Food & Wine Dates Announced: What to Expect at the Festival This Year

EPCOT’s International Food & Wine Festival will begin August 27 and run until November 21, 2026. The festival will run 86 days and will include many of the same favorites from the past. Below are a few of the highlights:

Food!

We’re always at the first day of every EPCOT festival, and Food & Wine is no different. We will eat everything, drink too much, and then let you know what was good and what you should skip! Check out the links below from our 2025 festival coverage to see what’s ahead:

• Best New Dishes at Food & Wine 2025
• The Best Way to Spend $50 at Food & Wine 
• Pour Decisions: The Top 10 Drinks at Food & Wine

Pumpkin & Remy Hunts

Food & Wine always brings two paid scavenger hunts! Each scavenger hunt is $11.99 plus tax. Annual Pass discounts apply.

1. Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit – match the pumpkin stickers on the back of your scavenger hunt map to the pumpkins located around the park. You may redeem your map for one prize at the time of purchase or wait until you’ve had a chance to find some pumpkins. The prizes last year, pictured above, were Disney character Halloween corn hole games.
2. Remy’s Ratatouille Hide & Squeak- match the food or ingredient sticker on the back of your map to the hidden Remy figures around the park. Remy will be holding or posing with the secret ingredient. Prize redemption is the same as Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit. The 2025 Hide & Squeak prizes were bento boxes with characters on the front.

Emile’s Fromage Montage

Buy cheese, get treat. Check out our how-to guide and review from the 2025 festival right here. We gushed over the Griddled Cheese in Greece for $5.25, and the Pumpkin-Mascarpone Ravioli at Forest & Field, $5.50, last year and we can only hope they make a return. We’d buy those two dishes again even if we weren’t going to be rewarded with a frosty treat when we’re done!

Eat to the Beat Concert Series & Dining Package

Disney hasn’t released the Eat to the Beat Concert lineup yet, but we’re speculating that we may see the same pattern set by the Flower & Garden concert series, Garden Rocks. Local acts performed during the week for Garden Rocks and bigger, more well known performers were mainly scheduled on the weekends. You can read more details here. We’ll report back as soon as the acts and Dining Package options have been released.