EPCOT Festival of the Holidays 2024: Complete Guide to Holiday Kitchen Menus and Must-Try Dishes

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Posted: Thursday November 14, 2024 11:15am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, running from November 29 to December 30, 2024, is back with seasonal eats at the Holiday Kitchens.

This year's celebration features over 15 Holiday Kitchens, each offering unique festive flavors from around the globe. Here’s a rundown of what to look forward to, from new sweets to returning favorites, plus a brand-new gingerbread display.

Festival Foodie Highlights

  • New Holiday Kitcehns: This year introduces the “Favorites of Festivals Past” Holiday Kitchen at CommuniCore Plaza, serving crowd-pleasers like Reuben Croquettes and Brown Sugar and Mustard-glazed Ham Sliders. In CommuniCore Hall, the new Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow menu features a unique Spaceship Earth Tile Gingerbread Triangle.

  • Gingerbread Display: A new life-sized gingerbread version of Spaceship Earth will debut at CommuniCore Hall.

  • Holiday Cookie Stroll: Back by popular demand, the Cookie Stroll lets you collect stamps in your Festival Passport by purchasing five designated cookies. Redeem your stamps for a special treat at Holiday Sweets & Treats.

NEW! Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow Menu 

LocationCommuniCore Hall 

Food Items:

  • Spaceship Earth Tile Gingerbread Triangle (New)  

Beverages: 

  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Gingerbread Milk Shake (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Gingerbread Milk Shake with whipped cream vodka  
  • Seasonal Wine
  • Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co. Gingerbread White Stout
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Gingerbread Coffee Porter 

NEW! Favorites of Festivals Past Menu 

Location: CommuniCore Plaza 

Food Items:

  • Reuben Croquettes with pastrami, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese with thousand island dipping sauce  
  • Brown Sugar and Mustard-glazed Ham Sliders with cranberry and apple coleslaw on a Hawaiian roll  
  • Bauducco Panettone Holiday Trifle with eggnog custard and cranberry cherry compote  

Beverages: 

  • Southern Tier Brewing Co. Tiramisu Imperial Stout
  • Keel Farms Pecan Pie Hard Cider
  • Point Snow Pilot Pistachio Nut Brown Ale
  • Beer Flight  

Connections Café Menu 

Location: In World Discovery 

Food Item: 

  • Holiday Sugar Cookie  

Connections Eatery Menu 

Location: In World Discovery 

Food Item:

  • Holiday Sweater Liege Waffle: Chocolate-coated brioche waffle with a flurry of blizzard themed sprinkles and white chocolate garnish  

Beverage:

  • Coquito Milk Shake: French vanilla gelato, cream of coconut, nutmeg, and cinnamon (Non-alcoholic beverage) (Spirited version available with Bacardí Superior Rum)

Holiday Hearth Desserts Menu 

Location: The Odyssey  

Food Items:

  • Red Velvet Mini Bundt Cake with cream cheese icing  
  • Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie  
  • Mouse Crunch made with Red & Green M&M’S Milk Chocolate Candies  
  • Mint Chocolate Mousse Wreath  
  • Apple Caramel Crumb Cake  
  • Chocolate-covered Toffee Brittle  

Beverages: 

  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Frozen Caramel Hot Cocoa: Hot cocoa with whipped cream and TWIX cookie bar pieces (Non-alcoholic beverage)
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Jack Frost IPA
  • BrewDog Winter Staycation Pecan & Toffee Stout
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Milk & Cookies Imperial Milk Stout
  • Cocoa Candy Cane: Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee with Peppermint Schnapps  
  • Beer Flight  

Las Posadas Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Mexico  

Food Items:

  • Empanada de Pollo: Fried corn tortilla filled with chipotle chicken and potatoes topped with chile rojo salsa, crema Mexicana, and queso fresco (New) 
  • Tamal de Puerco con Mole: Shredded pork in corn masa topped with mole negro, queso fresco, crema Mexicana, slivered almonds, and sesame seeds (New)  
  • Dulce de Leche Churro sprinkled with cinnamon sugar  

Beverages

  • Holiday Margarita: Dos Hombres Mezcal, tequila, cranberry lime juice, allspice and orange blackcurrant liqueurs (New)  
  • Coconut Guavarita: Tromba Blanco Tequila, coconut water, guava cream, hint of lime rum, and orange liqueur with a toasted coconut rim (New)  
  • Holiday Cerveza: Mexican Artisanal Craft Lager with black currant liqueur  

