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Show Notes:
Chris and Kelli excitedly discuss their upcoming brunch at Art Smith’s restaurant at Walt Disney World, highlighting their preferred dishes and favorites. They also discuss their favorite aspects of National Hispanic Heritage Month at Disney World, including cocktails, music, and cultural significance. They delve into the origins and development of mariachi music, emphasizing its regional Mexican roots and evolution over time.
Outline
Art Smith’s brunch menu and reservations.
- Chris and Kelli discuss brunch at Art Smith’s, their love for the chef’s food, and their desire to go more than once.
- They plan to call for reservations and prepare for the visit, highlighting the menu prices and their previous review of Art Smith’s.
- Kelli and Chris discuss brunch at Art Smith’s Southern Home, excitedly listing menu items like cheddar cheese drop biscuits, fried green tomatoes, and housemaid doughnuts.
- They particularly enjoy the idea of iced doughnuts with bacon and pecans, and debate whether to get the ones dusted with sugar and spice cane syrup or the ones with seasonal fruit.
- Kelli and Chris discuss breakfast dishes at a restaurant, including the Hamilton shining, hush puppy Benedict, short rib hash, and fried egg and avocado toast.
Brunch options with a focus on cocktails.
- Chris wants a sweet breakfast, often French toast with powdered sugar and seasonal fruit.
- Kelli recommends grits as a side item, which takes 25 minutes to make, and Chris agrees.
- Kelli and Chris discuss various cocktails for brunch, including Florida crush, blueberry mimosa, and sweet tea shine.
Mariachi music and its history at Disney World.
- Chris and Kelli discuss mariachi band Mariachi Colbray at Epcot.
- Mariachi group Marriott Chico originated in Arizona, named after youth mariachi group Mariachi Cobra.
- Walt Disney brought a youth mariachi group from Arizona to perform at Disneyland every year from 1968 to 1975.
Mariachi Cobre performance at Epcot’s World Showcase.
- Chris and Kelli discuss the 38th anniversary of Mexico’s World Showcase performance at Epcot, highlighting their dedication to sharing their culture and heritage.
- Disney recommends hashtagging #DisneyFamilia for content related to Hispanic heritage during Hispanic Heritage Month, including videos of mariachi bands performing over Zoom during the pandemic.
- Chris and Kelli discuss the band Mariachi Cobre, describing them as energetic and fun to watch.
- They recommend stopping to watch the band perform in World Showcase, even if you’re just walking past.
Episode Transcript:
NOTE: This transcript was produced using AI. Please excuse any errors.
Hello out there to our Disney family. We are so happy you are joining us on the podcast. My name is Chris and I’m Kelly. Today we are continuing our summer series our summer best stuff series with an episode from season two September 28 2020 was the original release. We’re going to be talking about art Smith’s homecoming kitchen and mariachi colbray Our summer Smith has been a really popular one for us anyway videos have always done really well it and you’re going to want fried chicken so bad.
Kelli 1:04
Well spoiler Art Smith is actually in this list again. So this is our seventh most popular episode. But we will hear more surprising absolutely no one. Smith shows up twice in our shot tins
Chris 1:18
and Marriott Chico Bray is absolute classic Epcot you’ll find out they’ve been there since the very start. And they are just they’re still killing it today. You’re gonna love hearing about these folks
Kelli 1:29
when my favorite show you’ve ever done I love when you do the history stuff. It’s fun and I think you nailed mariachi Cobra was fantastic.
Chris 1:36
Well, they do all the work frankly. We hope you guys enjoy it
Kelli 1:44
so today, I don’t think you’re gonna be surprised by this.
