EPCOT Festival of the Holidays 2026 Foodie Guide Is HERE!
98 brand-new items, two new Holiday Kitchens, the return of the Cookie Stroll — and a Figment bucket in a holiday sweater. Let's eat our way around the world, besties!
The menus are officially OUT, and this might be the prettiest Festival of the Holidays lineup yet! From November 27 through December 30, 2026, EPCOT transforms into a global holiday celebration — and this year the chefs went BIG: 186 festive food and beverage offerings across 20 Holiday Kitchens, and 98 of those items are brand new for 2026. Here is everything you need to know (and everything we are running to try first!).
Two Brand-New Holiday Kitchens!
Diwali Holiday Kitchen (NEW) — find it on the walkway between World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion. Every single item here is new: Pani Puri filled with curry-spiced potatoes and chickpeas, served with tamarind water (plant-based!); a Chicken Biryani with spicy chicken and long-grain basmati rice topped with yogurt sauce, pomegranate seeds and bird's eye chilis; a plant-based Mango Mousse Cup with lime whipped cream and cardamom cookie streusel; and a Thandai Milkshake — a traditional blend of milk with almond, fennel, poppy seed, cardamom and saffron flavors, garnished with rose petals and toasted almonds. A whole new holiday tradition joins the festival, and we love to see it!
Season's Eatings (NEW) — at CommuniCore Plaza. The headliner is the Holly Jolly Bánh Mì: a Vietnamese-style sandwich with smoked turkey, cranberry-Chambord liqueur mayonnaise, pickled vegetables, cucumbers, Fresno chilis and cilantro. It is joined by the returning Reuben Croquettes (pastrami, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese with Thousand Island dressing), a new Cranberry-Almond Frangipane Bar, and festive sips like Keel Farms Pecan Pie Hard Cider and a Black Forest Cake Imperial Stout.
The Figment Holiday Sweater Bucket!
Figment is getting his very first popcorn bucket — and he is wearing a holiday sweater! The Figment Holiday Sweater Bucket comes filled with jelly doughnut popcorn (yes, really!) and will be waiting at Holiday Hearth Desserts inside The Odyssey starting opening day, November 27. Limit of two per person, per transaction, while supplies last — and you KNOW this one will go fast, so make it an early stop. The price has not been announced yet; we will update this post the moment it is!
More New Bites for Your List
Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow (CommuniCore Hall) is back with a new Prototype Cookie — a caramel blondie with peanut butter buttercream featuring TWIX cookie bar pieces on a shortbread cookie — plus a new Jelly Doughnut Milkshake and a new Keel Farms Gingerbread Hard Cider.
• Germany's Sommerfest adds a Christmas Market Bratwurst topped with sauerbraten pot roast on a pretzel roll.
• Italy brings a carbonara-style cheese tortellini with crispy pancetta.
• And Japan is serving a new Miso Ramen — perfect for those chilly December nights!
The Holiday Cookie Stroll Is Back!
Nine eligible cookies are sprinkled around the festival this year. Buy any five, collect your stamps in your Festival Passport, and redeem the completed passport for a special treat at Holiday Sweets & Treats. There is even a new cookie-themed PhotoPass Magic Shot this year — sweet in every way!
NEW Hot Chocolate Cutie at Holiday Hearth Desserts
And can we talk about this little guy?! The NEW Hot Chocolate Mousse Cup at Holiday Hearth Desserts (inside The Odyssey) might be the most photogenic dessert of the whole festival — hot chocolate mousse served in an edible chocolate cup, crowned with whipped cream and holiday sprinkles, with the sweetest little chocolate gingerbread man (red bow tie and all!) tucked right in. Same stop as the Figment bucket, so you can grab both in one visit — dessert AND a souvenir!
Returning Favorites We Missed
Some beloved bites are back, too — the Lomilomi Salmon at Mele Kalikimaka and the Potato Latkes at L'Chaim! are returning — and of course the Candlelight Processional runs all festival long for the most beautiful show of the season.
Our plan? Start at the Diwali kitchen, save room for the Cookie Stroll, and end the night with Figment under our arm. The full menus are live now — tell us in the comments which kitchen YOU are running to first on November 27!
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