we're going head-to-head to pick the best snacks at Universal Studios Florida hello there man famam and welcome to the second episode of the booze and bites Draft today we are at Universal Studios Florida to recruit the best snacks and drinks to our teams and you are going to decide the winner by voting in the community tab when this video debuts and may the best team win it's on here's how the draft works there are eight lands across Universal Studio Florida we will only be playing in this park today not Islands of Adventure no Resorts just
the original Park here USF we will flip a coin to see who goes first that person will draft one land to their team and that land is now out of play for the rest of the game once you've drafted a land you will now own all of the Quick Service locations all of the snack stands all of the lounges in that land we are going to do three rounds of draft picks which means six lands total will be chosen and again at the end of this we will share our full roster for you to vote
on of course along the way we'll be sampling some of the best eats and drinks on our teams to help you next time you're visiting Universal Studios Florida and with that let's flip the coin and the games can begin all right first up the coin flip you're going to call it I'm going to call it ready call heads Heads okay Molly's going to pick first I know exactly where you're going wow what an honor to to be drafting first on this the first draft here at Universal Studios Florida there's a lot of great teams up
for contention but I think there's one clear front runner Wizard and World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley welcome to team Molly of Court how can you not welcome into Diagon Alley now the reveal of this incredible land doesn't count towards the draft but it counts towards my happiness this is my favorite theme Parkland on planet Earth and I'm so thrilled that I got first picked this draft because I think it's safe to say this is the Far and Away winner here at Universal Studios Florida as far as dining options go of course the biggest location
here is the Leaky cauldron this is your main quick service location and it serves British Fair such as my favorite fish and chips you've got bangers and mash shepherd's pie you're also going to have a wide array of the specialty beverages you can find throughout this land including butterbeer and some of their signature Harry Potter beers speaking of signature Harry Potter beers there are two locations in this land that primarily serve beverages the hopping pot as well as the found of fair Fortune I think all the signature drinks really count in my favor here you've
got multiple varieties of butterbeer you've got multiple varieties of beers you can't get anywhere else you've got fishy green ale for those that enjoy that you've got pumpkin juice you've got the tong tongue tying lemon squash you've also got Flor and foris Ice Cream Parlor a huge win in the Diagon Alley category some of my favorite ice cream in the world there the strawberry peanut butter cannot be beat and if all that wasn't enough you've also got the potato cart right outside in the London part of Diagon Alley where you sell the shepherd's pie jacket
potato and while it's a real feel of 106° today and I cannot imagine eating a hot potato covered in cheese and meat it is a delicious treat that is delightfully enjoyed during the fall also in Diagon Alley you've got sugar plums Sweet Shop albeit not as big or as expansive a bakery case as honey Dukes on the other side but still you've got delightful Wizarding World candy like chocolate frogs and fizzing wises as well as the bakery case that has things like fudge the pumpkin cake which I'm a big fan of as well as the
ginger no also big fan of that we actually recently did a video exclusively on the best and worst snacks in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter so definitely take a look at that if you want a closer look at some of these Eats and Treats but for now I think we're going to grab one of my favorites to enjoy on this highve day picked up my favorite of the five exclusive Wizarding World beers this is the daisy root ale it's like a golden British ale and it's delicious it's just a classic beer it's definitely harder
than like a domestic logger um it's even harder than like a Stella but it's definitely also the lightest of The Wizarding World beer so on a hot day like today it's perfect but like I said there are five different Wizarding World beers and I just love that so much also I said I didn't want to eat a hot potato with meat but I guess I will eat a hot pastry crust with meat there are three different kinds of pasties that you can pick up at the hopping pot they have the beef pasties which are small
little ones that comes in a set of three or this is the chicken pasty and they also have a vegan pasty and I love that these are just little grab and go Savory treats let's look what's inside hot meat hot meat and vegetables on a hot day it's what you want it is what I want though cuz it's delicious I've long been a fan of the beef ones but the chicken and the vegan one are relatively new the mixture in there is Savory it is hearty it's not spicy at all think of like a chicken
po pie filling that's not creamy in puff pastry the pastry is flaky and buttery this is delicious and I've had friends that don't eat meat say the vegan one's awesome too now I'm happy because I got to pick up a brew of my own this is the Wizard's Brew when you ask the bartenders about the different beers here they will describe this as something akin to a Guinness I'm not sure I agree completely I think again Guinness is actually a little bit lighter in terms of flavor than this this tastes more like a stout to
