Disney Dining Beyond Burgers or Hot Dogs
Finding variety at the Quick-Service restaurants
Disney is currently operating under limited capacity and you wil find that not all quick-service restaurants are open right now or, if they are open, they may have limited menus. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and chicken nuggets are readily available but that can get monotonous every day of your trip so we’ve put together a list of locations that offer more great menu options. Taking the time to quickly read the information below and noting options that look good will help you enjoy better meals in the park.
Many of the locations below will also include hot dogs, hamburgers, and/or chicken nuggets but we don’t mention that because this list is to help you find other options so you don’t feel like you’re eating the same thing at every meal. We also excluded locations that only have snack items and sweets. Links have been provided so that you can see the whole menu. We did not include any table service locations in this list. Quick-service locations do not accept advance reservations at this time.
Quick-service restaurants located at the hotels are not included in this list unless they are reasonably easy to get to from one of the theme parks. We did include several options with Disney’s Hollywood Studios since the in-park options are so limited. Allow plenty of time for transportation.
TIP: Most of these locations are utilizing mobile ordering unless you have dietary restrictions. You will be able to access the menu through the MyDisneyExperience app. QR codes available at the restaurant to access the menus so take time to learn to scan QR codes if you don’t already know how. Be sure to link a form of payment to your MyDisneyExperience account to simplify the whole dining process.
Magic Kingdom:
Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café has a Greek salad or a grilled chicken club sandwich. Kids can get mac ‘n cheese.
The Friar’s Nook has creamy bacon macaroni & cheese tots or loaded Buffalo tots. Yum! Kids can get tots and cheese sauce.
Gaston’s Tavern doesn’t have meal items but people love the warm cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
Liberty Square Market sells Turkey legs and an assortment of snack and whole fruit options.
Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café has the most variety of current offerings in the Magic Kingdom. You can get a fajita platter, southwest salad with chicken or pork carnitas, chicken or beef nachos, black bean nachos, pork carnitas rice bowl, pork carnitas nachos, chicken rice bowl, or a veggie rice bowl. Similar options available as kids meals. This location has a nice selection of allergy friendly menu items too.
Pinocchio Village Haus has a selection of flatbreads (kind of like pizza but this location doesn’t get good reviews.) You can find better food elsewhere.
Sleepy Hollow has a very limited menu but people love the sweet-and-spicy chicken waffle sandwich. They also have a fresh fruit waffle sandwich or funnel cakes if you’re looking for dessert.
Good options at nearby resorts
Contemporary Resort – Contempo Café – Breakfast options include a bounty platter, grilled breakfast sandwich, Mickey-shaped waffle, breakfast tofu bowl, steel-cut oatmeal, and similar options for kids. The lunch and dinner menu features Caesar salad with chicken, spicy chicken sandwich, hot turkey sandwich, meat lover’s flatbread, grilled tofu bowl, kale power greens salad and a couple of soup options. Kids’ meals include turkey pasta marinara, cheese or pepperoni flatbread.
Polynesian Resort – Capt. Cook’s – breakfast options include a bounty platter, morning flatbread, Mickey waffles, a breakfast burrito, power breakfast bowl, steel-cut oatmeal or the ever-popular Tonga toast with similar items on the kids’ menu. Lunch and dinner options include an Aloha park sandwich, pan Asian noodles with vegetables, Thai coconut meatballs, Asian-style noodle salad, and Superfood Salad. Kids will love the chicken and pineapple skewers or the turkey sandwich.
Wilderness Lodge – Geyser Point Bar & Grill has teriyaki chicken wings, shrimp on a wife, roasted salmon, or a crab cake with spicy slaw. Other great options include a smoked turkey sandwich, grilled portobello salad with or without salmon, chicken or steak, or crispy fried oysters. Kids’ meals include grilled chicken or a finger food sampler.
