Navigating Epcot’s 2025 Food & Wine Festival With Allergies

Navigating a food-and-drink festival with allergies can feel daunting. Disney is known for being extremely cautious and focused on safety concerning allergies. But no matter how well your restaurants can prepare for these needs, a food festival such as EPCOT’s Food & Wine can be tricky.

Can Festival Kitchens Accommodate My Allergy?

Typically, in a Walt Disney World restaurant, you can work with the chef or have accommodations made to your meal to make it safe for you to eat. Festivals are not handled in the same fashion. The Festival kitchens have a set menu, and although you can sometimes request to leave off a sauce or topping, there is very little that can be modified.

What Epcot is doing to help its guests with allergies has been evolving. They’ve made it easier to plan ahead and find which foods might work for you. Currently, the seven common allergens (seven instead of nine because Disney combines shellfish and fish and tree-nuts and peanuts) are listed with the online menus for most of the booths. They have QR codes in the passports and menu boards linking you to the website, which you can find here.

We applaud these improvements, but we also know how overwhelming it can be to sort through pages of menus looking for your specific needs. That’s where we come in. We’ve compiled Disney’s allergy listings into one easy-to-use resource, featuring charts posted at the end of this article that allow you to identify which foods contain your allergens quickly.

The biggest difference between this article and Disney’s allergen listings is that Disney focuses on which menu items you can eat, whereas we highlight the allergens you cannot. For example, Disney lists the sweet potato fries at Fry Basket as being free of egg, shellfish, gluten, and peanuts/ tree nuts. In our charts, we list the sweet potato fries as having milk, sesame, and soy. Hence the big red X in those columns.

Are the Festival Booths Safe from Cross Contamination?

Unfortunately, due to the incredible size constraints of the festival kitchens, there is no way to be certain that a dish doesn’t have cross-contamination.  However, there is one booth that feels safe because all three of the dishes have the exact same allergens- Gyozas of the Galaxy, which will open on September 28th.

We know that for many, their allergies are too severe to really approach any festival booth. We would suggest you stick to the many fabulous, established Epcot restaurants that are prepared to help you with your needs.

I spoke with the chefs at the booths that do not disclose their allergens on the website. All of them have a list of ingredients that the cashiers have available for you to look through, but they prefer not to be grouped into this article because their policy is to speak to each guest. Mexico indicated that they are entirely gluten-free, even the drinks, but they did not want to be on record to ensure safety.

The booths that did not include allergens on the Disney website are Mexico, China, Italy,  Japan,  and France. We respect those decisions, and we didn’t include them in our charts either.

How Many Menu Items are Gluten Free?

With the magic of a spreadsheet, we broke down how many dishes are free of each allergen. Obviously, it isn’t a level playing field, with nut allergies having the most options and gluten and milk-free having considerably fewer.

• 40 egg-free
• 19 milk-free
• 55 shellfish/fish free
• 19 gluten-free
• 61 peanut-free
• 47 sesame-free
• 21 soy-free

Which Menu Items Don’t Have Any Common Allergens?

The festival has three menu items that have no common allergens, and the TouringPlans team enjoyed all of them!

• The Rodizio-Style Grilled Beef Skewer from the Flavors of Fire Kitchen has none of the common allergens,  and bonus – it’s grilled onsite, outside of the kitchen. This helps with cross-contamination.
• The  Cast Iron-roasted Brussel Sprouts and Root Vegetables at Bramblewood Bites is a fantastic dish. Please note – there is a possibility of cross-contamination with milk and gluten.
• The Strawberry Champagne Trifle has none of the common allergens and is absolutely delightful!

Here Come the Charts!

Remember: The red X means that the allergen is a part of that dish.

Please check in with the cashier before ordering anything, just to be extra safe!

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