Chris 1:46
Is it food? It’s alright,
Kelli 1:48
I’m on brand. We’re talking about brunch at art Smith’s. Okay. So you and I’ve talked about this I’m desperate to get reservations. We’re working hard for brunch at art Smith’s you’ve got it on your calendar, we’ve got alarm set, we’re going to call we’ve already I’ve already called. We’ve spoken to people and we know exactly the first moment that we can call and it’s on the calendar. So I thought it would be best if we prepared a bit for it. Okay, so brunch and art Smith’s. For those of you that aren’t familiar with our love for art Smith’s check out one of our bonus episodes from season one where we did a full review of art Smith’s we are not shy about our love for art Smith’s homecoming or food or funeral in general. But we are looking for any reason to go to Art Smith more than once. Yes. So this their brunch is from 9:30am to 1pm. entrees range from about $17 to $28, which is no different really than their lunch or their dinner. And we really want to do this for our December trip. Yes, you cannot book reservations outside of the Disney app. So I was thinking that maybe the Florida folks are calling in earlier than the Disney reservation folks. But no, it is a no go. reservations have to go through Disney. I learned last week. Yes. And so these things just seem to go like hotcakes. Like how do you get these reservations? So you are on point to make reservations happen early? The morning of October the 15th. Right? Okay. So why are we excited? Well, brunch basically takes it to a different level. Right? This food is amazing southern home cooked comfort food and speaking to your heart. Why wouldn’t you want that? I can’t first thing in the morning.
Chris 3:32
I can’t imagine why someone would better start to the day or mid morning ish. Yeah, followed by maybe a nap,
Kelli 3:39
a nap and then go back for dinner. Right. Okay, so let’s take a look at the menu. Okay, I just want to dive right in. Okay, we’re gonna start with the starters. Okay, so first of all, this gets right like quick good southern brunch menu doesn’t start on this case. Okay, well these are cheddar cheese drop biscuits served with your choice of BlackBerry fig jam or sawmill gravy. Hashtag you could do both.
Chris 4:06
You could do both but i I can only I’m getting a little bit verklempt just thinking about what art Smith’s sawmill gravy my tastes oh
Kelli 4:16
gosh, I know. Okay fried green tomatoes again they have those and every meal church lady deviled eggs they had those that every meal housemaid doughnuts are an add on.
Chris 4:26
I’ve had to do that.
Kelli 4:28
But they’re not appetizer for lunch or dinner. Right? These are mini iced doughnuts piled with pecans. Bacon. Oh, drizzled with House made caramel or dusted or dusted with sugar and served with spiced cane syrup and seasonal fruit.
Chris 4:48
I just got diabetes. So
Kelli 4:54
we haven’t even gotten to the entree. So
Chris 4:56
I didn’t have ice doughnuts with bacon. I didn’t have iced
Kelli 5:00
doughnuts with bacon and pecans. No? Okay. Okay, so let’s move to the entrees. You need to think about which of those starters you want the doughnuts. But you want the ones with bacon and pecans. Yeah, of course. I’m not going to eat the bacon. Okay? I want the ones that are dusted with sugar and spice cane syrup and seasonal fruit. Well, all the biscuits let’s go to the entrees or as arts miss calls them shining features. Okay. The first one is called the Hamilton shining
Chris 5:31
as a moonshine Shannon. Okay, the Hamilton
Kelli 5:35
pimento cheesy grits topped with braised kale and collards to over easy eggs, grilled honey ham, two strips of pecan smoked bacon, spicy Hollandaise and crispy fried shallots. You’re welcome. Yeah, really? I mean,
Chris 5:55
the man knows what he’s doing.
Kelli 5:58
I mean, next is the hush puppy Benedict. Yes, I saw this chef arts spin on the classic with a housemaid hush puppy cakes topped with fried chicken tenders poached egg griddle country ham and pimento Hollandaise with a choice of a side item. Bento holidays, man
Chris 6:26
is he’s illegal. But
Kelli 6:28
seatbelt on. short rib hash. I know you love a hash, to sunny side up eggs over our short rib hash with grilled corn succotash potatoes, onions, red bell and Fresno peppers for a bit of a kick. Serve with a cheddar cheese drop biscuit and your choice of a side. I realized that you would pick about half the veg off of that. But still, it’s a short rib hash.
Chris 6:55
It sounds ridiculous.
Kelli 6:57
This one’s mine. Oh, okay. Fried egg and avocado toast. Yep, you live grilled Cuban bread topped with fresh avocado fried egg arugula, radish and pickled red onion drizzled with olive oil and lemon served with my choice of a side item.
Chris 7:13
So classy.
Kelli 7:14
I am nothing but class. Do you not know that? Wait until we get to the resin shine cocktails. This one honey is I think you okay? This is the granddaddy polite. This is three eggs any style pecan smoked bacon, grilled country ham, cheddar cheese drop biscuit and your choice of two sides.
