Our household was so excited to take a look at the new Epic Universe and all of the dairy-free meals it has to supply!
It’s the newest theme park to be in-built Orlando and is the fourth park to change into a part of the Common Orlando Resort.
Opened in Might 2025, we have been there for the final Preview Day earlier than the park opened to the general public.
Right here’s the meals we discovered for our kiddo with meals allergic reactions.
It was critically so enjoyable experiencing Common Orlando with our youngsters for the primary time ever.
We hit all 4 parks: Common Studios, Islands of Journey, Volcano Bay, and the model new Epic Universe.
Alongside the best way, we documented all of the dairy-free and nut-free meals our kiddo loved.
Nevertheless, for this submit, we’re going to focus solely on Epic.
With the park being so new and never even formally open but after we went…it was fairly a process to seek out allergy-friendly meals.
The day after our journey to the brand new theme park, nevertheless, allergy notes lastly popped up for Epic within the Common Resort app.
Nice information for any meals allergy households on the brink of go to Epic themselves.
Let’s get to the meals finds!
IMPORTANT NOTES
Please learn these necessary gadgets earlier than consuming at Epic Universe.
First, you need to know my son has been in milk allergy remedy for a number of years.
Which means he can now have meals cross contaminated with milk and even with a bit baked milk.
After we needed to strictly keep away from dairy with our anaphylactic milk allergy, we all the time introduced our kiddo’s personal meals to theme parks.
As for tree nuts, kiddo avoids all however almonds. In recent times, he’s handed challenges for hazelnut and walnut. However we should strictly keep away from pistachio and cashew so it’s finest for us to maintain avoiding all tree nuts for now.
Be sure you speak to your allergist about safely eat at theme parks.
- EPIC UNIVERSE ALLERGY INFO
Second, know that there’s a Common Orlando Resort app that may be a nice first step to navigating meals allergic reactions at Epic Universe.
Simply click on into the menus, and there they listing meals and allergens.
If you enter a fast service restaurant, you scan a QR code on the desk and notice that you’ve allergic reactions.
Then a chef ought to come to your desk to go over meals and components with you.
To make navigating allergic reactions at this new place simpler, we ate at off instances like 11:00 am lunch and seven:00 pm dinner with snacks in between.
Most of our allergy meals have been marked with a purple decide, like Disney does.
Now for the meals we checked out, in no specific order.
1. Pizza Moon
LOCATION: Celestial Park
STYLE: Fast Service
VEGAN NUT-FREE: 12″ Harvest Moon Pizza
NOTE: Undecided in case you can customise a dairy and nut free pizza, but it surely’s price asking.
To make ordering as simple as potential, we simply ordered kiddo the Harvest Moon Pizza as-is.
The chef mentioned they use no dairy-free cheese for his or her vegan pizza.
As a substitute, they only omit cheese.
My son wasn’t an enormous fan of artichoke, tomato, pepper, olive, arugula pizza.
Subsequent time I’d ask if he can simply have a pepperoni or sausage pizza with no cheese.
However he was hungry, and he ate it with out complaining.
We love that the chef himself took the order and introduced the pizza, making two appreciated journeys to our desk.
All three pizzas our household ordered there have been positively notches above typical theme park pizza.
2. Cafe L’air De La Sirene
LOCATION: Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic
STYLE: Fast Service
VEGAN NUT-FREE: Frozen Vegan Butter Beer
NOTE: There’s additionally a butter beer cart on this world, however the café is air conditioned and an incredible place to chill off. We have been informed the chilly and frozen butter beers are dairy-free, however we have to order the vegan model to ensure the froth topping is used. There’s additionally a dairy topping. Sizzling butter beers include dairy so we solely ordered chilly or frozen with the vegan topping.
We extra stopped on this café as a option to cool off throughout the treacherous warmth wave in mid-Might.
Kiddo ordered a VEGAN frozen butter beer, and we realized the vegan variations are marked on the underside of the cup.
It was necessary for us to confirm that our son acquired the vegan model as our different son ordered the common frozen butter beer with dairy topping.
