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Let’s face it, for those of us who eat gluten free, we don’t usually have a lot of options. Unless, that is, you’re at Disney World. Then there are TONS of options.
In recent years, Disney has expanded the Epcot Food and Wine Festival gluten free offerings. This makes me very happy.
This post helps take a look at how eating at Epcot Food and Wine Festival gluten free works, things to look out for and so on. I’ll also include a list of all of the menu items Disney identifies as gluten free.
And last but not least, we’ll take a look at my review of all of the gluten free menu items I’ve eaten and my ranking of the top 5 options for this year (updated August 25, 2025).
Epcot Food and Wine Festival Gluten Free Overview
Before we dive into the menu items themselves, I want to have a quick talk about eating gluten free at any of the Epcot festivals.
If you’ve never been to Disney before, know that they take allergy friendly eating very seriously. And really, the chefs tend to bend over backwards at the restaurants.
But eating at any of the outdoor kitchens is a little different.
The biggest, and most important thing to understand is that the outdoor kitchens cannot promise there is no cross-contamination. There are likely other foods at that booth with gluten containing ingredients.
If you are highly sensitive to cross-contamination, eating at the Food and Wine Festival global marketplaces might not be the best idea for you.
You know your body best, listen to it.
However, if you do have some leeway, the Epcot Festivals are a great opportunity for gluten free eaters.
The “Gluten Friendly” Designation
This post is going to focus solely on the menu items specifically identified by Disney as being “gluten friendly”. What that designation means is that Disney is confident that the ingredients found in that menu item are gluten free.
You will notice some menu items on the full list that look like they should be gluten free. They very well might be, but they contain an ingredient that Disney doesn’t know if there could be cross contamination.
An example of this is the Frushi during Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival. This is a favorite among the gluten free set, even though it’s not listed as gluten friendly.
The culprit? The toasted coconut you see on top. They don’t know whether it was manufactured in a facility that allows for cross-contamination.
So most gluten free people order the Frushi without the toasted coconut.
There are usually several menu items that can be made gluten free with the subtraction of ingredients.
This leads me to my next suggestion: when in doubt, ask a Cast Member.
If something looks like it should be gluten free, ask about it. If that booth doesn’t have an ingredient list, they call a central department that does have that information.
That central department includes chefs who are familiar with the information. Don’t be shy, they are more than happy to get this information for you.
Knowing the ingredients helps you to know whether there are other menu options that you can eat.
So in reality, the list you see here is likely incomplete. There are other menu items that will be gluten free with a little extra effort on your part.
Epcot Food and Wine Festival Gluten Free Menu 2025
Ok, lets take a look at the menu itself. Remember, these are the items specifically identified by Disney as officially “gluten friendly”.
Unfortunately, Disney has made it a little bit harder to find the gluten free Food and Wine menu options. In previous years, gluten free items were clearly identified on the main menus they released, including the menus directly on the booths. Not so much anymore.
In fact, there was a fair amount of despair amongst the gluten free Disney fans when it appeared that NOTHING was labeled gluten free.
However, Disney now releases and entire Food and Wine Festival allergy free menu separately.
This is excellent news because it lists allergy considerations for the top 8 food allergies, not just gluten.
For the purposes of this post, I’m only posting the gluten friendly designated items. However, if you have other food allergies too, go to Disney’s official Food and Wine Festival allergy friendly menu.
For booths that don’t have Disney designated allergy friendly foods, the official allergy friendly menu directs you to talk with a Cast Member at the booth about the allergen guide. Because remember, there are likely other items not included on this menu that don’t contain gluten.
I’m not posting the drinks in this particular post, but there are a number of hard ciders and other drinks that are gluten friendly too.
The excellent news is that there are A LOT of gluten free items and Epcot Food and Wine Festival 2025.
Gluten Free Food and Wine Festival Tip: As I mentioned, the gluten friendly items are not marked on any of the outdoor kitchens. I highly recommend that you have this post up and waiting on your cell phone so you can cross reference and double check. I found it a little frustrating to have to do this compared to previous years.
