FULL Guide to Entertainment at the 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival

Who’s ready to party it up at the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival? I know I sure am!

Beyond incredible foods to try, there are also lots of fun experiences that are only around during the festival. This year, the festival runs from August 28th to November 22nd, so make sure you have those dates marked in your calendar to catch all the events.

Eat to the Beat Concert Series

If you aren’t going to a FREE concert in EPCOT, what are you doing? The Eat to the Beat Concert Series is an entirely free concert at the American Gardens Theatre in the American Adventure Pavilion, where artists perform concerts three times a night.

The best part? We’re talking about real bands and singers! There have been super popular bands like The Fray and Boyz II Men, and for 2025, The Beach Boys and Bowling for Soup are brand new to the series. Artists perform at 5:30 PM, 6:45 PM, and 8 PM, which gives you three showtimes to catch them.

Local bands perform Tuesday through Thursday, and bigger bands and artists perform from Friday to Monday. While you can walk up and get in line, if there’s an artist you know you don’t want to miss (for me, it’s definitely Bowling for Soup and The Fray), you can purchase an Eat to the Beat Dining Package. This package gets you a whole meal at an EPCOT restaurant and seating for a concert the same day. Score!

The first night of the 2025 Festival saw classic rock cover band 4NRS Journey take the stage.

Remy’s Ratatouille Hide ‘n’ Squeak Scavenger Hunt

I don’t know about you, but I love an EPCOT scavenger hunt. There’s one for every festival, and for Food & Wine, it’s the Remy’s Ratatouille Hide ‘n’ Squeak Scavenger Hunt. You get to find small Remy statues throughout EPCOT and put on the coordinating sticker.

Once you put on all the stickers, you can return it for a prize! The map is $11.99, and while I think it’s more fun to complete it and then grab your prize, you can also grab it when you purchase your map if you don’t want to head back after.

You can purchase maps at Creation Shop, Disney Traders, and Festival Merchandise kiosks, and you can get your prizes at Disney Traders, Gateway Gifts, Creations Shop, and World Traveler. For the Food & Wine Festival, the prize is once again kitchen-related…

…a cute bento box!

Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit

There’s another scavenger hunt that comes around this time, too! Meet Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit, which starts on September 2nd. This Halloween-themed scavenger hunt has you running around EPCOT looking for themed pumpkins.

Once you find all the pumpkins, return your map and you’ll get a prize! Stay tuned for what this year’s prize will be.

CommuniCore Hall and Plaza

CommuniCore Hall is being used for GoofyCore, a fun dance party with Goofy, during Cool Kid Summer, and it previously had flower displays for the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival.

During the EPCOT Festival of the Arts, it had a Disney on Broadway exhibit featuring real theater props. We’re excited to see what’s coming!

GoofyCore ends on September 1st, so we expect to see these changes soon.

Meet and Greets

Did you know there’s a special meet and greet during the Food & Wine Festival? You can meet Daisy Duck in her chef’s outfit near the entrance at International Gateway.

Make sure you keep an eye out for her!

Living with the Land Overlay

If you love Living with the Land as much as we do, you’ll need to check it out for the different festivals. For the festival last year, they labeled which ingredients were part of different food booths that you could actually eat.

This year, we spotted some fun additions like this fruit and vegetable stand!

Spaceship Earth Light Show

At dusk, a special show plays on Spaceship Earth. During the festivals, there are different songs, but for the Food & Wine Festival, it’s “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast.

We’re bringing you all the details you need to know during the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival, so make sure you keep following AllEars for more!

MENUS REVEALED FOR THE 2025 EPCOT FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL

Are you going to the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival this year? Tell us what you’re looking forward to in the comments.

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