For 21 years Walt Disney World Resort has presented the Epcot Int’l Food & Wine Festival. This year the event runs from September 14 to November 14, 2016 and is the biggest to date.
Here’s a look at this year’s offerings by the numbers:
- 30 global marketplaces
- 300 domestic and international wines
- 50-plus wineries and more than 35 breweries
- 250 Guest and Disney chefs presenting culinary demonstrations
- 400 culinary demos, beverage and interactive seminars
- 375 hours of scheduled seminars at the Festival Center
- 186 Eat to the Beat concerts
- more than 225,000 festival dishes offered
- 100,000-plus desserts
Guests can sample tapas-sized dishes, delicious desserts, exotic drinks and wines from countries around the world.
Whether you wish to learn from Master Chefs or all about wines and wine pairings you can find it at Epcot.
The Eat to the Beat concert series is back each evening featuring the following artists:
Sept. 14-15 Wang Chung NEW! “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”
Sept. 16-18 STARSHIP featuring Mickey Thomas “We Built This City”
Sept. 19-20 Air Supply “All Out of Love”
Sept. 21-23 BoDeans NEW! “Closer to Free”
Sept. 24-25 Fuel “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)”
Sept. 26-28 Sugar Ray “Fly”
Sept. 29-30 Los Lobos “La Bamba”
Oct. 1-2 David Cook “Light On”
Oct. 3-4 Wilson Phillips “Hold On”
Oct. 5-6 Blues Traveler “Run-Around”
Oct. 7-9 Plain White T’s NEW! “Hey There Delilah”
Oct. 10-11 38 Special “Hold On Loosely”
Oct. 12-13 Jeffrey Osborne NEW! “On the Wings of Love”
Oct. 14-16 Tiffany “I Think We’re Alone Now”
Oct. 17-19 Dennis DeYoung: The Music of Styx “Lady”
Oct. 20-21 Christopher Cross “Sailing”
Oct. 22-23 Toad The Wet Sprocket NEW! “Walk on the Ocean”
Oct. 24-25 Chaka Khan “I Feel for You”
Oct. 26-27 Billy Ocean “Caribbean Queen”
Oct. 28-29 Living Colour NEW! “Cult of Personality”
Oct. 30-Nov. 1 Hanson “Get the Girl Back”
Nov. 2-3 Soul Asylum NEW! “Runaway Train”
Nov. 4-6 Delta Rae NEW! “Bottom of the River”
Nov. 7-9 Boyz II Men “Motownphilly”
Nov. 10-11 Sister Hazel “All For You”
Nov. 12-14 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy “Go Daddy-O”
The popular hosts from ABC’s “The Chew” will be back again this year. Five shows will be taped during the Festival.
No matter how you approach the Festival, you’re bound to have an eating/drinking good time!
Check out details of the Epcot Int’l Food & Wine Festival at https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/events-tours/epcot/food-wine-new-experiences/