Australia (Near Port of Entry)
- Grilled Bushberry-spiced Shrimp Skewer with Sweet-and-Sour Vegetables and Coconut-Chili Sauce (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Roasted Lamb Chop with Mint Pesto and Crushed Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Bramblewood Bites
- Grilled Cider-brined Pork Tenderloin with Chili-Apple Butter, Celeriac-Apple Slaw, and Apple Cider Gastrique (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Cast Iron-roasted Brussels Sprouts and Root Vegetables with Dried Cranberries, Spiced Pumpkin Seeds, and Pumpkin Seed Vinaigrette (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Cast Iron-seared River Trout with Vanilla-Butternut Squash Purée, Brussels Sprouts Salad, Candied Pecans, Spiced Pumpkin Seeds, Dried Cranberries, and Maple Dressing (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Brazil (Between France and Morocco)
- Feijoada: Black Beans with Pork Belly, Brazil Nut Pesto, and BEN’S ORIGINAL™ Long Grain White Rice (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Pão de Queijo: Brazilian Cheese Bread (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Brew-Wing at the Odyssey
- Garlic-Parmesan Wings (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Korean BBQ Wings with Gochujang Barbecue Sauce and Toasted Sesame (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Unnecessarily Spicy, Yet Extremely Tasty Carolina Reaper Pepper-Curry Wings with Creamy Cucumber Raita (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Canada
- Filet Mignon with Mushrooms and Mashed Potatoes featuring Boursin® Garlic & Fine Herbs Cheese (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Coastal Eats
- Peruvian Ceviche with Mahi Mahi, Shrimp, Sweet Potato, Chulpe, Choclo, and Leche de Tigre (gluten/wheat friendly)
Earth Eats
- Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib with Goat Cheese Polenta, Puttanesca Sauce, Shaved Pecorino Cheese, and Petit Herbs (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Flavors from Fire
- Rodizio-style Grilled Beef Skewer* with Marble Potatoes, Charred Shallots, Roasted Baby Peppers, and Chimichurri (gluten/wheat-friendly)
France
- Nothing listed as official this year, but there is a Creme Brule on the menu again, very similar to previous years, which have been gluten free. I suggest asking at the booth as I suspect it’s gluten free. I certainly plan to!
The Fry Basket (Near Test Track)
- Adobo Yuca Fries with Garlic-Cilantro Aïoli (plant-based and gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Fry Flight – Sea Salt-Malt Vinegar Fries (plant-based) / Truffle-Parmesan Fries with Black Garlic-Truffle Aïoli / Sweet Potato Casserole Fries with Cinnamon-Sugar, Candied Pecans, and Marshmallow Cream (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Greece (Near Morocco)
- Griddled Cheese with Pistachios and Honey (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Hawaii
- Pineapple Cheesecake with Passion Fruit Curd and Macadamia Nuts (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Mexico
- There is nothing officially listed. HOWEVER, Mexico almost always has multiple gluten friendly options, so this is another one that you should ask at the booth. The items listed this year involved corn tortillas and no ingredients that scream I AM FULL OF GLUTEN.
- Tostada de Carnitas: Braised Pork atop a Fried Corn Tortilla with Chipotle Black Beans, Salsa Ranchera, Crema Mexicana, and Queso Fresco
- Flauta de Barbacoa: Fried Tortillas filled with Barbacoa Beef topped with Salsa Verde, Romaine Lettuce, Crema Mexicana, and Queso Fresco
- Flan de Cajeta: Creamy Mexican Custard with Caramel Sauce and Toasted Almonds
Refreshment Port
- Braised Beef Poutine: French Fries with Braised Beef, Mushroom Sauce featuring Boursin® Garlic & Fine Herbs Cheese, Cheese Curds, and Gherkin Relish (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Shimmering Sips
- Strawberry Champagne Trifle (plant-based, gluten/wheat-friendly)
Spain (Between Italy and Germany)
- Paella Caldoso with Rock Shrimp, Bay Scallops, and Smoked Mussels (gluten/wheat-friendly)
- Basque Cheesecake with Orange Sauce (gluten/wheat-friendly)
Thoughts on the Gluten Free Epcot Food and Wine Festival 2025 Menu
One thing to keep in mind overall is that consistency is always a problem when getting food from outdoor kitchens at the Epcot festival.
These menu items are mass produced on an epic scale. True, they are usually cooking them relatively fresh, but they are cooking thousands of them a day.
This will lead to some differences in quality in the same dish.
