Earth Eats Booth Menu & Review: Epcot Food & Wine Festival
Earth Eats is a Global Marketplace hosted by Impossible Burger at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. This booth features a variety of plant-based options for vegans and vegetarians…or flexitarians like us. In this Walt Disney World dining review, we’ll look at the menu prices, share food photos, and offer thoughts on what is worth your money.
The Earth Eats food booth gives Disney a chance to promote the company’s new partnership with Impossible Burger. This corporate alliance makes Impossible Burger’s products the preferred plant-based “meat” of Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort, and the Disney Cruise Line.
You might recall that Walt Disney World introduced a slew of new vegan options, and began actively promoting its plant-based push. We cover the best & worst of these in our Vegan & Vegetarian Walt Disney World Dining Guide: How to Find Plant-Based Foods. The new partnership with Impossible Burger should further elevate the plant-based menu options, and offer some predictability.
Here’s the menu for Earth Eats:
- IMPOSSIBLE Burger Slider with wasabi cream and spicy slaw on a sesame seed bun (Plant-based)
- IMPOSSIBLE Meatball with herbed polenta, rustic puttanesca sauce, and basil pesto (New) (Plant-based)
Earth Eats Beverages:
- Strawberry Freeze featuring Twinings Lemon & Ginger Herbal Tea (non-alcoholic)Â (New)
- Stephen Vincent Pinot Noir
- Strawberry Freeze featuring Twinings Lemon & Ginger Herbal Tea with Ketel One Botanical Cucumber & Mint Vodka (New)
And our photos and reviews of the foods at Earth Eats.
Impossible Burger Slider – Since first trying them, Impossible burgers have really won me over. They are getting more and more convincing, and both Impossible and Beyond leading the way.
If you’ve never had one, give this a try. It’s juicy and savory, and you might just not be able to tell it isn’t meat. The wasabi cream helps, too. I’ve said before that even the best vegan burger isn’t as good as the worst beef burger, but that’s changing.
Impossible Three-Bean Chili($5.75) — This is pretty good and convincing, but you can also tell there’s something a bit “off” about it. With many plant-based dishes at Walt Disney World, you’d be hard-pressed to tell it’s plant-based if doing a blind taste-test (like the fantastic Felucian Kefta and Hummus Garden Spread over in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge).
It’s probably because there are several components of this that have been modified for this to be a plant-based and gluten-free dish, but there’s a slightly odd feel and taste to the chili and its toppings. Those on a plant-based diet probably won’t notice, but if you also eat meat, it’ll be easy to tell that something is amiss here–even if you can’t quite put your finger on what. Still, not bad.
Overall, how you will feel about Earth Eats likely depends upon your perspective. If you’re vegan or vegetarian, you’ll likely be pleased to see Impossible Meats hosting an entire booth of plant-based fare. If you’re not grading on that curve and just want excellent food, this food booth is a bit of a disappointment. Personally, Earth Eats is something I view as totally skippable, even with the solid Impossible creations. If you’re vegan, you might have a lack of better alternatives and thus feel differently. Carnivores are better off with all of the other booths.
Check out our Global Marketplace Booth Menus & Photos for the Epcot Food & Wine Festival Booth Menus post if you want to see and read more about every menu this year! You’ll also want to read our full Epcot International Food & Wine Festival Guide before you go to get an idea of what to do, strategy for the festival (yes, you will need a strategy), and much more!
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YOUR THOUGHTS
What do you think of the Earth Eats booth? Have you tried the Impossible dishes here? If so, which did you prefer? Are you a fan of the Next Eats area at the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival? Questions we can help you answer? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
This was the first time we’ve ever had the Impossible burger and loved it! The Wasabi sauce and slaw all worked together. I was chatting up with someone who is vegan while in line and later she came over to check on us and was thrilled with our review. It was too hot & humid to try the chili but it sure was tempting. The spiced apple tea with whiskey was perfect late summer drink. Two thumbs up for Earth Eats!
Hey All! We did a fly-by of Earth Eats. DH was not interested in the impossible meat and I’m allergic to soy so that was out. But the people around us seemed to enjoy it. We did the the spiced apple tea. It was sweet, autumnal and tasty. The lounging sitting area was nice too.
First – Thanks for doing the reviews! I really enjoy reading them!
Second – FYI for others out there, impossible burger does have soy! I’m allergic, so I can’t try the items on offer.
I loved the steakhouse burger mine wasn’t dry at all. I would have bought the cookbook if the recipe was in it. Sadly it wasn’t and I can’t find the mushroom to beef ratio online. Whether they sauté them first or use raw? Any ideas
We actually are just arriving home after another glorious week at WDW. I have to disagree with you on the Blended Steakhouse Burger. It was actually one of, if not one of my absolute favorite offerings! The burger was super juicy, the chip was deliciously crisp in contrast as well as a super soft bun. Just enough of the other flavors to add to the flavor. At $5 I thought it was a decent value for Food & Wine standards. Maybe you got one than had been sitting (still unfortunate) or maybe we just have different tastes, but both me & my daughter are wishing it goes on a menu somewhere. 🙂
I think they are over cooking the impossible burger, I tried one in Vegas and it was really juicy, and better then many a meat burger I have had.
Impossible burgers should be fairly juicy! It’s a shame they are overcooking them
First, I just wanted to say a big thank you for reviewing all of these food booths for us! I won’t get a chance to make it to this year’s festival but absolutely LOVE reading all of your reviews for each of the different booths – it’s just a wonderful consolation prize!
Second, what a pity about your poor Impossible burger. I’ve had it twice now from reputable burger chains and really, really enjoyed it. Both times I’ve had it, it was wonderfully tender and perfectly seasoned – some of the best burgers I’ve ever enjoyed. And that is coming from someone who loves and regularly eats Shake Shack and gourmet all-beef burgers (and In-N-Out, too, when I visit California!) I hope you give it another shot sometime — perhaps just not at Disney.
Hilarious and honest review! I’m veg and I was super excited to try the veg burger and the juice- but I think you have just convinced me to skip this one! Back to Africa for lentils instead! appreciate the reviews greatly
I was just there yesterday. For vegans the impossible burger part might be vegan but, other items served with it are vegetarian. Quite disappointing, I just ate the herbs that were growing around. Lol
Tom,
Thanks for the timely review. I actually just minutes ago enjoyed the steakhouse burger. Of course, since I like my burger well-done, it really hit the spot as pre-prep for the nitro chocolate I also just now enjoyed (again)!
JM
That’s a disappointment. I was looking forward to trying the Steakhouse Blended Burger when we go (leaving in 3 weeks from tomorrow), but thanks to your review, I think I’ll pass now.
Any chance on doing New Zealand, Australia, Active Eats, and/or Coastal Eats posts, by the way?
“Any chance on doing New Zealand, Australia, Active Eats, and/or Coastal Eats posts, by the way?”
Active Eats is queued up for later tonight, and Coastal Eats is TBD (I love that booth, fwiw). I’m leaning against doing stand-alone reviews for Australia and New Zealand because they’re almost identical to previous years. We’ll see.
It gets tedious reviewing 30+ booths…
“It gets tedious reviewing 30+ booths…”
Josh does it! So can you! 🙂 In seriousness, I hope you have a large group to spread out the cost and amount of food. There is a ton to eat there.
We won’t be down this fall, but the couple times we’ve gone I’ve gotten excited about eating at the booths… then ended up doing just a couple at most. I end up struggling with both the lines and small portions.
I’m excited to what you have to say about Active Eats. This is our first year actually going to the Festival, as opposed to two years ago when it started the day before we were scheduled to leave for home (PA).