Best and Worst Booths at EPCOT’s 2025 Food & Wine Festival

If you’re headed to EPCOT’s Food & Wine Festival over the next few months but you don’t have the time or budget to try dozens of kitchens, we can help. We tried every single food item and 59 cocktails on opening day of the festival, and we can tell you what’s worth your time. Here are our top two Food & Wine booths, and one that we think you should skip.

The Best Booths at 2025 Food & Wine

Forest & Field is located on the pathway between the Imagination Pavilion and World Showcase. We loved the whole selection here, and we’re sure it will only taste better as temperatures look more like fall and less like the 100-degree heat on opening day.

The Pumpkin-Mascarpone Ravioli, $5.50, made our Best $50 list, and one sniff of the sage and brown butter will tell you why. This plate is also a qualifying stamp on Emile’s Fromage Montage if you’re after a free sweet treat.

Who doesn’t love an enormous hunk of bread with some cured meat, plus a little cheese and veg? We do, and we think you will too, so don’t skip the Schiacciata Sandwich for $6.25. If you happen to be using the Disney Dining Plan, this sandwich made our list of the best DDP snack credits at Food & Wine.

The Autumn Chili, $6.50, does have Impossible Beef, which we usually have beef with (badum bum), but the bread was lovely, the veggies were great, and we actually liked the whole thing.

End your fall feast with the Brewery Ommegang All Hallows Treat Imperial Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout, $5.75, and you’re going to need a nap. This thick stout ranked #10 out of 59 beverages we tried on opening day. It scored 121 out of a possible 200 points on our Pour Decisions scorecard.

Flavors from Fire is located just outside of Creations on the Test Track side. You’ll smell the wonderful smoke from the grill before you see the kitchen. The bill will be $31.50 to try all 4 items that we’re recommending here.

The Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer, $7.00, and Smoked Corn Beef, $6.50, were big hits with our team on opening day. We made lots of impolite noises over the beer cheese fondue smothering the beef and chips that are filling the bowl in the picture above. The Beef Skewer made our Best New Dishes list, and we hope it’s on the menu again next year.

The Montreal-style Burger Slider, $6.00, is also an Impossible beef item, but it didn’t have the same chemical aftertaste we often gripe about with this line. It’s a bit clumsy to share if you’re planning to cut it in half – but that’s what Tide pens are for. The garlic aioli and tomato jam are just so good on this burger.

Please don’t walk away from this booth without trying the Swine Brine for $12.00. This bourbon cocktail was ranked #4 on our Pour Decisions scorecard with a total of 150 points out of a possible 200.

The Worst Booth at 2025 Food & Wine

In a decision that will shock no one who has been reading about EPCOT Festivals for a while, Italy is our pick for the worst booth of Food & Wine. There are lots of reasons to skip this kitchen.

Let’s start with the food. The Bacetti “Kisses” di Pizza was underproofed, underbaked, chewy, bland, AND $8.75. You know those episodes of The Great British Baking Show where Paul Hollywood would ball up a baked item and turn it back into dough? And then he’d just walk away wiping his hands as Noel Fielding made those scrunched sympathy faces? This dish deserves that except with a bit more sass because you’re going to be irritated at wasting nearly $9 and several minutes in line.

We’ve all tried the frozen cheese tortellini from the grocery store, right? And most of us probably have a jar of some kind of vodka sauce in the pantry, too. The Tortellini alla Vodka, $8.00, is not as good as the one you make at home because the portion is smaller, it’s colder, and you just spent $8.00 to stand over a trash can to eat the most average, least Italian dish possible.

There is one okay-ish dish here, and that’s the Chocolate Spuma for $5.75. We actually liked the mousse and espresso whipped cream, but the portion was tiny and it didn’t taste good enough for us to suggest stopping here. There are so many other sweet treats at this festival that are worth your time and money.

Even the drinks here are not safe from our wrath. The Bellini Spritz, $15.00, and Italian Red Sangria, $12.00, ranked in the bottom 10 of our Pour Decisions scorecard. The Spritz scored 118 out of 200, and the Sangria received 110 points out of 200.

The entire booth feels like the kid who didn’t want to participate in the Science fair and threw together a quick Mentos and Diet Coke volcano the night before. We only go to this kitchen on opening day of festivals so that we can try every single dish. We never spend our own money here, and we suggest that you don’t either.

Do you have plans to visit EPCOT during Food & Wine? What dishes are you most excited to try?