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Fast Facts
- The Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival runs from Feb. 28 to April 21, 2025.
- There are more than 80 new food and drink items, including one new festival marketplace, Mercado de Antojos.
- Purchase a Sip & Savor Pass to sample 4 or 8 items. This year it come with a free plate that holds your food AND drinks! (While supplies last.)
- General admission to the festival is included with a Disneyland Resort ticket, though some offerings may require an additional charge and/or reservations.
- Be sure to grab your tickets and park reservations, as dates can fill up quickly.
West Coast Disney foodie fans always look forward to the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival's return. In 2025, the Food and Wine Festival kicks off Friday, Feb. 28 and runs through Monday, April 21. Reservations opened in mid-January for special tasting seminars and winemaker receptions. This year, there are more than 80 new California-inspired items, so we have been trying as many as we can. And, of course, we love our returning favorites too!
As an epicurean amphibian, I always look forward to attending the West Coast version of the popular EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival. If you're a foodie like me, you definitely don't want to miss out on all of the yummy cuisines. Everyone can bask in the beautiful springtime scenery at the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival! The pink Tabebuia trees are in bloom, and all of the colorful flowers make Disneyland Resort especially beautiful this time of year. This festival is included with regular park admission (though some offerings are an additional charge and require reservations).
The biggest thing to know this year is that you need to make a theme park reservation to visit. If park hopping, you can choose Disney California Adventure as your starting park. If you select Disneyland as your starting park, you can hop to California Adventure at 11 a.m. (or later), just in time to start enjoying items from the festival booths.
A lot is hoppening at Disneyland Resort this spring, so you may want to expand your visit by an extra day or two to do it all! For Star Wars fans, the Season of the Force takes place at Disneyland Park from March 28 through May 11, 2025. Plus, Disneyland Park is hosting four themed After Dark parties on select nights from January to June! You may want to attend 90s Nite or Star Wars Nite in Disneyland Park. They each have dates that fall during Food and Wine.
Just a few weeks after Food and Wine Festival ends, the Disneyland 70th Anniversary Celebration kicks off May 16, 2025, through summer 2026! It brings a returning daytime parade to Disney California Adventure plus a new World of Color Happiness! show. At Disneyland Park, Wondrous Journeys nighttime spectacular returns and Paint the Night Parade comes back!
What's Included at Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival
Let's hop to it and go over what we know so far about the Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival.
We have uplifting news for 2025! Soarin' Over California is back for a limited time during the festival. It replaces Soarin' Around the World during the festival each year. Mmmmm ... I can still smell the orange groves just thinking about it!
Each Food and Wine Festival brings new menus and events. You'll find plenty of fun for the whole family. We love hopping about the festival and using up our Sip and Savor Passes while trying all the yummy food and drinks. There are culinary demonstrations with local and celebrity chefs, as well as special signature events. Here's the scoop on when, where and how to attend one of these seminars, tastings or free experiences.
Free Experiences & Festival Kiosks (Included with Disney Park Pass Reservation & Admission)
- Access to festival marketplace kiosks and restaurant menu items (though food and drinks are an additional charge)
- Culinary demonstrations (Saturdays and Sundays, usually at 3:30 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.)
- Family-friendly cooking demonstrations
- "Confection Purrfection with the SuperKitties" (Hands-on cupcake decorating activity and show for ages 3-11)
- Character experiences such as Chef Goofy and Jammin' Chefs
- Musical entertainment
- Crafts and special activity zones
- An expanded menu of cocktails, craft brews, savory snacks and more at Sonoma Terrace hosted by CORKCICLE (additional fee for food and beverage, but look for a free photo-op!)
Additional Reservations Needed
- Carthay Circle Brewmaster and Winemaker Receptions
- Trader Sam's Mixology
- Hearthstone Lounge "A Walk on the Silverado Trail" at the Mariposa Pool Deck in Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa delights guests with specialty wine and cuisine pairings.
- (New) Dinner and Scotch Event at Hearthstone Lounge, which features tray-passed hors d’oeuvres, live music and exceptional scotches paired with an intimate, four-course dinner experience.
- Beverage education & tasting seminars for beer, wine and mixology
You can make 2025 reservations online. Purchase as soon as possible in 2025, as some dates can fill up quickly.
