The short answer

Brazilians call McDonald’s “Méqui”, and the company has taken the nickname over: the value list is the Méqui 1000, the sharing bundles are Méqui Boxes, and the site’s own product copy calls a ketchup sachet the ketchup do Méqui. The menu under that name is Brazilian where it counts. A Cheddar McMelt as the signature beef sandwich, pão de queijo on both the breakfast and McCafé boards, fries that come with a ramyeon seasoning shaker, and a McFish launch running four builds at once.

The cardápio sorts itself into categories with no US equivalent. Beef and chicken sandwiches, fine, and then Família Tasty, which is the Big Tasty sold by patty count; Méqui 1000, the value list; Méqui Box, which bundles three or four combos for a table; and Lançamentos, the launch shelf. Argentina goes up here the same day, the country index has the rest, and the US burger board is the comparison most people want. Everything below comes off the chain’s own cardápio, images © McDonald’s Brasil.

Checked September 11, 2026. The menu site publishes no prices. They run in reais and vary by restaurant, so the McDonald’s app is where you find yours.

New launches

Read the launch names together and the crossover is hard to miss: a Quarterão called Saja Vibes, a Derpy Sundae full of dark purple pearls, ramyeon seasoning for the fries, and Cajun and sweet chilli blister sauces added in the same batch. The site never says what it is tied to. The fish family arrived alongside all of it.

Item What it is
McFish McFish Four builds at once: McFish, McFish Deluxe, and Duplo versions of both.
Quarterão Saja Vibes Quarter Pounder Saja Vibes Quarterão Saja Vibes The Quarter Pounder under a K-pop crossover name. No description published.
Derpy Sundae Derpy Sundae Creamy milk dessert with dark purple bubble pearls in syrup.
Shaker Fries Shaker Fries Fries plus a ramyeon seasoning sachet you shake through the bag yourself.
Fanta Guaraná com Bubbles Fanta Guaraná with Bubbles Fanta Guaraná com Bubbles Guaraná soda with chewy pearls dropped in. Sprite com Bubbles sits beside it.

Beef sandwiches

The most useful sentence on the whole site is buried in the Méqui Box description: every box is built from a Big Mac, Quarterão, Cheddar McMelt or McChicken Bacon. That is the menu naming its own core four, and one of them is a cheese sauce sandwich that never crossed the equator.

Item What it is
Cheddar McMelt Cheddar McMelt Beef, cheddar sauce, grilled onions. The Brazilian signature, with a Duplo above it.
Big Mac Big Mac The benchmark. Brazil also sells the special sauce on its own as a dip.
Quarterão com Queijo Quarter Pounder with Cheese Quarterão com Queijo Plus a Duplo Quarterão, and the Saja Vibes build on the launch shelf.
McNífico Bacon McNífico Bacon Latin America’s own premium beef name, in its bacon version.
Tasty Turbo Tasty Turbo Família Tasty Big Tasty in one, two or three patties, each with a bacon build. Six items, one recipe.
Brabo Brabissímo Carne Brabo Brabissímo Beef Brabo Brabissímo Carne Slang for excellent, printed on a burger. A SmokeHouse version runs alongside.
Triplo Burger Triple Burger Triplo Burger Three patties, cheddar, onion, pickles. 549 calories by the site’s count.
SuperMc SuperMc A Brazil-only name, parked on the Méqui 1000 value list rather than the beef board.

Chicken sandwiches

Item What it is
McChicken McChicken With a McChicken Duplo above it and a Chicken Jr. below.
McChicken Bacon McChicken Bacon The chicken entry in the core four that every Méqui Box is built from.
McCrispy Chicken Legend McCrispy Chicken Legend Top of the chicken board, with a McCrispy Chicken Deluxe beside it.
Brabo Brabissímo Frango Brabo Brabissímo Chicken Brabo Brabissímo Frango The chicken Brabo. Seven chicken sandwiches run on this menu in all.

Sides

Item What it is
McFritas Fries McFritas Small, medium, large. The site’s own copy runs out of adjectives describing them.
McFritas Cheddar Bacon Cheddar Bacon Fries McFritas Cheddar Bacon Cheddar sauce and bacon over the fries, on the standing sides board.
Chicken McNuggets Chicken McNuggets Four, six, ten or fifteen.
Molhos Dipping sauces Molhos Seven of them, including a caipira and a blister of Big Mac special sauce.
Salada Mix Mix salad Salada Mix Soy-dressed onion and crushed bacon, topped with fish, chicken or beef.

Breakfast

The café da manhã list is six items long and three of them are pão de queijo.

Item What it is
Pão de Queijo Cheese bread Pão de Queijo Full size and mini, sold at breakfast and again at McCafé.
Pão de queijo recheado Cheese bread stuffed with cheddar sauce Pão de queijo recheado Cheese bread filled with more cheese.
Egg Cheese Bacon Egg Cheese Bacon Egg, processed cheddar, bacon. The site says it comes off the board at 11am.
Queijo Quente Hot cheese sandwich Queijo Quente Two slices of cheddar on a plain bun, 314 calories. A griddled brioche roll sits beside it.

Desserts and McCafé

Two things are going on here. The dessert category proper holds only the casquinhas, because the rest of the sweet menu is spread across the Méqui 1000 value list and the McCafé counter, and McCafé in Brazil is a real cafe: espresso, ristretto, double espresso, macchiato, affogato, a mocha, iced coffees, fruit smoothies, cookies, a chocolate croissant, a cheese and bacon panini, and pão de queijo again.

Item What it is
Casquinha Soft serve cone Casquinha Vanilla or chocolate. The site’s two descriptions contradict each other on which is which.
Caldo&Freddo Caldo&Freddo sundae Caramel, chocolate or strawberry, on the Méqui 1000 list.
McFloat McFloat Soda over ice cream, same value list.
McCafé Canadá McCafé Canadá Hot and iced versions. The site never explains what makes it Canadian.
Iced Latte Iced Latte Espresso, whole milk, macadamia syrup, ice.

FAQ

What does Méqui mean?

Méqui is the Brazilian nickname for McDonald’s, and McDonald’s Brasil now uses it in its own copy. The value list is called Méqui 1000, the family bundles are Méqui Boxes, and the product descriptions on the site mention o ketchup do Méqui, o café do Méqui and a breakfast sandwich você só encontra no Méqui.

What is the Cheddar McMelt?

A beef sandwich with cheddar sauce and grilled onions, and the best-known local item on the Brazilian menu. The Méqui Box copy lists it as one of four sandwiches any box can be built from, beside the Big Mac, Quarterão and McChicken Bacon, and a Duplo Cheddar McMelt sits next to it with two patties.

Does McDonald’s Brazil sell pão de queijo?

Yes, three ways: regular, mini, and one stuffed with cheddar sauce. It appears twice on the site, once under breakfast and once under McCafé, which is the counter that also pours affogato and sells a cheese and bacon panini.

What is a McOferta?

McOferta is the Brazilian name for a combo meal. It shows up most clearly in the Méqui Box, which packages three or four medium McOfertas in a single order and lets each person choose a Big Mac, Quarterão, Cheddar McMelt or McChicken Bacon.

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