Get ready to FEAST, because the 2023 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival is gearing up for its triumphant return!
2022 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
Each summer, we look forward to tasting our way around the world at the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival. This year’s event is scheduled to run from July 27th to November 18th, and we can’t wait to try out everything the festival has to offer!
Want a sneak peek at what you can expect to see at the 2023 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival? Here’s a list of everything that’s confirmed to be returning this year!
Food Booths
Of course, it wouldn’t be the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival without the FOOD! Disney has shared that this year’s festival will feature more than 25 Global Marketplaces (a.k.a. food booths) throughout the park.
SPAM Musubi Nigiri at the Hawai’i Booth
The following booths are returning to this year’s festival:
- The Alps
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Brew-Wing
- Canada
- China
- Coastal Eats
- Flavors From Fire
- France
- The Fry Basket
- Germany
- Greece
- Hawai’i
- India
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Mexico
- The Noodle Exchange
- Refreshment Outpost
- Refreshment Port Hosted by Boursin Cheese
- Shimmering Sips Hosted by CORKCICLE
- Spain
- Tangierine Cafe: Flavor of Medina
Additional festival locations:
- Funnel Cake Stand in American Adventure Pavilion
- Joffrey’s Coffee and Tea: Coffee Carts
- Connections Cafe & Eatery
Fry Flight from the Fry Basket
And, there are new booths coming to the festival too! These are:
Disney also shared the full menus (aside from some of the new booths) for the festival — you can check it all out here!
Want To Get a Head Start on Your Food Wish List? Here’s Our Best of the Fest from last year’s EPCOT Food & Wine Festival!
Eat to the Beat Concert Series & Dining Packages
The Eat to the Beat Concert Series will also be BACK in 2023! These music events feature “internationally recognized artists as well as local bands” that perform on the America Gardens Theatre stage.
98 Degrees Perform at Eat to the Beat
The concert series features artists from a variety of genres, so there’s a musical act for just about everyone included in the lineup.
Eat to the Beat
Disney also confirmed that dining packages will be returning along with the concerts, so you can reserve your spot ahead of time. Reservations for those dining packages open on July 6th. More details about those dining packages will be announced in late June.
Click here to learn more about the Eat to the Beat concert series
Remy’s Ratatouille Hide & Squeak
Good news for those of you who love to explore the park through the EPCOT Festival scavenger hunts — Remy’s Ratatouille Hide & Squeak (the Food & Wine scavenger hunt) will be returning this year as well!
2022 Remy’s Ratatouille Hide & Squeak Scavenger Hunt Game Board
Maps for this year’s scavenger hunt can be purchased at select merchandise locations throughout the park. Once you’ve got your map in hand, it’s time to make your way around the World Showcase to complete the map!
Remy!
Completed maps can be returned to select locations so you can claim your special prize!
Keep your eyes peeled for Remy!
We’ll keep our eyes peeled for more information about this experience.
Check Out Our Experience with Last Year’s Remy-Themed Scavenger Hunt!
Emile’s Fromage Montage
If you love cheese as much as we do, you’ve gotta check out the return of Emile’s Fromage Montage. To take part in this challenge, you’ll need to purchase any 5 of the featured dishes from select food booths as listed in the Festival Passport. When you purchase a qualifying dish, be sure to grab a stamp!
Fromage Montage from 2021
Once guests get all 5 stamps, they can get a FREE “completer prize,” which was a strawberry cheesecake soft serve with a piece of cheesecake on top served in a souvenir cup at last year’s festival.
Prize from Emile’s Fromage Montage 2022
We can’t wait to see what the prize will be this year!
Click Here to See Our Full Review of Last Year’s Fromage Montage!
Festival Merch
Another EPCOT Festival staple is — of course — themed merchandise celebrating the event!
2022 Food and Wine Festival Ears
We already got a sneak peek at one of the new sweatshirts coming this year. “Wine you’re way around the world” in the new Spirit Jersey!
©Disney
You’ll be able to take home official event merchandise including apparel, home decor, trading pins, and more.
Check Out ALL of Last Year’s EPCOT Food and Wine Festival Merchandise!
But don’t forget, DFB has you covered with new Food and Wine TANKS! July is hot in Florida, so make sure you are prepared with our latest merch. The Food and Wine Vibes tank is the perfect way to get ready for the festival.
Food & Wine vibes!
We’ll continue to be on the lookout for more EPCOT Food & Wine Festival news as the start of the event gets closer, so stay tuned to DFB for all the details you need to know to have the BEST festival experience!
Here’s Everything We Know About the 2023 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival So Far!
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Still no return of a Festival Pavilion, Cooking Demos, Seminars, Brunches, Eat 2 the Beat, etc.
Such a shame. That was what MADE the F&W Festival so special. Now it’s just a duplicate of every other fest.
So glad we went to the Food and Wine Festival before Disney ruined it. We used to attend two or three cooking demos a day for a week or more and spent a great deal of money. Then Disney started cutting back and charging more in typical fashion. We’re done
My group that has been going to the Festival since the first one is so disappointed that Disney has ruined a big part of the Festival. We all miss the wonderful classes, the demos and the tastings. We are really unhappy that the French Lunch and the other wonderful special meals have not returned. The merch has gotten cheesier and the wonderful art and themes have become character oriented rather than food and wine themed. Disney has just about ruined it. We still are attending for now but we hope that they will bring back the things that made the Festival so special.
So still no wine tasting let alone cooking demos, wine maker’s dinners, etc.? I’m not sure this even should qualify as a food and wine festival–it’s more like a food truck festival just without the wheels.
I miss the Party for the Senses! So much fun and great food!
We still talk about our experiences at the seminars. I don’t know why disney dropped them and has not brought them back? We have not been back to a food and wine festival since 2019 but would love to go again if disney ever decides to bring it back as it was.