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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Smokejumpers Grill''' is a quick-service restaurant in the [[Grizzly Peak]] area of [[Disney California Adventure]] at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Themed to the smokejumpers — firefighters who parachute into remote wildfire zones — it serves burgers, sandwiches and similar airfield fare from a hangar-style building in the Grizzly Peak Airfield section of the land. It opened on March 20, 2015, replacing the park's opening-day Taste Pilots' Grill, and was the first element of the Grizzly Peak expansion to welcome guests.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The building began its life as Taste Pilots' Grill, an opening-day restaurant of Disney California Adventure in February 2001, when the surrounding area was Condor Flats, a land themed to a desert aircraft test facility honouring California's aviation test pilots.<ref name="yesterland">{{cite web |title=Taste Pilots' Grill |publisher=Yesterland |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> The restaurant served a similar burger-led menu under that theme for nearly fourteen years. In 2015 Disney merged Condor Flats into neighbouring Grizzly Peak, retheming the airfield as Grizzly Peak Airfield to give the land a more cohesive national-park story. Taste Pilots' Grill closed on January 7, 2015, for the conversion, and reopened on March 20, 2015, as Smokejumpers Grill — ahead of the rest of the reworked airfield, which followed over the next two months.<ref name="d23smoke">{{cite web |title=Smokejumpers Grill |publisher=D23 |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> The change swapped one group of daring Californians for another: test pilots out, airborne firefighters in. The restaurant has operated under the Smokejumpers name since, serving as the main dining location for Grizzly Peak and for guests using the nearby park entrance from Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.<br />
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== Setting ==<br />
Smokejumpers Grill occupies a broad, hangar-like building fitted out as a smokejumper base camp and mess hall. The décor celebrates wildland firefighting: photographs, patches, maps and equipment associated with smokejumper crews decorate the walls, bulletin boards carry notices and a backstory letter for the unit, and posters from Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures nature films tie the room to the wider Grizzly Peak story of California's forests. Long communal tables and a mix of indoor and outdoor seating suit the working-base theme, and the outdoor patio places diners within the pine trees, rockwork and period airfield details of Grizzly Peak Airfield, a short walk from Grizzly River Run and the Soarin' hangar. Aircraft and fire-service details — including a space shuttle nozzle retained from the building's test-pilot era as an exhibit — reward a slower look around the room. The atmosphere is that of a crew canteen between call-outs: functional, woodsy and heavily storied rather than formal.<br />
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== Cuisine ==<br />
The menu is classic American quick-service fare, broadly continuing the offer of its predecessor with themed names and periodic updates. Burgers have anchored the menu since opening, including a bacon cheddar burger and a chili cheeseburger, alongside a grilled chicken and Monterey Jack sandwich, chicken tenders, salads, fries and onion rings.<ref name="mouseplanet">{{cite web |title=Disneyland Resort Update |publisher=MousePlanet |date=2015-03 |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref> Breakfast service has been offered at various times, and milkshakes, soft drinks and a small selection of alcoholic drinks round out the counter. In keeping with most Disney California Adventure quick-service locations, mobile ordering is heavily promoted, and the restaurant's large seating capacity makes it a common fallback for families crossing between Buena Vista Street, Grizzly Peak and Paradise Gardens Park at peak meal times. Seasonal and limited-time burgers and shakes appear regularly for resort events and festivals, but the core proposition remains unchanged: hearty, familiar food served quickly in one of the park's most richly themed fast-food rooms.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Grizzly Peak]]<br />
* [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
* [[Condor Flats]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Restaurants]]<br />
[[Category:Disney California Adventure]]<br />
[[Category:2015 establishments]]</div>Admin