I (sadly) have not made it out to this year's Food and Wine Festival at Epcot, so I need to live vicariously through your taste buds.
What are your favorite foods (or drinks) from this year's Food and Wine Fest?
(If you need a refresher, check out all the menus here)
The Paprika beef stew from Austria and beer cheese soup from Canada are a couple of my must haves at the festival!
I was at the Food and Wine Festival last night. A fantastic evening. My two favs: Polpettini,veal meatball in tomato sauce at Bologna, Italy, and Mango Lassi, chilled mango yogurt drink, at New Delhi, India. Favorite wines: Chardonnay in France, and Malbec in Argentina, though I wonder why they served it cold.
And by the way, stay for the fireworks--the best way to end a wonderful evening of feasting and sipping.
The beef empanada from Buenos Aires is by far the yummiest!
I should not have read these replies first thing in the morning... now I'm starving with nary a Food and Wine Festival in sight!
Thanks for the tips - I'll report back my favs once I've partaken.
The cheddar soup in Canada is always my favorite, but the empanada in Buenos Aires is great, and if the lobster roll wasn't so expensive, I would probably list it as my fave.
Also delicious, the chicken skewers with yogurt sauce on pita at Athens, Greece, right off the grill. The bad part: they were so popular I had to wait 6 or 7 minutes for a new batch. Also yummy, the escargots at Paris, France. Lots of butter, garlic,good bread-!
After reading the postings, I need to go back for the lobster roll, for sure! What's the best chocolate treat?
Wow! Alot of different favorites. My favorite was the Ireland Lobster & Scallop Fisherman's Pie and don't forget dessert...Chocolate Lava Cake. AWESOME!!!
I loved the plum wine cooler from China! Sipped it as we moved from country to country!
This was my 3rd year to the Food & Wine Festival and by far, my most disappointing. We couldn't get near any of the kiosks to get wine or food unless we wanted a 25 minute for each. The lines were at times 30-40 people deep. I have never seen anything like it. Last year we had lines of about 5-10 people. We found one kiosk at the very end of our trip around the countries with about 10 people on line and got our frozen mojitos there. We couldn't even have lunch at Mexico without a reservation. Recession? Unemployment? Not at Epcot this year!
Four items come to mind immediately; the New Orleans Bread pudding with Bourbon Caramel Sauce was subline. The Argentinian Beef Skewer with Chimichurri and the Empanadas were great and a good value. Lastly, the Australian Lamb Chops were so well made, they rivaled the ones I had at Seasons 52. All items were exquisite!
Most of the lines were way way to long this year. It takes the fun out when you can barely walk in the park and the lines for food are 45mins.
Stations we did enjoy were the lobster & scallop dish in Ireland,the scallop in New Zealand, and the gumbo in New Orleans. The lines for Greece, Canada, and Buenos Aires were just too long in the heat.
The beef thing in Morocco was by far the worse. Was a bad piece of meat in a pita.
I don't know what times there have been those lines that some people mention, because I go after 4 p.m., and I have not waited more than 5 minutes for anything. Tried the short ribs from France yesterday and they were GREAT but the presentation was just plain UGLY! The New Zealand lamb sliders are also excellent. One question: why is all the food now so SPICY? I almost died from the shrimp ceviche (Chile) and the Mexican pork tacos! Even the chutney on the lamb sliders was really HOT! Is this a new fad? Used to be that chefs had to season their food really well, and now they just throw some Tabasco on everything and it's done???? And so far, the only place that I have found where both main dishes are excellent is Melbourne's lamb chop and baramundi (fish). Oh, and I agree that the Morocco "thing in a pita" is the worst!
I haven't been able to go this year, but last year, the frozen mojito was at the top of our list!!! And the munchkin tried Creme Brule for the first time and loved it!
I'm going again this Sunday. Thanks for all the suggestions. Keep them coming. I'm particularly interested in fish and vegetarian dishes--we don't eat red meat. Also, any wines that you think are a great value?
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