Yesterday, my tour guide and I went through the World Showcase Pavilion sample menus and booths.  Today, we will go through the non-World Showcase Pavilion.  Like yesterday, all entrees are available for one dining plan snack credit.  There are no pictures for the strictly beer pavilions since our tour guide isn’t 21.  Going counter-clockwise, we start with:

Craft Beers

This booth houses a wide selection of beers from the more prominently known “micro-brewers” like Leinenkugel, Dogfish, and Sierra Nevada.

Swinging past the craft beers, the first nation comes into view:

Scotland

The Scottish and Irish booths are two reasons why the United Kingdom World Showcase pavilion does not sponsor their own pavilion.  The Scotland booth was new for 2013 while the Irish booth has been a mainstay.

Our smiling tour guide proudly let’s people know there are no beef, poultry, or pork options for a entree.  Scotland starts with a Seared Salmon and then two vegetarian options: A Vegetarian Haggis – though I’m not sure how one turns haggis vegetarian but Disney found a way.  Also there is a dessert – a Scottish Banoffee Tart.

Scotland brought a traditional 12-year Loch Lomond Scotch as well as a Glenfiddich Scotch Flight (12, 15, 18 and year scotch).  They brought one beer: Innis & Gunn Original.

Moving past Scotland, guests hit the first American booth:

Hawai’i

The entry point for my tour guide and I was after Hawai’i going counter-clockwise and the heat and the fear of a full-scale revolt by the tour guide prevented me from getting a picture of the Hawai’i booth.

Hawai’i brought traditional ocean fare to the festival serving a Tuna Poke with Seaweed Salad and the land with a pork slider with a sweet and sour pineapple chutney and spicy mayo sauce.

Kona Brewing Company brought two beers to the booths: Big Wave Golden Ale and Pipeline Porter.  One wine made the journey: Lucien Albrecht Gewurztraminer Réserve.  The booth had one specialty drink a Aulani Sunrise with Ocean Vodka.

Next, guests come to a pair of refreshing booths:

Desserts and Champagne

This is a must visit booth on a my next trip.  I missed out on it in 2013.  Disney has a lot of tasty desserts on display.  Starting with a Chocolate Orange Cupcake, Hazelnut Chocolate Cheesecake.  The chocolate keeps coming with Belgian Chocolate Seashell Truffles and Frozen S’Mores.  The lone non-chocolate option was a Cherry Pistachio Mousse.

The champagne flows with three Moet & Chandon Champagnes: an Ice Imperial, an Imperial, and an Imperial Rose.  Nicholas Feuillate had a second rose for guests to sample.

The Refreshment Port

Two entrees came to The Refreshment Port: fried chicken chunks in a pineapple sweet and sour sauce as well as Fried shrimp in a pineapple sweet and sour sauce.

The Refreshment Port brought plenty of slushes for the guest to choose from.  The Orange Dole Whip (available for a snack credit) and an orange dole whip with Creme de Cacao (not available for a snack credit).

Moving past refreshment and back into the national booths, guests come to:

Greece

Greece didn’t have publicly displayed menu so our tour guide presents some history on Greece.

Greece brought a variety of foods to the booth.  They brought a Taste of Greece in some fried Calamari and a chicken gyro.  Three vegetarian options were available griddled greek cheese, spanakopita, and Dannon had some Greek style yogurt available.

Alcohol was available with an Ouzo and some Greek wines were also available: Alpha Estate Axia Syrah  and a pair of Domaine wines.

Guests head through Canada to get to the next Non-World Showcase Booth

Ireland

Located in the United Kingdom pavilion, the Irish brought their traditional Irish fare.

Like Greece, the menu wasn’t available on the main display.  The Irish brought the sea with a Lobster and Seafood Fisherman’s pie.  Some excellent Irish cheese, which I’ve sampled on a previous visit.  It comes as a cheese tray and features three Kerrygold cheeses which change from year-to-year.  Lastly, Bailey’s made a warm chocolate pudding with a Bailey’s cream sauce.

Guinness has beer available.  There was also a honey wine and a chilled Irish coffee available as well.

Heading over the bridge into France and going past France, guests will come to the low-land country of:

Belgium:

The Belgians were kind enough to provide us a menu for our tour guide to display.

Belgians brought us two cuisines that they do and they do very well: waffles and beer.

Three types of waffles: a potato and leek waffle with braised beef making it more a lunch/dinner waffle than a breakfast waffle.  Two breakfast waffles adorned the menu one with a chocolate sauce and another with a berry sauce.

Four Belgian beers made the menu which were available for purchase (not snack credit eligible) individually or a beer flight.  A chilled coffee with chocolate liqueur also was on the menu.

A guest doesn’t have to go far to reach the next booth.

New Zealand

Our tour guide did an excellent job of shading her eyes and blocking some of the menu.

New Zealand doesn’t have much for the vegetarian on the menu: mussels, lamb meatballs, and venison sausage made the menu.

New Zealand makes up for it with its wine selection.  Three Kim Crawford wines: pinot grigio, a chardonnay, and a pinot noir.  One other wine a Sauvignon Blanc made the menu.  If you like wine and meats that aren’t the traditional beef, poultry or pork, then this is the booth for you.

