Disney4me Posted August 29 Report Share Posted August 29 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! Menu Over at the Swirled Showcase booth, you’ll find some nice cool and sweet treats, including soft serve ice cream, floats, and more! Now that we’ve taken a look at the menu, let’s dive into the food itself! 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 — Disney Food Blog (@DisneyFoodBlog) August 29, 2024 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! Click here to see FULL reviews of EVERY. SINGLE. BOOTH. at the Food & Wine Festival! Trying to plan the PERFECT trip to the 2024 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 2024 Food & Wine Booth Menus One HUGE Change Is Coming to the 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival! And don’t forget to pick up our 2024 EPCOT Food & Wine Festival e-book! See more details about the book below. IT'S WINE & DINE TIME! Food & Wine Festival can be a bummer. You stand in line waiting for what looks like the perfect treat, and it's a bust. But fear not, dear friends, we compiled EVERYTHING you need (and the things to avoid!) to plan the ULTIMATE EPCOT Food & Wine Festival experience. If you're planning a day or a week at the festival, we've got every performance, activity, and tasty nosh detailed out so you can make the most of your time and money. Listen, it's a tough job eating and documenting the nearly 200 bites and sips, but we do it all for YOU! GET YOUR GUIDE NOW Learn More About the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival! 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