we were thinking the same... but i think i'll want to at least sit down and have an appetizer somewhere... just to get out of the madness and relax for a minute. we're thinking chefs de france for a bowl of soup, a baguette and maybe a piece of cake but i think you're right in thinking you probably won't need a big meal.
i'm nervous that if it's crazy busy, my dave won't want to stand in the f/w lines then we'll starve, lol. i like to have a back up plan
As of now we have a few days planned for F&W. One day we have a late Cape May breakfast and nothing else scheduled but grazing around and 2 other days we have dinner reservations but will graze a bit for lunch.
We usually do breakfast at Cape May...around 10 or so, get to epcot at opening, get a soarin fast pass, do the land, then head to breakfast, then enjoy our day in Future World and head to the F&W to sample
this year we will be there the day before the F&W starts, so we are not sure if everything will be open for the soft opening so we are doing a 620 dinner in France
We never do TS lunches when at Epcot, but prefer to schedule a TS dinner. SO nice to sit back and relax after a long day in the park. We think grazing at the booths or grabbing a CS lunch suits us just fine.
Breakfast... and then we graze all day long. Last year we made a ressie at Chefs de France and it was a mistake! We couldn't eat a thing. To me the fun of the F&W Fest is trying everything at our own pace... plenty of places to sit and relax along the way!
That's what we do. We sleep in and take advantage of the festival booths for late breakfast/early lunch grazing. That way we have plenty of energy and room for a nice dinner by late evening.
We are checking in in time to get free dining. We're going with the QSDP and staying 9 nights so we will have 36 snack credits to use! I plan to save many of them for F&W. I have not made any ADRs for the days we will be going to EPCOT. If we feel like we need a meal, we will just eat QS.
We did lunch at Le Cellier last year (for a birthday). I will NEVER do that again. We were so stuffed we only had a couple of things from the booths in the evening when it was getting packed. We definitely learned our "newbie" lesson!