Disney World Reveals New Parisian Breakfast Buffet at 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
Walt Disney World has announced a new limited-time Parisian culinary experience with bottomless mimosas coming to the Chefs de France restaurant in World Showcase during the 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival. This shares dates & details, including a menu overview and photos, plus why this is a significant development and hopefully a return to ‘2019 normal’ for the special event.
This year’s EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival starts on August 28, 2025 and runs through November 22, 2025 for a grand total of 87 days. It’s beginning and ending one day earlier than last year, which is roughly the historical norm. Although it had expanded in recent years, back in 2019 and earlier, the fall foodie festival typically began Labor Day weekend and ended the weekend before Thanksgiving.
While the event duration is already back to 2019 normal, the big unanswered question is whether the 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival will be entirely back to normal in terms of substance. It used to have a jam-packed plate of seminars, special dinners, celebrity chef panels, and various enhancements. These have been absent for the past 5 years. Now, we know at least one such meal will be offered in 2025.
Here’s the official announcement about the Parisian breakfast buffet from Walt Disney World:
Indulge in a traditional French breakfast experience that transports you straight to the cafés of Paris. Delight in a bountiful breakfast buffet at Chefs de France featuring the following options.
Assorted French Pastries
- Buttery croissants, pain au chocolat, almond croissants and other assorted pastries
Freshly Baked Baguettes
- Crisp on the outside, soft and warm on the inside—ideal for spreading with creamy butter or luxurious French jams
Smoked Salmon
- Delicate and silky slices of smoked salmon, perfect for pairing with fresh bread or a squeeze of lemon
Cheeses & Charcuterie
- A selection of premium cheeses and artisanal cured meats
Fresh Fruit
- Seasonal fruit to balance the richness of the pastries and charcuterie
Enjoy the perfect accompaniment to your meal with unlimited mimosas, fruit juices and freshly brewed coffee served to your liking. It’s a leisurely breakfast made to savor with friends and loved ones.
This pre-paid Parisian breakfast buffet experience is only available for a limited time on Fridays and Saturdays during the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival. Advance Dining Reservations for the Chefs De France breakfast buffet will open on August 12, 2025 for seatings starting on September 5, 2025.
According to a bulletin on the restaurant’s website, these ADRs will require pre-payment once booked starting August 12. It is unclear whether the standard cancellation policy will apply for this breakfast buffet, but the Chefs de France website does not currently reflect any changes.
Additionally, operating hours have not been added for the breakfast buffet experience at Chefs de France. Dates in September that have been posted thus far only list the standard lunch and dinner operating hours.
It’s also notable that a full menu and prices have not yet been posted. Given the unique nature of the experience, limited dates, unlimited alcohol, and just how expensive everything has gotten, we wouldn’t be surprised to see it cost low triple-digits per person. Hopefully that’s wrong and it’s around $70. Still expensive for breakfast, but that sounds about right for an exclusive EPCOT Food & Wine offering.
Our expectation is that all of this is coming with the release of Walt Disney World’s official ‘foodie guide’ to the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival. It’s also entirely possible that more such culinary experiences will be revealed with the full Global Marketplace menus, which should be coming in the next week or so.
Our Commentary
Last year’s EPCOT Food & Wine Festival was incredibly underwhelming. So was the one before that, and the one before that, for that matter. But the difference last year was that the park was entirely wall-free, the event still was not back to “2019 normal.” The slate of seminars, culinary demonstrations, special dinners, celebrity chef panels, and various enhancements did not return.
Not only that, but the park didn’t even utilize its space for a fresh decor package–it was actually scaled back as contrasted with prior years. What had once been Walt Disney World’s signature special event of the year has easily become EPCOT’s weakest festival. I don’t think that’s even a controversial opinion at this point. It’s probably the consensus, as every other festival has food booths plus something else, whereas Food & Wine has become just the Global Marketplaces. More of them, sure, but that’s still the only offering.
As explained in EPCOT’s Food & Wine Festival Is Stale. Here’s What We Want Disney to Change, the event really needs a shot in the arm. Walt Disney World has been leaving money on the table by not bringing back the culinary seminars, demonstrations, meals with celebrity chefs, and other special events. These are the rare upcharge that’s a win-win for Disney and guests, and it’s perplexing that they’ve all yet to return.
