EPCOT's 2026 Food & Wine Menus Are Out, and Four Global Marketplaces Do Not Open Until October 2

Disney published the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival Foodie Guide on Wednesday morning, eight days before the festival opens on August 27. It is the full reveal: 43 menus, 221 distinct items, and the 30th anniversary throwbacks Disney has been teasing since spring.

It is also missing two things a planner needs. There are no prices anywhere in it. And it does not mention that six of the locations it lists will be closed when the festival starts.

Four marketplaces sit out the first five weeks

The Foodie Guide presents the roster as though all of it arrives at once. Disney's own Global Marketplaces page does not. Four kiosks carry a "Location Opens October 2" label: India, The Alps, Coastal Eats and Earth Eats. October 2 is 36 days into an 87 day festival.

Two more open on their own schedules. Festival Favorites, the booth built around dishes from festivals past, opens September 9. The Wedge in CommuniCore Hall runs only from September 18 to November 8, the window we reported on August 5 when Disney first posted its Cheers to Cheese dates.

Anyone visiting before September 9 will find all six shut. That includes the booth carrying most of the anniversary menu, and it includes The Alps, home of the Warm Raclette Swiss Cheese that Disney flags as a 1997 original.

This sits awkwardly next to the booth signage photographed around the park on Tuesday, which we covered yesterday. Most of those signs finished with a cream "Coming Soon" corner decal printing one date in small type: AUGUST 27th. Disney's website now says four of the kiosks will still be closed five weeks after that.

The Potato Pierogi, first served in 1996 at the long retired Poland marketplace, returns this year at Festival Favorites. That booth does not open until September 9. Photo: Disney

Not a single price, eight days out

The Foodie Guide names 221 items and prices none of them. The only dollar figure in the whole post is the $15 minimum activation on the festival's Disney Gift Card wristlets.

Disney's official Global Marketplaces page is no better. It carries descriptions, opening dates and an allergy notice, and not one price. The individual marketplace menu pages it links to, including Australia, Canada and India, sit on a "Loading menu..." spinner with nothing behind it.

The plumbing works when Disney fills it. The link for the Festival Favorites menu currently resolves to Grab-N-Goof, the same World Celebration kiosk's off season identity, and that menu is fully priced, down to a $4.49 Gawrsh! Worms Everywhere Cake. The festival data is simply not loaded yet.

Last year Disney moved sooner. Outlets including WDW News Today, AllEars and the Disney Food Blog reported festival prices on August 14, 2025, two weeks ahead of that year's August 28 opening. This year, with eight days to go, no price has been published for any of the 221 items. Disney's page carries the usual line that menu items, pricing and hours are subject to change without notice.

Thirty items, and the retired booths they came back from

Disney says the guide holds "30 items that have returned or been reimagined from across the years," each flagged with a 30th anniversary icon. We counted every one of them. There are exactly 30.

The useful part is the provenance line printed under each: the year the dish debuted and, where it differs from this year's home, the marketplace that served it. Several of those marketplaces are long gone.

Back from retired booths: the Potato Pierogi (Poland, 1996) and the Frozen Szarlotka (Poland, 2013), the Sweet Potato Mealie Pap (South Africa, 2004), the Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer (Argentina, 2009), the Bo Ssam Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps (South Korea, 2010), the Liquid Nitrogen Almond Truffle Mousse (Chew Lab, 2015) and the Crab and Corn Macaroni and Cheese (Farm Fresh, 2015).

Four items date to the very first festival in 1996 and come back to the pavilion that served them: the Apple Strudel at Germany, the Dumplings Trio at China, the Spicy Temaki Hand Roll at Japan and the Trio d'Escargots at France.

The Bo Ssam Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps date to the 2010 South Korea marketplace and return at Festival Favorites. Disney tags the dish as new even though it is a revival. Photo: Disney

What else the guide confirms

100 of the 221 items carry a New! tag, among them the two Disney singled out in its own introduction: the Basil Pesto Chicken Dumplings at Gyozas of the Galaxy and the Smoked Brisket and Cheddar Melt at Hops & Barley. Read that tag loosely. It covers revivals as well as inventions, which is how a 2010 dish ends up marked new.

Emile's Fromage Montage returns. Buy five items marked with the cheese icon, collect the stamps in a Festival Passport, and redeem the reward at Shimmering Sips.

The Wedge, hosted by Dairy Does More, is the new CommuniCore Hall location. It pours a Cannoli Milk Shake and serves three macaroni and cheese variations plus a wine and cheese pairing, from September 18 to November 8 only.

The menus themselves are the easy part, and this year's look strong. The harder questions for anyone booking a late August or early September trip are which windows will actually be open and what any of it costs. Eight days out, Disney has answered neither.

Sources

• Disney Parks Blog, "Disney Eats: EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival Foodie Guide 2026"
• Walt Disney World, Global Marketplace Booths at EPCOT Food and Wine Festival
• Walt Disney World, EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival

Image credits: featured Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer, Potato Pierogi and Bo Ssam Pork Belly Lettuce Wraps photos by Disney.