Dining + Snack Options at Disney’s Hollywood Studios 70/#100DaysOfDisney
Home » Everything Disney »Visiting Walt Disney World and any of their theme parks is as much about the food and dining as it is about the rides, parades and entertainment! I bet you won’t find a single person who has been to the World that doesn’t have a favourite snack or quick service location or restaurant… probably several favourites! I thought I would write about the dining options at each of the four theme parks: Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot. This week it is the turn of Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
We have far from tried every eatery at the theme parks – but we have our favourites that we re-visit each time we go, and there are some which we are planning on dining at during our Halloween in the Wilderness trip. I’ve taken lots of random photos over the years we’ve visited Walt Disney World, so if I have any pictures of the dining establishments, I’ll be including them here, as well as links to our reviews of the places we have dined at or bought snacks from.
Dining at Walt Disney World is broken down into Table Service – where you sit inside the restaurant and are served at your table. A table service restaurant may also be an All-You-Care-To Enjoy Buffet, where you help yourself, but are brought drinks to your table by the server, or Family Style, where platters of food are brought for you all to share. Quick Service – or counter service, where you order your food at the counter and take it to the seating area, which is less formal than a table service establishment. Snacks and drinks can be bought at Kiosks, Carts, or Walk-Up Windows.
Unless otherwise stated, you can use Disney Dining Plan credits to purchase your meal. Check the menu boards at kiosks and shops for the symbol below which tells you that you are able to purchase the item using a Disney Dining Plan Snack Credit.
Dining + Snack Options at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
’50s Prime Time Cafe
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Table Service, Unique Dining
- Cost: $$
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
An all American diner, complete with servers who will tell you off if you’ve not eaten all of your vegetables, or remind you to keep your elbows off the table! 1950s televisions are placed throughout the restuarant, playing 50s sitcoms, and the decor is very kitsch! Menu favourites include meatloaf, fried chicken, pot roast, and chicken pot pie; with warm apple crisp or brownies for dessert, washed down with root beer floats or milkshakes.
ABC Commissary
- Location: Commissary Lane
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
An art-deco themed quick service establishment, with plenty of seating inside, and outside. Serves salads, seafood, sandwiches, soft and alcoholic drinks, including a speciality cocktail.
Anaheim Produce
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Snacks include: fresh fruit, vegetables, trail mix, Mickey pretzels, soft drinks, beer and speciality cocktails.
Backlot Express
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. Serving some salads (I had the South Western Salad here before, which was delicious!), burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches; plus desserts like cupcakes and chocolate mousse. Soft drinks, beer, wine and speciality cocktails also served.
Backlot Cantina (Coca-Cola Mister)
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
A fun themed kiosk selling fruit, vegetables, potato chips, soft drinks, and ice creams, including frozen bananas, Mickey’s Ice Cream Bar, and Mickey’s Ice Cream Sandwich.
Catalina Eddies
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, Italian
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Menu includes Caesar salad, pizza, hot deli sandwiches, desserts, soft drinks, hot drinks, beer and wine.
Dinosaur Gertie’s Ice Cream of Extinction
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
A small menu including pita, and potato chips, whole fruit, granola bars, water, and another spot to buy a Mickey Ice Cream Bar or Sandwich.
Fairfax Fare
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, BBQ
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
A place to buy some barbecue food including ribs, chicken and jumbo turkey legs; as well as speciality hot dogs like the Macaroni and Cheese and Truffle Oil Hot Dog. Desserts, soft drinks and beer also available.
Herbie’s Drive-In
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
A themed kiosk near Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, selling corn dogs, nachos, hot dogs, potato chips, trail mix, whole fruit, and s’mores; as well as soft drinks, frozen drinks, speciality cocktails, and wine.
Hey Howdy Hey Take Away
- Location: Pixar Place
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Opposite Toy Story Midway Mania, you can buy popcorn (in a souvenir bucket if you wish) frozen drinks, and the usual Disney snacks like trail mix, and potato chips. During breakfast time there are pastries and muffins for sale. You can also buy soft drinks, water and coffee.
High Octane Refreshments (Studio Catering Co.)