me very strong coffee flavor it's a heavy beer but not something that makes you feel like you're having a meal I really do enjoy the Wizards brew a lot it's not my favorite of the uh exclusive beers here that's actually over in Island of Adventure at Hogs me and the Hogs Head Brew but this one is high up there on the list and don't worry where there is beer there is water hydr before you die Dre especially in the summer now for my pick I think it's very clear that the Wizarding World is a top
tier rank one pick and I came in with three lands I wanted to recruit one of them has already been taken and added to Molly's team that's okay all fair on the coin flip but now I've got to make a decision it's a gamble do I think Molly's going to take one of these picks over the other so who I am recruiting to my team the first selection it's going to be minion land welcome to minionland which until recently was the newest land that had opened here in Universal Studios Florida that title now goes to
DreamWorks land now let's talk about why I chose minion land you have four really good options for different eats you have illuminations minion Cafe of course and that is where we are going to be headed not just for AC but because I genuinely believe this is one of the top Quick Service options in this theme park you all also have freeze ray pops which I think for my money is the best Frozen treat you're going to get here outside of Frozen butterbeer weing foris skes like work Molly I understand that you love Flor and foris
skues I do too but sometimes you just want a frozen ice pop okay with a little bit of mint leaf in there that it is good it's very tasty and then you have Bake My Day which is a fun little bake shop that is very very cute on the interior with a lot of fun baked goods you also have the poana popcorn orn stand here that if the name didn't give it away serves banana flavored popcorn which I know doesn't sound great but it actually tastes like banana bread and popcorn form and as a lover
of banana bread I'm also a lover of Pop banana and I'm not ashamed to say it now if you or your family have a deep adoration for the minions franchise and all things Despicable Me then this Cafe is going to be a place for you because it is filled with a variety of very fun and silly deep cut references to that franchise through through out to put it simply the idea behind this Cafe is that the minions well they run the operations here everything from service to chefs so I'm sure you can understand what sort
of chaos ensues in the kitchens and if you can't imagine it they have a full window into the kitchen for you to look at that we covered this and all the other dining locations in our minion land video so if you are interested in that feel free to check that out all right so our mini feast has arrived we have picked up the mini boss Mega melt which is a pimento cheese grilled cheese sandwich this is the kids meal size it comes with a banana because of course it does Banana as well as some Minion
tots although to call these tots I feel like is an insult to these because these are so much better lighter and fluffier than most potato barrels come on guys they're tater tots then you will get at any theme park establishment we have also picked up the Macho nacho chips and guac now I have to tell you I love chips and guac to if you're familiar with just me too which why wouldn't you be this SoMo would be the tortilla would be the tortilla chip and guu would have bitten this section out to dip it into
the guacamole that is inside of the tortilla somero while I love the fact that we have the SoMo this one's cardboard and I just long for tortilla SoMo anyway that's a pipe dream for me and now Molly's taking it from me okay you're oh she's going to wear it okay I have to we have to eat that oh you're just going to imitate the movie okay yeah does this make it taste better that's pretty good gu okay is it better cuz it's on your head mhm okay all right so we're going to dive in first
of all I'll say goodbye to that guacamole I think this is yeah I can tell confidence this is going to be the best park guacamole you're getting outside of the Mexico Pavilion in Epcot but let's try this grilled cheese now the adult portion of this grilled cheese is called Agnes's grilled cheese and it comes with a side of um green tomato soup which is very tasty but honestly with all we're going to be eating throughout the day today kids meal size is for us dive it in inside of this very well toasted bread that seems
to have been pressed in like a waffle full iron you have layers of cheddar cheese on the on the exterior and inside you have Pento cheese and at my core of my food eating body going to go with it I'm still a southern boy and pimento cheese is a southern staple well this is pretty darn good pimo cheese especially for a theme part the tots they also provided ketchup for us I was going to dip it but I'm just going to go raw minion here oh that crun and the interior is so fluffy not super
salty crispy exterior this uh this kicks Tater tot's butt now the food here I'm just going to say it's far better than You' expect it has a ton of variety and it's very unique some other favorites that we have are Carl's crispy cauliflower that is a vegan dish and it's incredibly tasty it is temporo cauliflower that has almost like a uh a Loosely Asian feel to it that was Stellar when we had it last as well as the steak and cheese Ray sandwich as the name would suggest that is a sort of steak and cheese
toasty sandwich I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed that the last time I ate it here it's worth a visit and I'm happy to have recruited these guys look at them listen aren't they just the most helpful part of gr's dominion and now somewhat fittingly in front of the bank of evil given Molly's propensity of choosing evil characters that she loves slyther are not evil not all of them just most of them yeah not all Slytherin got it cool uh Molly is now going to make her next draft pick not going to lie
