From the horrifying houses to the sinister scare zones, Halloween Horror Nights Orlando is truly a dastardly delight to the senses. Every year, we look forward to entering the fragrant fog and conquering our greatest fears ... but one thing we eagerly await as much as the epically themed houses is the food. The culinary wizards at Universal Orlando Resort up their game every year with event-exclusive treats, sweets and savory eats — many of which are themed to the year's houses and scare zones. So, we thought it would be hopful to go over what you can expect at Halloween Horror Nights when it comes to silencing the growl in your stomach. Without further ado, here's our frogtastic foodie guide to Halloween Horror Nights.
What event-exclusive food can I find at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
From sweet to salty to savory, the variety of food at Halloween Horror Nights never fails to impress. There are some iconic staples every year, such as the Twisted Taters which come with a variety of toppings and the Pizza and S'mores Fries over at KidZone Pizza Company. Beyond that, this year, be on the lookout for all-new food and beverage items, such as Bloody Campground Poutine, El Pastor Torta and Cordyceps Corndog!
As far as beverages go, there's plenty of liquid courage to be found at Halloween Horror Nights! If you're getting a specialty beverage, purchase a famous blinky souvenir cup to light up your night and commemorate this year's event!
New this year, frogs get to experience Peacock's Halloween Horror Bar which features themed libations within an ominous nightclub vibe, photo opportunities and more! This bar has materialized behind Lombard's Seafood Grille in San Francisco.
Drumroll, please ... Here are the full menus for Halloween Horror Nights 32:
Oddfellow (Located at Gramercy Park):
- Dr. Oddfellow's Carn"EVIL" Dog — Red hotdog in a confetti hot dug bun, Kool-Aid pickles, bubblegum mustard and potato sticks
- Sour Apple Pie Funnel Fries — Sour sugar seasoned funnel fries topped with apple pie filling, sour apple ice cream and streusel
Last of Us (Located at Gramercy Park):
- Twisted Taters — Fried spiralized ribbon potato, thinly sliced and skewered, seasoned with your choice of: season salt, garlic parmesan, sour cream & chives, porcini powder, ghost pepper
- Cordyceps Corndog — Korean cheese dog with cordyceps, crispy potato sticks, truffle cream sauce and daikon sprouts
- The Infected Tater — Fried spiralized potato with mushroom emulsion and porcini powder
57 Scare (Located across from Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon):
- African Lentil & Potato Sambusa Coffin — African spiced lentils and potatoes entombed in a vegan pie dough
- Pepperoni Pizza Skull — Pepperoni and cheese stuffed pizza skull
- Mummy Cheesecake Pop — OREO cheesecake pop with candy eyes
Surfer Boy Pizza (Located at Gramercy Park):
- Surfer Boy Hawaiian Pizza — French bread style pizza with crispy Spam, pineapple chutney, jalapeño, scallions and mozzarella
- Surfer Boy Vegan Pizza — French bread style pizza with Gardein sausage crumbles, pineapple, jalapeño and mozzarella
- Surfer Boy Cheese Pizza — French bread style cheese pizza
- Yuri's Favorite — Chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse and Reese's Pieces
- Surfer Boy Tropical Dream Punch — Cruzan Rum, orange, pineapple, lime, passion fruit, and grapefruit juice, with vanilla bean and garnished with a pineapple gummy
- What The Fanta?
