Walt Disney World has introduced new meals coming to the Brown Derby this month. This submit dispenses with dish particulars, with pictures of the enticing appetizers, engaging entress, and decadent desserts coming to the Signature Restaurant at Hollywood Studios. Plus, ideas on our most up-to-date meals at Brown Derby.
In keeping with Walt Disney World, the Golden Age of Hollywood has acquired additions–with The Hollywood Brown Derby at Disney’s Hollywood Studios just lately launching menu updates. The culinary group masterfully put collectively dishes that includes the freshest of components for Summer time 2023.
For these unfamiliar with it, Brown Derby is nestled between Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, Animation Courtyard, Hollywood Boulevard, and Sundown Boulevard. The restaurant options up to date American delicacies, and this summer season menu isn’t any completely different–with a number of new additions from the kitchen.
Whether or not you’ve been right here earlier than or wish to do that restaurant for the primary time, The Hollywood Brown Derby has one thing for everybody to take pleasure in. (These are Disney’s phrases, however we additionally assume Brown Derby is fairly crowd-pleasing by Signature Restaurant requirements. It’s positively essentially the most adventurous and ‘grownup’ restaurant at DHS, although.)
Anyway, right here’s a take a look at what’s cooking over on the Hollywood Brown Derby for Summer time 2023…
The appetizers have a number of eats which are full of taste. Beginning off, we’ve acquired some seafood choices resurfacing for you. The Crab Louie options crispy olive bread, citrus mix, fried capers, and Louie sauce.
For these shrimp followers on the market, the Shrimp Cocktail is topped with shaved fennel cucumbers and a standard cocktail sauce.
There are two gadgets for cheese lovers. The Heirloom Tomato and Burrata Salad combines shaved onions, Thai basil, gremolata, and a scrumptious citrus French dressing, whereas the Charcuterie Board options the Chef’s number of cured meats, cheeses, and accompaniments.
For the extra adventurous eaters, the Escargot is accompanied by roasted garlic béchamel and crispy prosciutto and the Roasted Bone Marrow consists of braised beef, pickled mustard seeds, and a fig bread crostini.
The Brown Derby entrée menu has been up to date with quite a lot of choices for everybody to take pleasure in. Let’s begin with some new ones for the land lovers on the market.
The basic Filet Mignon is paired with glazed carrots, potato pave, horseradish cream, and a tasty peppercorn sauce to complete it off. The Lamb Shank is accompanied with summer season greens, harissa French dressing, and nasturtium chermoula.
The brand new Free-Vary Rooster and Dumplings brings collectively these two classics with a lemon-ricotta Gnudi, shishito cream, and a gooseberry jus.
If you happen to like pork, the just lately added Grilled Pork is correct up your alley with a mouthwatering lavender-sage polenta and native corn salsa, full with a huckleberry barbecue sauce.
The seafood aficionados have a pair choices to select from as effectively – the brand new Sustainable Fish and the Seafood Cioppino. The Sustainable Fish with white bean ragout, derby summer season greens, and roasted tomato emulsion is one other new addition to the menu.
The Seafood Cioppino brings collectively favorites from the ocean with shrimp, sea scallops, seasonal fish, mussels, a toasted baguette, and fragrant tomato broth.
The Hollywood Brown Derby’s newest rendition of a basic consolation meals dish is Shepherd’s Pie.
This new dish combines roasted garlic mashed potatoes, mushrooms, peas, corn, and carrot Romesco right into a plant-based plate.
For these on the lookout for the basic Brown Derby dishes, the fan-favorites are nonetheless right here to remain for each lunch and dinner. The Well-known Cobb Salad is a basic, and for good cause. This well-known dish is made up of spit-roasted turkey, bacon, egg, tomatoes, blue cheese, avocado, and a basic dressing. If you wish to improve this dish much more, you’ll be able to add hen or shrimp. (We don’t assume these ‘enhancements’ do something–the salad is ideal as-is.)
The candy tooths on the market might be happy to know that the candy staple, the Grapefruit Cake, isn’t going anyplace. This Brown Derby authentic combines a moist vanilla sponge cake, grapefruit syrup, and cream cheese icing into one in all Walt Disney World’s most iconic desserts.
Usually, we most likely wouldn’t share a menu replace announcement for the Hollywood Brown Derby. It’s actually not the kind of factor that will get the folks going–it’s most likely truthful to say that none of you will have been on pins and needles ready for a brand new menu for Brown Derby to drop. Despite the fact that it’s one of many few in-park Signature Eating places, it’s solely just like the fifth hottest desk service choice at DHS. And that’s not saying a lot given the variety of desk service eating places in Hollywood Studios!
On this case, we’re sharing as a result of it’s a golden alternative for a belated-but-brief assessment of Brown Derby that we’ve dragged our ft on doing. This weblog isn’t recognized for brevity, however neither of our meals within the final yr or so elicit a lot wordiness. They merely weren’t all that good or memorable. The Hollywood Brown Derby was simply okay. Common by desk service requirements at Walt Disney World when not taking value into consideration.
Portion sizes had been small, dishes had been dry, flavors had been muted, and presentation was pedestrian. Whereas common or barely under relative to all desk service eating places at Walt Disney World, Brown Derby has been, with out query, the least bold or ingenious Signature Restaurant that we’ve performed post-reopening, and that features a few meals at Le Cellier.
It’s clearly not the topic of this submit, however Le Cellier, alternatively, has pleasantly stunned on each events. Granted, we don’t have excessive expectations for Le Cellier and it’s a steakhouse, so ‘envelope-pushing’ isn’t what we do count on of it, but it surely was surprisingly good–and appears to be trending upwards!
The precise dishes we had at Brown Derby don’t actually matter. A part of why we haven’t performed standalone evaluations is that 3 of the 4 entrees at the moment are gone from the menu. The underside line is that our complaints had been comparable for every thing we ordered. Brown Derby struck us as overpriced and under-ambitious, and we might’ve most well-liked doing Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater or Minnie’s Seasonal Dine. We really ate at ABC Commissary a couple of hours after one in all our Brown Derby meals, and wished we simply would’ve performed that as a substitute (bearing in mind high quality, portion sizes, and–most significantly–the large value disparity).
Anyway, the purpose with all of that is that that is one restaurant that might use a shot within the arm, and we’re hoping the brand new menu at Hollywood Brown Derby is an enchancment from what we’ve ordered prior to now yr. Based mostly on the pictures and descriptions, it actually seems to be like each of these issues may very well be the case. I’m significantly intrigued by the escargot, roasted bone marrow, and lamb shank. All of these dishes sound bold however comforting–a feast that may get Gordon’s and Gaston’s seals of approval!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Ideas on these new menu gadgets debuting on the Hollywood Brown Derby for Summer time 2023? Have you ever dined right here just lately? How do you assume Brown Derby stacks as much as different Signature Eating places at Walt Disney World, or different desk service choices at Disney’s Hollywood Studios? Do you agree or disagree with our assessments? Any questions we may help you reply? Listening to your suggestions—even while you disagree with us—is each attention-grabbing to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!