All those pretty pictures up above with the menus? Those are nice professional pictures provided by Disney. My own pictures I’ve taken of the menu items? Well, you can see they definitely don’t look as elegant when placed in a cardboard container.
Please keep that in mind and manage your expectations in terms of presentation.
Some of these menu items are repeats from previous years so I’m able to provide some commentary on them before the festival opens.
Australia
Roasted Lamb Chop
To say I was intrigued by the Lamb Chop is an understatement. I mean, it’s lamb, with mint and potato chips. How could that not be intriguing?
I’ll be the first to admit, I always thought the lamb and mint combo was a little odd, so I always avoided it. Specifically mint jelly. There’s just something about mint jelly that seems so wrong to me, though I know it’s a traditional presentation.
So this was first experience with lamb and mint. I actually really enjoyed this. There was such a contrast between the savory meat, the coolness of the mint, and the salty crunch of the potato chips.
My only issues with the lamb chop is the price to quantity ratio. It will set you back $8.75+. And by the time I cut it up, I had a whopping six bites to enjoy.
Yes, 6. Frankly, for that price, I want a bit more food than that.
But on the whole, it’s a very good dish.
Brazil
The Brazilian Cheese Bread served at Brazil is famous in the Disney gluten free community!
Pão de Queijo: Brazilian cheese bread
Let’s face it, these are not exactly the most picturesque things to eat. And this is definitely the best picture I have of them. I have pics of them from other years inside the little cardboard holder looking utterly unattractive.
But don’t let that fool you, these things are delicious.
First off, it’s bread. How often do we get to have any sort of bread like substance while out and about? Next to never.
It definitely has that bread novelty to it which goes a long way. But even beyond that, it’s like nothing you’ve had before. The cheese is built all throughout the cheese bread, so it doesn’t just ooze out or anything.
When you bite into it, you can see how the cheese is incorporated. I probably should have taken a picture of that, too.
But anyway, these things are delicious and quite filling. They also come in at the bargain price of around $5. That makes these not just a delicious choice but a cost effective one.
Brew-Wing at the Odyssey
Wings are always a popular option, right? Right?!?
The lines that are always at this booth seem to support that theory. I will say, service as a whole at this booth was a bit on the slow side.
The main thing that I noticed from the menu this year is that there are way fewer wing flavors available than previous years. Not just for gluten free, but in general.
Garlic Parmesan Wings
I hope you are prepared for messy fingers because this one isn’t neat. Even from the picture you can see just how much sauce is smother overtop of these wings.
And I’ll say, the flavor of the sauce is delicious. It’s very buttery and garlicky, so you’ll be well prepared to fend off Dracula if necessary afterwards.
All but one of my servings were in the form of wings, not drumsticks, which is a bummer to me as I prefer drumsticks. What this also meant is the meat was tougher and harder to eat.
It was also incredibly dry. Perhaps that’s compensated for with the high amount of sauciness of the topping to a certain extent, but not quite enough.
In the end, the dryness made them pretty tough to eat, which is unfortunate because I think there’s potential here.
Canada
This one is a fan favorite, and with good reason.
Canadian Filet Mignon
I honestly don’t even know how long this has been a menu option at the Canada booth at Food and Wine Festival, but it’s a classic.
Historically, this was straight from Le Cellier’s menu. In case you didn’t know, Le Cellier is a signature restaurant at Epcot, which is Disney’s version of fine dining.
Now don’t get too excited, you can’t get fine dining caliber out of a food booth, but you can get something close.
On the whole, this shouldn’t be missed. The meat is tender and all of the flavors together are wonderful.
However, this is a dish that suffers from lack of consistency. The meat can easily be overcooked in a mass production setting, so it’s not a perfect cook, but fortunately, it’s still tender due to the cut of meat.
In all the combination of flavors from the the meat, mushrooms, and the sauce is delicious. It’s not wonder this one is so popular.
At $10 it’s one of the more expensive options in the whole festival, but you get what you pay for with this one.
The Fry Basket
All of the fries at The Fry Basket are gluten free, which makes me very excited. As far as I’m concerned, this booth should be top of your list of priorities. The food here is delicious!
Adobo Yuca Fries
I’ve never before had the opportunity to eat yuca so I didn’t know exactly what to expect. Right off the bat, you can see that these are much thicker than traditional fries.
