EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival

No. The festival is included with ordinary EPCOT admission and there is no event ticket at all. What costs money is the food — each Global Marketplace booth charges per item, typically five to ten dollars a plate, so a full lap of World Showcase adds up quickly even though entry is free.

Every night from 27 August to 16 November, three shows a night at 5:30, 6:45 and 8:00pm at the America Gardens Theatre, included with EPCOT admission and seated first come, first served. 33 acts play in 2026. The concerts stop on 16 November, five nights before the festival itself ends on 21 November.

• 27 Aug — Evolution: Motown
• 28 Aug to 31 Aug — Hanson
• 1 Sep to 3 Sep — Evolution: Motown
• 4 Sep to 5 Sep — The War and Treaty (new)
• 6 Sep to 7 Sep — Yellowcard
• 8 Sep to 10 Sep — Fly Guys
• 11 Sep to 12 Sep — Couch (new)
• 13 Sep to 14 Sep — Fitz and the Tantrums (new)
• 15 Sep to 17 Sep — Latin Ambition
• 18 Sep to 19 Sep — MercyMe
• 20 Sep to 21 Sep — Grupo Manía (new)
• 22 Sep to 24 Sep — Metro Latino Band
• 25 Sep to 27 Sep — Element
• 28 Sep to 29 Sep — New Found Glory
• 30 Sep to 1 Oct — Smash Mouth
• 2 Oct to 4 Oct — Champagne Orchestra
• 5 Oct to 6 Oct — Rey Ruiz (new)
• 7 Oct to 8 Oct — Tiffany
• 9 Oct to 11 Oct — Viva Latina
• 12 Oct to 13 Oct — The Fray
• 14 Oct to 15 Oct — STARSHIP featuring Mickey Thomas
• 16 Oct to 18 Oct — Jaclyn Hayden
• 19 Oct to 20 Oct — Ben Rector
• 21 Oct to 22 Oct — Allen Stone (new)
• 23 Oct to 25 Oct — SoundUp
• 26 Oct to 27 Oct — Lauren Alaina (new)
• 28 Oct to 29 Oct — Bowling for Soup
• 30 Oct to 1 Nov — Southbound
• 2 Nov to 3 Nov — Boyz II Men
• 4 Nov to 5 Nov — Big Head Todd and The Monsters (new)
• 6 Nov to 8 Nov — M-80's
• 9 Nov to 10 Nov — Grace Potter (new)
• 11 Nov to 12 Nov — The Beach Boys
• 13 Nov to 16 Nov — The Hooligans

A dining package guarantees a seat: Disney lists 15 restaurants, from $36 an adult at Regal Eagle Smokehouse, bookable only on the day, to $99. Everyone else queues, and the popular headliners fill the theatre well before showtime.

We priced every dish on the 2026 menus and recorded them, so the answer is a distribution rather than an impression. Across 108 dishes at 40 booths, the median dish is $6.49 and the mean is $6.79.

• Dearest — $12.50 — the Pumpkin Pie Funnel Cake
• Median dish — $6.49
• Dishes under $5 — 10 of 108
• Dishes between $5 and $7 — 63 of 108
• Dishes over $10 — 6 of 108

The shape matters more than the average: nearly six in ten dishes sit in a two-dollar band between five and seven dollars, and almost nothing is cheap. Ten items under five dollars across forty booths means there is no bargain lap of World Showcase to be found — the way to spend less is to buy fewer plates, not cheaper ones.

Drinks are priced separately and higher. Beers run roughly six to ten dollars, wine flights seven to fifteen, and the speciality cocktails reach $17.50.

Averaged across every dish a booth sells, the spread between the dearest and the cheapest is about three dollars fifty a plate — which over a five-plate afternoon is the difference between a cheap lunch and an expensive one.

Booths with at least three food items are compared, so a two-item cart cannot top the table on one expensive plate. France is the dearest booth at the festival and its cheapest dish, at $7.95, costs more than the dearest dish at Milled & Mulled.

None of this is a quality ranking. It is what the plates cost, which is a different question and the one nobody publishes as a comparison.

The EPCOT Food & Wine booth menus are published in full below, dish by dish and priced, taken from Disney itself — which is the thing this category ranks for and almost nobody prints.

Every dish below sits on Disney's own Food & Wine Festival menu for that booth, read on 20 September 2026. That is 88 dishes across 36 booths, food only — the festival drinks share the same menus and are covered above. Prices exclude tax.

Three booths are missing, and it matters which. The Wedge, the Brew-Wing Lab and the Joffrey's carts do not resolve to a menu in Disney's dining API. We hold no Disney-published dish list for them.

Their prices are in the distribution above, from the September reading; what we will not do is print a menu for them and imply Disney published it.

Disney's own menus confirm the reading we took on 8 September. That is the half of a cross-check nobody reports. The two sets count different things: 108 items then, including the non-alcoholic speciality drinks, against 88 food dishes now.

They land in the same place — median $6.49 to the cent in both, mean $6.86 against $6.79, cheapest $4.29 and dearest $12.50. One price had moved in the twelve days between them: the Remy Milk Shake at Sunshine Seasons, $10.50 on 8 September and $11.49 on 20 September.