to you whilst still riding the high of Wizarding World I am a little bummed that Allan took minion land because that was on my list for potential teammates it's a good choice it's a good choice but it will not slow us down here on team Molly we are happy to welcome Hollywood oh probably a surprise choice but I think it's strong one hray for Hollywood now again I don't know that people would have predicted this would be my second draft pick but there's actually a lot of really good stuff here and more importantly I know
Allan was gunning for this one too because we're both big fans of the today Cafe the today Cafe is a quick service restaurant themed to The Today Show that means nothing to me what means everything to me is the fact that they've got amazing coffee including Nitro cold brew they've got cheeseboards in the evening they've got great sandwiches I love the grilled cheese that's got apples on it as well as salads and a tasty Bakery case it's probably one of the lighter meals you're going to have in a theme park but it does not miss
on freshness and flavor big fan of that oh and by the way if I you weren't sold yet they serve breakfast all day also here in Hollywood you're going to find that stand on the corner that serves fresh waffles both a chocolate and a strawberry version as well as in everything but the bagel seasoning pretzel delish moving through the land you've got two more Quick Service restaurants you've got Mel's Drive-In and Cafe laboma Mel's Drive-In is fine it's Quick Service chicken tenders and burgers not my favorite to be sure but a solid option if you
want kind of standard theme park Food Cafe labomba is like Quick Service teex mechs you're going to find bowls and things of that nature they also use it for VIP tours again it's not my favorite location but you know it's on the roster and while Cafe labama the restaurant isn't my favorite it should be noted that it has pretty much a full service bar as a walkup window on the outside which is a very good teammate things I do quite enjoy here in Hollywood and are additional reasons I chose this land you've got the Central
Park Crepes this is a crepe stand that has both Savory and sweet Crepes they rotate they are massive they are delicious a very unique theme park eat in my opinion and I'm a big fan you've also got Schwab's Pharmacy right here which is like an old Fountain ice cream soda fountain with things like hand scooped ice cream shakes malts they serve hongas and oh yeah they've got do whip so I've now effectively recruited do whip to my team for today I have picked up a strawberry malt from Schwabs I was thinking about grabbing a sandwich
from today Cafe but we've had a lot of savory and sometimes you just need a simple delicious classic treat M strawberry Mals are my mom's favorite ice cream and in the small town she's from in Iowa we always go to the ice cream counter so this has a lot of nostalgia for me but this land is a good choice I think it's an underrated hit with a lot of really good Staples a lot of Classics and some more exciting items and again I'm not mad about having recruited ice cream twice now somebody who said they
don't like sweet things I like ice cream I don't like sickly sweet overthe top sugary artificially flavored cupcakes and things like you'd find in Minion land that's unnecessary you're right I like minion land but not the desserts well the ice the Popsicles are good I'm really walking this all B yeah yeah yeah okay well Molly sits on her malt behind camera I'm going to ponder actually I don't have to ponder thankfully the next recruit that I have was not taken uh by Molly so we are headed to Springfield which I'm surprised it is fall to
my my second choice here but I'm very glad to be able to recruit them so let's go welcome to Springfield home of all things Simpsons now while admittedly I have not watched a single episode of The Simpsons ever that does not mean I am going to deny the fact that this is a very well themed land at least in terms of the food options that you have specifically when we talk about fast food Boulevard where you have the crusty burger The Flying Dutchman flaming Mo cletus's Chicken Shack Luigi's Pizza and Lisa's Tea House of horror
and that's just inside of fast food Boulevard outside you have Duff's Brewery lard lad's donuts and bumblebe man's tacos this section is a wealth of eating options and for that reason it has been selected to add to my team not to mention the fact that oh apparently I'm being taken in for some felony thankfully I don't conduct any under the table business deals those might just be my constituents I guess that makes me Guilty By Association we'll just have to wait and see what the ca has to say thankfully the copper was not looking for
me it was looking for a family of smish humans who was taking a picture with the police officer as I was saying a point in the favor of Springfield is that there is both a a plethora of eating options and B they're all either average or above average which breee Park food is a win in my book very similarly to Molly I have had a lot of Savory so I went with a suite and this Suite is theme park treats Molly won't eat for a thousand please this is the smaller version of the big pink
this is a well-known dut from lard Lads Donuts now I am an enjoyer of donuts perhaps not an Enthusiast like Max is but I do enjoy the the occasional dut I want to give this one a try because I've never had lard lats Donuts but I have heard that they are amazing and I do know that they are baked fresh daily in house cheers let me just say the donut itself incredible I mean that's a very very very good dut light still has a little bit of chew and the dut itself not super sweet I
