![]() I don’t get a lot of truffle, but it’s good. Their crouton game is incredible, 10/10 croutons. A Super Star Parmesan cracker tops it all, surrounded by golden star croutons and planks of grilled chicken.īreijo: Look at these adorable star croutons. Starters and salads ($5.99-$14.99)Ī kind of grilled-chicken salad, this option includes romaine, cabbage, tomatoes and mushrooms tossed in a ranch-like truffle dressing. Here’s our guide to the entire menu - sans two soups (one mushroom, one a nondairy tomato variety) that launched after our visits - complete with taste-test reactions and our favorites listed in descending order. I warped into Super Nintendo World with Amy Wong, The Times Food team’s audience engagement editor, to taste these whimsical, adorable creations by chefs Toad and Thrash. This menu is themed out to the Mushroom Kingdom, so there is some nod to a mushroom, whether it be the shape of it, the flavor of it, or it’s themed to the landscape.” “And Chef Toad is honestly always creating something new. “Everything on the menu is actually being created by Chef Toad,” Thrash says with a grin. It’s all in the details, according to chef Julia Thrash, who oversees the restaurant as vice president of culinary affairs and executive chef of Toadstool Cafe, working underneath the animated Chef Toad, of course. Super Nintendo World opened in Japan in 2021 with its own Toad-led version of Toadstool Cafe, called Kinopio’s Cafe, and while there are similarities to its counterpart’s menu, there are tweaks at the Hollywood location for the piranha plant Caprese, the mushrooms in the salad are marinated. To serve up to roughly 4,000 guests a day, the facility is equipped with a small army of chipper rainbow-headed Toads and their human-counterpart chefs, who work at stations for pastry, plating, roasting and baking, boiling pasta, grilling meat and even printing via a mechanical, almost conveyor-belt-like device. ![]() The restaurant’s actual kitchen sits behind the dining room’s back wall, where three large screens depict Chef Toad’s sous chefs and line cooks cheerfully chopping carrots, carrying pots to conveyor belts and otherwise creating guests’ meals. ![]() It also causes disruption in the kitchen: Bullet Bill rips through the chefs’ stations, causing mayhem, but the cooks eventually return to whipping up burgers, fiery pastas and Yoshi egg-crouton salads. Digital screens around the dining room provide a peek “outside,” where Toads play leapfrog, saunter around in the sunshine and, in the kitchen, prepare salads, sandwiches, pastas and desserts inspired by some of Nintendo’s most beloved personalities.īowser’s warship digitally makes its own appearance roughly every 15 minutes, dimming the lights in the dining room as the screens depict lightning storms, thunder and general calamity. A Caprese salad resembles the iconic, forever-angry character of the chomping piranha plant towering over slices of mozzarella. A printed crown cookie adorns a Princess Peach-inspired cupcake that’s swirled with two tiers of frosting and enough glitter to fill the Valley of Bowser. Edible-ink printers emblazon burger buns and chicken sandwiches, while sugar cookies get transformed into power-up blocks, each cookie printed with question marks and arranged to form one side of a cube that holds tiramisu and cream. Providing even more whimsy, a large red mushroom overlooks the dining room under a domed ceiling at the restaurant’s center. Chef Toad’s sprawling new 250-seat restaurant offers not only sustenance but also an extra pinch of so-cute-it-hurts immersion: Oversize knobby, faux-wood chairs and pink-and-white-dotted booths provide the seating under an expansive ceiling from which more green warp pipes protrude here and there.
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