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Full bar, including frozen (non-alcoholic) beverages, speciality cocktails, like the High Octane made with Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Bacardi Superior Rum, Hendrick’s Gin, Blue Curacao, and Sweet-and-Sour with a splash of Sprite, and Frozen Rum Runner made with Don Q Cristal Rum, Blackberry brandy, creme de banana and tropical juices topped with a float of Myer’s Original Dark Rum. Plus beer, and wine.
Hollywood Brown Derby
- Location: Hollywood Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Table Service
- Cost: $$-$$$
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Dine in an authentic replica of the famous Brown Derby, a Tinseltown landmark steeped in glamour and glitz. The walls are adorned with caricatures of famous faces—a tradition that began with the original restaurant—and the upscale atmosphere harkens back to the Golden Age of Hollywood. – Walt Disney World
We dined here in 2014, and had a wonderful meal. You can’t dine and not order the famous Cobb Salad! Appetizers include crab cakes, and salads; entrees include steak, seafood, duck, and lobster; and dessert is a choice of 3 mini desserts from a list of 9 – the grapefruit cake is their speciality! One of the restaurants as part of the Fantasmic! Dining Package.
Hollywood Brown Derby Lounge
- Location: Hollywood Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Bar/Lounge
- Cost: $$
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
An outdoor lounge serving drinks and small plates including charcuterie, and sliders, plus desserts. Drinks menu includes cocktails, beer, and wine.
Hollywood Hills Theatre
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
This is located near Fantasmic!, so you can grab a snack to enjoy on the bleachers as you watch the show: hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, corn dogs and Mickey pretzels; plus ice creams, soft drinks, speciality cocktails, beer, and wine.
Hollywood Scoops
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
An ice cream stand (flavours include chocolate, Vanilla, Orange Sherbet, Strawberry, Cookies & Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Butter Pecan, or Fat-Free No-Sugar Added Vanilla) where you can buy a cone or a cup, or one of the other frozen desserts like a sundae or a cookie sandwich.
Hollywood & Vine
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Table Service, Buffet
- Cost: $$-$$$
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
A 1940s style cafeteria, serving a character buffet (Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, Handy Mandy and Jake of the Never Land Pirates) for breakfast and lunch, and a regular buffet for dinner. Various dishes on offer including salads, chicken, carved meats, vegetables, pasta, plus desserts and drinks. Breakfast is the usual fayre, including fresh fruit, cereals, a burrito bar, a yoghurt bar, French toast, eggs, bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits. One of the restaurants as part of the Fantasmic! Dining Package.
Ice Cold Snack Stand
- Location: Park Entrance
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Grab a snack as you enter the park: potato chips, fruit, trail mix, cinnamon rolls, muffins, Mickey ice creams, soft drinks, including juices, coffee, and iced coffees.
J.C.T. Co. Service Station
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, Bakery
- Serving: All Day
Some items are seasonal here. Snacks include cookies and doughnuts, with beverages such as water, coffee, tea, frozen drinks, and speciality cocktails.
KRNR Station
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Hot dogs, potato chips, cookies, waffle ice cream cones, soft drinks, speciality cocktails, and beer can be found at this kiosk near Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith.
Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Table Service
- Cost: $$
- Cuisine: American, Italian
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Italian food including calamari, and minestrone appetizers; flatbreads with various toppings, pasta, steak, chicken, and seafood entrees; plus Italian desserts like cannoli, gelato, and tiramisu. One of the restaurants as part of the Fantasmic! Dining Package.
Min & Bill’s Dockside Diner
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Housed in the S.S Down The Hatch, Min & Bill’s represents a style called “California Crazy” which was popular in the 1930s. Serving jumbo turkey legs, footlong hot dogs, mac ‘n’ cheese, and clam chowder in a bread bowl. Plus snacks like potato chips, cookies and milkshakes. Soft drinks, coffee, a speciality cocktail and beers also served.
Oasis Canteen
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
You can buy funnel cakes and waffle cones, plus soft drinks and beer at this kiosk near Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular.
