Review: Festival Favorites Returns to EPCOT for 2025 International Food & Wine Festival

Jamie Rowland

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A collage of 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival treats, entrance, and the outdoor menu board.

Review: Festival Favorites Returns to EPCOT for 2025 International Food & Wine Festival

Festival Favorites returned to the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival on September 21. We tried all of the new and returning items at the booth, so check out our full review.

Prior to opening the booth today, Disney Eats shared the menu on social media. Most of the items are returning from last year’s Festival Favorites menu.

Food

  • Potato Pierogi with kielbasa, caramelized onions, and sour cream – $6
  • Curry-spiced Fried Cheese with mango-curry ketchup – $5.25

Beverages

  • Frozen S’mores: Chocolate Milk Shake with Marshmallow syrup topped with Mini Marshmallows and a Graham Cracker (Non-Alcoholic) – $5.25
  • Irish Milk Shake: Guinness Stout, Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur, and Vanilla Ice Cream – $12.50
  • Seasonal Draft Beer – $12
  • Martin Ray Chardonnay – $7
  • Goldschmidt ‘Katherine’ Cabernet Sauvignon – $15

Reviews 

NEW Curry-spiced Fried Cheese – $5.25

with mango-curry ketchup

This is a nice portion of cheese sticks for the price. The exterior breading is crisp and crunchy. However, the cheese on the inside was not melted enough, and we wished they had cooked a little longer.

A close-up of a fried cheese stick at EPCOT's Food & Wine Festival, with more cheese sticks and ketchup on a picnic table.

We did not find nearly enough curry flavor for something advertised to have curry in the batter and in the dip. We also did not detect any specific mango flavors, just a mildly sweeter ketchup.

As one more note, there was not enough of the dip to make it through all the sticks if you are someone who likes to dip every bite.

Rating out of 7: 3

Watch our review of the new item below:

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