food IS a theme park
Be sure to check out our 2010 Epcot Food and Wine Festival page. With schedules, booths and tons more info. If you’re looking for previous years you should also see them here:
2009 Epcot Food and Wine Festival
It’s time to start planning if you’re hoping to visit what’s known as “the most magical place on earth” this year!!
If anything, come for the decked-out Cinderella Castle!
But, how do you know when you should plan to make the trip to the Disney Parks? Well, a lot of things are still uncertain in 2021 and we’re still awaiting official opening dates for A LOT of hotels, restaurants, and attractions. But, we DO know a few BIG things happening this year — and, you won’t want to miss out on them!
It’s hard to believe but the 2022 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival will be starting in just a few short months! And, although we’re still waiting on Disney World to announce the menus for all the food booths, we have already received news about entertainment and activities that guests can expect this year!
We can’t wait!
But if you’ve never been to an EPCOT Food and Wine Festival before, you might have some misconceptions about what to expect. And that’s why we’re here — to clear up any myths you might have heard about the festival!
Planning a Disney World vacation these days looks a bit different than it did prior to the closures in 2020! Now, it’s not enough to simply purchase theme park tickets — those tickets need to be accompanied by a valid Park Pass Reservation in order to enter the theme parks! And these Park Passes DO fill up, so it’s important you grab ’em!
Cinderella Castle
And with park capacity on the rise, in addition to the anticipating park capacity increase in response to the CDC’s latest guidance on social distancing and fully vaccinated individuals, it’s more important than EVER to make sure you get your Park Pass Reservations as soon as possible!
It’s almost here! In July, the 2021 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival will begin! And we’ll be hitting up all the food booths and checking out all the festival activities and reporting in!
2020 Taste of EPCOT Food and Wine Festival
That means it’s time to get prepared! When we hit the festival, there are certain things we ALWAYS bring along — and so we thought we’d share our must-bring festival list with you!
Whether you’re a first-timer at EPCOT or you’ve been dozens of times, there are still some things there that a lot of people seem to miss out on!
What a Beautiful View!
Sure, you’ll want to ride Frozen Ever After and Soarin’ and see all the World Showcase pavilions! But there’s SO MUCH MORE to do at EPCOT, including a lot of unique and fun things you might not even know about. Are you sleeping on some of the best gems in EPCOT?!
Note that this post has been updated to reflect what to expect at Disney World in the summer of 2022.
So, hey, we hear you might be planning a trip to Disney World this summer!
Cinderella Castle
But before you start planning, we’ve got some tips, tricks, and information you’re going to want to know about! Whether this is your first trip or your 100th, things are still pretty different in Disney World. So hang on to your Minnie ears, because we’re going to tell you what you need to plan your trip and do our best to guarantee you have a GREAT time!
Last year, we got to enjoy the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival, but a few things were different or missing.
International Food and Wine Festival
One of the biggest things that was missing was the Eat to the Beat Concert series. The concerts were unfortunately canceled for last year’s Festival. Also, other similar events at EPCOT’s festivals — like the Disney on Broadway Concert Series that usually takes place at the International Festival of the Arts — have not taken place since the parks reopened after the COVID-19 closures.
The 2021 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival is still several months away and we really haven’t gotten details about it yet. But, we have found something that might give us a clue about the future of the Eat to the Beat Concerts at this year’s Festival!
It’s true…. The 2020 Taste of EPCOT Food and Wine Festival has been different this year.
2020 Taste of EPCOT
And while that’s true in several ways, one unique aspect was that new Food Booths — and even new menu items — debuted throughout the run of the Festival which kicked off on July 15th. Something else rather unique is that some of the Food Booths have only been open to guests on the weekends. But today, every single Food Booth we walked by on this rainy day was OPEN! [Read more…]
When we talk about the EPCOT Transformation, we spend a lot of time focused on the BIG aspects.
EPCOT Ticket Booths
Sure, the Future World work is exciting and we’re pumped for the Harmonious Nighttime Spectacular, but what about the small details? We love the colorful new paint that arrived on the ticket booths a while ago and now there’s another little update!
The 2020 “Taste of Epcot International Food and Wine Festival” (the official name for this year’s modified Food and Wine Festival) is drawing to a close later this month. This modified festival features elements of the Food and Wine Festival as well as the Flower and Garden Festival, which was cut short by Disney World’s historic closures this past Spring.
Remy at the France Pavilion for Taste of Epcot International Food & Wine Festival
We were thinking about all the unique aspects of this year’s Food and Wine Festival, and we realized that in some ways this is both the best AND the worst Food and Wine Festival of all time.
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