EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival
The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is one of the most popular and longest festivals at Walt Disney World. Its focus is on celebrating culinary arts across six continents. Most of the eleven countries in the World Showcase offer a festival booth where guests can purchase small plates to sample some of their most popular cuisines. In addition to those countries, you’ll find global marketplaces spread throughout the entire park, including countries like Brazil and Australia. Below, we’ll preview everything you need to know to plan a visit.
2025 Dates: August 28 through November 22, 2025
See our 2025 Epcot Food and Wine Festival Guide for specific planning information for this year’s festival.
2025 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival Guide
Global Marketplaces
While food is a strong point at each of Epcot’s festivals, it’s the central focus of the International Food and Wine Festival. This festival offers more food and beverage options than any other. The following list is an example of the global marketplaces that you’ll typically find at the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. Note that a few booths come and go over time. For the most part, however, many are traditional booths with ever-slightly changing menus year over year.
- Macatizers
- Festival Favorites
- Coastal Eats
- The Fry Basket
- Flavors from Fire
- Brew-Wing Lab
- The Noodle Exchange
- Mexico
- China
- India
- Refreshment Outpost
- The Alps
- Germany
- Spain
- Italy
- Block & Hans
- Flavors of America
- Japan
- Greece
- Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina
- Belgium
- Brazil
- France
- Canada
- Australia
- Swirled Showcase
- Shimmering Sips
- Hawaii
- Bramblewood Bites
- Milled & Mulled
- Forest & Field
- Earth Eats
In addition to food booths, several quick-service locations throughout the park offer specialty items during the Festival. Items are typically available at Connections Eatery, Refreshment Outpost, Funnel Cake (America Pavilion), UK Beer Cart, Refreshment Port, Sunshine Seasons, and Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea Company.
Here are a couple of the last few years of Food and Wine Festival Menus to give you an idea of what to expect:
Eat to the Beat Concert Series
This popular concert series is held each evening of the Food and Wine Festival in the America Gardens Theater. Here are concert schedules for the past few years, if you would like a better idea of what to expect.
Eat to the Beat Dining Packages
Dining packages allow guests to secure guaranteed seating. However, it’s important to note that they often sell out quickly. We have the complete list of restaurants and pricing for the 2025 Eat to the Beat Dining Packages.
2025 Eat to the Beat Dining Packages (Restaurants, Reservation Details, and Pricing)
Scavenger Hunts
Epcot’s International Food and Wine Festival offers two unique scavenger hunts. They are as follows:
- Remy’s Ratatouille Hide and Squeak
- Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit
The scavenger hunts are a wonderful way for children to feel like they’re participating while touring the World Showcase. We have the details below on how to purchase and complete both scavenger hunts in 2025.
2 Popular Scavenger Hunts Are Returning to the 2025 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival
Emile’s Fromage Montage
Be sure to grab a Festival Passport when you enter Epcot. It serves as the guide to Emile’s Fromage Montage. Inside, you’ll find a few pages that feature the qualifying cheese-based items for the foodie challenge. Buy any of the eligible items, collect a stamp for each one, and then take it to Shimmering Sips Marketplace to redeem it for an exclusive treat!
Living with the Land Festival Overlay
Located on the lower level of the Land Pavilion, this classic attraction features seasonal displays highlighting ingredients used during the Food and Wine Festival. Each festival offers a unique overlay, and it’s always a fun treat to see how they change from one festival to another.
Festival Merchandise
Each year, the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival debuts a new line of exclusive merchandise. These items range from themed apparel and kitchenware to drinkware and collectible pins. Items often reflect fun, food-inspired designs. It’s common for several collections to be released each year that feature popular Disney characters reimagined for the event. Whether you’re a casual shopper commemorating your visit or a dedicated collector, the festival merchandise offers something you won’t find any other time of the year. You can preview an example in the article below.
5 New Merchandise Collections to Celebrate Epcot’s International Food and Wine Festival in 2025
Historical Food and Wine Festival Coverage
See Daisy in her Chef’s Outfit at Epcot’s Food and Wine: Daisy Duck often makes appearances in her chef’s outfit during the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. While she’s not guaranteed, we often find her near the International Gateway during this time of year. You can check the My Disney Experience app for her exact location.
Things to Do at the 2023 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival: While this article is from a few years back, it makes for a fun reference of what was available at the time.
The Best Desserts at the 2023 Epcot Food and Wine Festival: This was a good year for desserts. We still mourn the loss of the Mexican Chocolate Bread Pudding.
Future Dates
Disney announces each year’s festival dates a couple of months in advance. To provide some guidance for our readers, we keep a running list of when the dates are announced, along with the previous year’s festival dates. You can preview the Epcot Festival Dates here or in the article below.
EPCOT Festival Dates for 2025-2026
More on the Food and Wine Festival
Browse our continuing coverage of the festival.
More Epcot Festivals
EPCOT hosts the following festivals each year.
More Planning
Resorts Gal specializes in Disney World Resorts, Characters, and Dining. Explore our resources, including our Disney World Resorts Guide. It provides an overview of everything you need to know about the Disney Resort Hotels. For dining, our Disney World Dining Guide is an excellent place to start. Our Disney World Transportation Guide is a wonderful resource for planning your routes. It’s one of our most popular resources. If you plan to meet characters in the parks, we have an updated list of Disney World Characters. It includes every available character meet-and-greet in the parks and where to find rare characters throughout the year. Lastly, our Disney Parks Guide provides a complete overview of all four theme parks and water parks.
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