REVIEW: This EPCOT Food and Wine Booth Was BOTH Delicious and Massively Disappointing

If you’re a big fan of poutine, you’ll need to stop by the Refreshment Port booth! A fan-favorite poutine is back again for 2024 along with some new drinks!

2023 Refreshment Port

It’s officially time for the 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival, which means lots of food booths, merchandise, and more. We’re checking it all out, and now we’re heading to Refreshment Port to let you know whether or not it’s worth a visit!

Eats

First up, we grabbed the Braised Beef Poutine. This one is made of French fries with braised beef, Boursin Garlic & Fine Herbs cheese sauce, cheese curds, and gherkin relish. This item cost $10.00. This is a returning item for the festival from years past and we’ve really enjoyed it before.

Braised Beef Poutine

Last year we really liked how big the portion size was and the savory taste was a welcomed change to all the sweet and sugary treats we’d had through the day. This year, we think it was the best thing we tried at Refreshment Port.

The dish was very hearty, the mushroom flavor was incredibly earthy, and the snack was perfectly creamy and delicious. The cheese was plentiful but the curds were a bit tough to navigate through. Still, the texture was wonderful and all the flavors were very present.

Braised Beef Poutine

The relish adds a nice acidity to the dish that helps cut through how buttery and rich the rest of this poutine is. We’d eat this 100 times over! However, we recommend eating this later in the day and not when the park is at its hottest — this snack is best eaten when the weather is slightly cooler.

Drinks

The first new drink for this year is the Boulevard Beverage Company Quirk Ginger Grape Fizz Hard Seltzer for $12.00.

This drink was rough. It was way too tart with too much zing. When you think of seltzer you think of something bubbly and light, but this had almost too much overpowering flavor to the point it offended our tastebuds. In our opinion, you’ve got to passionately love tart grape to dig this drink.

Boulevard Beverage Company Quirk Ginger Grape Fizz Hard Seltzer

Next up is the second new drink at the booth — the Boyd & Blair Pumpkin Spice Mule. You can get this for $12.00.

This drink was another misstep. It tasted like a can of pumpkin spice seasoning and was way too much in our faces — and this is coming from fans of pumpkin spice season! The theme of these drinks is that they didn’t know when to pull back, to their own detriment. The ideas were there, but the execution was flawed. If you like more over, in-your-face drinks, you might enjoy these more than we did.

Boyd & Blair Pumpkin Spice Mule

The final drink on the menu is the returning Florida Orange Groves Winery Sparkling Peach for $11.00. This drink was so refreshing when we’ve had it in the past! It’s incredibly delicate and light, which makes for a nice change from the poutine. It’s not too heavy and would make for a nice beverage to sip on a hot EPCOT day.

Florida Orange Groves Winery Sparkling Peach

Lastly, this booth offers the CORKCICLE Stemless Flute.

OVERALL

Stop by Refreshment Port if you love poutine and sparkling peach wine! Avoid if you’re looking for more subtle snacks and drinks. While the poutine is something we highly recommend, we’d be lying if we didn’t say the new drinks at Refreshment Port didn’t put us off. Overall, we found these offerings to be as average as it gets. Still, taste is subjective and if you think these offerings are something you and your family would be into, you should give them a chance!

Refreshment Port Spread

That’s all that’s offered at this booth this year but there’s still so much to explore around the other festival booths, for the latest in Disney news, stay tuned with us at Disney Food Blog as we bring you the rest of the booth offerings!

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