With the CommuniCore Hall event space, it seems like a no-brainer, as all of these special events are pricey and generate a lot of revenue. However, CommuniCore Hall wasn’t used for that purpose during last year’s Food & Wine, nor any of the festivals since.
CommuniCore Hall was billed by Disney as a festival center that would be a “dynamic space to anchor” EPCOT Festivals and an event space “limited only by the boundaries of imagination.” Instead, CommuniCore Hall is just indoor seating and a couple of booths. To Disney’s credit, they’ve used the space better during 2025 festivals thus far, but it’s still nothing special.
We’re still holding out hope for a more robust 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival. EPCOT has several other unused (or underused) events spaces aside from CommuniCore Hall that could be used. Maybe we’ll finally get the Wonders of Life pavilion or World ShowPlace put back into use for these events?! Probably not gonna happen, but we can dream.
This breakfast buffet at Chefs de France is certainly a step in the right direction and hopefully the first of many such announcements in the next couple of weeks. There are two things that are notable about this offering.
The first is that it’s being held not in a special events space, but at a table service restaurant in the France pavilion. So it’s not as if Walt Disney World needs to do anything out of the ordinary to accommodate this.
The second is that Chefs de France is not owned or operated by Walt Disney World. When it opened back in 1982, Les Chefs de France became the first restaurant in America affiliated with iconic chef Paul Bocuse. Since his passing, his son Jerome Bocuse still owns the company to this day.
This is notable because Chefs de France opting to do a special breakfast buffet experience during the 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival is not necessarily indicative of any bigger-picture plans by Disney.
It could be that this is the first of many announcements, and Walt Disney World has been coordinating behind the scenes with restaurants around World Showcase. This news came out ahead of a splashier announcement due to an accidental website update (it’s been happening a lot lately).
But it’s equally likely that the third party operating participant that owns Chefs de France decided to do this on its own. Maybe ADRs are down and Chefs de France realized they have the staffing to make this work, so they decided to capitalize on the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival with an event they know is likely to sell out. A way of stimulating demand among repeat visitors to offset a decrease in tourist interest. Either way, this could be a sign of more to come.
Chefs de France is one of the most popular restaurants in World Showcase, so if they’re seeing a “need” to find ways to increase bookings, it’s likely other restaurants are in a worse position. Once the other third parties see how popular this is (and our expectation is that it’ll sell out quickly), they will likely want in on the action.
Maybe it’ll be too late for that to happen this year, but we could easily see similar special events offered around World Showcase at the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival. Hopefully there is a concerted effort behind the scenes at Walt Disney World to breathe new life into the festival, and we won’t have to wait that long.
Maybe this will be the year the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival turns things around after stagnating for the last 5 years. It sure seems like the special event has become less popular with each passing year, so here’s hoping that Walt Disney World has finally realized that it’s gotten stale and this is the first of many steps aimed at addressing that. We’ll keep you posted!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
Will you be trying to book ADRs for the Parisian breakfast buffet experience at Chefs de France? Would you book other upcharges if offered during the 2025 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival? Did you attend the event in any of the last few years? Hopeful any of the other demonstrations or seminars will return? Optimistic that CommuniCore Hall will actually be put to good use this year? Would you like to see Wonders or World ShowPlace venues make a return? Any questions we can help you answer? Hearing feedback about your experiences is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
Any updates on the Chefs De France breakfast buffet? Checked today and still don’t see it yet on the WDW website
It’s up this morning!
I still haven’t seen the food booths and menus pop up anywhere for this year’s festival. What the heck? It’s less than a month until it starts and nothing? Did I miss something? Disney has really been dragging its feet lately on releasing things and when you have to plan as much ahead as possible to do anything at Disney, it is really frustrating to have to keep waiting for those things to be released! I will keep watching your blog for the list of food booths and menus. We are not specifically going for the festival but will be there during the festival and having those menus play a role with making or not making other dining reservations. Fingers crossed that they will be released in the next few days! Keep up the amazing work that you do!
F&W used to be my absolute favorite festival, so much so that I actually bought enough DVC points to guarantee me a nice long stay every year. It’s now my least favorite festival by a mile. Absolutely thrilled to see this event at Chefs de France and also hopeful it’s a sign of more to come. I’ve been baffled that the various events haven’t returned as they always seemed so popular!
