If You Have $10 To Spend in EPCOT, Don’t Spend It On THIS.

Welcome to the 2024 EPCOT Festival of the Arts! We could use a little refreshment after all the shopping, painting, and walking we’ve been doing lately.

Refreshment Port

The 2024 EPCOT Festival of the Arts has officially begun, and there is so much to see and do. There are tons of food booths with exciting menu items, shows and artistic performances to watch, souvenirs, and even an art-inspired food stroll to complete. But don’t let it overwhelm you — we’ve got you covered with everything you need to know. And now we’re heading to one spot in particular — the Refreshment Port — to give you the FULL scoop! Is it worth a try? Let’s find out!

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Menu

Over at the Refreshment Port, you’ll find a variety of available items. This year, you can try the Gnocchi Poutine and the Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie. There are also a few beverages, like a Blood Orange Cosmo and a Blueberry Lemon & Lavender Hard Seltzer. Both snack items are RETURNING from previous festivals.

Refreshment Port Menu

Now that we’ve taken a look at the menu, let’s dive into the food itself!

Eats

Let’s get started! We grabbed the Gnocchi Poutine for $10. This is a returning menu item, and it is made with red wine-braised beef, cheese curds, basil, and burrata. Last year, we LOVED the menu items here, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for more wins this year.

Gnocchi Poutine

As much as we were looking forward to this dish, we were a little let down. Unfortunately, we noticed that it was just overall dry. While there were some good flavors, it was just hard to each because of how generally dry it all was. Nothing in it seemed it bring any moisture to the dish. Poutine fans, you may still really enjoy it; we were just a little saddened by it this year.

Time for a cookie! The Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie is another CLASSIC Festival of the Arts menu item, and you can try it for $5.50.

Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie

This was an ooey gooey cookie that we thoroughly enjoyed! It’s a yummy chocolate chip cookie with the fun artistic twist of getting to paint your dessert. You or the kids can use your paintbrush to make your own design before enjoying you tasty cookie.

It’s a soft chocolate chip cookie!

Drinks

In terms of drinks at this booth, we got the returning Blood Orange Cosmo, made with Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka with blood orange, cranberry, and lime. You can try it for $12.

All cocktails at the Refreshment Port are all premade in a mixer at the back of the booth. Because of this, we noticed this drink was very juice heavy. We didn’t taste any vodka in our cosmo. Blood orange is certainly the forward flavor with cranberry and lime giving off hints at the back end. It was ok, but not our favorite drink of the festival.

Blood Orange Cosmo

The Refreshment Port is also service the Boulevard Brewing Co. Quirk Blueberry Lemon & Lavender Hard Seltzer. This is another returning menu item. You can try this seltzer for $12.

OVERALL

Just because it is what it is, we will continue to come to this booth. However, it was a bit of a let down this year. Poutine fans will probably enjoy the Gnocchi Poutine or the Traditional Poutine here and if you don’t like a strong liquor taste in your drinks, the cocktail could be great for you! Otherwise, we won’t be adding this booth to our Best of the Fest list this year.

Refreshment Port Full Spread

Phew — another EPCOT Festival of the Arts food booth checked OFF our list! But don’t worry — we’ve got PLENTY more reviews to share!

Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Festival of the Arts!

Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the 2024 EPCOT Festival of the Arts? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:

And don’t forget to pick up our 2024 DFB Guide to the Festival of the Arts at Disney World! See more details about the book below.

MAKE THE MOST
OF YOUR FESTIVAL DAYS

DFB’s guide to the Festival of the Arts details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.

It includes all the must-have information for navigating this colorful festival at Disney World, including:

  • 🍭 Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
  • 🖌 The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
  • 🎨 All the details on special events, artist meet-n-greets, festival exclusive merchandise, and more!

What items from this year’s festival are you interested in this year? Tell us in the comments!

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