Peevy’s Polar Pipeline
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Soft drinks, frozen drinks (both with and without alcohol) can be bought here, alongside the usual Disney theme park snacks: fresh fruit, vegetables, trail mix, frozen bananas, and Mickey’s Ice Cream Bars and Sandwiches.
Pizza Planet
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, Italian
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Features a gaming arcade, and is very noisy. Seating both indoors and out. Sells pizza, subs, and salads, alongside cookies and cupcakes. Soft drinks, as well as beer, wine and a speciality cocktail called The Claw made with Sauza Gold Tequila, Bols Amaretto, Triple Sec, and Sweet-and-Sour topped with lemon-lime foam and served with a souvenir glow cube.
Rosie’s All-American Cafe
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Lunch, Dinner
Serves burgers, nuggets and bean burgers, plus a speciality cupcake (we bought a Maleficent cupcake here during the Villains Unleashed event). Plus soft drinks, coffee, beer, and wine.
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre
- Location: Commissary Lane
- Dining Experience: Table Service, Unique, Themed Dining
- Cost: $$
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: Breakfast (coming soon), Lunch, Dinner
Designed to resemble an old drive-in movie, you sit in booths that look like vintage American cars, whilst old B-Movies play on the screen. American diner fayre, including onion rings, fried pickles, burgers, deli sandwiches, steak, and more. Desserts include peanut butter chocolate cake, and hot fudge sundaes; while drinks are the usual Coca-Cola products, milkshakes, beer, wine, and speciality cocktails like the Magical Star Cocktail made with X-Fusion Organic Mango and Passion Fruit Liqueur, Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, Pineapple Juice, and a souvenir Multicolored Glow Cube.
Starring Rolls Cafe
- Location: Hollywood Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: Multiple
- Serving: All Day
Limited seating, and set just behind the Hollywood Brown Derby. Sells sushi, sandwiches, desserts, and an extensive list of baked goods, including: turnovers, Danish pastries, muffins, tarts, bagels, croisssants, cupcakes and brownies; plus Soft drinks, coffee, and wine.
Studio Catering Company
- Location: Streets of America
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Near Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, serving sandwiches, salads, and wraps, plus desserts, soft drinks, speciality cocktails, beer, and wine.
Studios Popcorn
- Location: Hollywood Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Sells not only popcorn, but pretzels, nachos, fruit, soft drinks, and beer.
The Trolley Car Cafe (Starbucks)
- Location: Hollywood Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Counter/Quick Service
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, Bakery
- Serving: All Day
Selling a range of snacks (fresh fruit, potato chips); small plates – after 4pm (chickens skewers, flatbreads); baked goods (muffins, brownies, cakes, pastries) alongside Starbucks coffee and other drinks. They also serve breakfast (mainly sandwiches and wraps); and lunch (bistro boxes, sandwiches).
Toluca Legs Turkey Company
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Buy a jumbo turkey leg here! What else? Soft drinks, and beer.
Tower of Terror Coffee Cart
- Location: Sunset Boulevard
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American
- Serving: All Day
Located near the exit of Tower of Terror, you can buy assorted cookies, muffins, and pastries along side coffee, tea, and speciality cocktails.
Tune-In Lounge
- Location: Echo Lake
- Dining Experience: Bar/Lounge
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: America
- Serving: All Day
A retro bar, where you can watch 50s TV and enjoy a full bar with speciality cocktails including: Mowie Wowie made with Malibu Rum, Melon Liqueur, Peach Schnapps, Orange and Pineapple Juices, and Uncle Tim’s Summer Breeze made with a mix of Bombay Gin, Cherry Brandy, Sweet & Sour Mix and Sprite. Also serves the men from 50s Prime Time Cafe.
Writer’s Stop
- Location: Commissary Lane
- Dining Experience: Snacks/Drinks – Kiosk
- Cost: $
- Cuisine: American, Bakery
- Serving: All Day
A bakery serving a range of baked goods, including some Mickey shaped products – cookies, cupcakes, and macaroons. Also serves Goofy’s Glaciers (with souvenir cups), soft drinks, and iced coffee.
What are your favourite places to dine or grab a snack at Disney’s Hollywood Studios?
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