When you visit Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival, be sure to grab a Tasting Passport to help you find all of the foods and events you'd like to get your fill of. The Tasting Passport has a map of the Marketplaces, photos of foods and an index that breaks up the food into categories such as vegetarian or plant-based, tadpole-friendly and more. We're always looking out for our friends with special dietary needs. The Festival Guide covers entertainment, such as demonstrations, music and shows too! All this information is also in the Disneyland app.
Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Marketplace Kiosks
The Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival offers small plates of special California-inspired menu items and beverages at the Festival Marketplaces and various Disney California Adventure quick-service and table-service restaurants in the park. Take a culinary trip through the Golden State without ever leaving the park! (You may find some special festival items in Downtown Disney this year.) Festival Marketplace kiosks are usually open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily during the festival.
Everything is fresh and derived from the California culture. Follow the path through the festival booths, which range from Hollywood Land to the Golden Zephyr. Our favorite tip is to find the Marketplace with the shortest line and order multiple items there! Then, take the receipt to each window to collect food as you need it. Hold onto that receipt! (This may not always be allowed, especially if booths run out of popular items. We had an item we had purchased run out, so we chose a substitution.)
Sip and Savor Pass
You’ll definitely want to leap for a Sip and Savor Pass when attending this festival! This year, you can choose from two kinds of Sip and Savor Passes: One is good for four tastings of food or nonalcoholic beverages ($32) and the other is good for eight tasting portions ($63; $58 for Magic Key holders). The passes are good for food and nonalcoholic beverages at festival booths and some participating restaurants. You can pick up a Sip and Savor Pass at any food booth or merchandise location, as well as a few other locations in California Adventure. The passes no longer have tabs. Instead, you scan the digital coupons at the register and type in the code on the back.
Because most tastes run about $8 to $10 (some desserts or treats are about $7), you’ll save money if you use it for items that are in the higher price range. When you buy food individually, tax gets added. But not with the Sip & Savor Pass, so keep those savings in mind too! Two people can share one pass, and if you go through it too quickly, get another! You cannot mobile order using the Sip and Savor at the restaurants, though. We are toadally drooling just thinking about all the foods we want to try this year! Some standout items from 2024 were the cheeseburger bao (there's a new version in 2025 and we love it just as much!) and the returning Snickers Mickey macaron!
For a limited time, you get a free Food & Wine Mickey-shaped plate with any Sip & Savor Pass purchase! It has holes for your drinks and makes it easier to carry your items. Plus, it helps the environment because it reduces the use of disposable paper trays. You can loop it through your pass lanyard when walking around. Serve your tadpoles snacks on it when you get home. We love free souvenirs!
Speaking of free things... If you buy a Food and Wine $100 gift card, it comes with a free limited-edition pin! The card can be used for food and merchandise purchases across the resort and beyond.
Check out our hopful downloadable 2025 menus.
Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Booths 2025
The menus are fun and creative. (I mean, there's a tasty drink with a pickle in it!) There are so many items that we moved the full list of menus to a separate post with hopful downloadable menus. The Festival Marketplace booths each offer tasty tidbits and libations. The kiosks have exciting signs that light up at night (some even move)! Some booths have colorful art on the side, making excellent photo opportunities and backdrops for your most Insta-worthy eats. Be sure to check them out!
- (New) Mercado de Antojos
- California Craft Brews
- Cluck-a-Doodle-Moo
- Garlic Kissed
- Golden Dreams
- LA Style
- Peppers Cali-ente
- Uncork California
Save some room after you eat your way through the festival booths because, after you pass by the Golden Zephyr, you’ll find yourself in the Paradise Garden Grill Beer Garden area, which offers much more than just beer. (I usually feel a lot like a Zephyr by this point.) Enjoy a cold one from California and beyond at the Paradise Garden Grill Beer Garden!
Food and Wine Dishes at Disney California Adventure Restaurants
Aside from the Paradise Garden Grill, which always serves up special foods during the festival, many other eateries in Disney California Adventure have created special treats and drinks for the festival this year.
Be sure to ask about special menu items when dining in Downtown Disney, too!
There are so many new restaurants and vending locations joining the Sip and Savor Pass this year! The following locations offer these tasting portions on the Sip and Savor Pass in 2025 (as well as additional yummy eats). We've noted dates that differ from the official festival dates. (Keep in mind that you cannot use the Sip and Savor Pass if you use the Mobile Order service.) Full list of offerings are found in our menus post.
