The Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival celebrates the bounty of California with food, beverages, and special events! The 2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival will return from February 28 – April 21st, 2025. As we await more information for the 2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival, you can find 2024 coverage below for your future planning reference!
If you’re planning a trip to Disneyland Resort, you won’t want to miss the Food and Wine Festival!
Click here to see the 2024 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Menus!
Click here to see the 2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Menus when they are announced!
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Index
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Booth and Menu Index
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Low-Cost Seminar and Demonstrations
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Wine and Spirits Education and Tasting Seminars
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Special Events
Disney Festivals Facebook Page
2023 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Menus and FOOD PHOTOS
Booking Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Events
Booking for all special events, seminars, and demonstrations can be found on the links above.
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Coverage
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The 2025 DCA Food and Wine Festival will feature 10 Festival Marketplaces, including two with “new themes,” according to Disney. Additional kiosks and restaurant around the park, and even some Downtown Disney spots will get in on the Festival fun, too.
Stay tuned for 2025 booth details!
These booths, similar to what you find at the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival, offer appetizer-sized portions of dishes as well as cocktails, beer, and wine.
Additional dining locations in the park also serve specialty food and drinks items throughout the event.
Even select restaurants in the Downtown Disney District often present specialty menu items as part of the event!
Be sure to click through to all of the individual pages from HERE to see photos and details about every drink and dish!
Click here to see the 2024 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival menus!
Click here to see the 2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival menus when they are announced!
Dishes include plant-based, allergy-friendly, gluten-friendly and kid-friendly items.
And guests can stir things up at Cocktails at Sonoma Terrace hosted by CORKCICLE® with an expanded menu featuring mixed drinks, craft brews, and a few bites available for purchase!
The Paradise Beer Garden also serves craft beers by the glass.
Festival Guide
Don’t forget to pick up a Festival Tasting Passport! Stay tuned for 2025 passport details!
You’ll find an event map and other features to help you navigate the Festival.
Want to see our BEST of the FEST? Click HERE to find the BEST Eats and Drinks at the 2024 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival!
2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Special Events
From signature dinners to celebrity chef appearances, there are often lots of special, separately ticketed Special Events to make your visit to the DCA Food and Wine Festival something extra special. In 2024, the epicurean encounters once again included Carthay Circle Winemaker Receptions, Trader Sam’s Mixology Seminars and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa Food and Wine Experience. A new event — A Gastronomic Journey at Napa Rose — made its debut in 2024!
So far, Disney has confirmed that Special Events are returning to Carthay Circle in 2025, and you can find details here! Please be aware that reservations for these experiences will open in January 2025.
Stay tuned for more 2025 special events!
We’ll post the full schedule of special events for 2025 with pricing and ticket information at our Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Special Events page as more are announced!
Disney Chefs and Visiting Chefs
Local, visiting, and Disney chefs share their knowledge at the Festival! For instance, you’ll find a COMPLETE LIST of the presentations at the 2024 Culinary Demonstrations here as we await the 2025 presentations.
Low-Cost Culinary Demonstrations and Wine and Beverage Seminars
Receive step-by-step instructions for a recipe, technique, or working with a specific ingredient from the pros! Local, visiting, and Disneyland Resort chefs present these 45-minute lessons, and guests are able to sample the completed creations. We’ll post the full schedule of special events for 2025 when they are announced! In the meantime, you can visit our 2024 Low-Cost Seminar and Demonstrations Page to get an idea of what might be available in 2025.
For all events, demonstrations, and seminars, theme park admission plus the additional fee per event is required. Subject to restrictions and change or cancellation without notice. Be sure to visit our Low-Cost Seminar and Demonstrations Page for all the info when it is announced!
Family-Friendly Presentations and Character Entertainment
Stay tuned for 2025 details!
If you have a little pastry-chef-in-the-making (ages 3 – 11), you may want to check out Confection Purrfection with the Super Kitties (inspired by Disney Junior’s animated series Super Kitties)!
In 2024, this cupcake decorating experience was held at:
- Monday to Friday at 1:30 PM, 2:30 PM, 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM; Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 2:30 PM
- Location: Hollywood Backlot Stage, Hollywood Land
Space is limited: guests may sign up 45 minutes before each showtime.
And what’s a Food and Wine Festival without Chef Goofy?? He returns for the foodie fun!
He often appears at the Hollywood Backlot, so you can say HI! You can also confirm appearance times on the Disneyland App.
Festival Entertainment
Be sure to keep an eye — and ear! — out for special Festival entertainment such as live music at Palisades Stage and the Paradise Gardens Bandstand.
And the Jammin’ Chefs return, as well…
… and they always bring a few Disney pals along for the fun!
For all entertainment, check the Disneyland app for exact showtimes!
Festival Merchandise
Commemorate your Food and Wine adventures with event-exclusive merchandise! Items include kitchenware and apparel. And, of course, it’s not a Disneyland Resort event without…
…. specialty Minnie Mouse EARS!
Sip and Savor Pass
The Sip and Savor Pass is a souvenir credential which includes credits which are eligible one food item or non-alcoholic beverage per credit at the Festival Marketplaces.
In 2024, Sip and Savor passes went digital! Guests can simply purchase a Sip & Savor pass, which comes complete with a barcode and a 4-digit code on the back. The barcode will be scanned whenever you purchase an eligible item, then you enter the 4-digit code. Your receipt will reflect the number of credits you have remaining.
There were TWO options for Sip and Savor passes in 2024 (Stay tuned for 2025 pricing and information):
A Sip and Savor Pass was available with eight item credits for $61.00. Magic Key holders could present their valid pass and a photo ID to get a discounted price of $56.00).
Additionally, a NEW Sip and Savor option was available with four item credits for $31.00. (No discounts were available for this half Sip and Savor Pass.)
In addition to the Festival Marketplace Booths, Sip & Savor Passes can typically be used for tasting-sized portions of Festival items at the following dining locations:
- Award Wieners
- Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta
- Cappuccino Cart
- Churros at Hollywood Land
- Churros at Pixar Pier
- Churros near Goofy’s Sky School
- Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream
- Cocina Cucamonga Mexican Grill
- Festival Carts
- Hollywood Lounge
- Lamplight Lounge
- Mendocino Terrace
- Paradise Beer Garden
- Paradise Garden Grill
- Pym Test Kitchen
- Smokejumpers Grill
- Sonoma Terrace
- Studio Catering Co.
- Willie’s Churros
The Sip & Savor Pass is often available for purchase at:
- Sip and Savor Cart
- Elias & Co.
- Julius Katz & Sons
- Rushin’ River Outfitters
- Seaside Souvenirs
- Festival Merchandise locations
Click here to see the 2024 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival menus as we await the 2025 Booths and Menus!
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