2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Menus By the Numbers

The 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival menus are here, which means it’s time to start figuring out which booths are must-dos, which returning favorites survived another year, and how many new dishes Disney expects us to fit into one festival day! Or, if you’re me, it means it’s time to put all of the food into a spreadsheet and compare this year’s festival to last year’s.

There are a few interesting changes in 2026. The festival is technically getting bigger, with more food locations and more total dishes than last year. There are also significantly more new items to try. But if you’re visiting right at the beginning of the festival, your experience will actually be smaller than it was in 2025 thanks to a growing number of booths that won’t open until later in the season.

Let’s get into the numbers.

More Food Locations, But More Late Openings

In 2025, there were 34 unique locations serving Food & Wine-specific food items. That includes both the traditional festival marketplaces and existing EPCOT restaurants or other locations that offered special festival dishes.

For 2026, that number increases to 38 unique food locations, including one completely new booth: The Wedge.

So, on paper, Food & Wine is getting bigger. But that 38-location total is a little misleading if you’re planning to visit near opening day. Last year, three Food & Wine locations weren’t available when the festival opened. Those booths joined the lineup later in September. This year, six locations will open late, with some opening throughout September and others not arriving until early October.

That means the full 2026 festival won’t really exist until the beginning of October – more than a month after the festival kicks off.

There Are More Food Items This Year … Eventually

Across the entire 2025 festival, there were 94 food items to try. Of those, 35 were new compared with the previous year.

In 2026, the total increases slightly to 96 food items, but the amount of menu turnover is much more significant. 44 of those 96 dishes are new compared with 2025. That means nearly half of this year’s food lineup is new, which is a pretty substantial refresh for anyone who visits Food & Wine regularly. There are still plenty of returning favorites, but this year’s menus aren’t just the same festival with a handful of swaps around the edges.

There is, however, one important catch: 17 of those 96 dishes won’t be available on opening day because they’re located at the six late-opening booths.

So the 2026 festival will eventually have more food than last year, but opening day will actually have considerably less of it. If you’re visiting early in the festival specifically because you want to try as much of the new menu as possible, that’s something to keep in mind. You’ll have access to 79 food items at first, with the remaining 17 arriving later.

What Happened to Prices?

For dishes that are returning from 2025, prices are remarkably stable overall. The average increase is just 6 cents. That doesn’t mean every dish went up by six cents, though. The individual changes are a little more interesting. A bunch of returning items actually dropped in price by exactly one cent. So, for example, something that cost $5.50 last year might now be $5.49. Plenty of other dishes went the other direction by four cents, with prices like $5.25 becoming $5.29.

Those changes obviously aren’t going to have a meaningful impact on anyone’s festival budget, but there are a few larger increases mixed in. The Warm Raclette with Ham from The Alps went up by 79 cents, while the Filet Mignon from Canada increased by 49 cents.

There are also a few returning items that got cheaper. The best “deal” compared with last year is the Fresh Carrot Cake from Milled & Mulled, which is 51 cents less expensive than it was in 2025. So if you’ve been patiently waiting for the Food & Wine carrot cake market to turn in your favor, congratulations, now is your time.

Even though returning items increased by only six cents on average, the overall average price of a Food & Wine dish did go up a little more. In 2025, the average food item cost $6.77. In 2026, that average is $6.91. The difference between those two numbers is mostly about the makeup of the menu. Returning dishes barely changed in price, but 44 of this year’s 96 items are new, and those new dishes shift the overall average upward.

Still, this is not a year where we’re seeing dramatic price inflation across the festival food menu. Some individual dishes jumped more noticeably, but in general, the returning food prices are very close to what they were last year.

So Is Food & Wine Bigger in 2026?

Eventually, yes.

There are 38 food locations instead of 34, 96 food items instead of 94, and 44 new dishes instead of 35. If you visit once the entire festival is up and running, there will be more food to try and significantly more new food than there was in 2025.

But opening day tells a different story. With six booths opening late and 17 dishes missing from the initial lineup, the festival will start the season smaller than it did last year. So if you’re visiting in the first few weeks, you may want to check exactly which booths will be open before you start building your must-eat list.

For everyone visiting later in the festival, though, 2026 looks like a pretty substantial menu refresh without a substantial price increase. And with 44 new dishes to try, I’m going to need to start making some very serious spreadsheet-based decisions.