Chris 7:34
Okay, that sounds good. I
Kelli 7:37
think that’s you. That’s good. I’m pretty sure that you french toast. thick slices of grilled bread dusted with powdered sugar and served with spiced cane syrup and seasonal fruit with your choice of one side item. I really like you know, it depends on the morning. Like sometimes I want a savory breakfast. And sometimes I want a sweet breakfast. I’d say 70 peppers twice. I’m looking for a sweet breakfast because you know you grow up eating Count Chocula and so you start craving the sweet breakfast in the morning. So I’m here depending on the day I might go for that French toast. Yeah, yeah, it’s good eggs right he says eggs in it. Yeah, sure. Yeah, you get the bread protein. Now this is the one that I see a lot of pictures of on the socials, the Hallelujah biscuit. This is your open face biscuit topped with Chef arts famous fried chicken to over easy eggs per minute cheese pecan smoked bacon and smothered in sawmill gravy. This is that one g rice is the granddaddy this is your holiday biscuit. You still get your choice of a side item.
Chris 8:38
Yeah, donuts.
Kelli 8:42
Donuts are not a side item. But I think I do know what your side item will be. We’ll get there. Okay, your next option is going to be fried chicken and donuts which is essentially what you got for lunch.
Chris 8:52
I got it for lunch so I feel like I can’t really go there yeah no need to get that thing you just two pieces
Kelli 8:57
chef arts famous fried chicken served with House made sugar donuts and a choice of a side item. Yeah, no you need to get the holiday you biscuit. Here are your sides. Grits which I think that’s what you ought to get. You know art knows how to do grits course he ain’t making. He’s not making Instagram. He’s not making instant grits takes the entire green population. 25 minutes to make grits. How’d you make them in five? Potato Groton mash sounds great seasonal fruit. Okay, pecan smoked bacon and griddled country ham. I think you’re gonna go with the grits. Yeah, for sure. What was the one before the ham? Pecan smoked bacon, but your dish of pecans have the bacon already? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so now let’s talk about the rise and shine cocktails.
Chris 9:41
Okay, because they’re lovely. And it’s always five o’clock somewhere.
Kelli 9:45
It’s five o’clock somewhere, man. I mean, but it’s, you’re supposed to have a cocktail at brunch. That’s true. It’s a breath of fresh thing. Don’t be stuffy. Okay, so the first one is a Florida crush. By the way. All of these that have Vika use Tito’s except for one In particular one and so I just think that says a lot is your brand. It’s my brand. I think it says a lot about art that he really knows the proper brand of vodka to use. So Tito’s vodka muddled with orange and strawberries and a splash of fresh squeezed orange juice and agave syrup.
Chris 10:16
We don’t muddle nearly enough we
Kelli 10:18
don’t model nearly enough you are right about that. In general, I don’t think people model enough. But you know, we should all have more fruit in our diet. Yep. And muddling muddle it. What do we need to model like a mortar and pestle?
Chris 10:34
Yeah.
Kelli 10:37
Bottle I don’t know a model. Look into that. I think you you get a mutlar What have you got seven days to learn how to model okay. Next Sunday next Sunday comes around really quickly. The second one is a blueberry mimosa. A classic brunch staple was blueberry puree and fresh blueberries. Again, I think the puree plus the fresh Yeah. is needed. Proud Mary this is gonna be your classic Bloody Mary with Tito’s handmade vodka season salt ran with celery pickle and olives, yum, white peach sangria, Moscato with a muddled orange and mango more fresh peach puree, peach moonshine and a moonshine soaked peach wedge buddy. Sweet Tea shine we’ve had I don’t need to say more about that. The local rum Haven coconut water rum, lime simple syrup and fresh pineapple. They have a southern Mary with Dixie black pepper vodka.
Chris 11:41
Oh,
Kelli 11:43
I know. And a moonshine mash with a watermelon infused moonshine and then a prince is mimosa. I decided to go with the biscuit starter. The fried egg and avocado toast with seasonal fruit and the Florida crush slash blueberry Mimosa slash sweet tea shine slash moonshine.
Chris 12:03
Oh, we’re gonna drag you out of there literally. Did drag you out there.
Kelli 12:10
We should not put anything else on the agenda for that. No,
Chris 12:12
no, that Saturday. Okay, okay. All right. That was amazing. I am even more motivated now to get up and be online at 6am on the 15th make it
Kelli 12:24
happen. lead us into World Showcase.