Shanghai Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: China 

Food Items:

  • XO Fried Rice: Chinese sausage, onion, green onion, mushroom, egg, and house-made Hong Kong XO Chili Sauce (New) 
  • Beef Noodle Soup Bowl with slow-braised beef shank, green onion, and house-made chili oil  
  • Vegetable Spring Rolls with citrus sauce  

Beverages: 

  • Taro Bubble Milk Tea: Green tea and boba (Non-alcoholic beverage) (New)  
  • Brew Hub Year of the Dragon: Dragon Fruit Lager
  • Butterfly Lantern: Butterfly pea blossom gin, vodka, prickly pear, lychee syrup, soda water, and white boba  
  • Lychee Martini: Vodka, lychee syrup, and vermouth (New)  
  • Peach of Longevity: Peach Schnapps, citrus vodka, piña colada mix, and orange juice (New)  

Refreshment Outpost Menu 

Food Items:

  • Peanut Stew with sweet potatoes, mustard greens, and roasted peanuts (Plant-based) 
  • DOLE Whip Raspberry (Plant-based)  

Beverages: 

  • Ciderboys Caramel Apple Hard Cider
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Cinnamon Orange Cranberry Wheat Ale
  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Crème Brûlée Lager
  • Boyd & Blair Chai Tea Mule 

Bavaria Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Germany 

Food Items:

  • Cheese Fondue in a bread bowl with steamed baby vegetables and marble potatoes  
  • Pork Schnitzel with mushroom sauce, spätzle, and braised red cabbage  
  • Hazelnut Linzer Cookie  

Beverages: 

  • Possmann Pure Hard Cider
  • von Trapp Brewing Trösten Smoked Dark Lager
  • Köstritzer Schwarzbier
  • Regional Riesling  
  • Glühwein: House-made hot spiced wine (Served warm)  
  • Beer Flight 

Tuscany Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Italy  

Food Items:

  • Montanara: Fried house-made pizza dough with pomodoro sauce, parmesan, and fresh basil  
  • Dolce Pizza: Fried house-made pizza dough with sugar and cinnamon  
  • Panettone: Panettone bread pudding and vanilla cream (New)  

Beverages: 

  • Bombardino Freddo: Creamy eggnog and Italian brandy
  • Prosecco  
  • Moscato  
  • Chianti  
  • Italian Red Sangria  
  • Italian-inspired Margarita: Tequila, triple sec, and limoncello  
  • Peroni Pilsner  

American Holiday Table Menu 

Location: The American Adventure  

Food Items: 

  • Slow-roasted Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and cranberry sauce  
  • Blackened Catfish with Hoppin’ John and Comeback Sauce  
  • SNICKERS-Doodle Cookie made with SNICKERS bar pieces  

Beverages: 

  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Bah HOPbug IPA
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Eggnog White Porter
  • Playalinda Brewing Co. Peppermint Chocolate Stout
  • Beer Flight  

Funnel Cake Menu

Location: The American Adventure 

Food Item: 

  • Gingerbread Funnel Cake: Vanilla ice cream, gingerbread crumbs, whipped cream, and red and green sprinkles (New)  

Shi Wasu Holiday Kitchen Menu

Location: Japan 

Food Items: 

  • Sushi Tree Roll: Christmas tree-shaped sushi roll with krab meat and cream cheese topped with ikura salmon roe and spicy mayo  
  • Toshikoshi Soba: Buckwheat soba noodle in hot dashi (fish-based) soup topped with shrimp tempura and chopped green onion  
  • Mochi Donut Wrap: A soft, chewy fusion pastry served with strawberry, whipped cream, strawberry sauce, and sweet red beans wrapped with “gyuhi” rice cake sheet (New)  

Beverages

  • Ichigo Boba: Cranberry and yuzu cream drink with calpico and popping strawberry boba pearls (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Japanese Punch: Shochu, plum wine, cranberry, and lemon juice  
  • Chocolate Nigori: Creamy texture of Nigori Sake and rich sweetness and gentle bitterness from chocolate (New)  
  • Sapporo Premium Black Beer  

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina Menu

Location: Morocco  

Food Items: 

