Top Food and Drinks to Try at Universal Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights | Food and Beverage

When it comes to theme park haunts, nobody does it like Universal Orlando Resort. The theme park advanced throws one of many greatest and scariest Halloween occasions of the season: Halloween Horror Nights. And this 12 months, the occasion runs on 48 choose nights by November 3. The thirty third Halloween Horror Nights season brings 10 new haunted homes, 5 scare zones, a reside present, and, in fact, nice candy and savory snacks which are unique to the occasion. 

“Here at Universal Orlando Resort, we are blessed to be able to work with some iconic franchises and IPs, and when ideating our offerings for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights, we took inspiration from the movies or shows to enhance the overall storytelling through our food and beverage offerings. It’s a fun event, so we get to have fun with it and not take ourselves too seriously all while still delivering on presentation and flavor,” says Chef Jens Dahlmann, vice chairman and govt chef of operations at Universal Orlando Resort. 

With meals choices scattered across the park, it is arduous to attempt it multi functional evening. Luckily, Universal affords a Frequent Fear Pass so you may see the entire homes once more and once more, plus get your fill of a number of the greatest treats created by the meals and beverage workforce at Universal Orlando. And don’t fear, there are many pop-up bars and drink stations round to get one thing to sip on out of a blinky cup too. 

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“To coincide with our Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire haunted house, we drew inspiration from Slimer’s love of Cheetos. From that, we created a Korean-style corn Dog, Slimer’s Korean Corn Dog, that has green sage derby cheese and a hot dog on the inside, battered and dusted with Cheetos dust. When our guests bite into it, they get an oozy green cheese pull and the taste of Cheetos, creating a multisensory experience for them,” says Dahlmann. 

For a candy tackle a Korean corn canine, attempt the Frozen Death Chill, which has a mint-cheesecake filling coated with Bugles and edible glitter. 

One of essentially the most talked about treats this season is the Mini Stay-Puft S’extra from Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire close to Park Plaza Holiday Shop. The traditional campfire deal with will get a made-for-the-movies makeover as an open-faced s’extra topped with chocolate and a marshmallow that appears just like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. 

“We make the marshmallows from scratch and have an entire team in our production kitchen and bakery producing thousands of them daily, just to keep up with demand,” explains Dahlmann.

Before being served to company, the marshmallow is charred to perfection, so you may nonetheless see the entire cute particulars, however is completely melty and crispy after biting in. 

Drive-in, movie-style snacks

Based on summer season camp meals and drive-in film snacks, the meals sales space themed to the Slaughter Sinema 2 home has savory bites for each style. Here, you may attempt the Summer Camp Hot Dog, which is a Nathan’s sizzling canine that’s been deep fried, then topped with nacho cheese, baked beans, pepper relish, and crunched up Doritos. There’s additionally two strolling tacos, a savory-spicy ropa vieja or vegan chili type. And don’t skip the Sinema Popcorn, which is flavored like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. 

More savory snacks definitely worth the hype

One of the scariest homes at Halloween Horror Nights is Insidious: The Further, which options an iconic purple door. The meals and drink workforce at the park has turned that door right into a snack known as The Red Door, which is a potato and onion-filled hand pie with purple pastry. The savory filling and carb-loaded snack will assist to maintain you going from home to home till the late hours of the evening. 

For one thing a little bit extra filling, attempt the Bloody Goody Bag from the Triplets of Terror sales space. The bag is stuffed with a mixture of crispy rooster chunks, fries, onions, peppers and a creamy sauce tying all of it collectively. 

Sweet bites to courageous the ‘Scare Zones' for

The Bride’s Cake from Twilight Tavern close to Minion Cafe is one candy deal with you do not need to miss. The miniature three-tiered cake is made with vanilla cake layered with raspberry jam and lined In chocolate. If you like chocolate and fruit flavors collectively, don't skip this cake. 

Another sinister chocolate dessert that Horror Nights actually knocked out of the park is the Wooden Board Eclair, which is themed to A Quiet Place within the New York part of the park. The pastry is stuffed with a candy and spicy chocolate pastry cream and dipped in chocolate ganache. The eclair is then topped with a chocolate plank that has a woodgrain sample and an edible knife surrounded by a dollop of jelly within the center. 

In the San Francisco space of the park, you’ll discover the Major Sweets Candy Factory sales space. Grab the Cyclops Cup, a frozen peanut buttercup topped with a sweet eyeball. On these heat Florida evenings, this can cool you down and provide you with a sugar rush. 

It’s not Halloween Horror Nights with out these snacks

One of essentially the most iconic snacks to ever come out of Halloween Horror Nights is the Twisted Tater. This 12 months, it may be discovered at Gramercy Park. The spiralized then fried potato on a stick could be topped along with your selection of seasoning: seasoning salt, garlic-parmesan, or bitter cream and chives. And let’s be sincere, the whole lot tastes higher when it’s on a stick and fried. 

The different returning snack that everybody raves about is Pizza Fries, that are precisely what it feels like. Golden French fries topped with cheese and different pizza toppings like pepperoni. This 12 months, Classic Pizza Fries and Vegan Pizza Fries could be discovered at DreamWorks Imagination Cafe. 

Sounds like Halloween Horror Nights isn’t only for leap scares anymore. It’s an actual culinary feast for ghouls and goblins alike.