Epcot Festival of Holidays Food question

[Schweino]

Hello family! We are gonna be down at WDW on 11/27 and doing Epcot 11/28. We have never been during the Holidays and with the Epcot Holiday Festival and the different foods they have, is there like samplers that wifey and myself can go taste and multiple venues or are they like full fledge meals where we will need to pick one?

Thanks for any advice you have on trying to taste as much as we can

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Small samples available at booths around EPCOT just like the other festivals.
You can easily eat several items without being overfull but also easily piece together a whole meal.

 

[JIMINYCR]

The portions differ depending on the item you want. Some are more substantial than others, so you may question if some are worth the price you will be paying. But the samples you try, will give you a good taste of unique flavors from various places. You may want to order 2 separate dishes and that way the both of you can share each plate to get more tastings done. There are several sites online that you can go to that will be showing pics of whats there along with reviews to help you decide your wants. Some will be guest favorite items brought back from the past food booths along with new things.

 

[Schweino]

Thanks guys! I think the main thing we were looking at is we have breakfast that morning at Chef Mickeys and wondering if we should cancel that and do something light and just scavenge at the park until our dinner at Le Cellier

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Thanks guys! I think the main thing we were looking at is we have breakfast that morning at Chef Mickeys and wondering if we should cancel that and do something light and just scavenge at the park until our dinner at Le Cellier

How long between your breakfast reservation and dinner reservation?
Do you really not think you'll need to piece together lunch between?
The samples are a good option to do that.

 

[Schweino]

How long between your breakfast reservation and dinner reservation?
Do you really not think you'll need to piece together lunch between?
The samples are a good option to do that.

Breakfast is at 9:50 and Dinner is 5:15. We tried to move either of them but it looks like both are fully booked. We also are not three meal eaters, generally just two with a snack. Having breakfast then stuffing our face at all the random booths with samples might hamper enjoying Le Cellier.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Breakfast is at 9:50 and Dinner is 5:15. We tried to move either of them but it looks like both are fully booked. We also are not three meal eaters, generally just two with a snack. Having breakfast then stuffing our face at all the random booths with samples might hamper enjoying Le Cellier.

I guess you have to decide whether trying various festival foods is more important than full meals.
If it were me, I'd drop breakfast but that's because my family is not big on breakfast.
We usually eat something small in the room and then eat an early lunch 11:30am and then have a snack in the afternoon and dinner around 7pm.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

The various Disney blogs will have photos of the dishes, I’d look at the menus and the dishes before you decide on keeping reservations or not.

I would personally say skip chef Mickey’s and focus on Epcot, but if you have kids that will enjoy the characters and / or the monorail passing by chef Mickey’s might be the best part of their vacation.

 

[LastoneOn]

If you're adventurous and eat your way around the world, you probably won't be hungry for dinner.
At food and wine we could rotate between China, France, and Argentina? (empanadas) all day. Maybe get side tracked by Italy and Germany along the way, and then there's something over past Canada that always snagged us, and yeah. Not hungry after few hours of that!

 

[LastoneOn]

but if you have kids that will enjoy the characters and / or the monorail passing by chef Mickey’s might be the best part of their vacation.

Absolutely.

 

[JIMINYCR]

Breakfast is at 9:50 and Dinner is 5:15. We tried to move either of them but it looks like both are fully booked. We also are not three meal eaters, generally just two with a snack. Having breakfast then stuffing our face at all the random booths with samples might hamper enjoying Le Cellier.

We usually eat breakfast, skip lunch and dine TS, but change that up on EP day. If you are going to decide on sampling many of the choices, even though they are small sized portions, tasting too many will definitely fill you up. Weve planned on skipping TS when we do the booths because its a waste of money going to a restaurant after sampling and feeling full. Decide on how much youd rather have LeCellier or samples.... or eat less samples. LeCellier is expensive enough and you dont want to waste the money trying to fill up an already filled stomach.