Disney World Announces La Poutinerie Opening Date, Full Menu, Food Photos & Prices for EPCOT Eatery!

Walt Disney World has announced the official opening date of the newly-reimagined La Poutinerie dining location, while also revealing the full menu with prices and food photos. Here are full details plus our commentary about the possible ‘why’ of this and the conspicuous omission from the restaurant’s culinary roster.

As basic background, Air Canada is the new Official Canadian Airline of Walt Disney World. This partnership will result in VIP fireworks viewing, various perks, and marketing campaigns like plane wraps. The most meaningful change for guests in EPCOT will be a reimagined restaurant or snack stand.

The Refreshment Port at EPCOT will soon become La Poutinerie hosted by Air Canada. This World Showcase dining spot has been closed since January 12th, and has had a large set of construction walls around it since. A couple of months ago, Walt Disney World revealed the new-look La Poutinerie as Refreshment Port’s replacement.

The redesigned building will feature new La Poutinerie signage, a centerpiece featuring Canada geese in flight, maple trees with fall foliage, and new landscaping with flowers and rocks. There’s also new decorative elements on the building itself, including stone and wood paneling.

The big news today is that Walt Disney World announced La Poutinerie will officially open on July 1, 2026.

However, one thing we should note here is that Canada Day is July 1, 2026. That timing is almost certainly not coincidental. It was likely chosen out of respect to the corporate alliance with Air Canada, along with Walt Disney World trying to have a splashier opening that feels like a needed goodwill gesture towards our neighbors to the north.

All of that is to say that soft openings long before July 1, 2026 wouldn’t surprise us in the least. This would normally be an “it opens when it opens” type of thing, so it could quietly debut–as have several other recent additions around Walt Disney World–before that date. Canada Day is simply the grand opening, when there will likely be a pre-park opening ribbon cutting with executives from Air Canada and Walt Disney World.

It’s also entirely possible that there’s no soft opening. That even if work on La Poutinerie is done well ahead of schedule, they just sit on it. We’re in the midst of Diet EPCOT, which the slowest stretch of the year for the park. There’s really no “need” for La Poutinerie until the week of (America’s) Independence Day, and the official opening date also checks that box.

Here’s the full menu with prices and food photos for La Poutinerie hosted by Air Canada:

Entrées

• Québec: L’Authentique ($10.99) – French Fries with Cheese Curds and Brown Gravy
• Montréal: Viande Fumée ($12.49) – French Fries with Cheese Curds, Smoked Meat, Pickles & Mustard Gravy

Non-Alcoholic Beverages

• Spiced Apple Slushy ($6.29) – Frozen Ginger Beer blended with Lively Lime and Cozy Spiced Apple Flavors
• Coca-Cola Fountain Beverages – $4.79
• DASANI Bottled Water – $4.25
• smartwater – $6.25

Alcoholic Beverages

• Spiced Apple Mule ($14.50) – Frozen Ginger Beer blended with Lively Lime and Cozy Spiced Apple Flavors with Iceberg Canadian Vodka
• Unibroue La Fin du Monde Belgian-style Ale – $14.00
• Molson Canadian Lager – $10.75
• Jackson-Triggs Reserve Red Blend – $12.00
• Domaine Ste. Michelle Brut, Columbia Valley – $7.50

Walt Disney World has also revealed that La Poutinerie will accept the Disney Dining Plan, although that much was to be expected with regard to the drinks. What will be interesting to see is whether the poutines are snack credits. If so, they instantly rise to the top of our List of Best Disney Dining Plan Snack Credit Uses.

La Poutinerie’s menu is fine. The biggest win for EPCOT park-goers is likely the expanded list of alcoholic beverages. In its prior incarnation as Refreshment Port, this location previously served up multiple poutines plus chicken fingers and a dessert, so the food side of this is more or less par for the course.

At one point in the past, Refreshment Port was sponsored by Boursin (see signage on photo above). I miss that era. It yielded the best loaded poutines and one of the all-time greatest EPCOT desserts, the Maple Bourbon Cheesecake. That is the one dish that’s missing from this menu. Well, one of two–but the other was far-fetched.

