The 3 Things We ALWAYS Bring to the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival

Can you BELIEVE it?! The 2023 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival starts in just ONE MONTH!

EPCOT Food and Wine Festival | 2022

This year’s festival runs from July 27th through November 18th, and it’ll bring 25 food booths, the Eat to the Beat concert series, a cheese crawl, and more to EPCOT. While we wait for more details about the menus and other offerings, we’re preparing for the big opening day by sharing 3 things we ALWAYS bring in our park bags!

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A Food Tray

With so many great snacks to grab, you’ll need a way to carry everything back to your table. The snacks at each food booth come on small, individual plates, so if you get a couple of items plus a drink or two, suddenly it becomes very difficult to carry everything.

There’s a lot to carry here!

That’s why we always bring along a portable tray! You can load up all of your eats and bring it back to the table without worrying about dropping everything.

Plastic Cafeteria Tray

You can often find cute trays in EPCOT around festival time, but you can also get super cheap cafeteria trays on Amazon!

Shop Trays on Amazon 

The DFB Food and Wine Festival Guide

EPCOT already has a LOT of great restaurants throughout the park, but for the Food & Wine Festival, 25 MORE temporary marketplaces will be added, each serving unique and tasty eats. It can be a lot to navigate, so we’re here to help!

Food & Wine Festival

We’ve created the DFB Guide to the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival, which has more than 250 pages of information about this event based on YEARS of our team visiting the festival. The Guide breaks down each booth to help you plan out which you want to visit and which you’d rather skip. It’s also got our “Best of the Fest” list so that you don’t miss out on any of the best eats and drinks!

Food & Wine Guide

But when you’re in Disney World, you’re probably going to visit the other parks too, right? (We love EPCOT, but you can’t miss the other three parks!) So you can get our DFB Food & Wine Festival Bundle, which includes both the Food & Wine Festival Guide and the DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining.

Food & Wine Festival Bundle

With this bundle, you can maximize your time and money at restaurants all across Disney World. Right now, to celebrate being one month away from the Food & Wine Festival, you can get $5 OFF the Food & Wine Festival Bundle. Just enter the code FOODWINE5 at checkout to access the discount!

Food and Wine!

Basically, this discount means that you’re getting the Food & Wine Festival Guide for FREE with the DFB Guide to Walt Disney World Dining.

A Perfectly Themed Outfit

And if you’re visiting the Food & Wine Festival in EPCOT this year, you’ll want to make sure you’re dressed for the occasion. We’ve got a few different Food & Wine Festival t-shirts that are perfect for your trip!

DFB Exclusive Food & Wine Merch!

Just head to our online DFB Store to shop the guides and tees.

We’ll be watching for more updates on all the latest Food & Wine Festival news, so stay tuned to DFB!

Click here to learn all about the 2023 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival.

IT’S WINE & DINE TIME!


Food & Wine Festival can be a bummer. You stand in line waiting for what looks like the perfect treat, and it’s a bust. But fear not, dear friends, we compiled EVERYTHING you need (and the things to avoid!) to plan the ULTIMATE EPCOT Food & Wine Festival experience.

If you’re planning a day or a week at the festival, we’ve got every performance, activity, and tasty nosh detailed out so you can make the most of your time and money. Listen, it’s a tough job eating and documenting the nearly 200 bites and sips, but we do it all for YOU!

Save 20% on the 2023 DFB Guide to EPCOT’s International Food & Wine Festival with code CHEFS.

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Are you visiting the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival this year? Let us know in the comments.

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