McDonald's Brazil: The Méqui Menu, from Pão de Queijo to the Cheddar McMelt

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	Four builds at once: McFish, McFish Deluxe, and Duplo versions of both.
	Quarter Pounder Saja Vibes Quarterão Saja Vibes	The Quarter Pounder under a K-pop crossover name. No description published.
	Derpy Sundae	Creamy milk dessert with dark purple bubble pearls in syrup.
	Shaker Fries	Fries plus a ramyeon seasoning sachet you shake through the bag yourself.
	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	Beef, cheddar sauce, grilled onions. The Brazilian signature, with a Duplo above it.
	Big Mac	The benchmark. Brazil also sells the special sauce on its own as a dip.
	Quarter Pounder with Cheese Quarterão com Queijo	Plus a Duplo Quarterão, and the Saja Vibes build on the launch shelf.
	McNífico Bacon	Latin America’s own premium beef name, in its bacon version.
	Tasty Turbo Família Tasty	Big Tasty in one, two or three patties, each with a bacon build. Six items, one recipe.
	Brabo Brabissímo Beef Brabo Brabissímo Carne	Slang for excellent, printed on a burger. A SmokeHouse version runs alongside.
	Triple Burger Triplo Burger	Three patties, cheddar, onion, pickles. 549 calories by the site’s count.
	SuperMc	A Brazil-only name, parked on the Méqui 1000 value list rather than the beef board.

Chicken sandwiches

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

Sides

	Item	What it is
	Fries McFritas	Small, medium, large. The site’s own copy runs out of adjectives describing them.
	Cheddar Bacon Fries McFritas Cheddar Bacon	Cheddar sauce and bacon over the fries, on the standing sides board.
	Chicken McNuggets	Four, six, ten or fifteen.
	Dipping sauces Molhos	Seven of them, including a caipira and a blister of Big Mac special sauce.
	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
	Cheese bread Pão de Queijo	Full size and mini, sold at breakfast and again at McCafé.
	Cheese bread stuffed with cheddar sauce Pão de queijo recheado	Cheese bread filled with more cheese.
	Egg Cheese Bacon	Egg, processed cheddar, bacon. The site says it comes off the board at 11am.
	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
	Soft serve cone Casquinha	Vanilla or chocolate. The site’s two descriptions contradict each other on which is which.
	Caldo&Freddo sundae	Caramel, chocolate or strawberry, on the Méqui 1000 list.
	McFloat	Soda over ice cream, same value list.
	McCafé Canadá	Hot and iced versions. The site never explains what makes it Canadian.
	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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