Disney's Food and Wine Festival 2019

I've always wanted to go to the Disney's Food and Wine Festival.

Of course, having an excuse to visit the House of Mouse, also a perk.

The festival is taken place in Epcot Center which means you need to have a ticket to the park.

 Food is extra, the dishes ranges from $4.50 - 6.50 for food and the drinks for non-alcoholic is less than $8-ish, and alcoholic drinks are $8.50-15.  If the booth serves flights that's your best bet.

As many blogger suggested, cap yourself, because you can go crazy paying the theme park price quick.  So think of it like going to Vegas, give yourself a max and cut yourself off.  Another perk is that if you do gift cards here, they give you a limited edition gift card to the event and when you're done, it can be a keep sake.  Of course, they are Disney, they think of everything.  This come in a stretchy wrist band, so you can easily go from booth to booth and easily use the gift card. 

 1st Stop: Australia

 The Roasted Lamp Chop looked great.  It was served with Sweet Potato Puree, Bushberry Pea Salad, and pistachio-Pomegranate Gemolata.  I loved the way they had the lamp chop, the sweet potato was good.  On to the next thing!

This was formerly the 360 theatre in Canada.  Instead, they decorated it to be the Appleseed Orchard. One one side it has the Apple Wine Bar, which has about 7 kinds of wine, 1 kind of Apple Beer, 2 kinds of Apple ale, 3 kinds of Apple Ciders.  

 That said, they do have non-alcoholic drinks.  This is the Frozen Apple Pie, you do get the pie part when you mix the slushy with the crumble.  That said, the white stuff you see are apple chunks.  I can do a few sips but had to abandon ship because the slushy's syrup taste like medicine after having a lot of it.

 That said, one thing that was super cute, and yes, I brought one home, is the Apple Shaped popcorn holder.  It has caramel and apple popcorn mix in there.  If you have one of each into one mouth-full, it's actually pretty good.

 Next up: Ireland.

 This is their Roasted Irish Sausage, with colcannon potatoes (aka mashed potato) and onion gravy.  The gravy was awesome, and you can taste a hint of stout in there.  It tasted delicious.

 Then, it's off to Brazil!

 This is the Crispy Pork Belly, over a bed of Black beans, diced tomato & onions (aka pico).  You can't really see the meat, I promise you, it's in there.  It's not too dry, but only top was crispy.  Look, I have not met a pork belly that I don't like, on the other hand, would've appreciate more enhanced flavor.

 Then, of course, my favorite wherever I go: the Pao de Queijo (aka Brazilian Tapioca Cheese Bread).  You cannot go wrong with this.  Should you want to make it at home, it's not hard to do either.

 Last country of the night as they are preparing to close and getting ready for fireworks: Germany.

 This is the Schinkennudeln, which is pasta gratin with ha, onion, and cheese.  Think of it as a Germany version of baked ziti, except there's no sauce.  The is a layer of noodle, layer of filling, and then baked.  Not bad, not one of my best either.  Would've picked the bratwurst instead, but since I got that in Ireland, thought I'd pick something different.  Oh well.

So grateful that I walked and ate all night.  During the Food and Wine Fest, they have a concert every night.  Though they are about 20-30 mins each, they are people or songs you know.  So, while we were there, 98 degrees were there, and folks were having a grand ol' time.  

 The firework indeed was special here at Disney, not spectacular like they are at Magic Kingdom, but it's still unique.  Make sure you time your food and the firework right.

Disney Food and Wine Festival:

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/events-tours/epcot/epcot-international-food-and-wine-festival/

You can do some homework before you go:

http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2019-epcot-food-and-wine-festival/