Yes, but the reliable food is not where most people would look for it.

Disney publishes allergen-filtered menus for some of the venues serving festival food, and they are the permanent restaurants, not the Global Marketplace kiosks. Regal Eagle Smokehouse and Connections Eatery each publish a full seven-allergen menu — gluten and wheat, egg, fish and shellfish, milk, peanut and tree nut, sesame, and soy. Sunshine Seasons publishes a general allergy-friendly list without splitting it by allergen.

Sommerfest lists two items, for sesame and shellfish.

For the festival booths themselves Disney publishes no allergen menu at all. Its own instruction there is to tell the cast member taking the order that you have a special diets request, which means asking at every stop of a World Showcase lap rather than planning it in advance.

So the practical shape of the day changes. If somebody in the group is avoiding an allergen, the meals that can be checked before you travel are at the permanent restaurants, and the booth lap is the part that has to be negotiated stop by stop.

Four booths do not open with the festival, and this is the detail that catches people out because Disney's own marketing does not lead with it. Melissa was there on opening day, 27 August 2026, and found a World Showcase booth already signed for a 2 October opening — which the published menus then confirmed.

If a specific dish is the reason for the trip, check that its booth is open on your dates. A visit in the first week of September gets neither The Alps' raclette nor India's tikka masala, and a visit before 9 September misses Festival Favorites entirely.

Published counts disagree, and both are right about different things. Disney Food Blog says "over 30 Global Marketplace Food Booths plus additional locations around the park"; BlogMickey counts 47 by including those additional locations. Melissa counted the booths on the ground on opening day and made it "over 30".

The reconciliation is what each is counting. The Global Marketplace booths proper — the temporary kiosks built for the festival — number around thirty. The larger figure adds permanent restaurants serving festival items (Regal Eagle, Sunshine Seasons, Connections Café, Tangierine Café, Sommerfest, Block & Hans), the four Joffrey's coffee carts and the drink carts.

We priced 40 of them, which is every location with food rather than drink alone.

Nobody is wrong here and a page that picked one number would look more certain than the facts are. If you are planning a lap of World Showcase, the number you want is about thirty.

At the median dish of $6.49, five plates each for two adults is $64.90 before drinks and before tax. Sharing every plate between two — which is how most people who know the festival actually do it — halves that to $32.45 for the same five dishes.

Add drinks and it moves fast. Two cocktails at the top of the range is $35.00, more than the food. The honest budgeting rule is that the drinks, not the plates, are what turns a forty-dollar afternoon into a hundred-dollar one.

Emile's Fromage Montage needs five cheese-focused dishes bought across different booths, so at the median it is a $32.45 commitment for one person before the prize. That is worth knowing before starting the card rather than after three stamps.

Sharing is the most effective single lever, and it is easier than it sounds: every booth will hand you extra forks without being asked.

The merchandise list is the one thing on this page that comes from our own footage rather than from published menus, because nobody publishes festival merchandise as a price list. Melissa filmed the full range on opening day, 27 August 2026.

• Spirit jersey — $79.99
• Loungefly bag — $100
• Hoodie — $74.99
• Apron — $39.99
• Ornament set — $39.99
• Tote bag — $39.99
• Hat, ears, t-shirts — $36.99
• Tank top, glasses, tumbler pitcher — $34.99
• Youth shirt — $29.99
• Mug — $27.99
• Coaster set of four — $22.99
• Serving dish set, lunch box, small bag, towels — $19.99
• Keychain, magnet, notepads — $16.99
• Wine glass, tray, salt and pepper, measuring spoons, plate — $14.99

Two items per guest, on everything. That limit applies across the range and is worth knowing if you are buying for other people.

These figures are firsthand and uncorroborated — Disney does not publish a merchandise price list and no outlet we could find publishes one either. They are what was on the shelf tags on 27 August 2026, and they are labelled tier 3 in the sources below for that reason.

Every EPCOT festival runs the same two activities, and knowing the pattern once saves working it out four times a year. The first is a food passport — here it is Emile's Fromage Montage. You buy any five of the festival's cheese-focused dishes, scattered across booths around World Showcase, and redeem the completed card at a dedicated booth.

You collect a stamp with each purchase and redeem the completed card for a prize. The second is a character scavenger hunt, bought as a separate map, where you find one character hidden across the park. Neither is included: the passport costs whatever the food costs, and the hunt map is bought on its own.

Food & Wine's hunt is Remy's Ratatouille Hide & Squeak: little Remy figures are hidden across the park and the map is bought separately.

Weekday mornings, and specifically before about two o'clock. World Showcase fills through the afternoon and the weekends are the busiest days at EPCOT all year — Saturdays in October are difficult. September weekdays are the sweet spot: most of the festival is open and the crowds have not arrived.

For adults, yes. It is the only time World Showcase functions as a food event rather than a set of pavilions, and the range is wide. For families with young children it changes EPCOT for the worse — the crowds are heavier, the queues at booths are long, and very little of the food is aimed at anyone under ten.