Choza de Margarita at EPCOT: What to Order

By Jenna R. · Dining & food festivals · Tampa, FL

Published November 12, 2026

Choza de Margarita is the outdoor walk-up margarita bar at EPCOT’s Mexico Pavilion in World Showcase. It is walk-up only, off the Disney Dining Plan, and a stand-and-sip counter with a few wall high-tops. Order a frozen margarita and keep moving. If the group needs a real meal in Mexico, eat at La Cantina de San Angel or San Angel Inn.

It’s a kiosk on the promenade

You order at a window. Several registers are open when it’s busy, then you take the cup and go. A few high-top ledges are built into the wall, and that is the seating. Nobody is holding a table.

The spot replaces the small thatched margarita stand that used to sit on this stretch of the lagoon path, the one that closed when Norway expanded for its Frozen attractions. Same job, bigger counter: a drink you carry while you walk World Showcase.

The line looks worse than a ride queue of the same length because everyone on the promenade can see it and step in, and no dining room absorbs them. Keep the order to one drink and maybe one snack so you are not rewriting it at the register.

Timing follows the path, not rope drop. A margarita is a poor use of the first hour in the park, but an early pass at this window is a good one. Enter EPCOT from the front and Mexico is the first World Showcase pavilion you reach. The walk-up is calmer then, before the afternoon drink lap fills the path. Come through the International Gateway instead — Skyliner and the BoardWalk boats land you between France and the United Kingdom — and Mexico is the far end of the loop. Choza de Margarita is waiting after the queue has had the rest of the day to grow. If the frozen margarita is the point, start on the Mexico side.

What to order

The drink is the reason to stop. Frozen margaritas and hand-crafted margaritas lead, with Mexican beer and a non-alcoholic refresher for anyone skipping alcohol. The cocktails are 21+.

The order I’d make is the Fiesta Frozen Margarita when it is on the board. Strawberry, classic lime, and mango loco go in one cup, so a single stop covers the three flavors people otherwise buy separately on a showcase lap. One line, three tastes, then you leave the pavilion.

If frozen lime and frozen strawberry are both pouring, ask them to layer the two in one cup. It is not listed. You are stacking two menu pours, and when the colors stay apart the cup looks striped. They have done it when asked. If either flavor is off that day, drop the request and take the Fiesta.

Food is real and it is snack-sized: tacos, empanadas, chips, fresh guacamole, and elote.

Elote is the item worth planning around. Sweet, spicy, and heavier than the cup suggests. Order it when you want one snack to replace a second drink, or when dinner is still a long way off. Leave it when you are protecting an appetite for a table-service meal later. It will take that space.

The tacos are the miss if you treat them as lunch. An order has come as two corn tortillas of citrus-marinated pulled pork with pickled red onion and mango habanero relish, plus corn esquites. The pork is usually moist, the esquites bring some heat, and the relish runs modest. Two tacos beside a margarita is a good walk. Two tacos as the meal is how you arrive in the next pavilion still hungry. La Cantina de San Angel, the quick service on the lagoon, or San Angel Inn, the table-service room inside the pavilion, is where a full plate lives.

Chips and fresh guacamole fit the counter better than the tacos do. They are meant to be shared standing up, and you can carry them to a bench.

Planning around this? Tell me when a table opens for Choza de Margarita.

Choza or La Cava

La Cava del Tequila is the other margarita door in Mexico, and it is a different stop. It sits inside the pyramid, and it is where you stay with a hand-crafted pour. Choza de Margarita is the promenade window for a frozen drink you walk toward the water.

Pick one. Both in the same hour spends the drink money and a long slice of the lap inside a single pavilion. Choza when you are mid-stroll and want cold, fast, and outside. La Cava when the group actually wants to pause. La Cava has also made a virgin colada that is not always on the printed list, which helps if kids are along, and of-age guests have been able to add rum and pox. Ask. If it is not pouring, Choza’s non-alcoholic refresher at least keeps the whole party in one line.

Beer is the pacing choice when this is only one stop on a full showcase lap. The margarita is the treat. A Mexican lager is the lighter pour that still counts as your Mexico drink, and La Cantina de San Angel is the other easy place in the pavilion to get one when Choza’s line is the thing between you and the rest of the loop.

How it fits the day

You cannot reserve this window, so a cancellation watch will never help here. Nothing is held. Put the alert on a room that actually takes a table. San Angel Inn is that room: Advance Dining Reservations open 60 days before arrival at 6:00 AM Eastern in My Disney Experience. When it is full, SupaPark’s dining Drop Watch at supapark.com pings you the moment a cancellation frees one, and you book it yourself in Disney’s app. Choza stays the cup you grab on the way past.

It is off the Disney Dining Plan too. A margarita here spends cash, the same as any other showcase cocktail, even when the rest of the day is on credits.

The missing seats matter more with a stroller or a hot afternoon. A frozen drink sweats, and a small child will not enjoy a second wait. A flat cafeteria tray across the back of the stroller keeps the cup upright while you walk to a real bench on the lagoon. Sort that out before you reach the window. The high-tops are already taken by whoever got there first.

Choza de Margarita is a drink stop with a snack menu attached. Order the Fiesta Frozen, add elote only when you want to be full, and send the actual meal to La Cantina de San Angel or San Angel Inn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Choza de Margarita in EPCOT?

It is an outdoor walk-up at the Mexico Pavilion in World Showcase. Mexico is the first pavilion you reach from the front of EPCOT, and the far end of the loop if you enter from the International Gateway.

Does Choza de Margarita take reservations?

No. It is walk-up only, and it is not on the Disney Dining Plan. For a seated meal in the same pavilion, book San Angel Inn in My Disney Experience.

What should I order at Choza de Margarita?

The Fiesta Frozen Margarita when it is on the board: strawberry, classic lime, and mango loco in one cup. Elote is the filling snack, and chips with guacamole suit standing up. The tacos are a two-piece bite, so take lunch to La Cantina de San Angel or San Angel Inn.

Is there seating at Choza de Margarita?

Almost none. A few high-tops are built into the wall, and everything else is stand-and-sip. Plan to carry the drink along the lagoon.

Is Choza de Margarita the same as La Cava del Tequila?

No. Choza is the outdoor promenade kiosk for a frozen margarita you walk with. La Cava del Tequila is the indoor bar inside the Mexico pyramid, and it is the better pick when you want to sit.

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