Walking past the World Showcase pavilions of Morocco and Japan, guests enter the American Adventure which has two booths for guess to sample.  My tour guide and I stopped at the first one…

Florida Local

Our tour guide gives Florida a big thumbs up (mainly because she got a second lemonade) but I gave it a big thumbs up as well.

The beef sliders are excellent with no sauce and sweet and hot pickles.  The hot pickles weren’t too hot to take away from the taste of the slider.  We passed on the shrimp entree.

Both wine and beer are on the menu here.  I tried the key lime wine which had a very tart taste to it.  Two local brewers brought a pale ale and a white ale as well and a local vineyard brought in a white sangria.

The other booth is

Hops and Barley

This booth is more an ode to the northeast US.  Being from the northeast, I can get most of these entrees every day so I took the pass on them.

Lobster is featured in two of the entrees: a grilled lobster tail and a lobster roll.  The other entree is a New England Clam Chowder.  One dessert is a craisin bread pudding with Grand Marnier sauce.

Sam Adams has three beers available purchase as part of a beer flight or individually.  Rouge brought a chocolate stout and a specialty drink: Iron House Fairy Tale Cuvee.

Getting through the American Adventure and past Italy is the next booth

Poland

We have no picture of tour guide with the menu and/or display but we do have a picture of one of the entrees courtesy of my wife who took some food pictures when she went on a solo tour of the festival.

A kielbasa with a potato pierogie was one of the two entree options in Poland.  The other option is Zapiekanki which is toasted mushroom, onions, and cheese bread with a homemade ketchup.

One beer from the Okocim Brewery and a wine – a zinfandel was on the menu.

If guests didn’t get enough beer in the Germany pavilion, they can stop at the:

Brewer’s Collection

The Brewer’s Collections is a larger menu of German beers that could be found in Germany.

A fuller description can be found on the Disney Food Blog: http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/brewers-collection-2013-epcot-food-and-wine-festival/

After the Brewer’s Collection, guests come to my favorite booth:

Cheese

I try to joke with the Cast Members about when the Nation of Cheese will be applying for UN status but the joke usually goes over their heads.

Our tour guide with the cheese display.  If there is a display, it should be a nation.

Cheese had two options: a crusted bleu cheese with fig jam and a cheese tray with cheddar, brie and gouda.  My wife and I usually get the cheese tray.  She gets the brie.  I get the cheddar and we usually split the gouda.

Once Upon a Vine provided the booth with four different wines: sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, a “Big Bad Red Blend”, and a pinot.

The Outpost area presents

Africa

Africa is a booth which provides guests better wine options than entree options.

Three wine options: a syrah, a blanc and “A Wolftrap Red”

Two entree options: berbere style beef and a vegetarian spinach and paneer cheese pocket

Guests get back into country booths with:

South Korea

South Korean cuisine isn’t my thing but there were two main entrees: a kimchi dog and a lettuce wrap.

South Korea did make up for the lack of entrees with three alcoholic options: a blackberry wine, a soju and a soju fruit slushy.

Guests head through China and continue their tour of Asian cuisine with:

Singapore

No menu on display so we got some history on Singapore instead.

Menu-wise, like South Korea, there were two menu options: a chicken curry with coconut and jasmine rice and seared mahi-mahi.

Three beverage options were Tiger Beer, a Singapore Sling, and Marques de Caceres Satinela.

Guests walk past Mexico and into a string of four Non-World Showcase booth starting with:

Australia

Our tour guide, who is getting rapidly grumpier (because we’re out of lemonade). poses by the Australia Menu.

The highlight in Australia is the wine.  Four wines adorned the Australian menu from three different wineries.

Grilled shrimp and a lamb chop were the two entree options and a Pavlova was the dessert option.  The Pavlova was crisp meringue shell with berries and vanilla custard.

Guests head across the Pacific for the next two booths

Argentina

Like Australia, the highlight in Argentina is the wine.  Argentina had four wines on the menu.

Unlike Australia, there was no vegetarian option just two beef options: a beef skewer and a beef empanada.

The beef skewer look tempting but again fearing revolt from our tour guide by waiting in another line for food.  I passed on that option.

Brazil

The pained smile of a tour guide who is almost finished her journey around the World Showcase.

During our visit, only the white wine and specialty drink were available.  However, both entrees: a crispy pork belly and a seared sea scallop were available.

The last booth in the tour around the world

Terra

Terra is the vegetarian’s playground.  All the food options here were vegetarian ranging from “Chick’n Curry” to a chili to finally a dessert in chocolate cake in a coconut mousse with passion fruit sauce.

Fresh watermelon juice is only available at this booth.  Two wines from The Vegan Vine were available and Napa Smith Organic IPA.

That concludes our journey around the World Showcase and the 30 booths at the Food and Wine Festival.  Last night, after posting the world showcase booths, I came across some pictures that my wife took of food during the festival.

 

If you would like to see some more in-depth pictures of the entrees and drinks available, I would highly recommend going to the Disney Food Blog at http://www.disneyfoodblog.com.  AJ Wolfe, who runs the blog, also creates an e-book once all the information about the Food and Wine Festival is available.  My wife and I bought the book last year and my wife was lucky enough to eat the Parisian Breakfast with AJ, as well, through random pairing of “Party of 1′s.”

Her 2014 e-book is available for pre-order here: http://dfbminiguides.com/foodandwine

Tomorrow, I cover the special events that take place during the festival.

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