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

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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

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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

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One of the great things about the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival is that while you are enjoying strolling around the world showcase enjoying the great food, wine, and beers not only do you get to see the great sites of the countries around the World Showcase you also get the chance to see the works of some very talented venders. My wife and I have been going to the Food and Wine Fest since 2003 and we’ve enjoyed getting to see the works of and meet some very talented artists.

In 2003 Our very first time at the Food and Wine Fest we met and fell in love with the work of Heather French. Heather is a very talented artist who that year was selected to do the promotional poster for the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival. We met her late one evening towards the rear of the World Showcase. We just fell in love with the great painting she’d done for the festival and bought a print, it has hung in our dining room ever since. We had such a great time talking to Heather, my wife Tracy is an artist too so they had a lot in common.

Each year that we go to the Food and Wine Fest we look forward to seeing what Heather has on display. This year was no exception, we had a nice chat with Heather and walked away with a cool print of a black cat looking at a martini with an olive floating in it.

This year we met another great Heather. Her name is Heather Swanepoel and she has a booth set up for her Rinse Bath and Body Co. in the Festival Welcome Center in the former Wonders of Life Pavilion. We always head to the Festival Welcome Center first each year. We love to see what new merchandise and artwork is available. Well while we were looking around we found Heather’s booth and we just loved her products. Heather makes handmade soaps and body products, she had so many great smelling items. We bought quite a few bars of soap including the merlot soap which was one of the wine soaps she’d made for the festival. We’ve been using her soaps since we got home and absolutely love them, they’re all natural and smell great.

We were chatting with Heather Swanepoel about the great opportunities for artists at the Food and Wine Festival and mentioned that we’d just seen Heather French, who we’d known for years and Heather said that to only reason that she was able to be at the Food and Wine Festival this year was because of Heather French. They’d met and one artist helped another, so cool.

This year we went at the start of the Food and Wine Fest but we usually go the last weekend that it’s running in November so that we can also go the Disney’s Festival of the Masters. The Festival of the Masters is a great art show held at Downtown Disney around the Veterans Day weekend each year. Artists from all over come to display and sell their work. It is awesome!

I hope Disney keeps up the tradition of bringing inspiring art work to EPCOT and Downtown Disney, the artwork at the Food and Wine Festival was dwindled over the years. It’s one of the reasons we love to come to WDW at that time of year.

Heather French’s Site

Heather Swanepoel’s Rinse Bath and Body Co. Site

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We’re just back from the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival and we had a fabulous time!

I’ve got so many things running through my head to post but I wanted to get our Top 10 Favorite Foods on the blog right away.

My wife Tracy and I each compiled our own list and you’ll see that we each have different tastes. She leans towards sweets and for me it’s seafood. But all of the foods we tried ranged from good to Outstanding!

Before I get to the lists a big thanks to Amy at Ears of Experience for setting up our hotel reservations at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, it was great! We got a really nice room near the main building just like we asked for in our reservation.

We were at EPCOT Monday and Tuesday, 28 & 29 September and it was so hot!!! It felt like summer in Orlando… It was so hot I didn’t feel like trying many wines, I opted for beer instead.

The heat broke on the 30th but we were checking out to head home that day.

More to follow later, on to the lists…

Here are our Top Ten Countdowns with number 1 being the best!

Steve’s Top 10 List
10. Chicken Souvlaki -Greece, good flavor, pita dry
9. Rock Shrimp Ceviche – Chile, Spicy
8. Cheddar Cheese Soup – Canada, always a hit
7. Crawfish Etouffee – New Orleans, very good
6. Lobster and Scollop Fisherman’s Pie – Ireland, super, caution hot under the cheese
5. Lemongrass, ginger, Green Papaya Salad with Shrimp – Thailand, the shrimp was awesome
4. Tostada de Pollo (Corn Tortillas Filled with Chipotle Chicken) – Mexico, fantastic
3. Grilled Lamb Chop with Red Wine Sauce -Australia, mouth watering, nice sauce
2. Boston Crab Cake and Cabbage Slaw – Hops and Barley, absolutely wonderful!
1. Seared Sea Scollop – New Zealand, thought I’d gone to heaven on the first bite

Tracy’s Top 10 List
10. Taco de Cochinita Pibil (Corn Tortilla filled with Shredded Pork and Purple Onions) – Mexico
9. Spanokopita – Greece
8. Coconut Chicken Soup – Thailand
7. Warm Chocolate Lava Cake with Bailey’s Ganache – Ireland
6. Chicken Souvlaki – Greece
5. Praline Bread Pudding with Bourbon Caramel Sauce – New Orleans
4. Tostada de Pollo (Corn Tortillas Filled with Chipotle Chicken) – Mexico
3. Boston Crab Cake and Cabbage Slaw – Hops and Barley
2. Cheddar Cheese Soup – Canada
1. Ice Wine – Canada, not technically a food but a must with the Cheddar Cheese Soup
We had a great time, used a high SPF sunscreen and tried to stay in the shade as much as possible (hard to do at the rear of the World Showcase mid-day), the crowds weren’t bad, people were friendly, just a super time!

Food and Wine Pictures

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I’m getting really excited! We are heading to Disney World in just 8 days. We’ll be there the first week of the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival. We absolutely love the Food and Wine Fest. We focus on slowing down enjoying the beautiful scenery at EPCOT, and sampling all the wonderful foods and wines. We don’t worry about getting on every ride, we will ride a couple of the big ones at EPCOT, but we’ll spend most of our time strolling around the World Showcase Lagoon enjoying the day.

The Food and Wine Festival opens this Friday, 25 September and runs through 8 November. This will be our first time going so early in the festival’s run. We usually go in November around Veterans Day weekend. We’ll be arriving at Disney World on Sunday afternoon and won’t be going to the Festival till Monday. I imagine the opening weekend will be very busy but hope it will have slowed down by Monday.

We’ll be using our Disney Military Salute park tickets. Five days free for me and $124 for my wife. these tickets would normally run over $267 each so we’ll be saving more than $410!!! We’re just going to use three days this trip and will still have 2 days remaining to use before 23 December when the offer ends. We’ll probably go back late November or early December to see all the Christmas decorations in the parks and resorts.

We’re also taking advantage of the Military Salute Disney Hotel discount. I called my friend Amy at Ears of Experience and she took care of all the resort hotel research. She provided me several quotes on the different levels of hotels that Disney World offers. Amy found a fantastic price on a Disney moderate resort for us of only $301.74 for three nights. That’s a great deal it would regularly be over $490 for this time of year. Another great thing about Ears of Experience is that the price Amy quoted me is the same I’d pay straight to Disney if I did all the work myself. But I didn’t have too! Because Ears of Experience is a Fee Free Travel Agency, owned and operated by a military family, and they specialize in Disney vacations. If you’d like to try using Ears of Experience please let Amy know you heard about them here. Their toll-free number is 1-877-80MOUSE or check out their website
I’ll be posting reports and pictures of the F&W Fest. when I get back!

Here’s some more info on the Food and Wine Festival:

EPCOT Food and Wine Festival

2009 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival info

2009 Food and Wine Festival Guide (large .pdf download)

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