Walt Disney World has released the full menu for the upcoming Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, with dozens of new items to peruse.
By our count, there are 30 new dishes to consider and four new global marketplaces across the theme park, three of which have menus packed with new-to-fest options. The foursome is dubbed Bubbles & Brine, Char & Chop, Wine & Wedge and Swirled Showcase.
Although the event begins July 27, some of the kiosks, including the quartet of newbies, join the lineup later. (Disney has shared exact dates on some but not all.) There’s time. The event wraps up Nov. 18.
Old favorites – we’re looking at you, cheddar and bacon soup and filet mignon at Canada – are back, but today we’re all about the fresh offerings. Here are fresh options for the 2023 Food & Wine Fest:
- Mexico has a completely new lineup featuring tostada de carnitas (braised pork on a fried corn tortilla), taco de costilla (a slow-braised beef short rib on a corn tortilla) and pastel imposible, layers of traditional Mexican flan and tres leches with guava and cajeta.
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- Italy also revamped its menu with focaccia ripiena, cavatelli with sweet sausage ragoût and bacon plus lemon ricotta cheesecake with vanilla cream and strawberry compote.
- China’s new entree is the crispy duck bao bun with hoisin.
- Japan is introducing fire taiko roll (sushi with spicy tuna, cucumber, and pickled daikon radish) and beef wagyu don, a traditional Japanese rice bowl with American wagyu beef.
- At Greece, there’s Impossible moussaka, a plant-based option.
- The Flavors of America marketplace has three new offerings: an Italian hot beef sandwich, cioppino (a seafood stew) and chilaquiles, corn tortilla chips tossed in salsa verde with ranchero chicken, queso fresco, cilantro-lime crema and a soft-poached egg.
- Flavors From Fire serves chimichurri-marinated skirt steak tacos and a spiced chocolate tart with barbecued potato chip crust, salted whisky-caramel and smoked sea salt.
- At the Alps marketplace, there’s dark-chocolate fondue with berries, pound cake and meringues.
- Brew-Wing at the Odyssey, which has a Muppet Labs touch, will have orange-cardamom wings, Impossible Buffalo chicken tenders (with plant-based blue cheese, plant-based ranch and celery) and the Muppetsationally named “Unnecessarily Spicy, Yet Extremely Tasty Scotch Bonnet Pepper-Curry Wings with cool cucumber yogurt.”
- Fry Basket adds to its tater-driven menu with pickle fries with dill ranch.
- On the very sweet side, Refreshment Port offers a cinnamon-sugar beaver tail, and that kiosk near American Adventure has a funnel topped with candied bacon, vanilla ice cream and a maple syrup drizzle.
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- The four new marketplaces are “opening later this fall,” Disney says. At Char & Chop, expect roasted porchetta with lemon-parsley salsa verde and shaved fennel salad, grilled Impossible spicy sausage and “Meat Assorti,” a trio of shaved meats with baby arugula, pickled mustard seeds, truffle oil and grilled ciabatta.
- Bubbles & Brine offers jumbo shrimp cocktail, Jonah crab claw cocktail and caviar with traditional accompaniments, champagne cream and blini.
- Wine & Wedge goes with assorted artisanal cheeses, boursin fig and balsamic soufflé with fig tapenade, Southern pimento cheese and an item with artisanal cheeses and accoutrements paired with Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese, Hartley apple brandy and Florida Orange Groves Winery Black and Blue Port.
Additional festival marketplaces include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Coastal Eats, Connections Cafe, Connections Eatery, France, Germany, Hawaii (which opens Aug. 15), India, Ireland, four Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea locations, Kenya, Noodle Exchange (debuting Aug. 15), Simmering Sips, Spain and Tangierine Cafe (Morocco pavilion). read more