The full menu lineup for the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival is now available ahead of the festival's August 27 opening. The event is scheduled to run through November 21, but six marketplaces will not be open for the full festival.
That timing detail matters as much as the menus. Guests visiting during opening week will have access to the main festival lineup, but should not expect every booth or every cheese-crawl option to be available.
Key details
- Festival dates: August 27 through November 21, 2026.
- The Wedge opens September 18 and is scheduled through November 8.
- Festival Favorites opens September 9.
- Coastal Eats, Earth Eats, The Alps, and India open October 2.
- Emile's Fromage Montage requires five qualifying items for its completion prize.
- The cheese crawl can be completed across multiple visits during the festival.
The menus are public; availability is not uniform
WDWNT reports that the complete festival menus have been released. The main operational caveat comes from Disney Food Blog's review of the phased marketplace schedule: several locations will arrive after the August 27 opening.
The Wedge, hosted by Dairy Does More in CommuniCore Hall, will operate September 18 through November 8. Festival Favorites begins September 9. Coastal Eats, Earth Eats, The Alps, and India are scheduled to begin October 2 and remain open through the festival's end.
That creates three planning windows. Opening-week guests can enjoy the standard booths but will miss all six delayed marketplaces. September visitors gain Festival Favorites on September 9 and The Wedge on September 18. October visitors receive the full announced booth list beginning October 2, subject to day-of operational availability.
Emile's Fromage Montage has its own calendar
The festival's cheese crawl, Emile's Fromage Montage, returns with a list of qualifying dishes. Guests purchase five qualifying items, collect stamps in a festival passport, and redeem the completed passport at Shimmering Sips for the festival treat.
The key detail is that the five purchases do not have to happen in one day. That makes the activity more flexible for guests visiting EPCOT repeatedly during the festival.
Several qualifying dishes are tied to the later-opening booths. The Wedge's cheese selections and macaroni dishes are not scheduled until September 18. Festival Favorites' pumpkin cheesecake mousse trifle begins September 9. Earth Eats' red wine-braised beef short rib does not begin until October 2.
Other reported qualifying selections include warm raclette at The Alps, tartiflette at The Alps, Schinkennudeln in Germany, Basque cheesecake in Spain, griddled cheese in Greece, pão de queijo in Brazil, pineapple cheesecake in Hawaii, and pumpkin-mascarpone ravioli at Forest & Field.
How to use the information
For an August 27 or early-September trip, it is better to make a shortlist from the marketplaces that will actually be open than to plan around the full menu. A guest visiting only during opening weekend will not be able to complete a five-item cheese crawl using offerings that are scheduled to arrive later.
For a longer trip or multiple EPCOT days, the staggered calendar can be useful. Guests can try the main menu early, then return after September 18 or October 2 for the remaining booths.
Food & Wine remains a festival with limited-time menus and individual-item availability can change. The published schedules provide the most useful baseline, but a same-day check is still prudent before crossing the park for a particular dish.
