Connections Cafe & Eatery in EPCOT’s World Celebration is once again joining in the Festival fun with some special menu items just for the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival!

The 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival has officially opened, and it has a LOT to offer. There are plenty of food booths with tasty items, fun souvenirs, and even exciting concerts. But don’t let it overwhelm you — we’ve got you covered with everything you need to know. Come along with us as we check out this year’s special Festival items at Connections Cafe & Eatery!

Menu

Over at Connections Cafe & Eatery, you’ll find all new items this year for the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival! Take a look at the menus for this year! Starting us off is a NEW Pistachio-Chocolate Mochi Doughnut!

You can also grab new items like BBQ Braai Chicken Pizza, Caramel-Apple Cheesecake Baumkuchen, and the Frozen Waffle Old Fashioned!

Now that we’ve taken a look at the menus, let’s dive into the food itself!

Eats

At Connections Cafe, there’s a new Pistachio-Chocolate Mochi Doughnut for $5.29

This is a bubble-shaped doughnut topped with green icing, chocolate drizzle, and pistachio pieces. The doughnut itself had a soft and fluffy interior and was firmer on the exterior, which did not instill a sense of freshness. Unfortunately, we couldn’t really sense any mochi flavor. We also noticed that the green icing was mostly a sugary sweet glaze without much additional flavor. There was a tiny bit of chocolate drizzle, but the prominent flavor here was definitely sweet glaze. The pistachio pieces were very salty and had a peanut flavor about them, lacking the usual pistachio earthy flavor. Overall, we really didn’t feel like this doughnut came as described, but if you love glazed donuts and nuts, you may love this.

Heading over to Connections Eatery, there are two new food items specific to the Festival. First up, we checked out the BBQ Braai Chicken Pizza with Tamarind BBQ, Arugula, Onions, and Piri Piri Sauce for $12.29.

As far as pizza goes at Disney World, this is some of the BEST we’ve had in a long while. We weren’t really expecting a curry chicken type of taste, but it was really good. The crust was very crunchy, and you get a lot of tasty barbecue chicken.  Usually when you get a barbecue chicken pizza, the sauce usually dominates, but the chicken here was allowed to shine. The pizza was very savory with hints of sweetness. Be warned that it does have a mild kick. If you’re looking for a safer eat with a little bit of boldness, this has to be a go-to. We also LOVE that you get two slices with this!

If you’re in the mood for a sweet treat at the Eatery, you’ll find the new Caramel-Apple Cheesecake Baumkuchen for $6.49.

This was — hands-down — one of the best things we tried at the Festival! It tasted like a cake that your grandma would make, and then just throw caramel apple in the middle, topped with whipped cream. This really didn’t give us cheesecake vibes, but rather a fluffy, thick, vanilla cake that had multiple layers to it. It is pretty filling, but it is also really good.

It wasn’t over-the-top sweet, and the crunchy apples and the taste of caramel in the middle really brought this whole thing together. The contrasts worked so well, and for that price, we can’t wait to get it again!

Drinks

Connections Eatery also has a new drink for the Food & Wine Festival this year. The Frozen Waffle Old Fashioned is a frozen blend of Maker’s Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, Maple Syrup, Butterscotch Syrup, and Angostura Bitters, topped with a Liege Waffle and Cherry — and it’s priced at $17.50.

This was a very tasty Old Fashioned! You could definitely taste the notes of butterscotch syrup and maple syrup (mostly on the maple syrup side), and it went down so smoothly. There was a little bit of a kick, and it melts fairly fast, so you do wanna drink it pretty quickly.

While this drink was super refreshing, we wanted to enjoy the waffle a little bit more, but it was a bit too stiff on account of it being frozen. Still, it had a good flavor and is definitely worth checking out!

OVERALL

The doughnut really let us down, but the other three offerings were so good that we can’t really complain. Maybe skip the cafe offering during your next visit and totally indulge in the eatery’s treats!

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

Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Food & Wine Festival!

Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival? We’ll be keeping you updated on all of the latest. Click our links below for the information you need to know:

• Learn about the Eat to the Beat Concert Series and Dining Packages
• Check out ALL of the 2026 Food & Wine Booth Menus

And don’t forget to pick up our 2026 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival e-book! See more details about the book below.

What items from this booth would you most want to try? Tell us in the comments!