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

Epcot Food and Wine banner featuring characters from Ratatouille

Last Updated: July 2, 2025

New at This Year’s Festival

We’ll add new information for this year’s Food and Wine Festival here as it’s announced.

  • New Headliners at the Eat to the Beat Concert Series include KT Tunstall, Bowling for Soup, and Jordin Sparks (Other new acts include Ben Rector, The Wanted 2.0, and The Beach Boys)

Global Marketplaces

Disney has announced that the 2025 Festival will have over 35 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 will offer more food and beverage options than any other. Here is a list of the global marketplaces at last year’s Epcot International Food and Wine Festival. (We’ll add the list for 2025 when it’s announced.)

  • 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

Additionally, quick service locations throughout the park offer specialty items during the Festival. These items are available at Connections Eatery, Refreshment Outpost, Funnel Cake (America Pavilion), UK Beer Cart, Refreshment Port, Sunshine Seasons, and Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea Company.

We have a list of every menu item available in a separate article if you want an idea of what to expect. We’ll replace this article with the 2025 version when the menus are released. They are typically released a few weeks before the festival.

a dessert with strawberries and chocolate sauce from the Epcot Food and Wine Festival

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. We now have the lineup for the 2025 Eat to the Beat Concert Series at Epcot.

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. Reservations go on sale July 16, 2025. We have the complete list of restaurants and pricing for the 2025 Eat to the Beat Dining Packages.

Scavenger Hunts

Epcot’s International Food and Wine Festival offers two unique scavenger hunts. They are as follows:

  • Remy’s Ratatouille Hide and Squeak (August 28 through End of Festival)
  • Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit (Limited-Time Starting September 2nd)

We almost always purchase a scavenger hunt during each festival, and think it’s 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.

Emile’s Fromage Montage

Pick up a Festival Passport once you arrive at Epcot to complete this cheesy journey. You’ll find pages dedicated to Emile’s Fromage Montage inside the passport. Purchase 5 of the items listed, collect the stamps in your passport at the time of purchase, and then return the passport to Shimmering Sips Marketplace for a specialty item that’s unique to the Food and Wine Festival.

We’ll add more details here when Disney finalizes the announcements for 2025.

Living with the Land

This popular attraction that sits at the base of the Land Pavilion offers seasonal themed displays that showcase ingredients used during the Epcot Food and Wine Festival. We love this attraction and always enjoy the special overlays it receives for each festival.

Festival Merchandise

Every festival at Epcot offers multiple lines of specialty branded merchandise. The Food and Wine Festival is no different. Disney has announced the following collections for this year’s festival:

  • The Festival Logo Collection
  • Chef Mickey Mouse Collection
  • The Muppets Lab Collection
  • Chef Remy Collection
  • Chef Figment Collection

You can preview the first look at this year’s designs in our article below.

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 Cover with Goofy featured

EPCOT Festival Dates for 2025-2026

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