Honestly, the most exciting aspect of this news for me is something that wasn’t announced but appears incoming based on the photos: location-specific food packaging! As a Disney ephemera hoarder, I anxiously await adding one of these priceless puppies to my collection. Megatron is going to have quite the inheritance of family heirlooms!

Beyond unique packaging, you know what could really make La Poutinerie something special? If it became La Poutinerie & La BeaverTailery!

For those who are unfamiliar with this glorious Canadian culinary creation, BeaverTails have been an iconic indulgence in Canada since 1978. Served piping-hot, the hand-stretched whole-wheat pastries are both crispy and chewy at the same time, and topped with delicious ingredients.

Disney should forge both an airline alliance and an aquatic rodent bread partnership. This was supposed to happen a few years ago, but didn’t. If you missed that roller coaster, check out BeaverTails Are Gone Again…Already?! Or Air Canada should make BeaverTails their official in-flight snack. I’ve vowed to never fly Air Canada again, but if there’s one thing that could persuade me to miss a connection, it’s delicious aquatic rodent bread!

Now is the time to bring back BeaverTails. Disney should work out an agreement with the Canadian company to bring the delicacy back after a two-decade hiatus. The people demand these delicious pastries to accompany our poutine. Every single Canada pavilion announcement that doesn’t involve BeaverTails is a missed opportunity. There’s been a lot of talk about ‘singles and doubles’ recently, but no mention of triples. Well, Walt Disney World, here’s your chance for one!

We’ll never give up hope on the BeaverTail making its triumphant comeback, no matter how unlikely it might seem.

Much more likely, however, is that La Poutinerie sees its menu expanded at the start of the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival on August 27, 2026. Our sincere hope, as noted above, is that this includes the return of the Maple Bourbon Cheesecake, which is one of the event’s all-time greatest desserts.

It wouldn’t be surprising to see the menu at La Poutinerie expanded rather significantly during future festivals. This has been a rather lengthy project, encompassing much more than just cosmetic changes to the exterior.

It’s likely that Walt Disney World updated the kitchen to accommodate new menu items, which is what makes it slightly surprising that La Poutinerie is debuting with only two poutines and nothing else on the savory side of the ledger. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival menus, and are hopeful there will be at least a couple more dishes then.

The ‘why’ of this all, from La Poutinerie to Air Canada becoming the Official Canadian Airline of Walt Disney World, is perhaps the most interesting angle of the entire story.

The timing certainly does not feel coincidental. As we documented in Florida Reports Record 143 Million Visitors & Orlando Airport Hits 58 Million, Canadian visitor volume to Florida dropped from 3.3 million to 2.9 million visitors year-over-year, for reasons that are probably obvious (in case not, see Canadians Are Canceling Walt Disney World Vacations). Prior to that, the trajectory and projections had been for modest growth in Canadian travel.

The company has warned of international visitation “headwinds” and a looming slowdown in the forward guidance during recent earnings calls. No numbers were given, but the tone suggested the international decrease had deepened year-over-year, which isn’t a huge surprise given the lag between booking international trips and actually traveling. As a result, Walt Disney World pivoted its marketing and sales efforts to focus on more of a domestic audience in order to keep attendance and occupancy rates high.

Ultimately, with this new Air Canada partnership, perhaps Walt Disney World is trying to figure out a way to attract Canadians, or at least a goodwill gesture to signal that they’re welcome and valued guests. It’s a savvy move, but one that we suspect will have more strategic long-term value than will result in an immediate impact.

Although there might be the perception that poutine and Tim Horton’s are to Canadians what picnic baskets are to Yogi Bear, that may be a slight caricature. Canadians who are purposefully avoiding travel to the United States are probably “unreachable” for now, even with the promise of poutine.

Even so, this strikes me as a smart longer-term symbolic gesture for both Air Canada and Walt Disney World, and I’m pleased to see this type of forward-thinking. But if there’s a serious appetite for Disney doing diplomacy, few things would work greater wonders than bringing back BeaverTails. That’s the real bridge-builder for repairing the strained relationship with our neighbors to the north!

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