definitely couldn't eat the fulls siiz big pink but for those of you who do enjoy donuts and perhaps want to have a dessert for a family of four big pink away I should also know that if you want more sweet with your dut they serve donut Sundays from Lord Labs as well with a variety of ice cream flavors to choose from I also didn't want to have Molly have the only team that had exclusive beers on their menu so I picked up the duff light from the duff Brewery crisp light refreshing beer excellent on a
hot day now including Duff light there are three exclusive beers here in Springfield Duff light Duff and Duff dry and they have all been recruited to team Allen some other favorites if you're going for more Savory things the crusty burger is actually quite tasty and the curly fries are Elite and then if you want to go to bumblebee man's tacos those chicken tacos that we've had previously really really solid and I do want to try the carne aada in the future because I've smelled them before and they smell delicious all right it is time for
my third and final recruit of this draft and honestly I thought I'd be going for San Francisco with my boy Bruce Bruce cuz obviously but one land has remained unclaimed so in a surprise twist that I didn't see coming I am pleased to welcome DreamWorks land as the final recruit to team M welcome into DreamWorks land the newest land here at Universal Studios Florida primarily home to the stories of Shrek trolls and Kung Fu Panda but it really is inspired by all DreamWorks IP and I have recruited a couple of delicious things to join team
Molly first of all not even in this main part of the land but considered part of the land on the other side of the SpongeBob store you have the DreamWorks imagination Cafe this used to be the kids own pizza company but they have rebranded it to fit with the new land and you still have some small personal pizzas as well as some desserts which most notably they are serving the Marty Gro Ben y's year round now which is incredible second of all in this land you've got trolls treats which is themed to the third trolls
movie my favorite of the trolls movies where you can get soft serve ice cream either populous pink which is pink lemonade flavor or broone Berry which is Huckleberry flavor both are very cute very tasty soft serves themed to the trolls and lastly we've got swamp snacks here in the Shrek station couple of highlights here you've got both the Frozen ogre sour apple ice pop and the chunky donkey chocolate ice pop perfect for a hot day you've also got the mud puddle pudding if you want that as a dessert as far as the savories go you
know we're not going to talk about the Far Far waffle it's fine but it's not amazing the two highlights on this menu the reason I went for DreamWorks land is one you've got a swamp dog and yes I willingly recruited a hot dog to my team because while hot dogs are not my favorite food the swamp dog is a hot dog wrapped in pizza crust stuffed with cheese and everyone I know that likes hot dogs says It's amazing you've also got the Shrek Soul which is a delicious buttery Shrek shaped pretzel with green cheese to
dip it into it is a perfect theme park snack and I am just honestly shocked that I had the chance to recruit this land in the final round of course as a welcome to my team I had to pick up the shrex with the ogre cheese the chef told me it's made out of spinach powder there's a little bit of spinach powder in the cheese but it's made fresh it's real cheese and it's delicious one thing I commend Universal for in general but it's definitely on display in this land is they take simple delicious snacks
and they make them themed really cute but they're not over the top they're not too far done like this is very simple and very cute the trolls treats so I'm happy to have this on my team even though there's not a full like restaurant here I feel like the snacks are really really solid and you can see more of them reviewed in our um DreamWorks land new things at Universal video that we did additionally this has nothing to do with the draft but I noticed a few more Easter eggs um the swamp snack sign has
a bunch of food that Shrek likes to eat including dead rats and onions and then um Shrek is not here right now it's a little bit later in the day but if you go listen to the house you can hear donkey and Shrek and other characters having conversations what happened to the music bad news everyone but the radio seems to be busted would you like me to Regale everyone with a ballad about my hero ures well I stand before you Gob smacked that San Francisco remains unchosen we have a Jaws loyalist behind the camera one
who speaks nothing and heaps Praises upon Bruce and his great white Brethren and yet he's been abandoned and and now he shall fall into the warm embrace of my arms as I select San Francisco and all that it encompasses here in Universal Studios Florida for the record the shark has nothing to do with the dining this is about the food and the drinks and the shark while aesthetically so pleasing does not impact the food two words sheay alcatra yeah that's just next to the shark and they have a drink that is themed that's one drink
you know I I'm just hope people like shrex okay I hope people like trolls ice cream cones more than the one drink cuz what else does sand frame have R Burger all right we find ourselves in San Francisco and as I mentioned previously the items that you might pick up here in this land are sh Alcatraz or rorb and like any good evaluator of talent it's good to know what your prospects are good at and what they're decidedly average at in the case of RoR Burger Burgers pretty average what's Elite there though are the Truffle
