We’re not impatient…not really. Okay, maybe we’re lying. We are! We need more details about this year’s EPCOT Food & Wine Festival STAT.
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The EPCOT Food & Wine Festival is kicking off later this year, so we don’t expect to know much more about the festival for a while. Disney did reveal a few things that are returning to this year’s festival. However, we want to know the most important thing: When will we get the full menus for the food booths at the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival?
In order to make the best prediction, what we need to do is look at previous festivals. In 2019, the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival ran from August 29th through November 23rd, the same dates as the 2024 festival. The menus were released two months before the festival on June 28th. If things are truly going back to the way things were, we could expect to have menus at or on that same date.
2019 Epcot Food and Wine Festival
However, 2020 was a weird year for the festival. Disney World temporarily closed in 2020 due to the ongoing global pandemic. The festival ran from July 15th through November 22nd, and we didn’t have menus until July 9th — right before Disney World reopened.
This was the longest-running EPCOT festival EVER, but Disney was trying to drum up more attendance in the parks during a time when people weren’t traveling much. Note this was a more abbreviated festival, without the seminars and food demonstrations from previous years.
Food & Wine 2020!
In 2021, the festival returned and ran from July 15th through November 20th. We didn’t get menus until July 8th!!! Again, Disney was cutting it short. We got a little more notice for the 2022 festival, which ran from July 14th through November 19th — we got menus a few weeks early on June 29th.
2022 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
Okay, so let’s look at last year’s festival, in 2023. The dates were from July 27th through November 18th, and once again, we didn’t have menus until about three weeks earlier, on July 3rd.
So what does this mean for this year’s festival? Well, the 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival runs from August 29th through November 23rd. Although we would LOVE to get menus a few months early like in 2019, we think we’ll probably only get those menus several weeks to a month in advance. So we expect Disney to release full menus around August 1st at the earliest. That seems like FOREVER AWAY!
Mexico booth at the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
We’re also waiting to see if we get announcements about the return of seminars and demonstrations since those have been gone since 2019. EPCOT will soon have new dedicated spaces for festival activities, including seminars and demonstrations, with the opening of CommuniCore Hall and Plaza, so we certainly think there’s a chance those will return.
Of course, we won’t know anything until Disney makes these announcements, so for now we just have to wait…impatiently.
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Can’t wait! Also want to know about Eat to the Beat concerts☺️
we about an month away from start date and still no updates of any kind
Cant wait for some food info to drop on this. We go in about a month. I need to know what im eating and more importantly what im spending :p