The 2017 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival is returning for its 22nd year and there are already a number of records that will be broken. Not only will it run for a record 75 days but it will also have a record number 35 marketplaces for Guests to enjoy.
The Epcot Food & Wine Festival will begin on Aug. 31 and run through Nov. 13 in 2017 which makes for a long time to enjoy your favorites and new things as well.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Epcot’s opening in 1982, there will be a record number of 35 food kiosks set up all around World Showcase. The Disney Parks Blog detailed some of the new locations and great new food dishes coming this year.
While the Marketplaces play a starring role, we recommend planning ahead so you don’t miss your favorite celebrity chefs, hands-on culinary workshops and demonstrations at the Festival Center, Party for the Senses, or your favorite artists at one of the nightly Eat to the Beat concerts. Stay tuned. We’ll let you know when schedules are in place and bookings for specialty festival events open this summer.
Chefs are busy at work on new dishes for the Marketplaces, paired with wines, beers and ciders. We got a taste of the new crispy chicken with griddled cornbread and red-eye gravy for the Farm Fresh Marketplace and the spicy Korma Chicken with cucumber-tomato salad, almonds, cashews and warm naan bread from the India Marketplace– just two of the intriguing and delectable new tastes that will be in the 2017 cookbook. Another favorite was the charcuterie in a cone from the Spain Marketplace, perfect for strolling and tasting. For a favorite sweet, it’s back to India with the pistachio cardamom cake with a dollop of chocolate coconut mousse. And these are just a sampling of dozens of new tastes.
This year there are more family favorites, too, with the Ratatouille-inspired scavenger hunt back for another year as well as culinary demos and dishes geared toward kids’ palates.
The 75-day length of time for this year’s Food & Wine Festival at Epcot is indeed a record. So, prepare yourself for a lot more food, wine, celebrity chefs, premium events, Eat to the Beat Concerts, merchandise, and more.
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