This was $39 per person in 2019. Other websites are reporting it’s now $69. It was enjoyable when we did it at $39, but there’s only so much much bread, fruit and mimosas you can put down. A hard pass if it truly has inflated to almost double the cost. I’ll wait and see when the reservations are released. At the reported cost we’ll head to the bakery, which serves mimosas and save the money. We really enjoyed the F&W festival between 2010 and 2019 but it doesn’t seem those good times will be coming back.
While I don’t disagree, I realized that mimosas are $19-$20 a piece everywhere on property. So I could see this being worth it if you drink. Not so much if you don’t.
Comments here are spot on! Maybe WDW will start listening.
Our last 2 visits during F&W were a coincidence in timing only, unlike years in the past where we built our plans to include all the exciting aspects. I can pinpoint the moment we finally gave up all hope – the year where the 2 new food booths added were Mac n chz and French fries. That was the last straw and after that we stopped caring altogether.
Bring back the festivities! Like seminars and demos. Bring back interesting culinary choices. Art Fest is able to deliver so how is it FOOD and WINE does not? Bring back creative theming that made each year unique.
We used to get so excited and now it is like: Meh, something going on in the background of our visit that no longer pertains to us. Sad. We actively avoid perusing food booths now and that would’ve felt sacrilegious years ago. No more eagerly awaiting activity schedules. We still check the concert calendar – that’s it.
How and when can I make a reservation for Parisian breakfast buffet
Walt Disney World’s official site says under its listing for Chefs de France to “Check back on August 12, 2025, for details on how to book a pre-paid breakfast buffet experience.” I hope this doesn’t violate any commenting rules, but here’s a link you can check: https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/epcot/chefs-de-france/
A way they could spice up the Food & Wine Festival is to stop putting out the Ratatouille signage year after year. I get that that’s the movie that has the most to do with food & dining, but that doesn’t mean those characters have to “host” the festival until the second coming of Christ. They could do theming around the “Be Our Guest” Beauty & the Beast segment, or have Mickey & his circle of friends act as chefs as they do in some Disney restaurants. Or come up with original characters like that one year they personified all the Taste Buds.
Agree that the Ratatouille visuals have gotten old. It’s been the same graphics package for way too many years.
Wasn’t there a CDF F&W breakfast *like* this before the pandemic as well?
(Or sometime in the 2010s. Memories are tricky!)
I have never seen a buffet breakfast in France unless I was staying in an American hotel! I’m sure it will be good though if you like buffets and big heavy breakfasts! There are a lot of easy ADRs at Monsieur Paul lately so this makes sense from a staffing perspective too.
Indeed ; the typical « Parisian » breakfast is actually limited ! It is a hot beverage, orange juice, bread with butter and jam and a croissant.
You can get very good ones from 8-10 euros in cafes and sometimes on bakeries – but if you want to splurge, the Crillon hotel does one for 35 euros which is fantastic.
I had the same thought, Beth! Now in Norway, on the other hand, our hotel had a breakfast buffet that put Akershus to shame.
I agree that the Food and Wine Festival needs the seminars and celebrity chefs to return. I did a few of the free or low-cost seminars back in the late aughts and really enjoyed them. They really added life and energy and made it FEEL like a *festival* in a way that is totally lacking.
I’d go so far as to say that without the demonstrations, seminars, and curated tastings Food and Wine isn’t truly a Festival at all. It’s just a very large and ethnically diverse mall food court.
Pretty much! Walt Disney World has “gotten away” with this for the last few years as Food & Wine coasts on its longstanding reputation, but that goodwill won’t last forever. Especially not as more and more guests realize every other festival is superior by leaps and bounds, and there’s decreasing demand during hurricane season.
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Argh Parisian and mimosa in the same sentence… my heart bleeds !
Last year, the American Adventure had a menu of regional foods from around the USA…and it was all hot dogs.
Every country’s cuisine and everything else is “simplified” (to use a charitable term) for a diverse/mainstream theme park audience. If this is true even for the American Adventure, a country with which ~85% of guests are intimately familiar and 100% have visited, you better believe it’s also the case for the rest that are viewed as “exotic” to the overwhelming majority of guests.
I would never have thought that France could be considered « exotic »