Yeti (Located at Gramercy Park):
- Bloody Campground Poutine — Crispy fries, topped with Asian inspired gravy, char-sui roasted pork, cheese curds, scallions and crispy chilis
- Vegan Burnt Ends Poutine — Crispy fries topped with beetles burnt ends gravy, vegan cheeses and scallions
- Bloody Snowball — Chocolate cake with marshmallow buttercream and desiccated coconut
Avenue Bites (Located at Gramercy Park):
- Spicy Turkey & Squash Bun — Spicy ground turkey and butternut squash filled steamed bun
- Chicken & Cheese Filled Empanadas — combo with chips
- Little Stevie's Stuffed Pretzel Spinach — Spinach and feta stuffed pretzel
- Little Stevie's Stuffed Pretzel Jalapeño — Jalapeño and cheese stuffed pretzel
- Créme Caramel Flan
- Mummy Cheesecake Pop — OREO cheesecake pop with candy eyes
Last of Us (Located at Sting Alley):
- Left Behind Ravioli — Mini cheese ravioli with marinara, truffle cream, garlic bread and tempura fried enoki mushrooms
- Lakeside "Meat" Stew — Beef cheek stew with fingerling potatoes, wood ear mushrooms, tempura fried enoki mushrooms and white rice
- FEDRA Ration Bar — Scotcheroo bar with coffee flavored chocolate, peanut butter and Rice Krispies
- Salt Lake City Iced Coffee — Brewed coffee, JF Haden's Espresso Liqueur, Cruzan Light Rum, vanilla bean, smoked sea salt and Hella Smoked bitters
Chucky (Located at San Francisco):
- Fried Til' the End Chicken — Fried popcorn chicken tossed in Nashville hot sauce, drizzled with ranch, topped with scallions and chili threads
- Chucky's Pop-Dead Popcorn — Flamin' Hot Cheetos flavored popcorn
- Heart of Damballa — New Amsterdam vodka with guava and lime juice, simple syrup, cucumber and mint syrup, sea salt flakes and edible glitter
Peacock's Halloween Horror Bar (Located behind Lombard's Seafood Grille):
- Little Stevie's Stuffed Pretzel Spinach — Spinach and feta stuffed pretzel
- Little Stevie's Stuffed Pretzel Jalapeño — Jalapeño and cheese stuffed pretzel
- Spicy Turkey and Squad Bun — Spicy ground turkey and butternut squash filled steamed bun
- Survivor's Fizz — New Amsterdam Vodka, club soda, lime juice, with honeydew, kiwi, and pineapple syrups
- Peacocktail — Ole Smokey White Lightning, Caravella Limoncello, Liquore Strega, lemon juice, lemon bitters, blackberry and simple syrup
- Razor Apple — El Jimador tequila, green apple syrup, lime juice, cookie butter syrup, and jalapeño and basil concentrate and smoked sea salt flakes; garnished with a gummy apple
- Premium Cocktail — mixed with your choice of liquor: Tito's, Captain Morgan, Bacardi, Patron, Jack Daniel's, Crown Royal or Tanqueray
Mel's Die-In (Located at Battery Park):
- Peanut Blooder Burger — Smash burger with a peanut sauce, raspberry jelly, cheddar cheese, shaved onions, jalapeño bacon and cherry peppers on a vampire bun
- Cheeseburger — combo with chips
- Hamburger — combo with chips
- Confetti Battered OREOS — Battered and fried OREOS, dusted with powdered sugar
- Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Chips
- Tinseltown Tormet — Old Forester bourbon, cherry brandy, orange and cranberry juices, with chocolate and cherry syrup and orange bitters
- What The Fanta?
Colonial (Located at Expo Circle)
- Buckshot Butternut & Duck Galette — Duck confit and roasted squash filled pastry, garnished with buckshot candies
- Witches Spell Cauldron Stew — Green chile and chicken stew, served with skeleton cornbread
MIB ICEE (Located at World Expo):
- Soda Pop Churro — Bavarian filled churro topped in Cola glaze topped with carbonated sugar
- What The Fanta?
- ICEE Floater — choice of ICEE flavor with floater of New Amsterdam vodka or Cruzan Light rum
Twisted Tater (Located at Animal Actors on Location!):
- Let's get TWISTED combo — Twisted Tater with a Twisted tea hard iced tea
- Twisted Tater — Fried spiralized ribbon potato, thinly sliced and skewered, seasoned with your choice of: season salt, garlic parmesan, sour cream & chives, porcini powder, ghost pepper
- Twisted Tater Blood n' Guts — Twisted Tater smothered with chili and roasted red pepper queso
- Twisted Tea hard iced tea
KidZone Pizza
- Vegan Pizza Fries — French fries topped with marinara sauce, vegan cheese, pepperoni and sausage crumbles
- Sweet Potato S'mores Fries — Sweet potato topped with marshmallows, graham crackers, white and milk chocolate chips
- Classic Pizza Fries — French fries topped with marinara sauce, melted cheese, pepperoni and sausage
Day of the Dead (Located at Café La Bamba)
- Walking Taco — Fritos topped with taco beef, shredded mozzarella, black beans, quest fresco, pico de gallo, shredded lettuce, sour cream and cilantro
- Vegan Walking Taco — Fritos topped with vegan chorizo, shredded mozzarella, black beans, roasted corn salsa, pico de Gallo, vegan sour cream, shredded lettuce and cilantro
- Al Pastor Torta — Al Pastor pork, black bean spread, smashed avocados, tomato, shredded lettuce, pickled onions, queso fresco, torta bread and picked jalapeños
- Vegan Churritos with Ice Cream — Vegan churros served with vegan gelato, coconut nectar and OREOS
- Chicharróns De Harina — Fried flour crisps, seasoned with cinnamon sugar
- Feliz Muerte — El Jimador tequila and Gran Gala orange liqueur with pineapple, lime, and passion fruit juice with vanilla bean, topped with a dried blood orange
Stellar Bar (Located Music Plaza):
- Cheddar Jalapeño Hellfire Club — Jalapeño cheddar bread with shaved pork shoulder, crispy potato sticks, spicy mayo, pineapple chutney and Muenster cheese
- Peanut Butter Smuggler — New Amsterdam vodka, hot honey, lime juice, raspberry and peanut butter syrups
- Murray's Brain Tonic — New Amsterdam vodka, peach brandy, triple sec, club soda, grapefruit juice and lemon bitters, garnished with dried grapefruit
- What The Fanta?
