Now that we have one long weekend of the 2025 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival in our collective belly, let’s also look at our bank balances.
Each year, we tally the prices from the many kiosks to answer the theoretical question, “What if we ordered one of everything. What would that cost us?”
Comparing fests is an apples-and-oranges exercise, so this is mostly for fun. But here’s a trend we can get behind: The total for the ultimate fest feast is less in 2025 than it was in 2024.
Our methodology is to count up the price of each menu item from the festival passport (also listed on the official Walt Disney World website). If there’s a small and large version, we take the less gluttonous route. When there’s an option to add alcohol to a drink, we go the cheaper way as well. We don’t include flights of beer, but do include them individually in the tally. Allergy-free options are not counted separately.
Also in the mix are festival items added to the menu of Epcot’s year-round restaurants, such as Connections Eatery and the Refreshment Port.
Oh, and for good measure, one bottle of water. Stay hydrated.
According to the latest calculations, if you get one of every food item at this year’s festival, you will be out $598.57. Throw in the beverages, with and without alcohol, and it’s $869.48 more, bringing the total to $1,468.05.
The total for 2024 was $1,656.51, so it’s a decrease of 11.3%.
So if you’re in all-you-can-eat mode, you save some coin this year. However, the average cost per plate for both years is a shade over $6.80. The beverage average for this year is $8.24, down from $8.27.
These numbers would indicate there are fewer menu choices this year, but you can’t say you can’t find anything to eat at Epcot, can you?
The priciest food item on the 2025 menu, the French onion burger from Connections Eatery for $14.49, is in line with its usual offerings.
The top price for a solid food at a kiosk/ “global marketplace” is the perennially popular filet mignon from Canada, which costs $10. But those are the only foods in double digits. Last year, they topped out at $13.
Other notes from the tally:
• Three new dishes from France are approaching $9 territory. A trio of escargot bites ($8.95), boeuf bourguignon ($8.95) and brioche aux epics avec une garniture mornay de trois fromages ($8.50). Throw in its creme brulee ($6.95) and the French cosmo ($14.95) for a total of $48.30, then waddle back to the parking lot.
• More relatively high-end offerings include flauta de barbacoa ($8.75, Mexico), Beijing zhajiang noodles ($8.50, China), bacetti di pizza ($8.75, Italy), seafood roll ($8.75 at Flavors of America), osakana karaage and beefy wagyu don ($8.50 and $9.50, respectively, from Japan), roasted lambchop ($8.75, Australia), short rib ($8.50 at Earth Eats) and zwiebelkucher ($9.79 at the Sommerfest walk-up). Also of note: a huckleberry funnel cake for $12.
• For me and my “value conscious” friends, some of the under-$6 offerings include all the dumplings at the new Gyoza of the Galaxy; Montreal slider at Flavors From Fire; all the fries at Fry Basket; pot and pea samosa from India; ham and cheese selections at the Alps; strudel from Germany; Basque cheesecake from Spain; chocolate spuma from Italy; three items at Greece; pao de queijo at Brazil; pumpkin-mascarpone ravioli at Forest & Field; a pork slider from Hawaii; Brussels sprouts at Bramblewood Bites; everything at Milled & Mulled, including carrot cake and bisque; and others.
• Liquid dieters can go nuts at Brew-Wing with eight drinks, including the return of the pickle milkshake, or at Italy, which also offers eight beverages in the prosecco-chianti-bellini-blood orange margarita family. (Those Italian choices run you $88.75 for the eight.)
• Top price for alcohol this year is $16 for GoGi pinot noir, found at the Bramblewood Bites kiosk. Runners-up include the French cosmo ($14.95), Hawaii’s O’aha Sunrise ($14.50), Japan’s sake otokoyama ($14) and China’s baijiu punch and Hainan Prosperity, both for $14.50.
• Note that Coastal Eats and Gyozas of the Galaxy marketplaces do not open until Sept. 28. Pace yourself.
• Finally, a reminder that price isn’t everything. The festival is designed for browsing and sharing, so bang-for-buck is a personal factor. And some drinks have more bounce per ounce, and that may or may not be a good thing.
The Epcot International Food & Wine festival runs daily through Nov. 22. Attendance is included with regular park admission (food and wine are not). Upcoming Eat to the Beat concert performers include KT Tunstall (Friday and Saturday) and TobyMac (Sunday and Monday).
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