The 16th annual Epcot International Food and Wine Festival begins this year on September 30th and run through November 13th at Walt Disney World. During the festival guests will discover:

Three new tasting marketplaces — Hawaii, Caribbean Islands and Portugal — plus new menu offerings at popular returning marketplaces

Eat to the Beat! concerts three times nightly at America Gardens Theatre.

Other festival highlights include:

The Festival Welcome Center, with a Wine Bar, Authentic Taste Seminars, Authors Without Borders weekend conversations and more.

The weekly Party for the Senses grand tasting event beginning Oct. 8 and with a new Saturday evening time of 7:30-10 p.m. featuring tempting bites from eminent chefs, more than 50 wines and beers and live entertainment presented by Cirque du Soleil.

Are you planning on attending the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival?

What is the best restaurant at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom? Here are the options:

Aloha Isle (one of our favorites!)
Auntie Gravity’s Galactic Goodies
Casey’s Corner
Cinderella’s Royal Table
Columbia Harbour House
Cool Ship
Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe (one of our favorites!)
The Crystal Palace
The Diamond Horseshoe (one of our favorites!)
Enchanted Grove
The Friar’s Nook
Golden Oak Outpost
Liberty Tree Tavern
The Lunching Pad
Main Street Baker
Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe
Pinocchio Village Haus
Plaza Ice Cream Parlor
The Plaza Restaurant
Sleepy Hollow
Sunshine Tree Terrace
Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant
Tony’s Town Square
Tortuga Tavern
Westward Ho

YOU DECIDE! Take the poll below and let us know!

A newly named cart, Kabuki Cafe, has re-opened at Epcot (at Walt Disney World) in front of the Japan Pavilion. According to the Disney Parks Blog, the cart now serves up flavored shaved ice as well as smoothies, ice cream, edamame, miso soup, sweet plum wine and sake. Be sure to let us know if you take a trip to the park and try out any of the new treats from the Kabuki Cafe!

The Disney Parks Blog has released some new images from the Magic Kingdom Fantasyland expansion taking place at the Walt Disney World Resort. The images include a rendering of the Be Our Guest restaurant, which will be located inside the Beast’s castle.

Then we have a rendering of the Enchanted Tales with Belle Experience where park guests can listen to a re-telling of the Beauty and the Beast story.

We also have a rendering of Barnstormer ride featuring Goofy as the Great Goofini.

We can’t wait for these new attractions to be open!

If you travel between August 15th and October 2nd of this year the Walt Disney World is running its annual “Free Dining” promotion. With this promotion, Disney resort guests who book a Magic Your Way package (which includes a Disney hotel room and a Magic Your Way park pass) will receive a Quick Service Disney Dining plan for free for all guests three and older in their party.

Below are the requirements to receive the offer:

- You must be staying for at least 3 nights, and you must be staying for less than 14 nights
- You must have at least a 2 day Magic Your Way ticket

While the Dining Plan given for free is the Quick Service option, guests will have the choice of upgrading their plan to the Disney Dining Plan (extra $10 per adult/$2 per child per night of your stay) or the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan (extra $40 per adult/$11 per child per night of your stay).

However, guests who stay at Deluxe Disney Resorts will receive the Disney Dining Plan for free and can upgrade to the Deluxe Disney Dining Plan for $30 per adult/$9 per child for each night.

Be sure to call Disney to book your trip and ask any questions you may have: (407) 939-7675

In the Fall, Disney will be opening a new restaurant at it’s Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World. The restaurant will be an authentic pizzeria – where the water used to make the pizza dough will be imported from a source where the composition most resembles the water used in Naples, Italy – sounds authentic to us!

The picture above was released on The Disney Parks Blog today and shows an idea of what the 300-seat restaurant might look like, complete with outdoor seating and all!

No word yet on what the name of the restaurant will be, we’ll keep you posted!

Source: disneyparks.disney.go.com

The Walt Disney Company’s exclusive sponsorship agreement with the fast food chain McDonald’s was terminated in 2004, and finally the termination has reached the McDonald’s location in the Walt Disney World Marketplace at Downtown Disney.

As of April 30th the restaurant will no longer exist in this location and in its place will be the restaurant “Pollo Campero.”

This restaurants food is prepared fresh daily.

What do you think about this restaurant switch?

The Disneyland Resort in California has announced that starting on December 11th it will have a new character breakfast. Rather than a “Lilo and Stitch” theme, the new theme will become “Surfs Up!”

New foods for the character breakfast will include flatbreads from a wood burning oven – yum!

Will anyone be checking out this new character breakfast at The Disneyland Resort?

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Beginning on November 12 and running through November 15th, The Children’s Miracle Network Classic Professional Golf charity tournament will be held at Disney World’s Palm and Magnolia golf courses.

Chefs from Walt Disney will be cooking for the crowd during the event. Tickets to eat and drink at the event are $10 per day or $20 for the week.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.

Source: Orlando-VacationHomeRental.com, Image Via Flickr

Yum! Disneyland has some new desserts in its park to help guests celebrate the Halloween season.

Disneyland is offering warm apple pie and warm apple cider at some of its restaurants and food carts as well as some fun character Halloween foods including Zero’s Ghostly Ghoulash and is inspired by the dog named Zero in Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” Fans of Tim Burton’s film can also buy a Jack Skellington Coffin Dessert – which is made up of red velvet cake coated in a chocolate shell with cream on top and a Jack Skellington figure made out of sugar, all served in a miniature plastic coffin.

And of course Halloween treats aren’t complete without pumpkin flavors, so Disneyland is offering a hazelnut tiramisu topped with pumpkin mousse.

Which dessert would you want to try? Or like us, do you want to try them all?

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