You'll Never Guess Which Celebrity We Met in EPCOT (And Had Drinks With!)

There is SO much to do in EPCOT that you might be overwhelmed with choices.

UK Pavilion in EPCOT

Currently, EPCOT is in the middle of the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival, which has brought beautiful topiaries, LOADS of great food, and a fun scavenger hunt to the park. Plus, there are several great rides in the park! But there are also tours you can take at EPCOT, including a free tour you probably didn’t even know about.

Over at the UK Pavilion, you can take a FREE tour of the English Tea Garden, where you’ll learn about how tea is grown, manufactured, and brought to your own tea kettle.

English Tea Garden Tours in UK Pavilion

Two tours are available: a self-guided tour and a guided tour. You can visit The Tea Caddy for a brochure for the self-guided tour, or you can sign up for a same-day 30-minute guided tour: you’ll find a sign letting you know what times those happen: 1PM, 3:30PM, and 5PM.

English Tea Garden Tour times

Well, today’s tour was a little extra special because we got to attend a media event for National Tea Day where we toured the tea garden and had a special meet and greet with Stephen Twining. If that name sounds familiar, Twinings is one of a long line of family members involved with bringing Twinings Tea to the world. Stephen is a 10th generation member of the Twinings family! (And for SO many of us here on the DFB team who are TEA DEVOTEEEEES, this is a huge deal!)

We got to chat with tea ROYALTY (royal-tea??) this National Tea Day as part of a Twinings Tea #mediaevent!
We heard from Stephen Twining, a 10th gen member of the Twinings family! 🫖☕️ We also got to meet Rishi Deb, Head of Tea Innovation, and Vitor Da Silva, Master Blender 🤩 pic.twitter.com/YoxxRvpgks

— Disney Food Blog (@DisneyFoodBlog) April 21, 2024

We also got to meet Rishi Deb, Head of Tea Innovation (please let this be my next job), and Vitor Da Silva, Twinings Master Blender. CELEBS!!!

Cast Members with Stephen Twining

We also indulged in some tea while we were learning. We were served the Iced Lady Grey from Rose and Crown, which is a refreshing (and non-alcoholic) way to stay cool in EPCOT. It’s typically available at the restaurant.

YUM!

Now, you might not get to meet Stephen Twining the next time you pop into the UK Pavilion, but we have seen him there before, so you never know. But you can check out the English Tea Garden Tour throughout the duration of the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival, which runs through May 27th. (And you totally SHOULD!)

Stay tuned to DFB for more!

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AT FLOWER & GARDEN

The EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival is gorgeous — and overwhelming. Our DFB Guide shows you exactly what’s worth your time, money, and stomach space (and what to skip).

Inside the guide:

🌸 Full booth menus with photos + our Best of the Fest picks
🍓 Smart booth crawls so you’re not zig-zagging the park
🐝 Complete event schedules in one place
🌿 Topiary locations, festival exclusive merch, and hidden extras
💰 Budget tips to help you prioritize the must-haves

Have you ever taken this tour? Let us know in the comments!

Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend an event as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Today, we were invited by Twinings to attend a media event for the English Tea Garden Tour and meet and greet with Stephen Twining. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