EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival
Start Date
August 27, 2026
End Date
November 21, 2026
Day by day
The festival runs every day for 87 days. Highlighted dates are festival days.
Start Date
August 27, 2026
End Date
November 21, 2026
The festival runs every day for 87 days. Highlighted dates are festival days.
Disney World Annual Passholders trying to book a park for Saturday, September 26 found three of the four parks full by late morning. Only Animal Kingdom still had passholder reservations for most pass types. It happened in a month when Disney made 11 days reservation-free for passholders, and every one of them falls on a weekday. No Saturday has been one all year.
The band canceled its Aftershock Festival appearance to grieve, but said this week it will still play all six Eat to the Beat shows at the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival on September 28 and 29. Guitarist Chad Gilbert, who died September 20 at 45, had already worked out every setlist with the band and was practicing to be on that stage. The band released all six lists early because that was the plan it had made with him.
Disney published the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival Foodie Guide on August 19, eight days before opening, with 221 items across 43 menus and not one price. Disney's own booth listings show India, The Alps, Coastal Eats and Earth Eats do not serve until October 2, and Festival Favorites, the booth holding most of the 30th anniversary throwbacks, waits until September 9.
Signage has gone up across EPCOT's Global Marketplace kiosks, photographed on August 18, and those signs name the 2026 Food & Wine lineup while Disney's own festival page has yet to name a single one. Several signs carry a teal Cheers to 30 Years! ribbon, and the country signs photographed so far print the year that marketplace debuted.
Disney's August 5 details drop for the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival revealed the merchandise line, a brand new Waiter Mickey PhotoPass Magic Shot across five World Showcase pavilions, and firm dates and pricing for both scavenger hunts. Remy's Ratatouille Hide & Squeak runs all 87 days of the festival. Pluto's Pumpkin Pursuit covers only 39 of them.
Disney says an all new interactive cheese exhibit arrives at EPCOT's CommuniCore Hall on September 18, but the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival opens August 27. That leaves the exhibit covering 65 of the festival's 87 days and missing the first 22. Last year the same space carried almost no festival theming at all.