EPCOT Food and Wine

The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is held at Epcot in Walt Disney World Florida each fall.

All the permanent countries of Epcot’s World Showcase plus many others set up booths around the World Showcase Lagoon. In these booths they sell tapas sized representations of their country’s food. To accompany the great food are small-sized servings of their country’s wines and other drinks.

I love to stroll around and try all the great offerings!

Here are some of my favorites from the 2010 Epcot Food and Wine Festival

Argentina

Roasted Corn and Cheese Empanada $2.75
Grilled Beef Skewer with Chimichurri Sauce and Boniato Purée $4.75

 

Belgium

Freshly Baked Waffles with Berry Compote and Whipped Cream $2.75
Godiva Chocolate Iced Coffee $7.25

 

Brazil

Shrimp Stew with Coconut and Lime $4.25

 

Canada

Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup $3.75
Chicken Chipotle Sausage with Sweet Corn Polenta $3.75
Inniskillin Vidal Icewine $5.75
St. David’s Bench Vineyard Merlot $3.75

 

France

Parisien Cosmo Slush $8.50

 

Greece

Greek Salad with Pita Bread $3.00
Spanakopita $4.00
Chicken Souvlaki with Tzatziki $4.00
Atlantis White $3.50

 

Hops & Barley

2010 Epcot Food & Wine Festival - Hops and Barley

Boston-style Crab Cake with Cabbage Slaw and Rémoulade $4.50
New England Lobster Roll $7.25
Pecan Bread Pudding $3.25

Boston-style Crab Cake with Cabbage Slaw and Rémoulade $4.50
Samuel Adams® Beer: Octoberfest $2.75 / $5.25 /$11.50
Ireland

Lobster and Scallop Fisherman’s Pie $5.50
Warm Chocolate Lava Cake with Baileys Irish Cream Ganache $2.75

 

Japan

California Sushi Roll $3.50

 

New Zealand

Seared Sea Scallop with Vegetable Slaw and Lemon Vinaigrette $4.25
Lamb Slider with Tomato Chutney $4.75
Villa Maria Private Bin Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc $3.75

 

Puerto Rico

Medianoche Sandwich $2.75
Bacardi Frozen Limón Mojito $7.25

 

United States

Bison Chili with Wild Mushrooms, Cabernet, and Pepper Jack Cheese $3.50
Heirloom Tomatoes with Oregon Blue Cheese, Red Onions, and Basil $3.00
Red Stag Lemonade by Jim Beam $7.00

Tomorrow is the start of my favorite time of year at Disney World. It cooled off some in Florida this week, the crowds have thinned in the parks and, The EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival is getting ready to start. I’d planned to be there for the opening this year, but it didn’t work out. Family obligations came up and I just got home from a week away (in the awful land of dial-up). I’m definitely going before the F & W is over, probably in November. My wife and I have so much fun strolling around EPCOT’s World Showcase trying all the great food and wines or beers.

Here’s a few links on the Food and Wine for you to enjoy:
The Disney Food Blog
The Walt Disney World Instruction Manual
Allears.net
WDWinfo.com

The EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival Starts next month (1 October 2010) and runs through the weekend after Veteran’s Day (14 November 2010).

My wife and I love to go to Walt Disney World during the Food and Wine Fest. It’s our favorite time of year for many reasons. The summer crowds are gone, it’s much cooler in Orlando, and the Food and Wine Fest is awesome. When we were stationed in Ohio we tried to go during the Food and Wine Fest every other year but now that we are in Florida we’re going to hit it every year.

During EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival all of the regular countries around EPCOT’s World Showcase plus quite a few additional countries set up booths on the walkway around EPCOT’s World Showcase Lagoon. At each of these booths they sell appetizer-sized portions of foods that represent their respective countries. They also sell small sized portions of wines and sometimes beers or liquors from their country. Prices range from $2 to $6 usually.

We just love to slowly walk around the lagoon trying whatever sounds good. We don’t go with a plan or the intention of trying to ride the rides. We just chill. It’s a very nice way to spend the day together, talking, looking at the sites of EPCOT, watching the street performances, and enjoying great food and wine.

We usually go near the Veteran’s Day weekend, it’s sure to be cooler then and it’s near our anniversary and birthdays. It can sometimes still be very hot in central Florida in early October. This year we were thinking that we’d use our Armed Forces Salute tickets the last four days of September and roll into the Food and Wine Fest but some things have come up and that’s not going to work. So the fallback plan will be to go at our usual time.

You should definitely consider giving the Food and Wine Fest a try. You’ll love it!

Here are our top ten foods from last year’s festival

Pictures from last year’s festival

Some of the nice things to see at the Festival

There’s lots of info online about the festival. Here’s a link to my the Food and Wine Festival on my new favorite site: the Disney Food Blog

Here’s Allears’ Food and Wine Page

And Disney’s official page