Kiddo says the chilly butter beer with vegan topping is nice with a meal (like a soda), and the frozen vegan butter beer is a pleasant snack (like a slushie).
Sizzling butter beers include dairy and might’t be ordered vegan and dairy-free.
Right here’s the vegan marking on the underside of my son’s vegan butter beer, a bit plant icon.
3. How To Deal with Your Dragon
LOCATION: How To Practice Your Dragon – Isle of Berk
STYLE: Snack Store
PACKAGED CANDY: Storm Fly Gummy Spines
NOTE: Packaging says might include peanut, tree nut, milk, soy, wheat, egg, sesame.
Like I do at Disney, I usually seek for particular packaged candies that look allergy-friendly.
And these little bitter gummies caught my eye.
They wouldn’t soften within the Florida warmth, we have been even capable of simply deliver them dwelling on the airplane.
These make nice little items for buddies again dwelling.
The store additionally had large lollipops, rock sweet, cotton sweet, and different packing containers of gummy sweet that regarded dairy and nut free.
Listed here are the Gummy Spines we introduced dwelling in our baggage.
4. Frosty Moon
LOCATION: Celestial Park
STYLE: Snack Store
VEGAN NUT-FREE: Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream & Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie
NOTE: We didn’t truly strive these vegan treats, however I finished in to ensure their binder mentioned additionally nut-free. All the time double-check components, they’ll change.
The chocolate chip cookie is home baked, not pre-packaged in keeping with the particular person I talked to on the window and the Common app.
The ice cream will be served in a cup or cone.
Though, we didn’t confirm the components within the cone, so we’d want to do this.
And there are toppings out there that may additionally want components checked: sprinkles, cookie, cake, brownie, marshmallows, and many others.
5. Spit Fyre Grill
LOCATION: How To Practice Your Dragon – Isle of Berk
STYLE: Counter Service
VEGAN NUT-FREE: Valka’s Vegan Bowl
NOTE: That is the placement well-liked for the mac and cheese cones so these with extreme milk allergy will most likely wish to verify on cross contamination practices earlier than deciding to eat right here. We skipped it.
This location serves 5 totally different bowls of grilled meals and three flavors of mac and cheese cones.
The one vegan, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free merchandise is a grilled bowl containing kale, bean salad, pineapple salsa, sweet beets, vegan feta, mango and mint French dressing.
We didn’t truly eat at this counter service, however I wished to say this dairy, egg, nut free dish proven on the Common app.
I did snap a pic of the lovable pick-up counter.
6. Sensorium Emporium
LOCATION: Celestial Park
STYLE: Snack & Present Store
VEGAN: Vegan Chocolate Bars & Squares
NOTE: Two different bagged vegan chocolate flavors included peanut butter chocolate truffles and hazelnut truffle. Essential notice for these with peanut or tree nut allergy. Test manufacturing data if it is advisable to.
After the rides closed at 8pm, we wished to benefit from the fantastically lit park with some buying.
For the reason that Celestial Park space and its retailers have been nonetheless open till 9pm, we took benefit.
The Moonship chocolate portion of a store drew me in as I regarded for dairy and nut free packaged candies for the youngsters.
However I certain didn’t look forward to finding dairy-free chocolate!
These three choices regarded nut-free on the labels so I picked them up for kiddo to strive.
Earlier than our milk allergy remedy and a number of other profitable nut challenges, we didn’t do any chocolate until it was particularly made by an allergy-friendly firm.
Nevertheless, kiddo’s OIT has made treats like this extra secure and potential.
I all the time suggest these with extreme milk allergy be very cautious about chocolate, it’s usually contaminated with dairy.
Amanda’s Personal and No Whey are a few of our favourite allergy-friendly sweets.
7. Epic Universe Starbucks
LOCATION: Celestial Park
STYLE: Counter Service
VEGAN: Numerous Drinks
NOTE: There are literally two Starbucks places at Epic Universe, each in Celestial Park.
I really like that the Common Parks have Starbucks places.
