Food and Wine Festival

Hi Companions, 

I am here to tell you about one of my favorite festivals at Disney World and that is the Food and Wine Festival! Please note, this year (2020), due to COVID, they are doing something called The Taste of EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival so things might look a little different this year than what I am about to describe. Here I will be talking about the Food and Wine Festival when I have attended in pervious years before COVID-19.

The Food and Wine Festival is a festival held every year at EPCOT in the world showcase. Basically, if you enjoy food, you will enjoy this festival. There are booth’s with special food just for the festival all around the world showcase. If you would like, you can pick up a passport (not available in 2020). This passport has menus of different booth’s as well as places for you to get stamps when you order certain food items. You sometimes even get a bonus item for getting all of the stamps!

The most fun part about this is walking around and seeing all the different options. I have been the last two years during this time. The first year, I didn’t know what to expect and didn’t indulge much. Last year, I made sure to walk around the whole World Showcase in order to see what all I could get and I got some delicious food and beverages! The Tropical Mimosa was AMAZING. I have wanted another ever since I had that one! Then I also had some chocolate hazelnut cake on a stick and it was delicious. And one of my favorite things was the bun I had in Japan. It was a teriyaki chicken bun that I wasn’t sure I would like or not and I ended up loving it. And it was very easy to walk and eat at the same time.

Food and Wine is one of my husband and I’s favorites but I will say, you need to be prepared. If I had prepared properly, I would have been able to eat more on my last trip and be ready for the crowds. This is a very popular festival because of all of the wonderful food from around the world. I will warn you though, it is not cheap! You will need to budget in some money to spend at this festival as the food is not included with admission. Everything you order you will have to pay for. That being said, you can easily find snacks and drinks here if you don’t want to spend all your money buying all the food to make a meal. But if you want to, then by all means do! We are planning on going this year and eat all of our meals that day in the World Showcase with Food and Wine Festival food. This way we can try more and literally eat our way around the world!

There is also fun merchandise that you can buy at the Food and Wine Festival. Each year they have different designs and items but you can always find some fun kitchen items to go along with the theme. If you have the opportunity to visit EPCOT in the fall (usually late August through mid November), I would highly recommend it!

I know this year may look a little different and the Festival may be a bit scaled down, but I am still looking forward to it. It really is fun to just walk around and see everything while enjoying some amazing food. There are not too many places you can go and get that many different options of food in one area. Each country has their own dishes and it is fun to try food from all over!

Your Companion, 

Natalie

“What could be more important than a little something to eat?”  -Winnie the Pooh

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