Wilderness Lodge – Roaring Fork serves breakfast items like chicken and waffles, a breakfast platter, bagel sandwich, Bananas Foster French Toast, and steel-cut oatmeal. Kids can get Mickey-shaped waffles. For lunch and dinner, you’ll find a 10-hour smoked pulled pork sandwich, tuna salad sandwich, chicken and waffles, house-smoked turkey sandwich, or a Caesar salad with chicken. Kids’ meals included mac ‘n cheese or a pepperoni flatbread.
Animal Kingdom:
Flame Tree Barbecue has a St. Louis rib dinner, half chicken, ribs and chicken combo, backed macaroni & cheese with pulled pork, and a smokehouse chicken salad. Most of these are served with baked beans and coleslaw. Kids can get a baked chicken drumstick.
Isle of Java has a sausage, egg and cheese biscuit available at breakfast along with things like muffins and danishes.
Nomad Lounge has small plates with things like a Chicken Manchurian Nomad Bowl, Tongarishi-spiced Tuna Nomad bowl, and a bread service. These are small plates so the servings are small but it does offer some nice options; the setting is lovely!
Pongu Pongu has sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits at breakfast as well as French toast sticks and their very popular Pongu Lumpia which is a pineapple cream cheese spring roll. The Pongu Lumpia is available all day but they do not offer any lunch or dinner entrees
Restaurantosaurus has breaded shrimp with fries or a cobb salad.
Satu’li Canteen has some delicious options like their combination grilled beef and chicken bowl, chili-garlic shrimp bowl, shopped wood-grilled chicken bowl, and their chili-spiced crispy fried tofu bowl. The children’s menu also includes several bowl options as well as cheese quesadillas. Don’t rule out the cheeseburger steamed pods (bao buns) as they are kind of different and good, as long as you like mustard. This location has a great selection of allergy-friendly options.
Trilo-Bites has Buffalo chicken chips that might work as a small meal or a savory snack.
Yak & Yeti Local Food Cafes has some great breakfast options like a scrambled egg breakfast bowl with or without bacon or sausage, egg white English muffin or sausage and egg muffin; kids options include French toast or a pancake and sausage stick. For lunch or dinner, you’ll find great options like honey chicken, vegetable tikka masala, or sweet-and-sour tempura chicken all served with white rice. They also have a Korean fried chicken sandwich, teriyaki chicken salad, and egg rolls.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios: Plan on this being your burger day!
ABC Commissary has a curry rice bowl with shrimp or tofu, chicken club, buffalo chicken grilled cheese sandwich, shrimp tacos, pork carnitas tacos, and Mediterranean salad with chicken. They also have an arugula-farro side salad. Child meal options include a pork taco, grilled cheese sandwich, or a turkey sandwich.
Backlot Express mostly has burgers but you will also find a Cuban sandwich, southwest salad, and Tatooine two suns hummus.
Baseline Tap House doesn’t serve full entrees but they do have a couple of tasty small plate options like a coffee-rubbed rib-eye beef puff and a California cheese and charcuterie plate.
Docking Bay 7 Food & Cargo has beef pot roast, fried chicken with vegetable mashed potatoes or mac & cheese, smoked pork ribs, roasted chicken salad, or kefta and humas garden spread. Kids meals include pasta with marinara sauce, veggie dippers, and fried chicken. They have an allergy-friendly menu too. Everything we’ve eaten here is good but the portions were small and we left wanting more.
PizzaRizzo has individual sized pizzas, a meatball sub, and antipasto salad. There are similar options on the kids’ menu. Sadly, Disney’s pizza is famous for all the wrong reasons and everything here falls somewhere between “okay” and “somewhat disappointing”. In our opinion, nothing is truly terrible or really good.
Ronto Roaster serves breakfast options like a morning wrap with eggs, pork sausage and cheese, or overnight oats. The lunch and dinner menu is pretty much limited to a wrap with roasted pork and tangy slaw. They have allergy friendly options available.
Rosie’s All-American Café’ primarily has burgers and hotdogs but also has a fried green tomato sandwich.
