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Show Notes:
Kelli and Chris shared their experiences at Art Smith’s Homecoming Florida Kitchen at Disney Springs, praising the unique atmosphere, farm-to-table menu, and exceptional service. They highlighted the restaurant’s dedication to using local ingredients and nod to Art Smith’s Disney history. Both speakers enjoyed their early morning reservation and raved about the quality of the food, particularly the chocolate pecan pie and Hallelujah biscuit and grits.
Outline
Art Smith’s brunch experience at Disney Springs.
- Kelli and Chris discuss brunch at Art Smith’s Florida kitchen.
- Art Smith’s Homecoming at Disney Springs features farm-to-table comfort food and moonshine cocktails in a back porch-adjacent setting.
Brunch menu at Arts restaurant, including sweet tea shine and donuts.
- Kelli and Chris enjoy Arts’ brunch menu, including sweet tea shine and other cocktails.
- Kelli and Chris enjoy donuts at a restaurant, with Kelli vegetarian option.
Food and service at Art Smith’s Homecoming restaurant in Disney World.
- Kelli and Chris discussed their breakfast at Art Smith’s restaurant, with Kelli ordering the fried egg and avocado toast and Chris choosing the Hallelujah biscuit with grits.
- Kelli almost got the Hamilton dish, which is grits topped with braised kale and collards, but decided to go with mashed potatoes instead.
- Kelli and Chris rave about Art Smith’s food and service, particularly the chocolate pecan pie and sweet tea moonshine.
- Waitress Christie provides excellent recommendations and makes the experience at Homecoming complete with exceptional service.
- The duo recommends buying hot sauce from Homecoming, which is the best they’ve ever had, and manager Olivia makes them feel royalty.
Episode Transcript:
NOTE: This transcript was produced using AI. Please excuse any errors.
Welcome aboard Disney fam. Oh my gosh, welcome, Disney fam. My name is Chris and I’m so excited because we are now in the top three. We’re going to be talking about number three all time most downloaded as we continue our best of summer series. This was recorded on January 15 2021. And this is this is a big one. It was another Art Smith. This is brunch. This is a bonus episode covering brunch at Art Smith now are Smith is good anytime day night whenever you can get it. But brunch is something special. Right?
Kelli 1:07
And so this is a bonus episode just on the brunch experience which we’ve done more than once. And it is it is it’s mind blowing. And so the fact that this is Art Smith has been in our top 10 twice. And that this is in our top three is absolutely not surprising, because it’s totally on par every second of airtime.
Chris 1:26
You could you could eat this recording
Kelli 1:32
if you do that, please leave a five star review.
Chris 1:35
That’s right. So we hope you guys enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed actually eating brunch at art Smith’s If so, we’re doing great. Hey, everybody, welcome to another bonus episode. Today we’re talking about Chef Art Smith’s homecoming Florida kitchen. Listen, we have had a couple of meals that are at Smith, but we’ve never had brunch. And so this review is specifically about brunch. And this is a hard ticket to get. It’s only offered on Saturdays and Sundays from like, nine to 230 or something. And I literally woke up at 6am What was it? 30 days, 60 days was 30 days, 30 days, 6am 30 days before our day to eat there that we wanted to eat there during our trip and was just able to get reservations. We’ve tried to do this time and time again. Third time’s the charm. We got brunch, and we’re going to tell you about it. Oh, it was it was absolutely worth the early wake up call. So real quick about Art Smith, who created this awesomeness. He’s a two time James Beard Foundation Award winner. He’s got restaurants in Naples and Chicago and Atlanta and in DC. He was Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef for 10 years and cook for two Florida governors and Tallahassee. He’s always called Florida home Jasper, Florida. In particular. Homecoming at Disney Springs is located in the landing area of Disney Springs. So it’s right beside Morimoto, Asia and SDK and all these other places there. It pays homage to far as rich agri history by highlighting local ingredients and farm to table fair. Also, it’s a nod to the fact that Art Smith was a cast member in 1981 as part of the Magic Kingdom college program, which was the predecessor to the Walt Disney World College program. So this was a homecoming of sorts for him. Yeah, that’s right. So they specialize in comfort food and moonshine centered cocktails, which we are going to be talking about the environment is what I’m calling back porch adjacent. Love that. Yeah, it’s all hardwood all ceiling fans views right into the kitchen, outdoor seating and a fully stocked bar inside and outside the outside bar. Anybody can walk up to you, you don’t have to have any eating arguments or anything. And it’s called the shine bar.
