Theme Park Food Events & Festivals
Hey Foodie Fam! ✨
Theme parks are great if you’re all about rollercoasters, thrill rides, watching your kids face light up being able to ride that big kid ride for the first time, and meeting their favorite character and taking pictures with them.
But there are some theme parks that go above and beyond to introduce new experiences through festivals and events throughout their operating season.
This Events & Festivals page is all about compiling those celebrations, yummy food guides and reviews, and food-exclusive options that appear there.
If you have never been to one of these festivals, I recommend you check out this guide before proceeding: Your Straightforward Guide to Theme Park Food and Wine Festivals. It runs through the general gist of festivals, what to expect, the different kinds, and then you can come here to find out the schedule of current and next-month events. As such …
This is a links-heavy page.
January Theme Park Festivals in 2025
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Mardi Gras, Fridays to Sundays, January 11 – March 2
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Kids’ Weekends, Saturdays & Sundays, January to February
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Mardi Gras, Fridays to Saturdays & President’s Day, January 24 – March 9
Disneyland → Lunar New Year, January 17 – February 16
Legoland Florida → Lego Ninjago Weekends, January 25, 26, February 1, 2, 8, 9, 15-17
SeaWorld Orlando → Elmo’s Birthday Celebration, January 27 – February 3
SeaWorld Orlando → Seven Seas Food Festival, January 31 – May 4
SeaWorld San Antonio → Mardi Gras, January 18 – March 2
SeaWorld San Diego → Mardi Gras, January 25 – March 2
Sesame Place San Diego → Elmo’s Furry Fun Fest, Weekends, January 11 – February 9
Six Flags Fiesta Texas → Mardi Gras Festival & Taste of Mardi Gras Festival, January 18 – March 16
Walt Disney World → EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, January 17 – February 24
Upcoming (February) Theme Park Festivals in 2025
Disneyland → California Adventure’s Food and Wine Festival, February 28 – April 21
Knott’s Berry Farm → Knott’s PEANUTS Celebration, February 8 – March 9 + President’s Day, February 17
SeaWorld San Diego → Lunar New Year, February 1 – 9
Sesame Place Philadelphia → Mardi Gras Celebration, February 17 – March 17
Sesame Place San Diego → Mardi Gras Spectacular, February 15 – Mar 9
Universal Studios Orlando → Mardi Gras International Flavors of Carnaval, February 1 – March 30
Existing Menus, Pricing, and Food Reviews
Thankfully, there’s a whole buffet of experiences waiting for you already. I’ve already kicked off the feast with a couple of posts that dive into the deliciousness of some remarkable food-exclusive (and some adjacent) events and festivals.
I’ve divided them into accordion-style to help clean up this page up a bit. You can click the down arrow to read up on what each post will be about, but you can click directly on the title to take you to the post you need if there are no links in the drop down. Over time these events will have more years added so they may end up changing, but for now, I’m going to keep it simple. 🙂
Holiday-Centric
Not looking for Halloween or Christmas/Holiday-centered festivals? This list will have the Food & Wines, the Kids Fests, Harvest Festivals, Summer Festivals, and other festivals like it.
All across the USA, theme parks run amazing displays of spooky, detailed Halloween events and this is a complete list of those events. My personal favorite so far has to be Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando if you haven’t gone, but yours may be somewhere I’ve never been yet!
Full of falling snow, dazzling lights, brightly lit trees, and maybe even parades full of one special elf screaming, “Naughty!” this list has all of the theme parks running their holiday events which will include Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years festivities.
SEAWORLD ORLANDO
A Foodie Guide to SeaWorld Orlando’s Howl-O-Scream (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Universal Studios: Orlando
Festival Food Guides
Looking for information on the festivals / events that happen at Universal Orlando? All of these guides offer full menus, prices, and overviews of these events all in one place.
Food Guide to Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Festival Food Reviews
This is my favorite part! Eating! These are Universal Orlando’s festival / event food reviews here as they come. Enjoy!
Walt Disney World, Epcot
Festival Food Guides
Looking for information on the festivals / events that happen at EPCOT? All of these guides offer full menus, prices, and overviews of these events all in one place.
Food Guide to EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Food Guide to EPCOT’s Flower and Garden Festival (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
Food Guide to EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival (2024): Full Menu, Overview + 2024 EPCOT Food and Wine Menu Prices
Festival Food Reviews
Of course, the yummiest part of it all – the noms: the food reviews at EPCOT’s festivals / events.
WALT DISNEY WORLD, MAGIC KINGDOM
Food Guide to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party (2024): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
WALT DISNEY WORLD, HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS
A Foodie Guide to Jollywood Nights (2024): Overview
If you’re hungry for more, I suggest reading through and finding what festivals are right in your backyard and eating through the parks (especially the food reviews on our site)!
And if you haven’t as of yet, please follow us on our other social media channels (YouTube, Instagram & Tik Tok – @themeparkbites) to stay up to date on food reviews, updates, and all that good stuff. Thank you for allowing us to be your tasty theme park companion!