If none of these are appealing, consider exiting the park and taking the Skyliner to Epcot and then walk over to the Beach and Yacht Club which have options at the two market locations and Hurricane Hanna’s
Beach Club – Beach Club Marketplace – breakfast options include a bounty platter, breakfast sandwich, or Mickey-shaped waffles. For lunch, you’ll find an Italian sandwich, roast beef sandwich, caprese sandwich, pulled pork sandwich, turkey and swiss sandwich, grilled veggie and hummus sandwich, bacon topped macaroni & cheese, chili topped mac & cheese, and pulled pork topped mac & cheese. Other great options include plant-based chili, chicken Caesar salad, clam chowder, or a Greek salad. Kids’ meals include a turkey sandwich, hot dog, or baked mac ‘n cheese. Dinner has most of the lunch options along with a half roasted chicken dinner option.
Beach Club / Yacht Club – Hurricane Hanna’s Waterside Bar & Grill offers Greek salad, seafood roll, Caesar salad with chicken, Italian Focaccia sandwich, or a turkey and Swiss sandwich. Kids can get a turkey sandwich meal.
Yacht Club – Market at Ale & Compass – breakfast offers a breakfast bowl, egg-white breakfast wrap, turkey and cheese breakfast sandwich, Mickey-shaped waffles, and a ham and cheese breakfast sandwich. Lunch and dinner feature grilled chicken panini, roasted vegetable panini, Cuban sandwich, ham and cheese sandwich, or a spicy Italian Panini. The kids’ menu includes grilled cheese, mac ‘n cheese, or a ham sandwich.
You can also take the Skyline from Disney’s Hollywood Studio to Disney’s Riviera Resort where Primo Piatto which has a breakfast menu that includes a classic ham and swiss breakfast sandwich, blueberry-lemon pancakes, Mickey-shaped waffles, smoked salmon and everything bagel, plant based egg platter or scrambled eggs served over Mascarpone polenta with a sweet brioche roll with bacon and Italian sausage. The lunch menu has a hearth baked sausage and pepperoni pizza, grilled chicken sandwich, classic French ham and swiss sandwich, spicy Italian sandwich, tomato soup, a couple of salad options, a grilled vegetable skewer, and a smoked salmon and Everything bagel. The kids’ meal includes pasta with sauce, a burger, cheese pizza, and chicken strips.
Epcot:
Choza de Margarita doesn’t serve full entrees but they do have small plate items like tacos al pastor, tostada de pollo, spicy corn, empanada de barbacoa, and guacamole.
Fife & Drum Tavern has turkey legs.
Kabuki Café has small plates with options like sushi or a California roll.
Katsura Grill has sushi, shrimp tempura udon noodle bowls, vegetable noodle bowls, and ramen with pork and vegetables. They also have options like shrimp and chicken teriyaki, chicken and beef teriyaki, and chicken cutlet curry. The kids menu features various teriyaki options.
La Cantina de San Angel has Mexican food favorites like pollo cascabel, chicken or beef tacos, nachos. The kids’ menu includes chicken tacos, chicken tenders, cheese empanadas, or mac ‘n cheese
Les Halles Boulangerie-Patisserie features some wonderful sandwiches, lobster bisque in a bread bowl, a cheese plate, quiche Lorraine, and a lovely selection of pastries.
Regal Eagle Smokehouse has so many great options like Memphis dry-rub pork ribs, sliced Texas beef brisket sandwich, Kansas City smoked half chicken, North Carolina chopped smoked pork butt platter, and a power greens salad with or without chicken. Vegetarians may want to try the BBQ jackfruit burger. Kids’ meals include BBQ chicken leg with coleslaw and watermelon, BBQ ribs, or chicken salad. This location has lots of great allergy-friendly options too.
Sunshine Seasons has a power salad with or without chicken, oak grilled salmon or rotisserie chicken, pulled pork and cheddar on Texas toast, and a roasted jackfruit and veggies pita. Kids can get salmon or a chicken drumstick with rice and apple sauce, mac & cheese, or cheese pizza.
Yorkshire County Fish Shop has fish and chips.
The wonderful thing about Epcot is that they often have festival booths with delicious seasonal food offerings.
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