We hope you’re hungry because the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays has officially started!

This wintertime festival runs from November 28th through December 30th, and offers visitors festive holiday eats from the booths, fun activities, and new merchandise. We’ve made our way around the festival, trying all the new and returning eats, and now we’re sharing our very TOP picks. It’s time for the Best of the Fest!

Without further ado, let’s dive into our picks for the BEST eats and drinks at the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays.

New Bests

Spiced Caramel Apple at Connections Eatery

We loved the Spiced Caramel Apple drink made with Minute Maid Cranberry Juice, apple cider, and caramel syrup, garnished with a cinnamon stick. If you want the holiday season all wrapped up in a drink, this is it. The flavors mesh so well together with the cinnamon and apple cider, but you also get sweetness and tartness from the caramel and cranberry.

We will be getting this drink again and again.

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Frozen Gingerbread Eggnog at Regal Eagle

Regal Eagle is offering a Festival of the Holidays option for the first time, and knocked it out of the park! The Frozen Gingerbread Eggnog with gingerbread syrup topped with nutmeg is $6.49, although you can pay a little extra and get a spirited version with Thomas Tew single Barrel Rum.

This is the perfect drink for those who want a little eggnog…with a twist. Well done, Regal Eagle!

Macaron de Noël aux Épices at Marche de Noel

The macaron at Marche de Noel was also fantastic. It’s got a lovely gingerbread flavor to it, and the filling is almost like a cookie filling with a bit of a chew.

The macaron also breaks easily, and it’s aromatic…like you can smell the gingerbread before you even bite into it. Finally, it gets an A+ for presentation.

Returning Bests

Sparkling Holiday Fig Cocktail at Tangerine Cafe — Flavors of the Medina

The Sparkling Holiday Fig Cocktail is made with Sparkling Wine, Kleiner Feigling liqueur, and white cranberry juice. This cocktail has been a favorite of ours for a while, and this year is no different. It’s got a lovely spiced wine taste with some sweetness coming from the fig.

This cocktail has been a hit for a while, and we think it’s still going to be a hit this year.

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Reuben Croquettes at Favorites of Festivals Past

The Reuben Croquettes are made with pastrami, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese, and are served with a Thousand Island dipping sauce. They have a wonderful crispy crust that has a great crunch when you bite into them.

Inside are heavenly, thin slices of pastrami mixed in with cheese.

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Pork Schnitzel at Bavaria Holiday Kitchen

The Pork Schnitzel with mushroom sauce, spätzle, and braised red cabbage has made our Best of the Fest list for several years running, so it’s no surprise that it’s on our list this year. The pork is delicious, and we loved the creaminess of the mushroom sauce.

The cabbage adds a touch of acidity to balance out the rest of the dish.

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Best Booth of the Fest

American Holiday Table

We just call this food booth “old reliable” because it just keeps doing it again and again. The Slow Roasted Turkey is back as the mini Thanksgiving feast you didn’t know you needed, even after Thanksgiving. The returning Blackened Catfish with Hoppin’ John and Comeback Sauce is just a winning combo of EVERYTHING. The new Chocolate Cookie featuring SNICKERS bar pieces and salted caramel is gooey, chewy, and WONDERFUL.

Even the Beer Flight wow’d us this year, meaning that you can’t go wrong with ANYTHING at this booth.

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Best Runner-Up Booth of the Fest

Marche de Noel

France is always at the top of our list, too, and we’ve already mentioned the fabulous Macaron de Noël aux Épices you can get here. But this booth is a solid A+ through and through. The Dinde Rôtie, Sauce et Garniture, servi avec Patates Douces is a lovely turkey dish that feels like comfort food. The Salmon Brioche is SO simple, yet perfect.

The Vin Chaud French Mulled Wine flavored with orange and cinnamon spices is a nice wine with some seriously jazzed up flavors. The Hot Chocolate Martini is the BEST way to upgrade a hot chocolate.

Best of the Fest for Kids

Red Velvet Cookie Funnel Cake at the Funnel Cake Stand

The Red Velvet Cookie Funnel Cake is topped with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, cream cheese whipped cream, red velvet cookie pieces, mini chocolate chips, and chocolate syrup. We loved the flavors of this, and think kids are going to love it, too. The funnel cake is crispy and fluffy.

It’s also topped with ice cream and cream cheese whipped cream, so it has a sweeter and creamier topping than what you’d get with regular whipped cream. Fun and delicious!

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Ginger-Molasses Cookie at Experimental Prototype COOKIES of Tomorrow

The Ginger-Molasses Cookie is going to be a hit with kids because it has that classic flavor topped, with a delicious cream cheese frosting. It’s gooey and chewy, and everything you’d want out of a cookie.

The icing adds a nice, sweet touch.

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Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie at Experimental Prototype COOKIES of Tomorrow

The Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie is going to be a fun one for kids, too, mostly because it’s shaped like Spaceship Earth.

Plus it’s pretty tasty, too, so that’s a bonus.

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Cookie Stroll

The classic Festival of the Holidays Cookie Stroll makes our Best of the Fest list as a great pick for little ones. With the cookie stroll, you purchase five cookies from any of the cookie stroll locations in the Festival Passport. As you buy the cookies, you’ll get a stamp for each one.

Once you’ve collected five stamps, you can bring your passport to the Holiday Sweets & Treats booth to get a special prize!

And that’s it for our picks of the BEST of the FEST for the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays. Now, I think it’s time to take a nap!

We’ll be checking out everything this festival has to offer this year, so keep checking DFB for the latest updates! In the meantime, stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog for the latest Disney news and beyond.

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