How will you feel if any established platform when asked to reveal your artistic self in front of the world without judgment? Delighted, right? So, you should hear about the Festival of Arts hosted by EPCOT for the 6th year now, which invites artists and art enthusiasts globally. EPCOT International Festival of the Arts is a conglomeration of one of the most attractive combinations of the creative mind in food and art. So, if you are a foodie, an artist, or both, swim in to join the festival of food, color, art, and entertainment. This article will take you through its corners.
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Running for six long weeks, the EPCOT International Festival of the Arts offers diverse entertainment and food. As this is a live art festival, visitors can create their masterpieces. Also, the best things can sometimes come free, which means there is no entry fee at this festival.
EPCOT Festival of the Arts 2022 dates
EPCOT Festival of the arts 2022 started from January 14, 2022, till February 21, 2022. The venue of the EPCOT® International Festival of the Arts in World Showcase.
The neighborhood of EPCOT is divided into four halves:
- World Showcase
- World Celebration
- World Nature
- World Discovery
The opening time of the World Showcase is 11:00 am while the others open at 10:00 am. So, keep aside at least two days in your entire schedule for the Festival of Arts.
EPCOT Festival of the Arts Food Menu
Now comes the most exciting part. Food is something that entices humankind universally. So, foodies cannot keep calm after hearing the news of two new food booths making their debut in the 2022 Festival of the Arts.
Your tickets for Walt Disney World won’t cover the food costs of the festival. However, the cost of food is not much high and lurks around the 10 dollars price.
Deco Delights and The Craftsman’s Courtyard are the two new food joints appearing fresh insight in the EPCOT Arts festival.
These two weren’t present in the previous Festival of the Arts 2022 menu. If you are excited to know about the EPCOT festivals of the arts menu, read till the end.
Your taste buds can’t keep calm once they get to know about the exciting menu of the EPCOT arts festival.
The Craftsman’s Courtyard
There are two new additions to the menu of this food booth which has proven to be a paradise for the visitors—the cast iron-roasted P.E.I. Mussels, along with fresh herbs, garlic, and sautéed tomatoes served fresh on your plate, will give you the taste of paradise.
Cast Iron-seared steelhead trout along with lemon aioli, capers, Kalamata olives, grape tomatoes, and parsley salad will leave another bite that will stay with you for years.
Along with these, you can also try a list of beverages, including wine flight, rose, chardonnay, wheat beer, and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Mow, let’s remember some old buddies until we reveal the food menu of the other debutante food joint.
Refreshment Port
While this food joint has run for a long time now, its savory dishes can still attract your attention.
Food items include Artist Palette Jumbo Choco Chip Cookie and Gnocchi Poutine with Burrata, Basil, Cheese curds, and beef braised in red wine.
Beverages like Vodka with Blood Orange, Lime, Cranberry, and Original Sin Brewer Brighter Times hard cider might accompany your food venture.
The Deconstructed Dish
Another old friend is ready to give you your treat at the EPCOT festival 2022. Soft-poached egg, tomato jam, watercress espuma, and crispy pork belly constitute their lip-smacking dish Deconstructed B.L.T. Deconstructed French Onion soup include onion textures, onion bread pudding, Gruyere espuma, and beef broth ravioli.
Finally, another new addition to the food menu is Deconstructed Key Lime pie. This dish has meringues, graham cracker cake, key lime mousse, and key lime curd in store to activate your taste buds.
One of the most favorite beverages of all time found only in The Deconstructed Dish is apple pie a la mode. This lip-smacking pie has streusel, apple pie filling, cinnamon apple cider, and apple cinnamon gelato.
Deco Delights
Coming back to the fresher, Deco Delights adorns the EPCOT festival of the arts menu. If you are a pastry lover, then it should be your heaven.
Dulce chocolate mousse, orange mousse served with raspberry meringues and lemon cake, and decadent Valrhona chocolate will leave you satiated.
Also, along with these, you can try having Neapolitan Beer Flight, Milk stout, vanilla porter, and strawberry blonde nitro.
The Artist’s Table
The artist inside you will come out if you visit another decorative food joint around the corner – The Artist’s Table.
Decorated in delightful ways, the varieties o food available here will entice you. Pistachio cake, Morello cherries, and cherry mousse top the list, along with Pan Seared scallops and Beef Wellington.
Among the beverages, you can take a sip in your glasses of Chocolate Flight, Pinot Noir, Amber Ale, Brown Ale, and White Ale. Symphony in chocolate Flight might be a delightful option for you to dip your lips in.
Other food joints
Other than these joints, you can explore a list of alternatives as well. They are:
- Tangeirine Café: Flavours of the Medina
- The Donut Box
- Vibrante & Vivido: Encanto Cocina
- Lárt de la cuisine Francaise
- El ARtista Humbriento
- Goshiki
- The Painted Panda
- Lárte de Mangiare
- Pastoral palate
So, you can see you have a broad spectrum of international foods decked up in the EPCOT at festival stalls. The must-try items of the festival should include Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie, Deconstructed Key Lime pie, Beef Wellington, Cast Iron-seared steelhead trout, and Moelleux aux Noisettes et Chocolats Valrhona.
Final Thoughts
The Disney Crowd Calendar is a handy tool to schedule your visit to the EPCOT festival of the arts. So, coordinate with your group buddies and would-be artists to mark your visit to the festival of arts.
Celebrate art and fill your stomach with delicious foods. Until then, the EPCOT international arts festival has kept its arms wide open till February 24 to welcome its patrons.