- Aunt Cass Cafe
- Award Wieners
- Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta (Feb. 28 through April 29)
- Cappuccino Cart (Feb. 28 through April 27)
- Clarabelle’s Hand-Scooped Ice Cream
- Cocina Cucamonga
- Cozy Cone Motel 5: Popcorn Scoop
- Paradise Garden Grill (tasting portions available Feb. 27)
- Smokejumper's Grill
- Sonoma Terrace
- Willie’s Churros
- Studio Catering Co.
- Churros at Hollywood Land
- Terran Treats
- Churros near Goofy’s Sky School and Señor Buzz Churros on Pixar Pier (Feb. 28 through April 29)
- Willie’s Churros at Buena Vista Street
- Select Outdoor Vending Locations
Table-Service Restaurants with Food and Wine Dishes in 2025 (not on the Sip and Savor Pass):
- Lamplight Lounge (Feb. 28 through April 29)
Quick-Service Locations with Festival Dishes Not on the Sip and Savor Pass
Some locations have larger dishes for the festival, and those may not be on the Sip and Savor Pass:
- Paradise Garden Grill
- Studio Catering Co.
- Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta
- Corn Dog Castle
- Cocina Cucamonga
Candy Shops
- Don't froget to hop into Trolley Treats for the irresistible Chef Remy apple and springtime treats.
Pixar Place Hotel
- Great Maple
Downtown Disney
Keep an eye out for tasty offerings from Friends of the Festival at Downtown Disney restaurants in 2025. These are not on the Sip and Savor Pass:
- Ballast Point Brewing Co.
- Kayla's Cake
- Splitsville Luxury Lanes
- Salt & Straw
- Seoul Sister at Parkside Market
- Vista Parkside Market
Free Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Culinary Demonstrations
You can take cooking lessons and gather insider tips for creating new recipes from both Disney-based and visiting chefs. Unfrogtunately, there are no samples at these free demonstrations. You can generally find culinary demonstrations at the Backlot Stage in Hollywood Land on select weekend dates at various times in the afternoon (the demonstrations at the Backlot Stage usually start at 3:30 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.) Search for "Culinary Demonstrations" in the Disneyland app to see the scheduled chef lineup for the entire festival, or visit the Disneyland website.
In the past, we have also hopped by the stage when no demonstrations were scheduled and still caught one in action, so check it out just in case. Grab some food from a nearby booth and take a seat to enjoy your food, learn how to prepare some recipes and even hear some stories.
The 2025 Culinary Demonstrations take place on select Saturdays and Sundays:
- 3:30 p.m. — Culinary Demonstrations with Festival Sponsors
Enjoy mini cooking and educational farm-to-table presentations by festival sponsors involved in growing the foods at the festival. - 5 p.m. — Culinary Demonstrations with Disney Chefs (plus 3 p.m. March 8 and 3:30 p.m. March 9)
Join the Disney Chefs for a cooking demo that focuses on their favorite Disneyland Resort dishes and treats. - 6 p.m. — Culinary Demonstrations with Visiting Chefs (plus 5 p.m. April 5)
Attend an outdoor cooking exhibition with sizzling excitement!
Samples are not given at these free demonstrations.
Free Entertainment and Experiences for the Whole Family
Aside from culinary demonstrations and the return of Soarin' Over California, here are some more free experiences the whole family can enjoy.
See the Jammin' Chefs
The Cookin' with the Jammin’ Chefs show is a highlight for us at the California Adventure Food and Wine Festival (Chip, Dale, hooray!). Be sure to hop over to see them. Spoiler alert: Daisy Duck and Pluto (or Clarabelle Cow) join in the fun! You can usually find them at the obelisk at Paradise Gardens, near The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure. Add a cute musical interlude to your dining and drinking plans by watching this spectacular show! The Jammin' Chefs show — featuring Chip 'n' Dale — is a fun show of drumming, music and dancing (but no kid interactions this year). The Jammin' Chefs usually appear from 10:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., but times are subject to change as the festival continues. Check the Disneyland app for the most up-to-date showtimes.
Meet Chef Goofy
You can meet Chef Goofy in the Hollywood Backlot!
