REVIEW: This EPCOT Food and Wine Festival Booth Is Already Off to a…Rocky Start

It’s time to celebrate the 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival! We are checking out all the booths and bringing you all the reviews!

Swirled Showcase debuted at last year’s EPCOT Food and Wine Festival as a special 100th anniversary booth — and it’s stuck around for every EPCOT Festival since then!

Eats

First up, we grabbed a NEW menu item — the Liquid Nitrogen Frozen Sweet Potato Mousse with candied pecans and maple-caramel sauce!

Liquid Nitrogen Frozen Sweet Potato Mousse

OK, we’re sorry to say it. We hope this doesn’t gross you out too badly. But we’ve got to say it. This dish looked — and we’d argue tasted — like cat food. It was bland, with very little flavor despite the litany of sweet ingredients. Unless someone adores the taste of sweet potatoes, it’s probably a skip.

Swirled Showcase is serving up three flavors of soft serve ice cream this year — Vanilla, Apple Cinnamon, and Salted Caramel. Each waffle cone costs $6.50 — you can get the ice cream in a cup, but the price will stay the same.

Vanilla Soft-serve in a Waffle Cone

We grabbed the Apple Cinnamon soft serve and found it almost like a vanilla bean ice cream with a hint of caramel. Don’t go expecting a fruity apple soft serve here!

Apple Cinnamon soft serve

We also ordered the Salted Caramel soft serve, and WHEW! This one had a strong aftertaste. It was sugary, thick, and quite rich.

Salted caramel soft serve

There are also several non-boozy ice cream floats available at this booth! You can choose from Coca-Cola, Barq’s Crème Soda, or Fanta Grape with your choice of soft-serve.

We loved the smoothness and creaminess of the ice cream, and the soda was light and refreshing. This will likely be a classic favorite for many! The Floats are priced at $6.75. We also enjoyed the Barq’s Crème Soda and vanilla over the Fanta Grape with vanilla.

Fanta Grape Float with vanilla soft-serve

Now, let’s move on to the drinks!

Swirled Showcase is a MELTY booth let’s take two trips! Here’s what we got on round one:

Liquid Nitrogen Frozen Sweet Potato Mousse with candied pecans and maple-caramel sauce (New)
Frozen Apple Pie
Berry-vanilla Float pic.twitter.com/V1HpYjgp0C

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Drinks

You can get the Frozen Apple Pie (non-alcoholic) for $6.75. We thought this float was better in presentation than it was in taste. It looked adorable, but the actual flavor left a lot to be desired.

Frozen Apple Pie

Next up, we got the 3 Daughters Toasted Coconut Porter Float with vanilla soft-serve for $13.25. We were NOT a fan of this one. The flavors did not mix well, and there was a bitter afterbite.

The Coconut Float

Finally, we ordered the Berry-vanilla Float made with La Gioiosa Berry Fizz and vanilla soft-serve. We found this float to be a bit weird. There was almost a medicinal taste to the drink itself, and the fizz didn’t help save this drink.

Berry Vanilla Float

Overall

Overall, we were let down by the 2024 version of Swirled Showcase. None of the new items wowed us, and several were bland at best. This was definitely a disappointment, given this booth’s previous pedigree.

Swirled Showcase

That’s it for this booth, but there’s a LOT more where that came from!

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