Review: Fictional Victuals at Festival of the Arts

We’re doing mini reviews on each of the Festival of the Arts kitchens with new foods this year. In case you missed it, you can read our review of Goshiki in the Japan Pavilion here. 

Fictional Victuals premiered at the 2025 Festival of the Arts with dishes inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This year, the inspiration is Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Fans of this story will hopefully be as delighted with the themes in each dish – we sure are!

Chapter 1: Beach Oysters, $7.99

Grilled Oysters, Mustard Seed-Peppercorn Sabayon, and Creamed Spinach

As the Walrus said, “The time has come to talk of many things” .. like these oysters! Suspend, if you will, your knowledge of the fate of those cute baby oysters and gaze upon the glorious preparation in the picture above! If loving these oysters makes us the shifty Walrus, then Coo Coo Ca Choo! (We know. Humor us.) Anyway, if you like oysters then you’re going to love these! The Mustard-Seed Peppercorn Sabayon is just so nice with the spinach. The price point is just right for what you’re getting, too.

Chapter 2: Plate of Impossible Bites, $7.49

Roasted Turkey Breast, Onion and Bacon Custard Tart, Cherry Gel, Brown Butter Toast Milk Foam, and Pineapple-Toffee Butter

This dish isn’t impossible, it’s impassible! We believe in all of these impossibly good flavors put together on one handy platter. Cherry Gel is the new cranberry sauce in our hearts. Never has roasted turkey met a better twangy pal. The Onion and Bacon Custard Tart is brilliant and we’d like to have it sold in larger portions on a regular menu somewhere in EPCOT.

Chapter 3: Tea Treat, $5.99

Twinings® Earl Grey Chocolate Pot de Crème, Lemon Madeleine, Red Rose and Raspberry Jam, and a Tea Biscuit Crumble

Cute cup, cute cup, move down! Someone with an enviable amount of whimsy crafted the idea for this “half a cup” sweet. And how special to fit the flavors from an entire tea service in one dessert! We aren’t shilling for Disney here – we paid for every single thing we ate and haven’t had a media pass in decades! – but this is just delightful. Maybe we’re borrowing some of that whimsy, but having the red rose flavor in the jam is even adding the bloom or two you’d find at a proper tea table. So well done and so delicious.

Fictional Victuals is quickly becoming the festival kitchen we most look forward to trying. We can’t see what they come up with next year!