REVIEW: We Hate To Break It to You, but You Need To SKIP EPCOT Festival Booths, and Go Here Instead

REVIEW: We Hate To Break It to You, but You Need To SKIP EPCOT Festival Booths, and Go Here Instead

Once again, this year’s EPCOT Festival of the Arts has some bonus locations where you’ll find specialty items created just for the Festival!

BBQ Chicken Pizza

We’re live at the 2026 EPCOT Festival of the Arts, checking out the food studios, artistic performances, merchandise, and more. There’s a LOT going on, but don’t let it overwhelm you. We’re here to tell you everything you need to know before your visit. Right now, we’re checking out some additional locations to see what they’re serving up with an artistic flair!

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Menus

Connections Eatery

This year, Connections Eatery is cooking up some new eats and a new drink for the Festival of the Arts.

The menu features two slices of BBQ Chicken Pizza topped with smoked chicken, sweet barbecue sauce, cheese blend, peppers, and red onions; and a Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich made with spicy hand-breaded chicken, roasted garlic aïoli, and southern slaw on a toasted brioche bun.

You can also sip on the new Classic Mojito with mint foam.

Connections Eatery Menu

Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe

Over in Norway, you’ll find the NEW Hazelnut Praline Boller, which is a Cardamom bun with hazelnut cream at Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe.

Kringla Bakeri og Kafe Menu

Sunshine Seasons

And, over at Sunshine Seasons, you’ll find the all-new The Architecture of Drip, which is blueberry-flavored gelato topped with scoops of banana and berry whipped cream, a waffle cone, and sprinkles.

Sunshine Seasons Menu

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

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Eats

Connections Eatery

First up, we grabbed the BBQ Chicken Pizza for $12.29, topped with smoked chicken, sweet barbecue sauce, cheese blend, peppers, and red onions. This is a very sweet and soothing meal that’s comforting and nostalgic. Between the onions and the sweet barbecue sauce, you’re getting a lot of flavors regularly associated with BBQ pizza. This one is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.

BBQ Chicken Pizza

We also checked out the spice level of the all-new Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich for $13.19, made with spicy hand-breaded chicken, roasted garlic aïoli, and southern slaw on a toasted brioche bun! This sandwich also knocked it out of the park. The breading is good with a nice crunch, and the sauce didn’t make it soggy.

Nashville Hot Chicken

It does have some heat beyond the usual Disney spicy, but the slaw helps cool things down. Plus, it comes with those Disney fries we love.

Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe

Norway is a new entry for this year’s Festival, and we were excited to check out the new Hazelnut Praline Boller for $5.49. It’s a Cardamom bun with hazelnut cream. So this bun tasted fresh, but we really didn’t get much of the cardamom flavor, so it’s a standard hazelnut cream bun, and that hazelnut flavor comes through nicely, but it’s not a lot.

Hazenlnut Praline Boller

This snack just isn’t that unique, though. The flavors are good, but we expect more from a Festival of the Arts treat.

Sunshine Seasons

An ice cream treat with an interesting name — The Architecture of Drip for $10.99. This is blueberry-flavored gelato topped with scoops of banana and berry whipped cream, a waffle cone, and sprinkles. This is more shake than gelato, because you drink it — it even comes with a straw, so we already have a problem with the description. This treat is VERY blueberry-heavy, although you do get that banana taste, which is more subtle. The cone is a standard waffle cone. Warning: it can get soggy.

The Architecture of Drip

This one might be a fun one for kids, as long as they like fruit flavors. However, we’re still a little mad that Disney lied to us and called this something other than a shake.

Drinks

There’s just one new drink at these bonus spots, and that’s the Classic Mojito with mint foam for $16.50 over at Connections Eatery! It’s a classic mojito, but we were a little nervous with the extra mint foam on top of what’s essentially already a minty drink.

Classic Mojito

But it worked. The drink was light and refreshing.

OVERALL

The additional locations at the EPCOT Festivals are a great way to experience even more art-inspired eats this year! Be sure to check them out on your visit to the Festival of the Arts. 

Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Festival of the Arts!

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DFB’s guide to the Festival of the Arts details everything you need to know to maximize your time, budget, and stomach space! Know what’s worth it and what to skip with our full-photo menus of each booth, complete with DFB’s Best of the Fest.

It includes all the must-have information for navigating this colorful festival at Disney World, including:

  • 🍭 Booth & food photos, maps, and crawls with DFB’s exclusive recommendations!
  • 🖌 The COMPLETE schedule of events (so you don’t have to go hunting for all the dates!)
  • 🎨 All the details on special events, artist meet-n-greets, festival-exclusive merchandise, and more!

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

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