Kelli 4:02
Yeah, it’s fantastic. Enjoy that. Yeah, so we’ve eaten lunch and dinner at Arts on previous trips, but we’ve always wanted to try their ridiculous brunch menu. And it’s all like you said only available on Saturdays and Sundays. And we were thrilled we went hungry. We weren’t happy. And we were man. We were so happy to be there. So first of all, we started with the sweet tea shine, and the 22 ounce cozy bottles,
Chris 4:25
refillable, refillable koozie so
Kelli 4:29
these are phenomenal. I’ve seen them all over social media and I knew I wanted one but I didn’t know sort of how they worked. So you pay for 22 ounces of the beverage that you want. And again we went with the sweet tea shine. And if you get it refilled then you pay the price of a regular cup of sweet tea shine which is probably like 12 ounces inside the restaurant but they refill the whole koozies so you’re getting like bonus sweet tea shine. I’ll be honest, I had the 22 ounces and then a nap
Chris 4:59
that I could take was 930 in the morning and we were we were punching back some sweets. It was great. It was fantastic.
Kelli 5:07
They also have other cocktails, but these are not available in the 22 ounce bottles, which is why we didn’t get those
Chris 5:14
well and I wanted to try something else but I just couldn’t get off because they have other
Kelli 5:17
flavors of shine. Yeah, yeah, but you can’t you gotta get the sweet t shirt. It’s just the best really so good. But some other cocktails. They have the Florida crush, which is Tito’s vodka muddled with orange and strawberries, a splash of fresh squeezed orange juice and agave syrup. Now we’ve talked about this before on the pot about how people need to muddle more. They don’t need a model modeling is very underrated. The blueberry Mimosa a classic brunch staple with blueberry puree and fresh blueberries. That sounds delightful. And the white peach Sangria which is a Moscato with muddled orange and mango fresh peach puree and a peach moonshine and a moonshine soaked peach wedge gracious I mean aren’t can put together a cocktail for
Chris 5:58
sure. He really we still stuck on the sweet tea. We needed
Kelli 6:02
the sweet tea. So anyway, so as we were sipping on our sweet tea shine, we decided to order an appetizer now there are several that look amazing fried green tomatoes, church lady deviled eggs, but we went with the housemade donuts because they’re donuts. And these are mini ice donuts piled with pecans bacon and drizzled with housemade caramel and when I say piled, I mean pile piled and they’re served with spice cane syrup and seasonal fruit. I had the seasonal fruit. What did you think of the donut? Yeah,
Chris 6:34
unfortunately for me, wink wink, because she’s vegetarian. And these are piled with bacon. I had to suffer and choke these things down sweet of you. I know I do what I can for you. So it’s one for the these are doughy, soft, perfectly fried little morsels of heaven. They are these are yeast. And that’s not cake donuts. They are not
Kelli 7:00
full size. They’re smaller, smaller.
Chris 7:03
They’re smaller, as you would expect for an app right.
Kelli 7:06
As the hidden Mickey on your plate when you got did
Chris 7:09
I did that was a nice touch. Yeah. And I did just soft, perfect light, salty, sweet. It’s just it’s perfection, right? It’s and you can actually as one of the answers, you can actually get these with fried chicken is one of the entree, right? And
Kelli 7:25
we could have gotten those just dusted with the sugar and serve with the syrup. Sure, but I couldn’t do that to you. I was totally fine with the seasonal fruit just for any other vegetarians out there. Please know you can get them without the bacon and the pecans. So yeah, so that was phenomenal. But let’s jump into the main course. So I ordered the fried egg and avocado toast and I will say that’s really the only vegetarian item he’s got on the menu. I assume you could do a couple of sides like I could have gotten some biscuits or whatever but the fried egg and avocado toast was really my only vegetarian option which I was totally fine with. I love some avocado toast. So this was grilled Cuban bread topped with fresh avocado fried egg arugula, radish, pickled red onion, drizzled with olive oil and lemon served with a choice of a side item now the side item or any of their side items. And so Chris went with cheese grits on his right cheese grits right and so we didn’t want to both get the same thing so that we could test each other’s and so I went with basically mashed potatoes which is not your typical breakfast side item. But it was delightful. It’s good. It was delightful and how was your son that
Chris 8:35
