Right now, there are 25 food and drink options, enough bars, snack stands and restaurants to actually eat three full meals at the parks. Only Atlantic, The Blue Dragon Pan-Asian Restaurant, and Toadstool Cafe require booking ahead—they’re popular, and in the case of Toadstool, it’s the only place to really get a sit-down meal in Super Nintendo World.
My verdict: Throughout the park, the menus are completely unserious, with unnatural shapes or colors based on the stories of their respective lands, served in cone-shaped bread or topped with glitter—but really delicious too.
Dark Universe is the spooky park celebrating classic monster movies, with a Frankenstein ride, an oddly sexy Invisible Man, and Dracula’s spot, Das Stakehaus (get it?) serving vampire-themed dishes.
Compared to other theme parks that only provide plastic—quelle horreur!—Das Stakehaus serves salmon, chicken and cuts of steak on real plates with real black silverware, which makes me feel like an adult who can be trusted with cutlery. The meat is flanked by gorgeous sides of nutty maitake mushrooms, roasted carrots and buttery acorn squash. The vegetables were incredibly fresh, unexpected for theme park fare. By far, the very best item at Das Stakehaus is the Greek yogurt panna cotta called Labotocotta. One silky bite of bright pink raspberry sauce and I forgot that I was spooning into a brain-shaped dessert while a vampire familiar played the violin nearby.
I’ve found hearty theme park breakfasts are a unicorn, but there’s a full petit déjeuner menu at Café L’air De La Sirène, the main restaurant of The Ministry of Magic. While superfans line up for Bièraubeurre Crêpes (French for Butterbeer, if you didn’t pick that up), the Oeufs en Cocotte— poached eggs with mornay sauce and gruyère cheese—is super filling and feels authentic to lounging at a Parisian cafe.
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