REVIEW: If I Could Marry an EPCOT Food & Wine Festival Snack, You’d Be Calling Me Mrs. Brazilian Cheese Bread

There are a few EPCOT Food & Wine Festival foods that have reached the point where removing them would probably require paperwork, a public hearing, and several strongly worded emails. Brazil’s cheese bread is one of them.

The Brazil food booth is back for the 2026 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival, tucked between the Morocco and France Pavilions in World Showcase. And while our beloved Pão de Queijo has once again survived another menu change, Brazil isn’t simply rerunning everything from their previous hits. There’s a brand-new shrimp dish. There’s a new beer. And one of last year’s heartier favorites has disappeared entirely. Let’s see what Brazil is working with this year.

Menu

Brazil‘s 2026 food menu is once again short and sweet, with just two dishes. The Pão de Queijo, AKA Brazilian Cheese Bread, returns for $5.19. It’s pulling double duty this year as both an Emile’s Fromage Montage item and a 30th Anniversary Legacy Item. Brand-new this year is the Moqueca de Camarão for $6.99. It features plancha-seared shrimp, bell peppers, cilantro, and tomatoes in a rich coconut milk broth served with BEN’S ORIGINAL Long Grain White Rice.

Brazil has also traded last year’s Bossa Nova Lager for a NEW BrewDog Brewing Company Peach Mango Wheat Ale, available for $6 to $9.75 depending on pour size. The Frozen Caipirinha with Cachaça Spirit is back for $12.50.

So Brazil has cheese bread, seafood simmering in coconut milk, tropical beer, and a frozen cocktail. We have endured worse assignments.

Eats

We knew this one wasn’t going anywhere. The Pão de Queijo, or Brazilian Cheese Bread, returns for $5.19. It’s also one of the festival’s 30th Anniversary Legacy Items and counts toward Emile’s Fromage Montage. Brazil has been serving these little cheese-filled miracles at the Food & Wine Festival for years, and there is a reason we keep talking about them. The bread tends to be light and airy rather than heavy, with plenty of cheesy flavor packed into a relatively simple snack.

It’s also one of the safer recommendations at the festival. You don’t need to be enthusiastic about pork belly or seafood or mystery sauces. Do you like warm bread? Do you like cheese? Great meeting. We’re done here. So how do they stack up in 2026?

They’re just as wonderful as always! These are yet again a best of the fest dish for us — fluffy, cheesy, and gooey deliciousness wrapped up in a bite-sized treat. We love them. We’re obsessed with them. If I could marry a festival item, you’d get the invite to this wedding TOMORROW.

But alas, man can’t simply live on cheese bread alone…we’ve also got a NEW thing to try! The Moqueca de Camarão is brand-new for the 2026 festival and costs $6.99. It comes with plancha-seared shrimp, bell peppers, cilantro, and tomatoes in a rich coconut milk broth, served with long-grain white rice. Moqueca is a Brazilian seafood stew, and this version sounds light and tropical.

The shrimp flavor is strong here, and the tomato carries a lot of acidity through the dish. The rice is freshly cooked and chewy. It gets most of its flavor from the broth it sits in which is a creamy coconut milk broth with subtle tomato, giving this a rich base without being too creamy. If you’re a shrimp and rice fan, then you’ll probably enjoy this, but it’s not landing quite as high as our beloved cheese bread.

Now, on to the beverages!

Drinks

Brazil’s drinks have received a 50% makeover. The Caipirinha survives. The beer does not.

The BrewDog Brewing Company Peach Mango Wheat Ale is NEW for 2026. It’s available for $6 to $9.75, depending on pour size. The Frozen Caipirinha with Cachaça Spirit returns for $12.50.

We’ve tried this drink before, and last year’s experience was…fine. Which is perhaps not the stirring endorsement a $12.50 cocktail hopes to receive. Despite the “frozen” name, our 2025 drink was served more on the rocks than as a proper frozen or slushy cocktail. We found it fruity and easy to drink, but it lacked a strong defining flavor. Our larger problem was simply that it didn’t feel especially unique compared to some of the more interesting drinks scattered around the festival.

So where does Brazil land?

OVERALL

Brazil’s 2026 menu is tiny, but it’s got a pretty obvious strategy. Keep the cheese bread. Do not touch the cheese bread. Build everything else around the cheese bread. The Pão de Queijo has long been the booth’s most dependable draw, and Disney clearly agrees enough to give it official 30th Anniversary Legacy Item status this year. But the Moqueca de Camarão is a pretty strong addition to the list of eats. They’re a great pair if you want something light AND something hefty.

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Are you sticking with the cheese bread at Brazil, or are you trying the new shrimp dish? Tell us in the comments!