We hope you brought an EPIC appetite to this review!

We’re BACK at Mead Hall inside the Isle of Berk at Epic Universe to see what they’re cookin’ up on the kids menu, and now we’re bringing you our FULL review. Is it worth a stop on your next trip to this BRAND-NEW theme park?! Find out here!

Atmosphere

Mead Hall is the Isle of Berk’s “main gathering place, a grand chamber where Vikings feast on meat, fish, sandwiches, and more.” If you’ve got a big appetite, this is definitely the place for you!

Wood carvings on the sides of the dining room are covered in dragons, and there are tapestries hanging from the walls that tell more stories of the How to Train Your Dragon characters. The chandelier that hangs high above looks like it has real candles.

The restaurant is dark and filled with air conditioning, making it a great place to hang out and rest before exploring the rest of the park. This restaurant continues to bring in the ancient vibes of the land, and you’ll feel like you entered How to Train Your Dragon and became a citizen of Berk.

But enough about the restaurant — what’s on the menu here?!

Menu

Mead Hall serves hearty meals like turkey wings, sausage links, and meatballs. There are a few other options like a harvest salad and a vegan burger, for other Vikings as well.

There’s a kids menu (or Little Dragon Riders as they call it in Berk) with mac and cheese, bugers, and chicken pops. This is what we’re checking out on this visit! There are plenty of desserts, beer, wine, and of course, mead as well.

And now, onto the main event — the food!

Eats

Mead Hall has two different kids’ meal options — the Nightlight Burger, and Barf and Belch’s Duo Plate, which we picked up for $9.49. This meal comes with mac & cheese bites, grilled sausage, carrots, Nordic fries, and grapes on the vine. That sounds like a LOT of food! Oh, and it comes in a cute little Viking ship!

We were almost expecting the grilled sausage to be more of a hot dog, but it wasn’t! It was more seasoned and smokier than a hot dog and was grilled well, then sliced into chunks. They weren’t quite bite-sized, so parents of younger kiddos may want to keep that in mind.

We loved the addition of some red grapes, which were nice and fresh, but ultimately just grapes. We also really enjoyed the carrots, which were not raw baby carrots like we were expecting. Instead, they were whole, very small roasted carrots with excellent flavor — a bit of salt but not much else.

The Nordic fries are not quite steak fries, but they were thicker than a crinkle cut fry or a fast food French fry you might be used to around theme parks. These weren’t anything to write home about, but we’ve literally never met a potato we didn’t like, which means these get high marks in our book.

What didn’t quite get high marks in this kids’ meal were the mac and cheese bites. We really wanted to love these as they’re a fun element to add to a kids’ meal, but these were gross. Granted, we almost forgot they were mac and cheese bites and thought they were chicken nuggets at first, but even after realizing our mistake, we still didn’t love these. They had no cheese flavor whatsoever, and no pasta texture whatsoever.

However, the positive thing is that there are a lot of choices in this kid’s meal. So if one thing is gross, you’re still fine. Portion size-wise, this was a great portion. It was $9.49 but didn’t come with a drink, which we still think is pretty fair compared to some of the other pricing around Epic Universe!

Nosh or Not

This Epic Universe restaurant is a must-visit if…

• You’re a fan of the How to Train Your Dragon Universe and theming.
• You have a HUGE appetite after being in the park all day.
• You’re looking for something quick and delicious.

You should skip this Epic Universe spot if…

• You’re looking for a more elevated, formal meal with table service.
• You don’t plan on spending time on the Isle of Berk.
• Your kiddos are more the “chicken tendies and fries” type (we get it!).

Overall

Mead Hall impressed us yet again — and we’re hoping we maybe just got a bad batch of those mac and cheese bites, because the rest of this kids’ meal was SO good. Not only that, but it was extremely filling — good enough for an adult or even two younger kiddos to split.

In the meantime, we’ll be on the lookout for more restaurant updates from Disney World and beyond. Make sure you stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog for the latest Disney news and more!

Have you eaten at this Epic Universe restaurant before? Tell us in the comments!