Emile's Fromage Montage adds three cheesecakes to EPCOT's eight-stop cheese stroll
The 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival cheese hunt now spans eight qualifying dishes: five savory plates and three cheesecakes that are new this year. Five passport stamps earn a key lime cheesecake frozen blend at Shimmering Sips, and repeat purchases of the same dish count toward the total.
Emile's Fromage Montage is back for the 2025 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival, and the cheese stroll now runs eight stops deep: five savory plates plus three cheesecakes, which are new to the hunt this year. Taste any five and the prize waiting at Shimmering Sips is a key lime cheesecake frozen blend in a souvenir cup.
How Emile's Fromage Montage works at EPCOT
The Fromage Montage is the festival's cheese scavenger hunt, named for the cheese-obsessed brother from Ratatouille. Every participating Global Marketplace stamps the back page of your festival passport when you buy its qualifying dish. Collect five stamps and you redeem a complimentary cheese dessert at the Shimmering Sips Global Marketplace.
The detail most first-timers miss is that the five stamps do not have to come from five different booths. The passport is stamped per purchase, so if the raclette in The Alps is your whole personality, you can buy it five times and still finish the stroll. That flexibility matters at a festival whose marketplaces are spread from the front of World Showcase all the way around the lagoon and out onto the Imagination! walkway.
Key Details
- What: Emile's Fromage Montage, eight qualifying cheese dishes
- Where: Global Marketplaces around World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion walkway, EPCOT
- How to finish: Any five passport stamps, repeats allowed
- Prize: Key lime and cheesecake frozen blend with cookie crumbs in a souvenir cup, redeemed at Shimmering Sips
- New for 2025: Three cheesecakes join the lineup (Basque, Pineapple and Fall Fruit)
The Disney Parks Blog and Disney Eats teams walked the full stroll, rated each dish on a five-wedge "cheese-o-meter" for aroma and intensity, and picked a drink to go with every stop. Their notes are the basis for the rundown below, with the potency scores translated out of wedges and into plain numbers.
The five savory stops
Warm Raclette Swiss Cheese at The Alps
This is the strongest thing on the stroll at 4 out of 5 for potency. It comes with or without ham, and either way you get baby potatoes, cornichons and a sliced baguette. The team called it a returning favorite: soft potatoes, tangy cornichon, and crisp bread for dipping. There is enough on the plate that sharing it is the smart play if you intend to finish the other seven stops.
"This is a great dish for someone who would like a strong cheese; it's a robust flavor that I think is great for going into the fall season." (Laura, Disney Parks Blog)
The suggested pairing is the Stiegl Brewery Goldbrau Austrian Marzen Lager, new to the festival this year and poured at the same marketplace. A bright, rounded beer is the right counterweight to a plate this hearty.
Schinkennudeln at Germany
A Food & Wine regular. "Schinkennudeln" means "ham noodles," and the festival version is a slice of pasta gratin with ham, onions and cheese. At 2 out of 5 it is the family-friendly stop on the list, smooth and creamy and, as the team put it, mac-and-cheese adjacent. That makes it the one to hand a kid who is not sold on the raclette.
Germany pours a beer flight, and the pick out of it was the Von Trapp Brewing Oktoberfest Marzen-Style Lager, whose maltiness and nuttiness sit alongside the gratin rather than fighting it.
Griddled Cheese at Greece
A slice of warm cheese on a plate under pistachios and honey, which is arguably the most literal expression of the whole cheese stroll. It rates 3 out of 5. The pistachios give it crunch against a full-bodied cheese, and the honey pushes the saltiness toward dessert.
"There is such a nice blend of the saltiness of the cheese and pistachios and sweetness of the honey. It all works really well together." (Katie, Disney Eats)
Pair it with the Greek Melon Limeade, built on Kleos Mastiha Spirit, Artonic Melon Aperitif, Pearl Vodka and lime sour mix. The tang and brightness cut a thick, nutty bite.
Pao de Queijo at Brazil
Brazilian cheese bread, three soft bites to an order, and the mildest savory stop at 1 out of 5. The cheese is baked into the dough rather than sitting on top of it, which makes this the walk-and-eat option: crisp outside, warm pull-apart middle, no plate to manage while you cross World Showcase.
The pairing is the Frozen Caipirinha with cachaca, poured at the same booth. Against bread this gentle, the drink is the loud one, with a strong fruity kick.
Pumpkin-Mascarpone Ravioli at Forest & Field
The harvest plate of the group, at 3 out of 5: ravioli in brown butter vinaigrette with pecorino, pomegranate seeds and hazelnut praline. The pumpkin-mascarpone filling brings the sweetness and the pecorino brings the salt, while the sage and pomegranate make it the best-looking dish on the stroll. You will find it at Forest & Field, on the walkway between World Showcase and the Imagination! Pavilion. Guests circling the lagoon routinely walk right past that stretch of marketplaces.
