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Our top food and drink picks for what to try at the 2023 EPCOT Festival of the Holidays, plus first thoughts on Disney's Jollywood Nights as our predictions come true. Can the Jollywood Nights issues be fixed?

Foodie Guide to EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays 2023: Top Picks and What's New

Bavaria Holiday Kitchen 

Food Items:

• Pork Schnitzel with mushroom sauce, spätzle, and braised red cabbage
• Cheese Fondue in a bread bowl with steamed baby vegetables and marble potatoes
• Linzer Cookie (Cookie Stroll Item) 

Beverages:

• Possmann Pure Hard Apple Cider
• The Tank Brewing Co. Prost! Festbier
• Köstritzer Schwarzbier Bitburger (New) 
• Regional Riesling
• Glühwein: House-made hot spiced wine
• Beer Flight

American Holiday Table

Food Items:

• Slow-roasted Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and cranberry sauce
• Blackened Catfish with Hoppin’ John and comeback sauce
• Gingerbread Cookie (Cookie Stroll Item) 

Beverages: 

• Crooked Can Brewing Company Bah HOPbug IPA (New) 
• 3 Daughters Brewing Eggnog White Porter
• Playalinda Brewing Co. Peppermint Chocolate Stout
• Beer Flight

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina 

Food Items:

• Grilled Kebabs with carrot-chickpea salad and garlic aïoli (Lamb Kefta or Chermoula Chicken)
• Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with hummus, chermoula, and zhoug dips (Plant-based)

Beverages: 

• Bold Rock Orchard Frost Hard Cider (New) 
• Gulf Stream Brewing Company Holiday Snakebite (New) > Mike's Pick
• Woodchuck Winter Chill Hard Cider
• Fig Cocktail with fig vodka and white cranberry juice
• Hard Cider Flight

L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen

Food Items: 

• Pastrami on Rye with house-made pickles and deli mustard
• Smoked Salmon Potato Latke
• Potato Latkes (Plant-based) 
• Rugalach: Pastry filled with raspberry jam, walnuts, and cinnamon (New) 
• Black and White Cookie (Plant-based) (Cookie Stroll Item) 

Beverages: 

• Brooklyn Brewery Winter IPA
• Frozen New York Whiskey Sour featuring Manifest Whiskey and Manischewitz Blackberry Wine

Yukon Holiday Kitchen 

Food Items:

• Seared Salmon with butternut squash purée, maple-bourbon glaze, and fennel-arugula salad (New)  > Mike's Pick
• Beef Bourguignon with crushed potatoes
• Snickerdoodle Cookie made with SNICKERS bar pieces (Cookie Stroll Item)

Beverages:

• Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic Beverage)
• 81Bay Brewing Co. Peanut Butter Banana Porter
• Playalinda Brewing Co. Maple Cookie Blonde Ale
• Collective Arts Coffee Maple Porter
• Regional Icewine
• Regional Red Wine
• Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee with Tap 357 Whisky
• Beer Flight

Holiday Sweets & Treats 

Food Items: 

• Peppermint Sundae: Chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and peppermint candy

Beverages:

• Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s Coffee (Non-alcoholic Beverage)
• Chocolate Peppermint Shake featuring Twinings Peppermint Cheer Tea (Non-alcoholic Beverage)
• Breckenridge Brewery Christmas Ale
• Brew Hub Sugar Plum Red Ale