Theme Park Food Events and Festivals: Current, Upcoming, and Seasonal Celebrations
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.
The theme park food events and festivals page is all about compiling monthly theme park food events, 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.
Current Theme Park Food Festivals (April 2025)
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Food & Wine Festival, Saturdays and Sundays, March 7 – May 18
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Food & Wine Festival, Thursdays through Sundays, April 24 – June 22
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Sesame Street Kids’ Weekends, Fridays to Sundays, March 21 – April 20
Disneyland → California Adventure’s Food and Wine Festival, February 28 – April 21
Disneyland → Star Wars Season of the Force, March 28 – May 11
Dollywood → Flower & Food Festival, April 18 – June 8
Dollywood → I Will Always Love You Music Festival, March 14 – April 13
Kennywood → Eggcellent Celebration, Saturdays and Sundays, April 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27
Knott’s Berry Farm → Knott’s Boysenberry Festival, March 28 – April 27
SeaWorld Orlando → Seven Seas Food Festival, January 31 – May 4
Sesame Place Philadelphia → Elmo’s Eggstravaganza, March 29 – April 21
Sesame Place Philadelphia → Elmo’s Springtacular, April 26 – June 15
SeaWorld San Antonio → Fiesta Del Mar, April 24 – May 18
SeaWorld San Antonio → Seven Seas Food Festival, March 27 – May 18
Sesame Place San Diego → Elmo’s Eggstravaganza, March 22 – April 20
Sesame Place San Diego → Elmo’s Springtacular, April 26 – May 18
SeaWorld San Diego → Seven Seas Food Festival, March 7 – April 27
Silver Dollar City → Spring Exposition, April 10 – May 12
Six Flags Fiesta Texas → ¡Viva La Fiesta!, April 5 – May 4
Six Flags Over Texas → ¡Viva La Fiesta!, April 5 – May 4
Walt Disney World → EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival, March 5 – June 2
Upcoming Theme Park Festivals (May 2025)
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Red, White & Brews, Fridays through Sundays, May 24 – July 7
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay → Summer Nights, May to August
Busch Gardens Williamsburg → Bonus Event: Food & Wine Festival 5K, May 4
Kennywood → Bites and Pints Festival, Fridays to Sundays & Memorial Day, May 23 – June 29
Kings Dominion → A Golden Summerbration, May 31 – August 3
SeaWorld Orlando → Summer Spectacular, May 23 – September 1
SeaWorld Orlando → Viva La Música, May 10, 11, 17, and 18
SeaWorld San Antonio → Cinco de Mayo, May 1 – 4
SeaWorld San Antonio → Summer Spectacular, May 23 – August 3
SeaWorld San Diego → Summer Spectacular, May 23 – September 1
SeaWorld San Diego → Viva La Música, May 2 – 18
Sesame Place San Diego → Sesame Summer Splash, May 23 – September 1
Silver Dollar City → Bluegrass & BBQ, May 14 – 26
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom → ¡Viva La Fiesta!, May 24 – June 29
Six Flags Fiesta Texas → Summerbration, May 24 – September 1
Theme Park Festivals’ 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. ?
seasonal, halloween, and christmas theme park park festivals
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 (2025): Full Menu, Prices, Overview
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 me on our other social media channels (YouTube, Instagram & Tik Tok – @themeparkbites) once I’m movin’ and groovin’. Thank you for allowing me to be your tasty theme park companion!