A look at Epcot food fest, by the numbers
How much you’d pay to eat one of everything, and more
It’s that time of year again when we daydream about the burning question, how much would it cost to eat one of everything at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, which is now underway daily through Nov. 12 at Walt Disney World.
This daydreaming is not unrelated to our win-the-lottery fantasy, and it gets us thinking about numbers surrounding the fest.
So here are a few digits we gleaned using the festival passport and info gathered during the first weekend of the event. (Let’s all shake fists in the air at the price-free passport, shall we?)
75: Days in the festival, same as last year 23: Years the festival has been going on 5: Party for the Senses nights 32: Eat to the Beat acts 225: Eat to the Beat concerts (3 nightly) 4: Doughnuts on the menu at Taste Track, a truck near Test Track ride $8: Highest price for a food item at the temporary marketplaces, a tie between beef filet mignon (Canada), New England lobster roll (Hops & Barley) and fritto misto (Italy), which is crispy shrimp, zucchini and sweet potatoes with a spicy sauce.
$12: Price for a maple bacon funnel cake at the Funnel Cake stand at American Adventure $3.75: Lowest price for a festival food item, tied for three desserts: Lamington at Australia, chocolate picante at Flavors From Fire and a blueberry muffin at Shimmering Sips Mimosa Bar inside the Festival Center.
$32: Highest price for a drink at a marketplace, for Dom Perignon Brut champagne at Almond Orchard. (Runner-up is
$21 for Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Brut rose champagne, also at Almond Orchard).
$3: Lowest price for a drink, bottled water at multiple stops. 24: Desserts 26: Vegetarian items
46: Items priced at $4.25 apiece $567.17: What you’d pay if
you ate one of everything in the festival
$1,161.91: What you’d pay if you drank one of everything in the festival
$1,720.08: What you’d pay if you had (gulp) one of everything — solid and liquid — at the festival