Coastal Eats opened at the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival on October 2 with two $7.49 dishes: a crab cake and a seafood pot pie.
The price is identical; the source's scoreboard most certainly is not. WDW News Today gave the crab cake 5 out of 7 and the pot pie 0 out of 7. Two plates, one price, and enough daylight between those ratings to float the Friendship boats through.
The crab cake gets the warmer welcome
The $7.49 crab cake comes with tropical fruit chutney, mustard sauce, and micro celery. WDWNT found the exterior flaky and golden, the mustard spicy, and the chutney sweet enough to balance it.
That is WDWNT's tasting judgment, not ours. Still, the named sweet-hot combination gives this plate a more interesting shape than “festival crab cake” usually promises, and the source considered the portion a fair value. On this very small menu, it is plainly the dish wearing the crown.
The pot pie is the gamble
Also $7.49, the seafood pot pie combines shrimp, scallops, and lobster bisque under puff pastry. WDWNT liked the flaky pastry top but found the seafood flavor and aroma overpowering, producing that rather spectacular 0-out-of-7 score.
A zero will make the group chat gasp, but taste is personal; this is not an operational warning or an allergy statement. The checked source provides no portion weights, allergy guidance, or beverage list. Coastal Eats opened with two seafood dishes at the same price, and only one left its reviewer in a remotely coastal mood.