It’s a simple option to get pleasure from my favourite dairy-free drinks, coconut lattes and inexperienced teas.
8. MORE IDEAS
Listed here are different dairy and nut free dishes we see on the Common app presently.
You should definitely speak to cooks and seek the advice of the newest menus as components can change!
Mead Corridor at Isle of Berk
Double-check these, components can change!
- Valka’s Vegan Burger & Fries
- Toothless Plasma Blast Drink
Le Gobelet Noir at Wizarding World
Double-check these, components can change!
- Historic Forest Salad
- Lentil Stew
Cafe L’air De La Sirene at Wizarding World
Double-check these, components can change!
- Salad Nicoise (Tuna)
- Poulet a la Provencale (Roasted Hen)
- Vegan Croissant (additionally they have a dairy croissant)
- Pumpkin Juice
- Lavender Lemonade
TIP: My son brilliantly used Google Translate to place the app menu in plain English. In any other case, the French meals have been exhausting to learn, particularly after we have been so sizzling, drained, and hungry.
The Oak & Star Tavern in Celestial Park
Double-check these, components can change!
- Conventional Southern Breakfast (Eggs, BBQ Bacon, Brioche Toast)
- Smoked Sausage Facet
- Vegan Bacon Facet
- Historic Grain Tofu Scramble
- Smoked Brisket
- BBQ Jackfruit Sandwich
- Tropical Coleslaw
- BBQ Crinkle Fries
- Smoked Harissa Cauliflower
OUR VERDICT ON EPIC DAIRY & NUT FREE FOOD
What did we depart excited about dairy-free and nut-free choices for meals allergic reactions at Epic?
THE CONS
- Not loads to select from
- Not loads for primary eaters
- Can’t simply customise at fast service
Whereas the dairy and nut free choices appeared restricted, virtually each meals location had a minimum of one factor kiddo may theoretically eat.
I do suppose they’re working to accommodate allergic reactions with their useful app and cooks.
We are able to additionally respect that a lot of the meals at Epic lives as much as the title, Epic.
It’s all attempting to be very elevated and complex.
Not the perfect for choosy eaters, however tremendous enjoyable for foodies!
And whereas customizing our meals appeared like it might be an excessive amount of to ask, that may have simply been a preview days factor.
Because the park begins to settle in and discover it’s manner, I wager the cooks will change into as accommodating and useful as they have been on the different Common parks.
THE PROS
- A number of fast service choices
- Straightforward QR menus at tables, with allergy data
- Cooks will speak to you
We love having the ability to decide up fast meals and get again to rides and exhibits.
It’s good to see that a lot of the eateries at Epic don’t require reservations.
The menus on our telephones have been simple to navigate, I stay up for them including much more allergy data the place it was lacking.
And the cooks that we talked to have been good and prepared to clarify the meals.
We all the time respect that.
WHAT I’D DO NEXT TIME
- Attempt all of the enjoyable drinks which might be allergy-friendly
- Attempt Oak & Star for brunch
- Attempt the French Cafe once more when not warmth zapped
There are such a lot of enjoyable drinks to strive at Epic that look allergy-friendly.
I want we might have tried extra since we have to keep hydrated within the warmth of Florida anyhow.
After all, we liked the vegan butter beer and the strawberry mint tea I had on the French cafe in Harry Potter world was scrumptious.
I’m all the time vying for a secure brunch, and Oak Star appears to be like like a chance.
And I do know we might have loved the French café a lot extra if we weren’t dying of warmth stroke on the time.
Individuals are saying it’s the perfect fast service at Epic. We have to strive extra there.
I’d go at an off time and speak to a chef.
Total, we’re very glad we went and have been one of many first to see this new park!
We helped make historical past!
And my youngsters liked the revolutionary rides greater than meals, as all the time.
They most liked the Stardust Racers rollercoaster.
Possibly sometime we’ll make it onto the Harry Potter experience, Battle on the Ministry.
I hope these dairy and nut free meals concepts on the new Epic Universe theme park are useful.
In case you discover different enjoyable meals we should always embrace, tell us.
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