BEWARE. You Could Be Making a Big Mistake at the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival

EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival starts on FRIDAY and we couldn’t be more excited.

Food and Wine Festival (2023)

There are over 25 food booths to experience this time around, each one of them serving up all kinds of new and returning dishes and drinks that we can’t wait to try. However, there’s a major MISTAKE we’ve seen lots of people making during EPCOT festivals as a whole, and we CAN’T allow you to make it this time around!

While the festival booths are typically the main event at each EPCOT festival, especially Food and Wine, we’re here to tell you that if you ONLY pay attention to the booths, you’ll be missing out on some pretty amazing offerings!

2023 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival Passport

There are multiple different stops in EPCOT that are open year round in the park that have special food and drink offerings for the festival! Lots of people completely forget to stop by these restaurants and stands to see what they’re offering for the festival, and THAT’S a major mistake. Oftentimes we love the offerings here, and sometimes they end up on our festival favorites list!

EPCOT Food and Wine Festival

This year, over at Communicore Hall, which just opened this year but has been open before the festival began, will be serving up the following on their Macatizers Menu:

Traditional Macaroni and Cheese with herbed panko
Cheesesteak Macaroni and Cheese with shaved beef, peppers and onions, and breadcrumbs
Truffle Macaroni and Cheese
IMPOSSIBLE Chili Macaroni and Cheese with sour cream and cheddar (Plant-based)
11 (!!!) different drinks!

And on the Festival Favorites Menu at Communicore Hall, you’ll find:

Kielbasa and Potato Pierogis with caramelized onions and sour cream
BBQ Pork Rinds served with pimento cheese
Key Lime Tart
8 different drinks, including a Frozen S’mores drink and an Irish Milk Shake

Communicore Hall

Over at Connections Eatery, you can grab the Korean BBQ Chicken Sandwich with pickled cucumbers on a brioche bun and the Blackberry Caipiroska, made of Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Minute Maid Lemonade, strawberries blackberry syrup, and frosted mint syrup.

Connections Eatery

Refreshment Outpost is also open all year, and during the festival you can grab:

IMPOSSIBLE Spicy Sausage with piri piri peppers and onions, and piri piri aïoli (Plant-based) (New)
Curried Chicken and South African Boerewors Sausage Stew with chickpeas and potatoes served in a bread bowl (New)
Chocolate Amarula Mousse Dome with white chocolate (Gluten/ Wheat Friendly) (New)
Keel Farms Blackberry Apricot Jam Hard Cider (New)
Habesha Cold Gold Pilsner (New)
Gulf Stream Brewing Company Cloud 9 Watermelon Hibiscus Lager

Refreshment Outpost

Don’t be fooled — the Refreshment Outpost is different from the Refreshment Port, but this one is also open year-round! During the festival, you can grab the Braised Beef Poutine and 4 different drinks.

Refreshment Port

And that’s FAR from all! If you want to see the FULL list of menus for this year’s Food and Wine Festival, check out our post below!

Get the FULL MENUS for EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival right here!

We’ll be at the first day of the festival trying EVERYTHING and bringing you our favorites (and stay-far-away-froms), so be sure to stay tuned to AllEars!