  • Grilled Kebabs with carrot-chickpea salad and garlic aïoli
  • Chermoula chicken  
  • Moroccan-spiced lamb  
  • Stone-baked Moroccan bread with dips (Plant-based)  

Beverages: 

  • Ciderboys Cranberry Razz Hard Cider (New)  
  • Bold Rock Apple Crumble Hard Cider
  • Gulf Stream Brewing Holiday Snakebite
  • Holiday Fig Cocktail: Kleiner Feigling fig liqueur and white cranberry juice  
  • Hard Cider Flight  

L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen Menu

Location: Between Morocco and France 

Food Items: 

  • Pastrami on Rye with house-made pickles and deli mustard  
  • Smoked Salmon Potato Latke  
  • Potato Latkes (Plant-based)  
  • Rugelach: Pastry filled with raspberry jam, walnuts, and cinnamon  
  • Black and White Cookie (Plant-based) 

Beverages: 

  • Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout (New)   
  • Frozen New York Whiskey Sour: Manifest Whiskey and Manischewitz Blackberry Wine  

Le Marché de Noël Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: France 

Food Items: 

  • Crème De Saumon Fumé en Brioche aux Grains de Sesames, Concombre Et Radis: Smoked salmon spread on a sesame brioche roll with cucumber and radishes  
  • Rôti de Jambon Sauce Moutarde à l’Ancienne, Pommes Darphin: Roasted ham with mushrooms, pearl onions, bacon, white wine mustard sauce, and darphin roasted herb potatoes (New)  
  • Bûche de Noël au Chocolat et Caramel: Chocolate fudge Christmas log with a caramel cream center (New)  

Beverages:

  • Frozen Hot Chocolate Martini: Vodka, chocolate milk, and whipped cream  
  • Spiced Cranberry Punch: Pol Rémy Sparkling Wine, cranberry juice, orange juice, and spiced brown sugar (New)  
  • Chateau Haut Beaumard Cabernet Sauvignon (New)  

UK Beer Cart Menu 

Location: United Kingdom  

Beverage:  

  • Frozen Chocolate Orange Cocktail: Hot chocolate, orange syrup, and blood orange liqueur  

Canada Popcorn Cart Menu 

Location: Canada 

Beverage: 

  • Canadian Hot Toddy: Maple syrup, honey, black tea, lemon juice, cinnamon, and Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky served warm 

Yukon Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Canada 

Food Items: 

  • Seared Salmon with butternut squash purée, maple-bourbon glaze, and fennel-arugula salad  
  • Beef Bourguignon with crushed potatoes
  • Peppermint Pinwheel Cookie 

Beverages: 

  • Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Peanut Butter Banana Porter
  • Playalinda Brewing Co. Maple Cookie Blonde Ale
  • Collective Arts Coffee Maple Porter
  • Regional Icewine  
  • Regional Red Wine  
  • Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee with Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky  
  • Beer Flight  

Refreshment Port Menu 

Location: Near Canada 

Food Item:

  • Turkey Poutine: Sweet potato fries with turkey gravy, cranberry relish, and crispy onions  

Beverages:  

  • Keel Farms Pumpkin Hard Cider
  • Pasek Cellars Cranberry Wine 

Swirled Showcase Menu 

Location: Near Port of Entry 

Food Items: 

  • Holiday Mickey-shaped Liquid Nitrogen Pop: Chocolate cake dipped in ganache made with Red & Green M&M’S Milk Chocolate Minis  
  • Soft-serve in a Cone  
  • Vanilla
  • Apple-cinnamon  
  • Dark chocolate  

Beverages: 

  • Floats: Barq’s Red Crème Soda or Barq’s Root Beer with Vanilla Soft-serve (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. Bourbonola and Cherry Cola
  • Floats:  Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co. Bourbonola with dark chocolate soft-serve, Fireball Cinnamon Whisky and Barq’s Red Crème Soda with apple cinnamon soft-serve, Coffee Float: Dark chocolate soft-serve with iced coffee and choice of Mozart Liqueur  

Holiday Sweets & Treats Menu 

Location: Near Port of Entry 

Food Item: 

  • Peppermint Sundae: Chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and peppermint candy  

Beverages: 

