Toadstool Cafe
A crowning achievement in theme park dining, Toadstool Cafe has thought through every detail. From décor to menu to the custom animations on the screens in its walls, it makes bright and playful (and highly photogenic) connections to the video game playgrounds of youth.
In this fully indoor restaurant, you'll have the strange feeling you've already played with your food—everything has been styled to evoke the old Super Mario World of Nintendo. The menu consists of classic kid standards, but dosed by a power-up mushroom. Mario burgers (beef) and Luigi burgers (pesto chicken) have buns emblazoned with a star, the caprese salad is rendered as a Piranha plant (complete with mozzarella polka dots and an asparagus stem), and when the villain Bowser makes his appearance on the menu, he does it as a challenge: the Bowser's Fireball Challenge is a 1-pound, cheese-draped spicy meatball accompanied by a puff pastry in the form of Bowser making his angriest face.
You social media accounts may overheat after you post what's for dessert: The tiramisu comes in a question box (? Block Tiramisu), or get the Mt. Beanpole Cake, which replicates the multilayered pedestals of the video game in chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry layered cake topped with matcha mousse.
There are a lot more food discoveries besides those—the Toadstool Cafe is lots of fun.
When you enter, don't order at the counter you pass—instead, find a table (staff can help) and use the number on that table to either order on the Universal Orlando app or return to the entrance counter to place an order using your seating location.
A crowning achievement in theme park dining, Toadstool Cafe has thought through every detail. From décor to menu to the custom animations on the screens in its walls, it makes bright and playful (and highly photogenic) connections to the video game playgrounds of youth.
In this fully indoor restaurant, you'll have the strange feeling you've already played with your food—everything has been styled to evoke the old Super Mario World of Nintendo. The menu consists of classic kid standards, but dosed by a power-up mushroom. Mario burgers (beef) and Luigi burgers (pesto chicken) have buns emblazoned with a star, the caprese salad is rendered as a Piranha plant (complete with mozzarella polka dots and an asparagus stem), and when the villain Bowser makes his appearance on the menu, he does it as a challenge: the Bowser's Fireball Challenge is a 1-pound, cheese-draped spicy meatball accompanied by a puff pastry in the form of Bowser making his angriest face.
You social media accounts may overheat after you post what's for dessert: The tiramisu comes in a question box (? Block Tiramisu), or get the Mt. Beanpole Cake, which replicates the multilayered pedestals of the video game in chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry layered cake topped with matcha mousse.
There are a lot more food discoveries besides those—the Toadstool Cafe is lots of fun.
When you enter, don't order at the counter you pass—instead, find a table (staff can help) and use the number on that table to either order on the Universal Orlando app or return to the entrance counter to place an order using your seating location.
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