Walt Disney World has introduced a brand new limited-time Parisian culinary expertise with bottomless mimosas coming to the Cooks de France restaurant in World Showcase in the course of the 2025 EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition. This shares dates & particulars, together with a menu overview and photographs, plus why this can be a important growth and hopefully a return to ‘2019 regular’ for the particular occasion.
This yr’s EPCOT Worldwide Meals & Wine Competition begins on August 28, 2025 and runs by means of November 22, 2025 for a grand complete of 87 days. It’s starting and ending at some point sooner than final yr, which is roughly the historic norm. Though it had expanded in recent times, again in 2019 and earlier, the autumn foodie pageant usually started Labor Day weekend and ended the weekend earlier than Thanksgiving.
Whereas the occasion period is already again to 2019 regular, the massive unanswered query is whether or not the 2025 EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition shall be completely again to regular when it comes to substance. It used to have a jam-packed plate of seminars, particular dinners, movie star chef panels, and numerous enhancements. These have been absent for the previous 5 years. Now, we all know not less than one such meal shall be supplied in 2025.
Right here’s the official announcement concerning the Parisian breakfast buffet from Walt Disney World:
Take pleasure in a standard French breakfast expertise that transports you straight to the cafés of Paris. Enjoyment of a bountiful breakfast buffet at Cooks de France that includes the next choices.
Assorted French Pastries
- Buttery croissants, ache au chocolat, almond croissants and different assorted pastries
Freshly Baked Baguettes
- Crisp on the surface, tender and heat on the within—preferrred for spreading with creamy butter or luxurious French jams
Smoked Salmon
- Delicate and silky slices of smoked salmon, good for pairing with recent bread or a squeeze of lemon
Cheeses & Charcuterie
- A collection of premium cheeses and artisanal cured meats
Contemporary Fruit
- Seasonal fruit to steadiness the richness of the pastries and charcuterie
Benefit from the good accompaniment to your meal with limitless mimosas, fruit juices and freshly brewed espresso served to your liking. It’s a leisurely breakfast made to savor with associates and family members.
This pre-paid Parisian breakfast buffet expertise is just out there for a restricted time on Fridays and Saturdays in the course of the EPCOT Worldwide Meals & Wine Competition. Advance Eating Reservations for the Cooks De France breakfast buffet will open on August 12, 2025 for seatings beginning on September 5, 2025.
In accordance with a bulletin on the restaurant’s web site, these ADRs would require pre-payment as soon as booked beginning August 12. It’s unclear whether or not the usual cancellation coverage will apply for this breakfast buffet, however the Cooks de France web site doesn’t at the moment mirror any modifications.
Moreover, working hours haven’t been added for the breakfast buffet expertise at Cooks de France. Dates in September which were posted to date solely listing the usual lunch and dinner working hours.
It’s additionally notable {that a} full menu and costs haven’t but been posted. Given the distinctive nature of the expertise, restricted dates, limitless alcohol, and simply how costly all the pieces has gotten, we wouldn’t be stunned to see it price low triple-digits per individual. Hopefully that’s incorrect and it’s round $70. Nonetheless costly for breakfast, however that sounds about proper for an unique EPCOT Meals & Wine providing.
Our expectation is that each one of that is coming with the discharge of Walt Disney World’s official ‘foodie information’ to the 2025 EPCOT Worldwide Meals & Wine Competition. It’s additionally completely doable that extra such culinary experiences shall be revealed with the total International Market menus, which needs to be coming within the subsequent week or so.
Our Commentary
Final yr’s EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition was extremely underwhelming. So was the one earlier than that, and the one earlier than that, for that matter. However the distinction final yr was that the park was completely wall-free, the occasion nonetheless was not again to “2019 regular.” The slate of seminars, culinary demonstrations, particular dinners, movie star chef panels, and numerous enhancements didn’t return.