Chris 12:26
Here we go. Okay, so September the 15th through October the 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month. And to sort of celebrate that, I’ve decided to talk about one of my favorite acts at Disney World One of my favorite set of performers. mariachi Cobra.
Kelli 12:48
Oh, nice. Well done honey.
Chris 12:51
So if you don’t know who mariachi colbray is, this is the mariachi band that you can usually see at the Mexican Pavilion at Epcot. Although right now they’re performing at the America gardens theater in Epcot. Also nice. Yeah, it’s a it’s a nice venue for them. Yeah. They can spread all of them can be out there at once because there’s there’s more of them in the group than you normally would see. Just huddled around outside of the Mexican temple there.
Kelli 13:24
But there are men in this mariachi band right
Chris 13:25
I don’t know there’s there’s not there’s not
Kelli 13:29
which is a shame honestly. Sure.
Chris 13:36
one track mind men shot and women, women. So there they have actually, they basically opened up cars. They have been performing in Epcot for 38 years. Wow. Yes. Yes.
Kelli 13:51
I mean, so they are as iconic as the voices of liberty. Yeah. At
Chris 13:54
least. I do think that they’ve grown in popular I think mariachi music has grown in popularity since CoCo was released. Right? But, but just they’ve been doing their thing at Epcot since the day it opened,
Kelli 14:10
by the way, who likes my Ernesto de la Cruz?
Chris 14:12
How about that you
Kelli 14:13
didn’t even know it was sure I didn’t know your Medicare. Again, once again.
Chris 14:18
That is wild. Yes, I know. Work work. So So just if there’s someone who doesn’t know what mariachi music is, so the genre of regional Mexican music that dates back to the 18th century, it evolved over time in various regions of western Mexico. Usually a mariachi group consists of violence, trumpets and guitars, specifically Spanish guitars, but Esteban Korea who goes by steed Korea, he’s he’s one of the members of Marriott, Chico right? He’s actually one of the founding members of Marriott, Chico, right? He says that the high pitched the whaler guitar Okay, and the bass guitar the guitar on are indigenous to Mexico and our quote the instruments that define a mariachi
Kelli 15:13
the sound Yep. Yeah. Gosh, Steve. Now if he’s a founding member of 38 years mean he’s got to be 70 You’re gonna
Chris 15:21
find out yeah, you’re just a little bit ahead of me. Okay, he’s not 70 Okay, yeah all the members of a mariachi band are typically you know, able to sing lead on a song or backup vocals right? You’ll see them talented. Yeah, very talented. So how did how did Machiko right come to be right? The group that eventually populated mariachi co right that became Marriott Chico re originated in Arizona. The copper state colbray is Spanish for copper.
Kelli 15:59
Oh, now isn’t that nice?
Chris 16:01
So mariachi Cobra is where they get their name. Okay. It was a youth mariachi group that the founding members belonged to. And these kids were like nine to 16 years old. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. And they were they were part of a youth mariachi group in Arizona called Los 10. Quito fails. Nice job. All right. But seriously, the talent I know. I know. And they claimed to be the first real mariachi group in the United States. Let’s check keep those sales. Okay. So every year stood about starting in about 1968. Walt Disney had heard about these guys and he would bring them in on Cinco Demayo in Disneyland Oh, nine, right? Yes, he would think about this. You got nine to 16 year old kids. Okay. Walt is sending the Walt Disney plane for you to Tucson, Arizona. That’s where they were from Tucson. Arizona, picks them up flies them to Anaheim. They perform during Cinco Demayo all day. And then he flies them back home. That’s not bad. Yeah. And they did this every year from like, 68 to 75. Right.
Kelli 17:12
So by the end, they’re no longer teenagers. But they
Chris 17:16
they rotate. Right. Okay. It’s
Kelli 17:18
always the same kids, right? So are
Chris 17:21
in the early 70s 7071 72. Some of those members left the group and formed mariachi colbray. Okay, okay. They’re still sort of their their cousins, right. This is this mariachi colbray is the older cousin of the youth group. So while while the kids are doing their thing from 68 to 75 the mariachi Cobra guys got asked in like 7374 75 to come play at Walt Disney World in
Kelli 18:01
Florida. So they would be in their early 20s, then sure, yeah.
