RE: Busch Gardens Williamsburg Food & Wine Festival 2015
Looking over
our review from last year, I really hope that the park plans to put
extensive work into their existing booths (especially the hamlet-associated ones).
France was appalling last year. The only non-desert dish at the booth that
anyone in our group found edible was the Coq au Vin and to be perfectly honest, I didn't even think it was up to par for the event. I (and from what I remember, everyone else in our tasting group) found the Moules á la Crème et a l’estragon, Steak au Poivre, and Tomates Farcies á la Ratatouille to be downright disgusting. We all considered it
completely inedible. That's a problem for a Food & Wine Festival.
Germany (a booth I should love) was mediocre at best. The currywurst, what should be the headlining item at the booth, was horrible. The best thing at the booth, the schinken nudel, was, in my opinion, one of the worst "best items" at any of the booths.
Lastly, the Italian booth is a joke. The caprese salad is lettuce and balls of cheese in a cup (literally). The tiramisu and the cannoli were both garbage (again, literally- we threw them away because they tasted nauseating). The Italian cheese sampling was ok after they gave us one that wasn't molded (no, really) and the Italian bites dish was, like the schinken nudel, one of the worst best items at a specific booth. Most of us pretty much agreed that the panna cotta was the only stand-out dish at the Italy booth last year.
