Magic made with food: Disney’s Epcot’s Food & Wine Festival
ORLANDO, Fla. —At Disney World’s Epcot, the Food & Wine Festival recently ended. This is where guests can eat foods and drink alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages from around the world along with the Disney Park favorites.
The Food & Wine festival has many choices to choose from. To start, guests walk into Epcot and see the iconic Epcot Ball. Guests have a choice to go left or right into the land of Future World. If guests start to the right of the Ball, the first major food stand for the Festival is waffles. At this stand, guests are able to get mini waffles with three different toppings, two of which are chicken and banana. If guests start to the left of the Ball, they can start at a Festival stand called Flavors of Fire, sponsored by ESPN. One of the popular goods is a skirt steak and a corn pancake topped with pickled onion carrots and chimichurri.
Each country in the World Showcase offers traditional foods. The major thing that Epcot has is the Festival Tent. In the Festival Tent, guests are able to try the guest favorite foods from around the parks, making it easier for guests to find them.
In the Festival Tent, the four options to choose from are desserts, apple themed, the favorite, or mac and cheese. While guests get their food from the four stands, they are able to listen to Disney music from a piano player. After getting the foods of their choice, they can go and find a table, whip the mask right off their face and enjoy some amazing smelling food. When guests are done, there is a little hidden booth right behind the mac and cheese booth. This booth lets guests try and buy three different maple syrups from Burton’s Maplewood Farm from Indiana. The three types guests can try are applejack brandy infused, buffalo trace bourbon infused and a honey infused syrup.
Kindle from Burton’s said, “Disney really likes specific things that can be tried in Florida. So, it was worth the drive.”
One of the food guests can try in the tent is Lobster Mac and Cheese. This food is like having an explosion of buttery and creamy in your mouth at the same time. The lobster tail goes perfectly with the white mac and cheese. A drink that guests can try is Frozen Apple Pie. This drink is definitely an “out of this world” type of drink. It has caramel apple pie filling at the bottom then a cinnamon candy apple slushie topped with pie crust crumbs, making it so this drink really tastes like an apple pie.
The Festival runs from July to November and is included with any Epcot Park Ticket. The recommendation is to bring around $150-$200 to enjoy the foods from around the world and parks.
