Ya Gatta Eat

I would like hear some comments on the food served at theme parks. I'll start. The food served at Six Flags America is terrible and the service is even worse.

The food at the Epcot festivals is amazing and I spend a lot of money on it. And the drinks. The various permanent restaurants also tend to be excellent throughout the resort. My favorite spot is Three Bridges at Coronado Springs, where they also have sangria school.

Also, the counter service stuff on the Triton class ships is amazing (and the dining room is generally great).

I have this thought about this all the time when at parks. There are parks I smuggled food into because their offerings are abysmal. Why not have a good product so people want to buy it? You would sell more and could possibly charge more.

Six Flags - Ass

Elitch Gardens - Double overpriced ass

Cedar Fair - Majority Ass

Cedar Point Ass, except for Dave’s, Melt, and Happy Friar, and a couple other oddities.

Herschend - Awesome!

Uni - Awesome outside the parks, park food mid except for a couple restaurants. Volcano Bay Awesome!

Disney - Awesome!

Knoebels- Awesome! You should swing by.

I think CP's newer large venues are pretty great. Well above most of the rest of the park. Universal I've been deeply disappointed with outside of the Potter locations, which are really good. The big place in the Simpsons area is "ass," as you say, and on the IoA side, same for Fantastic 4, Circus, etc.

I haven’t been to CP since 2019, and have sort of drug feet because of noise that ops and the park have gotten worse, which 2019 vs. 2013 was already noticeable. Hence why my venues are a bit dated.

Universal- In park you have Confisco and Mythos, on the other side the Irish place isn’t half bad, well way better than lousy hot dogs and whatever. The potter locations aren’t my favorite, but not horrible.

I often wonder who eats this junk, but then I see a massive line on the cruise ship buffet and what is it for? ****ty hot dogs, lukewarm crap burgers and soggy fries.

What a lousy country we live in, it’s so depressing.

Most of the food at Epic Universe seems to be at the Wizarding World level. Everything I tried was really good. The mac and cheese cone was next level, the butterbeer crepe was 🧑‍🍳. They have local breweries on draft everywhere and the themed drinks all looked really good.

Universal has made some improvements, Circus had a major refurb recently, no more counters, and far better food. They have a meatball and pasta dish that comes in a giant garlic bread horn. It’s quite good, as is the caramel corn cupcake. Minions Cafe is also quite good.

Cedar Fair BBQ places are generally the best restaurants in their park and almost always one of my meals there. The rest is meh.

Love WDW’s festival booths, sit down restaurants and the counter service places at Epcot and especially Animal Kingdom (the protein bowls served in Pandora is probably my favorite counter service meal anywhere) Disneyland’s sitdown restaurants are more of a mixed bag, but their counter service stuff is better as a whole.

Sea World used to be amazing, but is sliding down to Cedar Fair levels, that whole chain needs a flushing of anyone from Blackstone, they are killing those parks.

I completely agree Herschunds is amazing. Holiday World is also good (Pilgrims Cafe for the win.)

Pilgrims Cafe was a gem of park food, I still remember the butter glistening across the top of those potatoes, gathering in little pools of flavor and greatness.

Mrs Knotts Chicken Dinner was also good, in 2016 at least. Is it still good?

I can't get enough at Granny Ogle's Ham and Beans at Dollywood. One of my favorite places to eat at a theme park.

Kings Island has a lot of good food.