" beer floats, and flavored popcorn, plus edible bread cones filled with bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast and chicken verde or chili "cone" queso for lunch and dinner.
Fillmore's Taste-In (Quick Snack):
Enjoy fresh fruit, bottled water, juices and soft drinks.
Smokejumpers Grill (Counter Service):
This restaurant is located near Soarin' Around The World, and serves burgers, ribs, etc. You can sit inside or outside under umbrellas. The menu features top-your-own burgers, fries, grilled chicken sandwiches, salad, onion rings. Lunch, dinner, and snacks are served in this quick service restaurant.
Pacific Wharf Cafe (Counter Service):
Choose from the healthy variety of food, including fresh-baked bread, fresh garden salads, soups in a bread bowl, and other baked goods. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack
Cocina Cucamonga Mexican Grill (Counter Service):
Serves a mix of Californian and Mexican cuisine, featuring street tacos, tortas, salads, and bowls. Lunch, dinner
Lucky Fortune Cookery (Counter Service):
An updated menu features teriyaki chicken, vegan banh mi, pork ramen, Asian chicken wings, and more
Rita’s Baja Blenders (Quick Snack):
Enjoy a refreshing margarita at this festive atmosphere.
Ghirardelli Soda Fountain and Chocolate Shop (Counter Service):
Satisfy your sweet tooth for hot fudge sundaes and other ice cream specialties at the soda fountain or take home some famous Ghirardelli Squares from the chocolate shop.
Wine Country Trattoria, at the Golden Vine Winery (Full Service):
The Golden Vine Winery features the Wine Country Trattoria, Mendocino Terrace, Sonoma Terrace and Alfresco Tasting Terrace.
Wine Country Trattoria - Italian food is served inside the dining room or out on the terrace for lunch or dinner. Delicious Italian cuisine featuring lasagna, pastas, grilled sandwiches, and soups. The terrace overlooks the Pacific Wharf and Paradise Pier areas. Priority Seating is available.
Wine Country Trattoria also offers the World of Color Dining Package, which includes a 3-course lunch or dinner, followed by reserved viewing.
Alfresco Tasting Terrace - Enjoy cocktails themed to Californa Adventure attractions of the past along with small Italian-inspired appetizers on the second-floor terrace overlooking Cars Land's Ornament Valley. This space is currently reserved exclusively for Annual Passholders and their guests. MENU
Mendocino Terrace – Wine sampling that’s overseen by a wine expert. You can buy wine by the glass or bottle, and enjoy your selection at the counter or under the shady trees of the plaza. The experts are there to answer your questions about the products offered. You can also enjoy some meat and cheese plates. MENU
Sonoma Terrrace - Sample of diverse selection of craft beer, plus a selection of sandwiches. MENU
Award Wieners (Counter Service):
Hot dogs and gourmet sausages. You eat outdoors, street side at tables with umbrellas.
Studio Catering Co. (Quick Snack):
Super hero themed menu, including tacos, nachos, and cold beverages.
Fresh fruit, healthy vegetables with dip, deli-style sandwiches, strawberries with dipping sauce, trail mix, dill pickles and cold beverages.
Fresh Fruit Smoothies!
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Look for traditional food at very non-traditional scale, including oversized Bavarian pretzels, tiny plant-based meatballs, and huge sandwiches with tiny buns. Seating is outside.
Pym Tasting Lab:The Lab will feature craft beers on tap that are poured using a reverse draft system that fills from the bottom up. In addition to choices ranging from blood orange hefeweizen to amber lager, look for four different beer cocktails. Snacks will come in small bites with big flavors, like sweet and savory popped grains, mini pretzels, and honey-roasted peanuts.
Shawarma Palace:This outdoor vending cart will serve both chicken shawarma with garlic sauce and a Impossible plant-based shawarma.
Terran Treats:At this food cart, look for intergalactic treats, including the Cosmic Cream Orb, meant to look like an Infinity Stone, but filled with raspberry cheesecake mousse. There will also be a changing variety of churro-like Sweet Spiral Rations.
Lamplight Lounge (Full Service):
This California casual gastro-pub serves signature cocktails, plus appetizers and sushi, along with more substantial fare.
Fans of the former Cove Bar will be happy to know that the Lobster Nachos are still on the menu.
The design of the restraunt features sketches on the wall, as if Pixar animators also come to enjoy the lounge after work.
Jack-Jack Cookie Num Nums (Quick Snack):
Fresh baked cookies and a variety of milks
Chicken drumsticks with cole slaw, turkey legs, corn on the cob and sodas
Hot dogs (regular or spicy), chips and sodas
Señor Buzz Churros (Quick Snack):
Specialty churros and sodas
Adorable Snowman Frosted Treats (Quick Snack):
Ice cream cones and floats, including lemon soft-serve.
Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta (Counter Service):
This restaurant features flat bread pizzas, pastas and freshly-tossed salads. Try the Chicken Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto pasta or maybe the Five-Cheese Ravioli with pesto and pine nuts. Classic pepperoni or cheese pizza and spaghetti & meatballs is also available. For something light, try the Italian Chef Salad with provolone, salami, capocollo, fresh mozzarella, cured ham, roasted peppers, olives and a red wine vinaigrette.
Paradise Garden Grill (Counter Service):
This location features Mediterranean-inspired skewers with various sauces plus a classic Greek salad. Start by choosing from Grilled Steak, Lemon-Oregano Chicken, Spicy Meatballs or Vegatable & Tofu, then select your sauce from Moroccan Chili, Chimichurri, or Tzatziki. All the skewers are served with rice pilaf, cucumber salad and pita bread. The Greek Salad features fresh greens, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, pepperoncini, marinated olives, feta and a lemon-oregano dressing and is served with pita bread.
Paradise Garden Grill often sets aside their Mediterranean fare in favor of special seasonal menus, such as Mexican during the Christmas season and Asian during Lunar New Year.
Bayside Brews (Quick Snack):
Pretzels, draft beer and drinks
Corn Dog Castle (Counter Service):
Regular and Spicy Corn Dogs, Cheese Sticks, Drinks