Confection Purrfection with the SuperKitties
Tadpoles and froglets ages 3 to 11 will enjoy a FREE hands-on cupcake-making experience that allows them to express their creativity during a show. Plus, Minnie Mouse joins in on the fun! If you flip for our froggy puns, just wait for the purrfect kitty puns in this adorable show. Paws out, claws out! Participants can usually sign up about 45 minutes before each showtime. However, we recommend signing up for the first show, as these spaces go quickly. Space is limited, so arrive early. Make sure your tadpole is comfortable leaving your side for a bit. Kids can take their creations home! Times vary each day, with more shows during the week than on weekends.
Double-check the entertainment guide on the Disneyland app for your visit. Our tip is to aim for the first show, as demand can build later in the day.
Cook Up Some Crafts
You need a chef hat to look like a pro while you stir up some fun. Your tadpoles can color their own free chef hat (or placemat with games) and decorate them with food stickers. You can find this craft near the stage in Hollywood Land.
Enjoy Musical Entertainment
Be sure to check the entertainment calendar for live festival music. Talented bands and musicians take to the Palisades Stage at Paradise Park (in front of the water), providing some groovy beats to enjoy while dining. In the afternoons, you can also find some smaller musical entertainment at the Paradise Garden Bandstand near Paradise Garden Grill.
Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Seminars and Tastings
The 2025 Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival offers many opportunities for exclusive and exquisite culinary adventures. There are several seminars, receptions and tastings that you can reserve if you are 21 and up. Each course has a fee in addition to the cost of park admission for the day. (You do not need a theme park ticket for events at hotels.)
You can sign up for hotel-themed events:
- Trader Sam’s Mixology Classes: Learn how to make a classic tiki libation and sample tray-passed hors d'oeuvres around the outdoor fireplace. Take home a souvenir tiki mug. Tickets cost $159 per person, plus tax and gratuities. Events are at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Mondays, March 3, 17, 31 and April 14, 2025.
- New! Dinner and Scotch Event at Hearthstone Lounge: Indulge in rare scotches from Highland Park of the Isle of Mull & Orkney and The Macallan from Speyside, Scotland. The evening begins with tray-passed hors d'oeuvres and live music, followed by a four-course tasting menu, crafted and paired with scotch selections by Executive Chef Marcel St. Pierre. Tickets cost $495 per person, plus tax and gratuities, and include 5-hour complimentary valet parking at Disney's Grand Californian.
Enjoy Beer, Wine and Mixology Seminars
Do you have a thirst for knowledge on wine, beer or spirits? You can quench it at one of these 45-minute seminars at Sonoma Terrace. The price includes sample tastings. You must reserve in advance through the online reservation system. You can click on each date to get more information when you reserve.
Sign up for:
- Beverage Education & Tasting Seminars
- Beer and Cider Education & Tasting Seminars
- Wine Education and Chocolate Pairing
- Mixology Education & Cocktail Making Seminars
- Hotel Experiences
You need a valid theme park ticket and reservation to attend.
Reserve a Brewmaster or Winemaker’s Reception at Carthay Circle Restaurant
This popular event returns in 2025 with two Friday nights of gourmet, wine-focused pairings with hors d'oeuvres. The Reception ($175 per person plus tax and gratuity) has no cancellations or exchanges. Events take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., with check-in beginning 15 minutes before it begins. The dates in 2025 are:
- March 28, 2025, Brewmaster Reception with Paul Segura, Karl Strauss Brewing Co.
- April 11, 2025, with Dana Epperson, Decoy & Migration (Duckhorn Vineyards)
Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival Merchandise
Hold onto your ears! There is new headwear, apparel, home decor, kitchen gadgets and more. You'll find adorable festival-themed ears and spirit jerseys! You can find them (and more) in front of The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure, with a smaller selection of apparel sold across the entrance to Cars Land. Toadally cute pins are also available for those of you frogs who love to collect!
We have our froggy eye on the water bottle Lug bag.
The Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival is just one of many events hoppening at the Disneyland Resort. Will you be hopping in for this festive celebration? Have you attended in the past? Let us know in the comments below!
Related: Full Schedule of Disneyland Events
Related: The Full List of Disney California Adventure Food and Wine Festival 2025 Menus
Hoppy planning!