They are also fried to a golden crisp. And when I say crisp, I mean crisp! The cook on these things was absolute crispy perfection. Even to the point that it was challenging to cut with a crappy plastic knife.
The flavor of these is so gosh darn good, and the serving size is generous. Especially once you consider that this is only $5.75 and you get a lot of food.
The seasoned coating of the fries combined with the aioli worked very well together. They were also generous with the aioli which is good since there are more fries here than you originally realize.
My recommendation is to try to mix the fries around with the aioli as best you can so you have the aioli on the bottom fries as well.
Truly, it’s the combination of both together that makes this so good.
Let’s face it, starchy carbs can be filling and this is no exception. Especially when you are eating all of this stuff yourself!
As far as I’m concerned, these are a must do for anyone at Food and Wine Festival this year. And aren’t we lucky they are gluten free?
Greece
Don’t let this unassuming option fool you…
Griddled Cheese with Pistachios and Honey
Let’s be real, you’re going to look at this picture and wonder why on earth it’s even an option. It is deceptively simply looking. But trust me on this one, you want to give it a whirl.
This is a repeat item for the past couple of years, and thank goodness it’s back.
The savory and sweet combination work so well together, and the chopped pistachios on top give the dish a nice crunch. The blend of flavors from the honey and the cheese are simply delicious.
This is another one that is fairly filling due to the heaviness of the cheese. That’s good in the sense that you won’t need to buy more food to get full, but not good since you won’t have as much room in your stomach for more.
When talking with some strangers who shared my little table later in the day, they asked me which menu item I would recommend, and I told them the Griddled Cheese. They commented that they’ve heard from from other people as well.
At least I know I’m not alone in my love of this one.
As a bonus, this is also one of the cheaper menu options of the whole festival with a price tag of only $5.25.
Spain
To be fair, the menu options that are gluten free at the Spain Outdoor Kitchen this year is different than what I’ve had in the past. However, the Spain options were my absolute least favorite of the entire festival.
Particularly, I hated the paella. Now, this year the paella is different, so many it’s better. But what I had was so dry it was very edible.
All of that being said, I would try the Basque Cheesecake in a second. So happy to see another sweet offering that is gluten free.
Snacks I’m Most Intrigued About in 2025
As promised, I want to highlight the new items that I’m most intrigued and excited by. You can bet your sweet bippy I’ll be trying each and every one of the items I list here.
- Fry Flight – this might be the option I am most excited about out of all of them. Specifically, I can’t wait to dive into the Sweet Potato Casserole fries!
- Strawberry Champagne Trifle (Plant-based)
- Everything at Bramblewood Bites – this booth has a list of strong options, with all 3 menu items gluten free. This one is not to be missed
- Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib – first off, I love polenta and goat cheese, so this one is a no brainer before. I have had similar dishes at Food and Wine in the past that were excellent, so this one is a must on my list
- Basque Cheesecake – another sweet option! The sweet really helps to balance out the heaviness of all the savory so this looks like a delicious palate cleanser
Final Thoughts on Epcot Food and Wine Festival Gluten Free Menu
Many of the items I like the most from previous years return for this year, which makes me happy. Once you add on some of the intriguing new options, I think it should be a pretty darn good festival this year.
I will say, as I was updating this post, I felt like I was deleting a lot of options and not necessarily replacing them with new options. I haven’t counted up and compared, but that was a bit disappointing.
One major issue every year is the imbalance between the sweet and savory items, which very few gluten free dessert options. Last year there was only 1!
This year they have done a much better job of having some unexpected sweet options in there that should be pretty tasty.
Here’s the approach I would recommend: pick the menu items that appeal to you the most and fit into whatever your budget is. Supplement that with some of the amazing sweet snacks you can get at Epcot year round.
France has several (macarons, macaron ice cream sandwich, parfaits, and more) while Norway has the beloved rice cream.
I think that would help to create a better balance and keep things from being too heavy on your palate.
But on the whole, it looks like another good year for gluten free Food and Wine Festival options!
Your Thoughts
What do you think about this year’s Epcot Food and Wine Festival gluten free menu? Are there any menu items you’re most excited about eating. Let me know in the comments below.
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