Not solely that, however the park didn’t even make the most of its area for a recent decor bundle–it was really scaled again as contrasted with prior years. What had as soon as been Walt Disney World’s signature particular occasion of the yr has simply turn into EPCOT’s weakest pageant. I don’t suppose that’s even a controversial opinion at this level. It’s in all probability the consensus, as each different pageant has meals cubicles plus one thing else, whereas Meals & Wine has turn into simply the International Marketplaces. Extra of them, certain, however that’s nonetheless the one providing.
As defined in EPCOT’s Meals & Wine Competition Is Stale. Right here’s What We Need Disney to Change, the occasion actually wants a shot within the arm. Walt Disney World has been leaving cash on the desk by not bringing again the culinary seminars, demonstrations, meals with movie star cooks, and different particular occasions. These are the uncommon upcharge that’s a win-win for Disney and friends, and it’s perplexing that they’ve all but to return.
With the CommuniCore Corridor occasion area, it looks as if a no brainer, as all of those particular occasions are dear and generate a number of income. Nonetheless, CommuniCore Corridor wasn’t used for that objective throughout final yr’s Meals & Wine, nor any of the festivals since.
CommuniCore Corridor was billed by Disney as a pageant heart that may be a “dynamic area to anchor” EPCOT Festivals and an occasion area “restricted solely by the boundaries of creativeness.” As a substitute, CommuniCore Corridor is simply indoor seating and a few cubicles. To Disney’s credit score, they’ve used the area higher throughout 2025 festivals to date, nevertheless it’s nonetheless nothing particular.
We’re nonetheless holding out hope for a extra sturdy 2025 EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition. EPCOT has a number of different unused (or underused) occasions areas other than CommuniCore Corridor that may very well be used. Perhaps we’ll lastly get the Wonders of Life pavilion or World ShowPlace put again into use for these occasions?! In all probability not gonna occur, however we will dream.
This breakfast buffet at Cooks de France is definitely a step in the precise route and hopefully the primary of many such bulletins within the subsequent couple of weeks. There are two issues which can be notable about this providing.
The primary is that it’s being held not in a particular occasions area, however at a desk service restaurant within the France pavilion. So it’s not as if Walt Disney World must do something out of the abnormal to accommodate this.
The second is that Cooks de France shouldn’t be owned or operated by Walt Disney World. When it opened again in 1982, Les Cooks de France turned the primary restaurant in America affiliated with iconic chef Paul Bocuse. Since his passing, his son Jerome Bocuse nonetheless owns the corporate to today.
That is notable as a result of Cooks de France opting to do a particular breakfast buffet expertise in the course of the 2025 EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition shouldn’t be essentially indicative of any bigger-picture plans by Disney.
It may very well be that that is the primary of many bulletins, and Walt Disney World has been coordinating behind the scenes with eating places round World Showcase. This information got here out forward of a splashier announcement resulting from an unintentional web site replace (it’s been taking place rather a lot recently).
Nevertheless it’s equally probably that the third social gathering working participant that owns Cooks de France determined to do that by itself. Perhaps ADRs are down and Cooks de France realized they’ve the staffing to make this work, in order that they determined to capitalize on the EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition with an occasion they know is more likely to promote out. A means of stimulating demand amongst repeat guests to offset a lower in vacationer curiosity. Both means, this may very well be an indication of extra to come back.
Cooks de France is among the hottest eating places in World Showcase, so in the event that they’re seeing a “want” to search out methods to extend bookings, it’s probably different eating places are in a worse place. As soon as the opposite third events see how in style that is (and our expectation is that it’ll promote out rapidly), they may probably need in on the motion.
Perhaps it’ll be too late for that to occur this yr, however we might simply see comparable particular occasions supplied round World Showcase on the 2026 EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition. Hopefully there’s a concerted effort behind the scenes at Walt Disney World to breathe new life into the pageant, and we received’t have to attend that lengthy.
Perhaps this would be the yr the EPCOT Meals & Wine Competition turns issues round after stagnating for the final 5 years. It certain looks as if the particular occasion has turn into much less in style with every passing yr, so right here’s hoping that Walt Disney World has lastly realized that it’s gotten stale and that is the primary of many steps aimed toward addressing that. We’ll hold you posted!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
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