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It’s Time To Savor EPCOT

Author: Mike

This is the first weekend of our favorite event at EPCOT. The EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival is underway. We simply call it “The Food Festival”. It’s an event that we have attended every year since it began. It also spawned many copies in other places, but they pale in comparison. The event is promising some changes this year in the food lineup. I’ve heard of 30 new taste treats. The prices for the sample size plates are $3 – $6 this year. Up considerably from the under $2 that they were in year one, but it still seems worth the splurge for the gourmet level that many dishes achieve. The perfect weather here in Florida this weekend will no doubt contribute to some huge crowds, but we’re hoping that the Magic Kingdom 40th Anniversary Day which is also today will temper some of that.

Look for posts on our favorite finds to follow. Click here for your copy of  2011-food-and-wine-map

Tags: Food & Wine Festival
October 1st, 2011  |  Posted in Events, Food  |  No Comments »

Pixar Celebrates 25 at EPCOT This Weekend

Author: Mike

A special weekend celebration has been added to the schedule of the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival. It features a special venue in the Millennium Village that will host guest speakers from the Pixar creative team. The gardens already were host to a number of Pixar topiaries. Obviously it’s all part of the promotion for the release of “Cars 2″. Though it may have been more suited to “Hollywood Studios” it’s a nice treat.

To download a copy of the special guide map click here.

May 12th, 2011  |  Posted in Events  |  No Comments »

Map Out Your Food Festival Trip

Author: Mike

For many it’s perhaps the most anticipated Disney event of the year.

A fifteen year history has built a huge fan base that is drooling for a reason. We actually time our annual pass to begin and end with it, and we’ve been ti every one. A world of taste treats awaits us at the 2010 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival.

I know you probably grab a map as soon as you go through the turnstiles and sit on a planter wall by the restrooms by Spaceship Earth to plan your attack. So here’s one for you to peruse in advance of that so you can get to the food faster.

Download a PDF here 2010foodwinemap

See you in line!

Tags: Food & Wine Festival
October 18th, 2010  |  Posted in Events, Food, Props  |  No Comments »

Fire Up Your Italian Appetite

Author: Mike

The new restaurant at the Italy Pavilion at Epcot will start taking reservations Aug. 6 for Sept. 10, the official opening day. Via Napoli will have a “Grand Opening” celebration Aug. 5, but the restaurant will be in a “soft opening” walk-in phase with no reservations between then and Sept. 10.

There is one menu for both lunch and dinner. There are several vegetarian options, including the pizza Margherita, fusilli pasta in a Southern Italian-style pesto, salads, minestrone and more. The pizza will be the main attraction. Since the restaurant is table service only there will be no quick service. But the wood-fired pizza may well be worth the trouble. It comes in three sizes: individual; large with eight slices; and a “mezzo metro,” or half meter, that is 12 slices. That’s reminiscent of the full pizza we used to get in Pasta Piazza that used to be where the character greeting area is now located in Future World

Disney Dining Plan will be accepted (one point per person per meal).  For those of us who pay as we go the average check is around $23… if we can get in.

Tags: Changes at EPCOT, EPCOT Restaurants, EPCOT World Showcase, New at EPCOT
July 20th, 2010  |  Posted in Attractions, Food, News  |  2 Comments »