TODAY is the opening day of the 2019 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival!
We’ve already tried allll the new menu items from every single food booth, so we decided to take on a new challenge — Emile’s Fromage Montage!
What is Emile’s Fromage Montage? We’re so glad you asked — it’s a NEW cheese crawl! If you remember the cookie stroll from last year’s Festival of the Holidays, this works pretty similarly.
In your Food and Wine Festival Passport (free!), you’ll turn to pages 39-41 and find listed the locations of five cheesy eats and six empty circles. Purchase the five menu items as you enjoy the Festival, collecting a stamp at each food booth where you find the snacks.
Once you’ve completed the crawl, make your way to the Shimmering Sips Mimosa Bar for your Complimentary Cheesecake!
So while we’re game to eat six cheese-centric eats on any given day, you’ll want to see what you’re in for. First up, the IMPOSSIBLE Cottage Pie from Earth Eats. This vegetarian dish consists of Impossible ground meat with carrots, mushrooms, and peas topped with mashed cauliflower, white beans, and mozzarella. You can get it for $5.00 or a Disney Dining Plan snack credit.
Next up, from The Cheese Studio: the Black Pepper Boursin Souffle with Fig Marmalade. This will also cost you $5.00 or a Disney Dining Plan snack credit.
One of this year’s NEW booths, The Alps, is offering their Warm Raclette Swiss Cheese for $5.00 or a snack credit. This is served with baby potatoes, cornichons, and a baguette.
At the Germany booth, you’ll find Schinkennudeln, which is a pasta gratin with ham, onions, and cheese. This will probably be very popular with the kiddos, and you can get it for $4.25 or a snack credit.
The last item you’ll need to get before receiving your complimentary cheesecake is Pão de Queijo (aka cheese bread), which you’ll find at the Brazil booth for $4.50 or a snack credit.
If you make it through ALL five of these eats like we did, you can head to the Shimmering Sips Mimosa Bar to pick up your Complimentary Cheesecake!
As you can see, this treat is SUPER SMALL but we enjoyed the pineapple and coconut flavors of the cheesecake. We thought it was light and refreshing after our day of eating all the things at the Festival.
This was a fun challenge and we think families would enjoy doing it together. We personally would’ve liked to have our choice of ALL the cheese dishes, but if you’re planning to try these eats anyway, you might as well get a complimentary dessert!
It’s important to note that Emile’s Fromage Montage does involve waiting in several booth lines. These lines can get very long, so just keep that in mind before you start this challenge! As long as you’re up for waiting in a few lines, this would be a fun challenge for your family to complete.
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Hi! Can you do the challenge over a couple of days or does it need to all be done on the same day?
Why do you say ground meat in the cottage pie? With the name IMPOSSIBLE I assumed a plate-based replacement for the meat. Even Disney’s sign that you have in another article says “IMPOSSIBLE ground meat”. Is there any meat in this dish?
Looks like the article is updated to say that the cottage pie is vegetarian.
I’m confused if the mozzarella is vegan. I’d originally assumed not but got info from Disney that suggested it is and that the entire dish is vegan. Would you happen to know or can you confirm?
Thanks for this and all the great Food & Wine coverage! Amazing work to cover everything on the first day.
Is there any word on if there is a way around the Germany dish if you are a vegetarian? I was really looking forward to doing this.
Destiny, that’s a good question. We didn’t ask, so I can only offer a suggestion. Sommerfest in the Germany pavilion does have a vegetarian Nudel Gratin, so you could ask to substitute that to get your stamp or explain your situation and see if they’ll give you the stamp without buying a dish. No guarantees, but it can’t hurt to ask. (You might want to make that your first stop so you’ll know if you want to complete the Fromage Montage or not!)
Caryn, our on-site team confirmed that it is vegan. You’ll still want to ask to be 100% sure things don’t change!
Jason, it’s Impossible ground meat. I clarified in the post. Thanks!
Claire, you can bring your Fromage Montage paper back with you to get stamps on a different day!
Hey Destiny,
If you read the description on the photo of the sign, it says you can try all five items or return to a favorite more than once. So it sounds like you can get two stamps from the same location to complete the challenge. I’m allergic to mushrooms so the cottage pie is out for me but I can definitely do raclette or cheese bread twice, NO problem!! Yum!
Thank you for this post!!! We are going in a few weeks and I want every single one of these dishes. I would have bought them and missed out on the stamps and a free cheesecake. What would I do without DFB?!? LOVE you guys!