Event Bars (Located through Universal Studios Florida):
- Ghoul Juice — Myers's Dark rum, Cherry brandy, Simple Syrup, mango nectar, lime juice, Dale Degroff's Pimento Bitters and Peychaud's bitters
- Electric Death — New Amsterdam Gin, Blue Curaçao, lime juice, vanilla bean, simple syrup, pineapple juice and Dale Degroff's Pimento bitters
- Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest
- Whole Hog Purple Ale
- Nightmare Nectar Blonde Ale
- Crooked Can Bloody Murder IPA
- VooDoo Brewing Lacto-Koller
- Original Sin Crimson Chaos Cider
- Miller Lite
- TRULY Vodka Seltzer
- Spellbound Cabernet Sauvignon
- Noble Vines Chardonnary
- Premium Cocktail — mixed with your choice of liquor: Tito's, Captain Morgan, Bacardi, Patron, Jack Daniel's, Crown Royal or Tanqueray
- Coke
- Coke Zero Sugar
- Diet Coke
- Spirte
- Premium Water
What restaurants are open during Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
First of all, Universal CityWalk is open for the entirety of the event. So no matter what time you arrive, you can always grab dinner or a snack at any dining location at the resort's entertainment district.
As for Universal Studios Florida, many (but not all) of the park's dining locations remain open during the event serving their standard menus. This is what's open during Halloween Horror Nights in 2023:
- TODAY Cafe
- Finnegan's Bar & Grill
- Häagen-Dazs
- Louie's Italian Restaurant
- Richter's Burger Co.
- Starbucks
- The Fountain of Fair Fortune
- Florean Fortescue’s Ice-Cream Parlour
- Fast Food Boulevard
- KidZone Pizza Company
- San Francisco Pastry Company
- Freeze-Ray Pops
- Illumination's Minion Cafe
- Auntie Anne's Pretzels's
- Leaky Cauldron
- The Hopping Pot
Be on the lookout for these special treats hitting the pastry shelves around the park!
TODAY Cafe:
- Rotting Pumpkin — Pumpkin spice crème brûlée garnished with buttercream leaves and ganache stem
- Graveyard Coffee Cake — Cinnamon coffee cake with cake crumbs, chocolate rocks, and bones
- Peanut Caramel Bar — Peanut chocolate caramel bar topped with chocolate whipped ganache
- Pumpkin Dulce de Leche Puff — Pumpkin and dulce de leche filled puff topped with whipped ganache, pumpkin seeds and gold accents
San Francisco Pastry Co.:
- Hellfire Mini Cake — Layered chocolate cake with mango cayenne filling topped with chocolate guitar
- Trick or Treat Bucket — Chocolate crème brûlée topped with peanut butter buttercream, caramel popcorn, candy corn, M&M's, Reese's pieces, and licorice strip
Croissant Moon:
- Graveyard Mini Cake — Layered OREO cake with double chocolate cream cheese filling and topped with a chocolate tombstone
- Mummy Cheesecake Pop — OREO cheesecake pop with candy eyes
Are there any other special treats throughout the resort?
It wouldn't be an event at Universal without CityWalk getting in on some of the festive fun! At The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen, you'll find The Fortune Teller Milkshake — vanilla ice cream with a chocolate tarot card, apple pie, dulce de leche, cinnamon, bat sprinkles, candy crystals and whipped topping.
At Voodoo Doughnut, you'll find a whole host of speciality doughnuts for the Halloween season:
- Voodoo Ghost Doughnut — Yeast voodoo doll, rolled in powder sugar, filled with sour apple Bavarian; decorated with chocolate chips
- Dashing Pumpkin Doughnut — Pumpkin cake doughnut with cream cheese frosting, a smattering of sprinkles, and a dash of pumpkin spice
- Chucky — Yeast shell filled with pumpkin spice Bavarian, dipped in vanilla frosting, featuring the Chucky logo
- Cauldron — Raised yeast shell, filled with salted caramel apple filling, decorated to look like a cauldron
Additionally, Red Coconut Club in CityWalk has re-themed again for the Halloween season. The frightful fiends over at Monstergram Pictures have completed their latest B-movie epic, "Revenge of the Red Planet in 3-D," and you're invited to the premier! Enter — if you dare — Revenge of the Dead Coconut Club 3D, a horror-themed nightclub featuring chilling live music, petrifying performers and devilishly delicious drinks! You may even see some marvelous monsters roaming around ...
