I found the sample menus and Eat to the Beat Concert Series schedule for this year’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival posted over at AllEars.Net and I can definitely say that my anticipation for our trip this fall is building even more!
You see, the trip is already going to be awesome because my fiancee and I will actually be going over to the World as a bit of a honeymoon after celebrating our wedding, so it only gets even better to see things for Food & Wine starting to take shape. We’re hoping to get a room at the Beach Club (just waiting on passholder rates to be released for October – any day now…), which we’ve always thought would be pretty sweet to be within walking distance of Epcot during the festival. The last two years we’ve explored the World Showcase eating options during Food & Wine, we had an absolutely blast – once during a long weekend trip and last year pretty much just for dinner and fireworks. Not to mention that this year we’ll also have a number of friends and family sticking around through the weekend after the wedding to play at Disney for a while before heading home, it should give us a unique opportunity to share all of that food with a much larger than normal group of people!
I can’t even remember what all we tried last year – we just barely made it all the way around World Showcase and definitely didn’t try something from every single venue – but just perusing the list this year, here are a few that stick out as sounding worthwhile:
- Boston Crab Cake (Boston, USA)
- Mascarpone Cream Puff with Gianduja Chocolate (Bolonga, Italy)
- Durban Spiced Chicken (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Kiwi Meringue Tart (Wellington, New Zealand)
And granted, a lot of the items on the list I almost need to see a description and often times an actual sample before I take the plunge, but I guess that’s half the fun of it!
Oh yeah, and there’s also this one other thing that has me excited for Food & Wine this year…
Eat to the Beat Musical Act for Oct. 13-14 : Sister Hazel
I saw these guys maybe seven or eight years ago when they made an appearance at a friend’s college and they’re one of the increasingly few acts that I’ve wanted to see ever since! They really helped get me into the whole acoustic rock kick back then, so this ought to make for a neat way to wrap up our honeymoon before heading back home Monday evening…