Epcot food fest: What it costs to eat one of everything, 2024 edition

Epcot food fest: What it costs to eat one of everything, 2024 edition

Suppose the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival was set up cafeteria-style. What if park visitors went down the line and took one of everything it has? What would that fest feast cost at the current prices?

That’s been a fanciful math exercise for the past few years, but so far Walt Disney World hasn’t introduced this as Figment’s Fantastical Festival Buffet ticket offer.

For these calculations, use the food and beverages listed in the official festival passport, which does not list the prices. Once those are posted at the festival, number crunching can being.

When there are menu duplications, count only one flavor. For drinks, include individual glasses but not beer flights, and go with the smaller of the servings when there are options. When there’s a drink that the park can add alcohol (The passport calls these “spirited”), take the virgin version. And don’t count merchandise such as souvenir flutes in the grand total.

Pencils down and trumpets, please. If an Epcotter purchased one of every food item – including desserts – at the 2024 Epcot food fest, they would owe $639.75. That’s an average of $6.81 per plate.

Throw in one of every beverage and it would be an additional $1,016.76. That averages out to $8.27 per drink.

And that brings the omnivorous total for food and drink, to $1,656.51.

Last year’s total cost was $1,651.94, so that’s $4.57 more in ‘24, an increase of 0.3%. If you’re part of the national focus on the rising price of eggs, this may be a surprise.

Comparing fests is a headache as the lineups shift annually, but it’s about 24 cents more per plate this year than in 2023.

Let’s not tell anyone how to spend their hard-earned $1,656.51.

More tabulations from the fest:

• The priciest 2024 item is a beverage: the Caymus 50th anniversary cabernet sauvignon, sold for $20 at Macatizers marketplace in the new CommuniCore Hall. Runners-up in the liquids division are GoGi pinot noir ($16 at Bramblewood Bites), the frozen French cosmo ($14.95, France) and Baiju punch ($14.95, China).

• There’s a two-way tie for the highest-end food item, and both are sold at the Coastal Eats marketplace near Mission: Space. The roasted warm-water lobster tail and the jumbo shrimp cocktail go for $13 apiece.

• Other solid foods above the $9 mark this year include the tiramisu funnel cake (near American Adventure) for $12, braised beef poutine at Refreshment Port (near Canada) for $10, the filet mignon for $9.75 at Canada marketplace, wagyu temaki sushi and eel temaki sushi for $9.75 each at Japan marketplace and the Italian-style “nachos” for $9.25 at Italy marketplace.

• Bargain hunters will find a few items for $4.75, including the key lime tart and the frozen s’mores beverage at Festival Favorites, pistachio cake at Tangierine Cafe and the blood orange agua fresca at Earth Eats near The Land. There are several breads and beverages priced at $5, just below the cost of a typical 6-ounce festival beer.

• The two new marketplaces attached to CommuniCore Hall are serving up 16 beverages, four types of macaroni and cheese and three food items at Festival Favorites, which is accessed from an exterior counter and open year-round with a rotating menu.

The Epcot International Food & Wine Festival runs daily through Nov. 23.

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