food IS a theme park
The 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival has been feeding us since August, so by October, you’d think we’d have our favorites pretty well locked down. You would be wrong…
2026 Food and Wine Festival
Disney saved FOUR Marketplace booths for a later opening, and when The Alps, Coastal Eats, India, and Earth Eats finally joined the party on October 2nd, we did what we always do: We ate EVERYTHING. And one booth came dangerously close to rearranging our entire Best of the Fest hierarchy.
There are 83 priced dishes on this year’s EPCOT Food and Wine Festival menu right now, and if you wanted to order one of every single one, you’d be looking at a grand total of $585.
Spain Full Spread
Obviously nobody is walking World Showcase with that kind of budget (or that kind of stomach capacity), so instead of eating everything (like us — hey, it was research!), we figured out exactly which dishes are worth your money this year. Here’s our running Best of the Fest list, straight from our own reviews.
Every year, thousands of people walk into the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival with a beautiful, reasonable goal: eat a few things, drink something fun, maybe complete a cheese crawl, and make it back to Spaceship Earth without needing to loosen their waistband. We are not those people.
Food & Wine Opening Day
On opening day, the DFB team arrives at EPCOT with phones charged, portable batteries packed, assignments made, spreadsheets open, food trays ready, and the collective determination to eat, photograph, film, review, and document essentially the ENTIRE festival. And then, while our reporters are sprinting around World Showcase carrying six plates and a rapidly melting dessert, there’s another team at home downloading photos, editing video, writing reviews, updating pages, building social posts, and sending increasingly frantic messages asking, “DID THE CHEESE PHOTO UPLOAD?”
Things are ALWAYS changing in Disney World! Lately, the parks are entirely new places thanks to updates like Villains Land, Piston Peak, Monsters, Inc. Land, and more.
The EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival
Each week, it feels like Disney is constantly dropping new information and news! That’s why we like to do a weekly wrap-up of the biggest news so you don’t miss a single thing. Let’s dive into the latest and greatest Disney news from Sunday, August 23rd to Saturday, August 29th, 2026.
We came. We saw. We conquered. And we ate…a lot. Yes, we were at the opening day of the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival, and we did EVERYTHING there was to do and saw everything there was to see.
EPCOT Food and Wine Festival Passport
Of course, we also ate everything there was to eat! Now that all our reviews are in, we’re going to give you a full list of our faves, aka everything you need to try at the festival.
Who’s ready to EAT?!
2026 Hawai’i Booth
The EPCOT Food & Wine Festival is BACK, and we couldn’t be more excited! With dozens of fun food booths and some specialty dishes for the 30th Anniversary of the festival, there’s a lot to celebrate. We visited the Hawai’i booth to check out their eats for 2026, and now we’re here to give our full review. Let’s go!
The EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is almost here, and Disney has FINALLY released the menus. The 2026 festival runs from August 27th through November 21st, giving us nearly three months to roam around World Showcase carrying tiny plates, tiny forks, and increasingly complicated opinions about cheese.
EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
And this year is a big one. Food & Wine is celebrating its 30th anniversary, with Disney bringing back or reimagining 30 dishes from festivals past. Naturally, we went straight to the menus to see what was new. But we also noticed something very important. A LOT of things we loved in 2025 are coming back.
EPCOT is about to do one of its classic seasonal costume changes, and this time, it means the flowers, food booths, topiaries, and springtime snacks are all packing their tiny festival suitcases.
Flower and Garden Topiaries
The 2026 EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival ends on June 1st, which means you have just a few days left to get your final festival lap in before EPCOT starts shifting toward its next big food-focused era. And look, EPCOT is always going to be EPCOT. Spaceship Earth will still be standing there like a giant golf ball with secrets. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind will still be launching people into emotional disco orbit. But the Flower & Garden Festival? That’s seasonal. Once it’s gone, a LOT changes fast.
It’s officially time for the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival! If you’re overwhelmed by ALL the different snack options to choose from, don’t worry, we’ve tried them all, and we’re telling you which ones you NEED to have.
Frozen Desert Violet Lemonade
This year, the Flower and Garden Festival runs till June 1st, and we have the 2026 Best of the Fest right here at Disney Food Blog. Sit back, grab a notebook, and be prepared to be hungry!
One of the BEST festivals has returned to Disney California Adventure in Disneyland! The Lunar New Year Festival runs from January 23rd through February 22nd, 2026, this year, and we’re bringing you everything you need to know.
Lucky 8 Lantern Full Spread
The festival brings in special entertainment, characters, and more, but most importantly, it brings in food booths with some seriously stellar eats and drinks. We’ve visited the festival and pretty much tasted EVERYTHING, so we’re sharing everything you need to eat and drink at the 2026 Lunar New Year Festival!
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