So settle in and grab a beverage at Millicent's Snack Bar! Here's what our beastly bartenders are serving up:
- Red Planet Punch — El Jimador Tequila, Gran Gala Liquor, Passionfruit, Pineapple, and lime juice with vanilla bean paste and edible glitter
- Asteroid Attack — Old Forester Bourbon with lemon juice, agave, and a Malbec floater with blackberry and mint syrup
- Plasma Punch — Bacardi Light Rum, lime juice, Dragonfruit and Pear Syrup, and Bitter Truth Violette, garnished with an edible orchid
- The Ooze — New Amsterdam Gin, lime juice, vanilla bean, kiwi and honeydew syrups with tonic water
- Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest
- Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale
- Nightmare Nectar Blonde Ale
- Crooked Can Bloody Murder IPA
- VooDoo Brewing Lacto-Kooler
- Original Sin Crimson Chaos Cider
- Spirit-Free Slime — Lime juice, vanilla bean, kiwi and honeydew syrups with tonic water
- Spellbound Cabernet Sauvignon
- Noble Vines Chardonnay
Of course, I can't froget to mention the Tribute Store in Universal Studios! From cookie balls and macarons to whoopie pies and s'mores, the snack case is filled with sinfully sweet treats available for purchase day and night.
Hopping over to the hotels, Swizzle Lounge over at Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort also gets revamped for the Halloween season. Last year, the ghastly gourds of Mr. Carver's Pumpkin Patch took over the lobby bar — with Lil' Boo keeping a watchful eye on his fruity friends! The festively decorated lounge serves Halloween-themed specialty drinks, whether you're just visiting for the day or staying the night.
This year, Universal's Endless Summer Resort — Dockside Inn and Suites is also getting in on the fun! Frogs can drink in the spirit of the season at the Spooky Sunset Lounge, a tropical hideaway featuring pineapple jack-o-lanterns and Halloween-themed drinks.
But that's not all! Halloween-themed cocktails will also be available at all eight of Universal Orlando's hotels at select locations.
Can I bring in food to Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
While Universal Orlando allows small snacks that don't require heating to be brought into the parks during the day, that's not the case for Halloween Horror Nights. Outside food cannot be brought in. The sole exception is for frogs with dietary needs. You'll need to partner with security upon arrival to authorize the food you want to bring in.
As for drinks, no beverages are allowed — including bottled water. Empty refillable bottles are permitted and can be filled with water at any water fountain or Coca-Cola Freestyle machine around the park. Orlando is still pretty hot in September and October. Remember to stay hydrated!
What tips do you have for eating at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
Whether you stop at a restaurant in CityWalk or want to try an eerie event-exclusive entree in the park, plan on eating early. Food lines get significantly longer as the night goes on. It's a great way to maximize your time at Halloween Horror Nights! It's also important to note that food locations close at 1:30 a.m. so, if you're feeling hungry, be sure to grab one last bite before hitting your final house or two.
Can I taste any of the event-exclusive items prior to Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
I'm so glad you asked, friend! Universal Orlando conjured up a brand new experience at Universal Studios that allowed curious frogs to enjoy a preview of select event-exclusive food and drinks items before Halloween Horror Nights starts. The Taste of Terror event took place on select nights from Aug. 10 to 26 and ran from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Frogs of all ages were able to sample tasting size portions of food and non-alcoholic beverage items and also got to take home a Halloween Horror Nights Coca-Cola Freestyle cup (separate fee applies to activate) and one digital download of one photo taken at the Taste of Terror event. Frogs 21 and up also got to try alcoholic beverages included via a hosted bar (with valid photo ID) and got to go home with one souvenir Halloween Horror Nights light-up cup.
Tickets for this event were available for purchase on the Universal Orlando website. Separate theme park admission was required and must have been valid for the same calendar day and to the same theme park as the Taste of Terror ticket.
What food are you most looking forward to trying at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando this year? If you've already been, what's your favorite thing you've eaten? Do you have any tips or tricks for silencing growling stomachs during the event? Let us know in the comments below!
Related: Tips for Planning Your Terrifying Trip to Halloween Horror Nights Orlando
Keep hopping!
Comments