fries now you might be thinking to yourself Allan what about Lombards well Lombards is a table service restaurant and we are not counting those in this draft which is why if one of us had picked up New York we would not have been counting the sit down section of finans you also have the San Francisco Pastry Company which serves a variety of as the name would suggest pastries as well as coffee and then there are also a selection of other carts that serve snacks here as well my apologies for the wind I fear it with
Bruce behind me and shatz which is under some refurb right now I needed some TLC I have picked up the ocean attack now the standard ocean attack is a touch suite for me so I did ask for a couple modifications very nicely and they were kind enough to oblig shalicious stock Shar icious stop shalicious shalicious jump jump jump shalicious t to the a to the St y you're tasty shalicious Chop Chop typically this would come with Sprite pineapple juice blue Cura sa and coconut rum with a cherry candy shark that is now sunk to the
bottom of mine and then some grinting over top to simulate a ocean shark attack I asked for the following modifications I exchanged the Sprite for soda water and then coconut rum for tequila I also asked that they go a little bit lighter on the blue kurosa and grenadine just cuz it didn't want it to be super sweet now ask nicely they might be able to accommodate these requests for you as well if you do not want a sweet beverage I'm now going to sip and enjoy that's a very light and refreshing ever so slightly sweet
beverage this is almost what I serve myself if I was at the beach which is sort of a tequila soda situation I enjoy it I can only ever have one of these in a day just because of the level of sweetness that it does have but I enjoy this now if I was hungry I'm not right now we've had a lot to eat so far today I would have picked up the Truffle fries from R to Burger because they are as I mentioned previously Elite instead Molly and I are going to share this delightful ocean
attack uh while she stares wistfully at Bruce and with that we have completed the booze and invites draft here at Universal Studios Florida let's go over the teams again blissfully joining team Molly we have the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Diagon Alley Hollywood and DreamWorks land and ecstatically joining my team because we're doing superlatives apparently we have minion land Springfield and San Francisco with an asteris for Bruce the shark joining the team as well you do not get Bruce the shark you get the Drake so remember to vote for who you think won this booze
and bites draft in the YouTube Community tab team Molly or team Howen but that is not all the fun we are having today the universal Mega Movie parade premiered while we were in Asia so we didn't get to see it and we're going to go watch it for the first time right now I've been doing my best to avoid spoilers but from what I understand there is a JW section and I'm get no we don't need those this stage is about to explode with B pinky power [Music] [Music] [Music] come on propaganda from is the
are the beaches open yeah it's completely safe all [Music] the H me up another barel the crows is ch's dead body in [Music] there well that parade was amazing it was very cool I love the float so was your favorite part I I wonder what my favorite part was it's a shock I bet it has to do with a shark it was Jaws I did not expect marvon to be there there and Quint was there and we uh ran into one of our friends and he said Chief Brody's normally there too he wasn't there today
but I'm already excited to see it again and I am just like all the Fanfare for Jaws this almost 50-year-old movie that I love so much is getting so many things I don't I just I can't believe that Jaws is getting new stuff in the Parks and it makes me so so happy and the floats are so detailed like they're incredible the Jaws float had the Amity billboard that had been vandalized sick vandalism we got to find those kids and hang up by their Buster Browns it had the crabs that bury Chrissy's body in the
O I was really looking for Chrissy's arm it I mean Quint was on there saying quotes from the movie it had the Orca with the barrels it had Hooper shark cage like the detail on that float alone timesed all the floats and I enjoy Jurassic Park yeah that dinosaur was really good ET with the kids on the bikes that was really fun Ghostbusters with a stay puffed Marshmallow Man on the top and they were firing some shots from their uh they're well they ghost busting guns I also enjoyed uh Back to the Future with the
DeLorean and Marty and Doc what we're trying to say is this parade is excellent these floats are amazing and if you are in Universal in the foreseeable future a musty it is a musty well anyway back to the main point of this video make sure you go vote on which team you thought won the booze and fights draft and let us know down in the comments where we should battle next and until next time friends please be sure to like this video subscribe if you're new follow us on all of our socials and if you
would like to join with a M famam in the conversation about this or any of our other videos please join us on Discord links for all that are down below and we'd love to have you and until next time friends I'm Molly wait what happened I I'm so distracted by how loud the music just be it was not on and now it's so loud and I just want to do a jazzy number and I'm Alan and it has been magical and delicious and jome and we'll see you again soon bye everybody bye oh you really
like full Jazz [Music] huh that's normal