  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Chocolate Peppermint Shake with Twinings Peppermint Cheer Tea (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee with Choice of Liqueur: Baileys Original Irish Cream, Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream, or Grand Mariner
  • Chocolate Peppermint Shake: Twinings Peppermint Cheer Tea and whipped cream vodka  
  • Deschutes Brewery Jubelale (New)  
  • Southern Tier Brewing Co. 2XMAS Ale
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Hop Cocoa Porter
  • Beer Flight  

Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Between World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion 

Food Items: 

  • Kalua Pork with Okinawa sweet potatoes and mango salad?
  • Lomi Lomi Salmon with tomatoes, onions, salmon roe, yuzu-mayonnaise, and yuca chips?
  • Coffee Mocha Cookie topped with coffee-infused buttercream, cocoa nibs, and chocolate-covered espresso beans (New)  

Beverages

  • Melon Breeze: DOLE Pineapple Juice, lime juice, melon liqueur, and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum  
  • The Bruery 5 Golden Rings (New)  
  • Florida Orange Groves Winery Pineapple Sparkling Wine 

Nochebuena Cocina Menu

Location: Between World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion 

Food Items: 

  • Plant-based Chorizo Tamal with cotija and spicy red chile sauce (Plant-based)  
  • Pastelón: Sofrito-marinated beef with sweet plantains and olives  
  • Cinnamon-spiced Chocolate Crinkle Cookie  

Beverages: 

  • Ponche Navideño: Christmas punch with apple, pears, guava, oranges, dried hibiscus, brown sugar, tamarind, cinnamon sticks, and cloves served warm (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Left Hand Brewing Co. Mexican Hot Chocolate Milk Stout (New)  

Chestnuts & Good Cheer Holiday Kitchen Menu 

Location: Between World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion 

Food Items:

  • Cinnamon-glazed Almonds
  • Cinnamon-glazed Cashews
  • Cinnamon-glazed Pecans
  • Fire-roasted Chestnuts

Beverages: 

  • Eggnog (Non-alcoholic beverage)  
  • Eggnog with choice of cordial: Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, Mozart Chocolate Liqueur, or Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
  • Southern Tier Brewing Co. Chestnut Praline Imperial Ale 

Sunshine Seasons Menu

Location: The Land 

Food Items:

  • Peanut Butter Cookie made with Red & Green M&M’S Milk Chocolate Minis

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company Menu 

Location: Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company throughout the park 

Beverage: 

  • Merry Mint Cookie Latte: A festive blend of espresso, toasted marshmallow syrup, peppermint syrup, dark chocolate sauce, and milk topped with peppermint whipped cream and chocolate cookie crumbs (Non-alcoholic beverage) (New)  
  • Spirited version available with Baileys Original Irish Cream 
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DCBaker4 hours ago

December 10 is the next Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party date that has now sold out. 4 dates remain available in November: 21, 22, 26, 27 5 dates remain available in December: 12, 13, 15, 17, 19

Brian5 hours ago

Bill the bus driver had Jollywood pegged seven years ago.

SplashJacket5 hours ago

I hear about WDW news exclusively on WDWMagic and random bus drivers, shame the latter isn’t an option, word of mouth just doesn’t capture the service they’re doing.

bmr15915 hours ago

Without looking, that empanada sounds awfully similar to the one from FArts and I’m not mad about it.

HauntedPirate5 hours ago

lentesta6 hours ago

@wdwmagic shout-out in this year's Jollywood Nights survey from Disney:

DCBaker7 hours ago

The Christmas tree has arrived at EPCOT: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54138500357_6f93756397_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54139632868_236dc46b37_k.jpg

castlecake2.08 hours ago

Re new holiday entertainment at studios. It fills a void in a park desperately needing streetmosphere and these performers are all very talented but it’s obvious to me at least that they’re all third party. The production quality and proper theming isn’t there. Both the bands are really good but they don’t match their settings. It looks cheap.

jrhwdw8 hours ago

Correct, if Epcot plans a separate party Candlelight should stay the way it is, IMO....

networkpro9 hours ago

They are Cheryl's Cookies.

MisterPenguin9 hours ago

It isn't... other than the entrance cost of getting into EPCOT. Preferred seating and a meal at Candlelight is behind a paywall. You can still go to Candlelight in the free seats in the back.

jrhwdw9 hours ago

IDK........I think Epcot Holidays still need to be Public.....Candlelight SHOULD NOT be behind a Paywall!!! Granted, Epcot is missing LOW and POE Tag but that's not enough for a Separate Party, IMO....