The collective belly has the long weekend of the 2025 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, so let’s take a look at our bank balances as well.
Every year we tally the prices from many kiosks and say, “What happens if you order one of them all?
Comparing fests is an apple and orange exercise, so this is primarily for fun. But here is where we tend to be able to fall behind. The total total of the Ultimate Fest Feasts is less than 2025.
Our methodology is to count up the price of each menu item on the Festival Passport (also listed on the official Walt Disney World website). If you have a large or small version, take a route that doesn’t make much effort. If there is an option to add alcohol to your drink, we also go in a cheap way. Instead of including beer flights, include them individually in the tally. Non-allergy options are not counted individually.
Also included are festival items added to Epcot’s annual restaurant menus, including Connections Eatery and The Reshment Port.
Ah, and for a good measure, a bottle of water. Maintain hydration.
According to the latest calculations, if you get any of the groceries at this year’s festival, it’s $598.57. With or without alcohol, if you put in the drink, it costs another $869.48, totaling $1,468.05.
The total for 2024 was $1,656.51, which is a 11.3% decrease.
Therefore, if you are in the eating mode of everyone, you will save some coins this year. However, the average cost per plate for both years is shaded above $6.80. This year’s average beverages are $8.24, starting at $8.27.
These numbers indicate that there are fewer options on the menu this year, but it’s not like you can’t find something to eat at Epcot, right?
The most expensive groceries on the 2025 menu, Connections Eatery’s French Onion Burger is $14.49 and is in line with the usual offering.
The top price for solid food on the kiosk/Global Marketplace is a permanently popular filet mignon from Canada, costing $10. But they are the only foods in double digits. Last year they were top of the list at $13.
Other notes from the tally:
• Three new dishes from France are approaching the territory of $9. The Trio of Escargot ($8.95), Beauf Bourguignon ($8.95), and Briocheauze epic Avec Angarniture Morne de Trois ($8.50). Throw in Cream Brury ($6.95) and French Cosmo ($14.95) for a total of $48.30 before returning to the car park.
•Largely higher-end offerings include Flauta de Barbacoa ($8.75, Mexico), Beijing Zhajiang Noodles ($8.50, China), Bacetti Di Pizza ($8.75, Italy), Seafood Roll ($8.75 for Flavors of America), Osakana Karaage ($8.50, $9.50), Lambchop ($8.75, Australia), Short Rib ($8.50 for Earth Eats), and Zwiebelkucher ($9.79 for Sommerfest Walk-up). Also note: a $12 Huckleberry Funnel Cake.
•For me and my “value consciousness” friends, offerings under $6 include all the dumplings at the new Gyoza in the galaxy. Montreal slider from Flavors from Fire. Fries in a fries basket. Indian pot and pea samosa. Ham and cheese choice in the Alps. Strudel from Germany. Spanish Basque cheesecake. Italian chocolate spammer. Three Greek items. Pao de Kejho from Brazil. Pumpkin Masu Pone Ravioli in Forest & Field; Hawaiian Pork Slider. Brussels sprouts with a Bramblewood bite. Everything about Milled & Mulled, including carrot cakes and bisques. others.
•The liquid diet will be engrossed with eight drinks, including the return of pickled milkshakes, as well as eight drinks, including Italy, which also serves the Prosecco Chianti Bellini Blood Orange Margarita family. (These Italian choices run $88.75 for eight people.)
•The highest price for alcohol this year is $16 for Gogi Pinot Noir found on the Bramblewood Bites Kiosk. Runner-ups include French Cosmos ($14.95), Hawaii’s Oaha Sunrise ($14.50), Japan’s Saint Olin ($14) and China’s Baijiu Punch and Hainan flourishing, both of which cost $14.50.
•Please note that coastal diets and gyozas at the Galactic Market are not open until September 28th.
•Finally, it reminds us that price is not everything. Back for back is a personal factor as this festival is designed for viewing and sharing. And while some drinks have more bouncing per ounce, that might be a good thing.
The Epcot International Food & Wine Festival runs every day until November 22nd. Attendees are included in regular park entrances (not food and wine). Upcoming beat concert performers include KT Tunstall (Friday and Saturday) and Tobymac (Sunday and Monday).
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Original issue: September 2, 2025, 12:20pm EDT