so? Yeah, I did get the grips with cheese. My touch on that again later put a pin in that best grits maybe I’ve ever had that you didn’t know you know you go to a restaurant you order grits you’re gonna have to do something to those grids. You got to put some salt and pepper some extra butter some absolutely no, not Art Smith man. He wants you to eat it the way it comes to your table and you are going to be happy with it. Oh good. But the meal I got was the Hallelujah biscuit and he ain’t lyin This is an open was one of his biscuits open faced with fried chicken over to over easy eggs. Listen to this pimento cheese. His homemade his homemade cheese. Yes. Smoked pecan bacon and smothered and sawmill gravy. Now I like to consider myself a connoisseur of sawmill gravy. This joker knows what he’s doing when he’s putting gravy breakfast gravy on a plate. He doesn’t mess around. It was it was over the top. I that was an easy choice for me the Hallelujah biscuit with the side of grits. But the hush puppy Benedict was ridiculous. It’s a hush puppy cakes topped with fried chicken tenders poached eggs grilled country ham pimento hollandaise, come on. And then of course like I said, you can get there some other things but also the fried chicken and doughnuts you cannot go wrong with the fried chicken. The man knows how to do fried chicken. I’ll just put it out there
Kelli 10:07
I considered getting the Hamilton and just telling them to hold the meat. The Hamilton is grits. So that’s pimento cheese grits topped with braised kale and collards to over easy eggs, honeyed ham and two strips of pecan smoked bacon with a spicy Hollandaise and crispy fried. Yes. So I almost considered getting that and just saying hold the meat. But no, it sounded phenomenal. After we finished eating, our lovely waitress came over and I asked her I was like, there’s no desserts on the menu. Do you have desserts at brunch? Because Hello. Why wouldn’t you have desserts at brunch? She said, she’s like, sure you can order any of the desserts we offer and we said okay, well we want the chocolate pecan pie. And we’ve had this before. Alan gave it to us manager for my PhD. So yeah, so we know we loved it. We that Hamilton County chocolate pecan pie, which is 100 year old traditional Smith Family Farm recipe serve with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
Chris 11:07
Yeah, and we also consider ourselves experts in pecan pie. Oh yeah, this is the best I’ve ever had.
Kelli 11:13
It was it really is phenomenal. And I will say art also sells a moonshine soaked pancake that is supposed to be out of this world. I’m gonna get to the
Chris 11:22
peak of I’ve had the shine cake Yeah, but the pecan pie is better yeah, it’s just better it’s it’s ridiculous chocolate pecan pie is good it’s so luscious. Yep. So yeah, no trip the Art Smith is complete without talking about the service because that is absolutely what part of the experience here Kelly mentioned Alan and our last time we were there how he just made it super special. This was absolutely no exception. Everything almost everything we’ve mentioned was also record that we ordered was also recommended by our amazing waitress Christie. Christie from Apopka, Florida, which is apparently the indoor foliage capital of the world. He was fantastic. She just made our trip so much better having her as our waiter waitress. She She said, Well, our, which we think we want the sweet tea moonshine which once that’s our favorite, you should get those weekly. Oh, and you should get them in the 22 ounce bottle. Yes. Okay.
Kelli 12:20
We’ll have it. We’ll have it.
Chris 12:21
What do you recommend for appetizer the doughnuts? Well, okay, well has that. So the reason I got the grips with the cheese is because that’s not what people normally get. She said, what I liked. I liked the grips with cheese with mine. And so I said, I’ll have that. Then at the end of the meal. She says, you know, we said we said by the way, do you have any hot sauce because the last time we were here it was taking them two hours to make hot sauce but I had heard they were selling at her. She says we sell it in the bottle. We’ve got some in here. And so we said we’ll have to now since then we’ve just blasted through one of those bottles. I wish I had bought 10 of them.
Kelli 13:02
Well she offered one 510 Yeah.
Chris 13:06
Listen, I was buying everything else he was suggested. So I should have I should have done it. It is it is legitimately the best hot sauce I’ve ever had in my life. Right it’s over the top. It’s amazing. And not to be outdone manager Olivia came by the table and made us feel like absolutely royalty. She gave us a little insider information. And we’re just so grateful to her to the service that homecoming is just always over the
Kelli 13:31
top. The service is amazing. The food is amazing. It’s a lovely atmosphere. I mean no trip to Disney is complete for us without a visit to homecoming absolutely
Chris 13:40
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