You can host your own Epcot International Food and Wine Festival in the Valley! This year, Epcot Food and Wine runs from August 27th thru November 21st. Whether you choose to put together a small event for friends and/or family, or simply observe this Epcot “season” on your own, creating your own mini-festivities can be a fun break from your regular Valley routine.
The Solo Festival
Before cross-platform multiplayer became available for those of us on Playstation, I observed the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival as a solo event. Not only does doing so make time in the Valley more immersive, but it also provides a fun excuse to serve Villagers at Remy’s and Tiana’s restaurants and also to seek out Villagers to give them their favorite foods for the day. To create the list of foods for this fun little mini-game, I used the real 2026 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival Menu available at WDW News Today. Every one of these Valley foods (or an extremely close approximation thereof) is available at the real life festival this year! Feel free to right/click save this handy infographic to use as the basis for you own personal solo observance of Epcot Food and Wine in your Valley.
A Multiplayer Festival
I have found that, when hosting multiplayer activities where gifts are received/picked up, it is generally best to establish something resembling a fair trade situation, in order to avoid being suspected as a treasure valley (which are highly frowned upon by Gameloft!). Usually I have my friend or family member bring me one stack of something that I genuinely need, such as sugar cane, shrimp, lobster, or lemons. With that “safety feature” out of the way, let’s talk about what you can do to host a multiplayer Epcot Food and Wine mini-event in your Valley!
Cooking Class: The menu graphic above may also be used to create a fun cooking activity for yourself and a friend or family member, especially if they are newer to the game. They may not have learned some of the more difficult recipes on that list, and that can be an opportunity for you to set up a side by side cooking situation, perhaps inspired by the Muppet Brew-wing Lab at the real festival, as I have done in the images you see here. If you’re worried that they might also not have the needed ingredients, supply those on a nearby countertop for pickup before the cooking begins. Of course, all of these things–the countertops, cooking stations, and supplies–will need to be planned for and setup before beginning your multiplayer session.
Remy’s Ratatouille Hide and Squeak: This adorable scavenger hunt takes place throughout the real Epcot every year during Food and Wine. To set up one of your own, you will need some approximation of each of the locations listed on the accompanying graphic (feel free to right/click save and share with your hosted guest!), pedestals or small tables on which to display each stack of items to be found, Remy Scramblecoin pieces to place at each station, stacks of each item to be found and picked up by your hosted guest.
A floating island would be a great place to host this event, if you don’t have an Epcot setup in your Valley already. (Epcot was actually my very first park build in my Valley. I began it week one of gameplay, back in May of 2024, and have been updating and upgrading it ever since.) You can use the provided “map” graphic as a guide for setup. The rewards for each station are as follows:
- Mexico: Salt
- China: Soya
- Refreshment Outpost (African theme): Zucchini
- Germany: Bread
- Italy: Tomatoes
- Japan: Garlic
- Morocco: Pepper
- France: Acorn Snails
- Canada: Olives
This list relies on the host having all expansions, but base-Valley substitutions can be made as necessary. I would recommend Chilis for Mexico, Wheat for Germany, Sugar Cane for Morocco, Mussels or Oysters for France, and Salmon for Canada. If you do not have the Remy Scramblecoin piece, you could craft some of the menu boards from the Tiana update instead.
To create your own mini-World Showcase, you could use the Cactus houseskin for Mexico, Aerendelle Palace or Elsa’s Ice Palace houseskin for Norway, Reflection of China housekin or Mulan’s house for China, The Snuggly Duckling houseskin or Rapunzel’s tower or Snow White’s cottage for Germany, some Lion King-themed furniture for the Refreshment Outpost, Aladdin’s house for Morocco, the Wandering Moon houseskin or pink magnolia trees and arches for Japan, Remy’s Restaurant and/or house for France, and Lady Tremaine’s house skin or a nice Victorian garden setup for Canada. Stitch’s house makes a great stand-in for Spaceship Earth!
Once all of the locations/items have been found, you might provide an overall reward for your guest, such as the materials to craft a special furniture item (my guest received the materials to make one of the cute Honeyglow lamps from Honeyglow Woods).
Emile’s Fromage Montage: This is more or less an edible variation of the traditional scavenger hunt and it also takes place at the real Epcot Food and Wine every year. All of the foods listed in the graphic provided (again, feel free to right/click save and share with your hosted guest!) are actually part of the real Emile’s Fromage Montage this year, too!
To create this mini-event, simply cook up stacks of each of the listed foods and place them in the locations provided (Connections would be somewhere adjacent to your Spaceship Earth area). Your guest can choose whether or not to eat-as-they-go as they complete this secondary scavenger hunt, and both hunts can be completed in tandem if properly setup. At the end, be sure to provide a cumulative reward. This year, the final reward in the real park was a Mickey Birthday Cake Macron, so I suggest a stack of Birthday Cakes for your guest.
Self-hosted multiplayer events like this can be a great way not only to share the joy of the Valley with friends and loved ones, but also a wonderful way to add a little extra magic to the time you spend together. In the process, you can both learn a little more about real-life Disney and the Disney Parks. And the best part? You can know that, as the host of such an event, you’ve not only given your guest the gift of in-game resources, but also that most precious of all gifts: the gift of your time and effort! In true Disney style, events like these can be a lovely way to show someone special in your life that you care.
Mama Sparkles (left) and myself (Mishy Mouse) have spent many happy hours over the years at the real Epcot, but now we live very far from each other and from the Parks so we have come to really treasure our time together when I host these multiplayer mini-events in the Valley.
