What’s new to eat and drink at the 2026 Wisconsin State Fair?

WEST ALLIS (WLUK) — The Wisconsin State Fair unveiled dozens of new menu items coming to the fairgrounds for the 175th fair.

80 new food and drink options were unveiled Friday afternoon. Many of the items will feature Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery cheese curds, as they were declared the official cheese curds of the state fair. However, Door County cheese curds will be featured on the cheddar garlic longanisa lumpia, according to the list. It isn’t clear which Door County cheesemaker is supplying the cheese curds.

Here are all the new items coming to the fair:

• Al Pastor Pizza
• Bayou Crunch Cup
• Big Pat’s Pit Stop Punch
• Birria Flamin’ Bombs
• Biscoff Hot Fudge Cup
• Bloody Mary Mac Daddy
• Blue Ribbon Watermelon Mint Julep
• Bourbon Deep-Fried Pecan Pie
• Bugged Out Frozen Cheesecake On-a-Stick
• Bunzel’s Hungarian Sausage Sandwich
• Candied Bacon Cheese Curds
• Caramel Apple Cheese Curd Tacos
• Cevapcici – Croatian Sausage Sandwich
• Cheddar Garlic Longanisa Lumpia with Banana Ketchup
• Chicken Cordon Bleu Sausage
• Chimi-Brat-Changa
• Chocolate Covered Strawberry Sipper
• Churro Dog
• Circus Peanut Spritz
• Cold Foam Berry Blast
• Color-Changing Swamp Juice
• Cookie Butter Coffee Float
• Cosmic Funnel Cake
• Cranberry Dream Bar
• Cream City Cone
• Cuban Fries
• Deep Fried Horchata Balls
• Deep-Fried Ranch
• Deep-Fried Top The Tater
• Bloody Mary Pickles & Dill-icious Pickles
• Dill-uxe Pickle Fries
• Egg Roll A-la-Mode
• Ellsworth Fresh Cheese Curds
• Freedom Brat
• Freeze Dried Cheese Curds
• French Onion Cheese Pull
• Fruit Roll-Up Remix
• Gluten-Free Chimichurri Cheese Curds
• Guac This Way Tots
• Hawaiian Pizza Slush
• Hot Honey Bacon Corn Dog
• Hot Honey Chicken Lemonade
• Hot Honey Heatwave Fries
• Ice Cream Nachos
• Lemon-Lime Spritz
• Little Smokies Campfire Meal
• Monkey Bread
• Monster Blue Hawaiian Dirty Soda
• Nitro Cheesy Puffs
• Orange Creamsicle Lemonade
• Patriotic Punch
• Peach Beary Boba
• Peaches n’ Cream Whipped Frozen Lemonade
• Peachy Keen Cooler
• Pineapple Pop Paradise
• Pop’s Kettle Me Squeeze
• Porky Puff
• Potato Chip Sundae
• Ranch BLT Dog
• Red, White, & Berry
• Redneck Brat
• Smoked Pork Pierogi Sliders
• Soft Serve Beer
• Spam Jerky Sampler
• Star-Spangled Bomb Pop
• Sweet Lemon Berry Cheese Curds
• Tanghulu
• The Blue Moo Lagoon
• The Dirty Dog
• The Wisconsinite Slush
• Tilt-a-Spritz
• Tinga Tango Chicharrones
• Toffee Tumble
• Triple Chocolate Mini Donuts
• Tropical Tide
• Vegan Cheesesteak Eggrolls
• Waffle Cone S’mores
• Why Not Tots
• Wild Grape Dirty Soda
• Wisco Short Rid Corn Dog
• Wisconsin Chocolate Barnyard Float
• Southwestern Chorizo Pasty

In addition, a few new vendors are joining the Wisconsin State Fair. All Family Concessions will be found on the Back Forty. Dale Z’s On Tour will be on Grandstand Avenue and Second Street. Lulu Tanghulu will be in the expo center. And the Yuengling Beer House will be on Central Avenue and Benno’s Micro Alley.

The original cream puff and the chocolate cream puff will be offered at the 2026 Wisconsin State Fair. The new ‘Fair-aschino Cherry Cream Puff’ will be available while supplies last each day. Unlike the original and chocolate puffs, they won’t be available for pre-order.

Some of the new food offerings at the fair are also up for the Sporkies and Drinkies awards. The options up for the awarded are bolded in the list above.

The Wisconsin State Fair runs August 6 through August 16.