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
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