The Famille Hugel Classic Pinot Noir at the same booth is a soft, fruity red that stays out of the way of a plate already doing five things at once.
The three cheesecakes, new for 2025
Until this year the Fromage Montage was a savory hunt with a dessert waiting at the end. The 2025 lineup folds three cheesecakes into the qualifying eight, which changes the strategy: it is now possible to finish the stroll on dessert alone.
Basque Cheesecake at Spain
New to the festival, served with orange sauce and orange slices, and a 1 out of 5 for potency despite the deep caramelized top a Basque bake is known for. The marmalade keeps it refreshing rather than heavy, which is the difference between a dessert you can eat in Florida humidity and one you cannot.
"Definitely try to cut up a little bit of orange and scoop up that marmalade with every custard-like bite." (Ally, Disney Eats)
Order the Summer in Spain cocktail with it, a frozen Simply Lemonade with Yellow and Green Chartreuse. Both the herbal notes and the citrus zing cut the caramelized custard.
One nearby aside worth knowing: a few steps away, the Tortellini alla Vodka is built on four cheeses and Calabrian chili oil. It is not an official Emile pick and will not earn you a stamp, but it is the savory stop to make while you are in this corner of World Showcase.
Pineapple Cheesecake at Hawai'i
This one sits at the front of World Showcase, which makes it the easiest stamp to grab on your way in. It arrives shaped like a pineapple, on a drizzle of passion fruit curd with macadamia nuts, and rates 1 out of 5. There is no crust, so the crunch comes from the nuts instead, and the fruit keeps the sweetness in check.
The pairing is the O'ahu Sunrise, with vodka, DOLE pineapple juice and grenadine under an edible flower. The alternate suggestion from the Disney Eats side was the Maui Brewing Co. Orange Mango Guava Hazy IPA, betting a hoppy pour against the cake's sweetness.
Fall Fruit Cheesecake at Milled & Mulled
The autumn pick of the eight, at 2 out of 5: a spice cake built on Boursin Fig & Balsamic Cheese with pomegranates and candied pecans. Using a savory flavored cheese in a dessert is the most interesting swing on the stroll, and the fig is what makes it work, setting creamy sweetness against warm baking spice.
"The fig adds a subtle fruitiness that perfectly complements the spiced base, making each bite indulgent yet nuanced." (Katie, Disney Eats)
Drink the Keel Farms Maple Harvest Hard Cider with it, also new this year. If spice cake is your category, the Freshly Baked Carrot Cake with walnuts and cream cheese icing is at the same marketplace.
The prize is a key lime cheesecake frozen blend at Shimmering Sips
With five stamps done, show the passport at the redemption window at Shimmering Sips. The reward is a key lime and cheesecake frozen blend topped with cookie crumbs, served in a souvenir cup. It is large enough to split, and the cup goes home with you, which is the only physical proof you walked the whole stroll.
More cheese at the 2025 Food & Wine Festival
The eight official stops are not the whole cheese map. Three more plates are worth routing to, none of which earn a stamp:
- France: Brioche aux Epices Avec Une Garniture Mornay de Trois Fromages, a spiced brioche with a three-cheese mornay filling.
- Gyozas of the Galaxy: Buffalo-style Dumplings, chicken dumplings with buffalo sauce, celery root puree, blue cheese cream, crumbled blue cheese, shaved carrot and micro celery.
- Flavors from Fire: Smoked Corned Beef with house-made potato chips, cheese curds, pickled onions and beer cheese fondue.
Two more things are worth building into the day. Harvest Hollow, the new playground near Milled & Mulled, is the place to sit down mid-stroll, which helps if you have kids who have hit their limit on cheese. The Eat to the Beat Concert Series runs at the America Gardens Theatre through the festival, and the 2025 lineup includes Hanson and The Beach Boys. Timing the prize redemption so the frozen blend lands in your hand right before a set is the version of this plan we would run.
Five stamps in one circuit of World Showcase
Eight dishes and eight drinks is not a one-day project for most people, but five stamps genuinely is. The tightest route starts at Hawai'i at the front of World Showcase for the pineapple cheesecake, cuts out to Forest & Field and Milled & Mulled on the Imagination! walkway for the ravioli and the spice cake, then picks up Germany and Greece on the lagoon loop before redeeming at Shimmering Sips. That is five stamps across a single circuit, and it leaves the raclette and the Basque cheesecake as the reason to come back. If decision fatigue sets in, fall back on the rule that makes this easy: repeats count, so one favorite plate can carry the whole card.