Chris 18:06
And they were asked to play at Pecos Bill, cafe Frontierland, the Grand Canyon concourse at contemporary resort. Right. So they would just play just to offer the atmosphere that those areas were trying to generate. Right. Yeah. So then 1982 rolls around. And Epcot opens launches. And and what’s what’s kind of wild is that World Showcase wasn’t quite done yet. Right? It was not done for a number of years later. Yeah, but Mexico was definitely one of the first ones may actually Kobe was there right at the start. They’re celebrating their 38th year this year. They’ve been there ever since Steve Korea, Esteban says, it is our responsibility to share our music, our culture, our Hispanic heritage, especially with people who are seeing radiology for the first time. Right That’s mean says these guys are really into there there are and you can really kind of see it when you watch them. Oh, yeah. No, these guys are amazing.
Kelli 19:12
No, no, no, they’re amazing. They are not. I would not call them performers. I would call them artists.
Chris 19:18
Yeah, absolutely. And they they don’t, you know, they would be so easy for them just to do the cocoa hits, you know, but they don’t. Yeah, and they don’t you know, they don’t go out of their way to sing all English language tunes. Yeah, they do. They do a really, really good job. They have performed with Linda Ronstadt and Julio Iglesias. They performed with a number of other stars who were really famous in Mexico like Guadalupe Panetta, and Gabrielle and Lola Beltran. Okay, I don’t know these folks, but in Mexico, they were huge stars. Yeah, huge in Mexico. So If you want to follow along with Hispanic Heritage Month you can hashtag Hispanic Heritage Month pretty much anywhere in social media is and you’ll see a lot of a lot of cool stuff. But Disney also recommends hashtagging hashtag Disney familia. And you’ll see a lot of a lot of stuff about Hispanic heritage. Oh, that’s fun. So also go to the Disney Parks blog. That’s where a lot of the information that I got for this came from, there’s a great little write up but also a video there explaining how Marriott Chico Ray came to be. And it shows the kids standing on the on the stairwell going in and out of Walt Disney’s plane. Oh, that’s awesome. Yeah, really, really cool. So also hashtag Disney magic moments, you will see, if you look through the list of all the Disney magic moments that Disney has put out, especially during pandemic, yeah, you’ll see a couple of videos of like zoom performances of mariachi colbray playing songs together during pandemic over zoom. So that’s a really, really cool thing. They are being highlighted this month and, and it’s absolutely deserving. They’re, they’re incredible. They’re fun. They’re energetic, whether they’re in a tight group performing in Mexico, or even on the big stage in American gardens theater. They just exude energy when they’re
Kelli 21:31
they really on that stage. I mean, their instruments are pretty massive, right? That guitar own is huge, huge. Yeah, but they really they do a great job. Yeah,
Chris 21:42
I love them. Yeah,
Kelli 21:43
I love seeing them on that stage. When we were there.
Chris 21:45
They’re there. They just you walk up on them. You hear them and they just you smile. Yeah, help it Yeah,
Kelli 21:51
you smile. Absolutely. So are they normally inside Mexico?
Chris 21:56
Most of the time when I’ve seen them? It’s been outside Mexico usually right past the restaurants there on the right.
Kelli 22:04
Yeah, I suppose. Yeah, I can’t imagine them being inside that little building. I don’t know if you
Chris 22:08
remember the last time we were there. I like ran off from because I thought I heard them performing. And I ran off like you you start to get one of those those margaritas? No. I know. And I said okay, you go get that I hear I hear Marriott Chico route ran off to go see them. And I was so sad because I walked around the corner and it was just the music that was playing over the loudspeaker. They weren’t really playing. And then I talked to the lady that was running the restaurant there but yeah, so of course she talked to her Of course. First smile brand.
Kelli 22:41
Very, very own brand for you.
Chris 22:42
Yeah. So Marriott Chico right? If you get a chance to see them don’t waste it. Don’t just walk past it. Stop and watch it. They’re great.
Kelli 22:49
I absolutely agree with that. Well done. Excellent World Showcase.
Chris 22:56
Okay, so that’s our show for this week. I hope you liked it. If you didn’t though, go on to go on to iTunes and leave us a rating and say here’s what you need to change. Hopefully we did that for you in season two.
Kelli 23:08
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Chris 23:31
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