Best Restaurants For Large Groups At Walt Disney World

Planning a trip to Disney with a large group takes detailed planning and coordination. Getting everyone together to enjoy a meal is another aspect of the vacation that will need extra care and planning. While all restaurants at Disney accommodate groups of many sizes, some are better suited for larger groups than others. Below, we share our top picks for the best restaurants at Walt Disney World for large groups.

These restaurants are buffet, family-style, or have a prix fixe menu. This allows you to budget for your meal ahead of time and reduces the time it takes to order with a large group.

Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground
This dinner show has been a staple at Walt Disney World since 1974 and is one of the country’s longest-running dinner shows. The restaurant has two dining spaces that are split into three pricing categories. There are many large, round tables for big groups on the first floor (in the first two pricing categories). Large groups can also be seated upstairs in the balcony. The restaurant serves family-style platters of all the BBQ fixings you could want, like fried chicken, baked beans, cornbread, ribs, macaroni and cheese, and coleslaw. The meal ends with strawberry shortcake, something that everyone in the entire restaurant gets excited and sings about. Beer, wine, sangria, and soft drinks are included with your meal, too. The show runs Wednesday through Sundays throughout the year, with three seating times each night. 

‘Ohana ​

Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort
‘Ohana is a family favorite restaurant offering character dining breakfast and Hawaiian-inspired meals for dinner, all with a view of the Seven Seas Lagoon and Cinderella Castle. If you're seated during the Happily Ever After fireworks display, the restaurant will dim the lights and broadcast the music throughout the dining room for your enjoyment. The dining area is filled with massive round and rectangular tables, which give big groups plenty of options for enjoying a family-style meal together. You’ll meet Mickey, Pluto, Lilo, and Stitch at breakfast and enjoy a family-style platter piled with Mickey waffles, sausage, bacon, eggs, and Hawaiian ham. At dinner, the skillets are filled with pork dumplings, grilled chicken, teriyaki beef, shrimp, stir-fried noodles, and veggies.

Boma - Flavors of Africa ​

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge 
Boma is a buffet restaurant that features cuisine from over 50 African countries. It’s a great place to expand your dining palate with specialties such as Tabbouleh, Tunisian Couscous and Shrimp Salad, Moroccan Harira, Lamb Bobotie, and Durban Chicken. There are also classic options like chicken bites, macaroni and cheese, and spaghetti and meatballs that will appeal to picky eaters and kids. The wide range of entrees allows everyone in the family to design the meal they like while enjoying the ambiance of an African marketplace. You can also walk the grounds of the Animal Kingdom Lodge before or after your meal and spot African animals that call the resort home. 

Biergarten

EPCOT  
It’s Oktoberfest all year long at the Biergarten restaurant in Germany. This dinner show features an authentic German polka band playing lively tunes throughout your meal. Most of the seating in the tiered dining area is communal and set for parties of eight, so it’s the perfect place to enjoy a meal with a large group. The lunch and dinner buffet includes German classics like bratwurst, sauerkraut, sausages, and schnitzel. They also have a wide selection of German beers for purchase. 

Be Our Guest ​

Magic Kingdom 
Be Our Guest is the ultimate dining experience for princess and fairytale lovers in your group! The restaurant offers a family-friendly, fine dining experience in one of three distinct dining areas in Beast’s Castle: The Grand Ballroom, The West Wing, and The Rose Gallery. The Grand Ballroom is expansive and modeled after the ballroom where Belle and Beast shared their first dance. The prix fixe menu allows everyone to pick an appetizer, entree, and dessert. Make sure to order the Dessert Trio to sample the “grey stuff!”
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Liberty Tree Tavern ​

Magic Kingdom 
Enjoy a Thanksgiving feast all year round at Liberty Tree Tavern. The family-style Patriot’s Platter served here includes traditional Thanksgiving dishes like roasted turkey, pot roast, pork, mashed potatoes, vegetables, stuffing, and macaroni and cheese. There are large tables in several of the tavern’s six dining spaces (all themed to celebrate a figure from American history), which can accommodate groups of up to eight. These rooms are distributed inside a colonial home, which offers offer a bit of privacy from other guests.

Tusker House

Disney’s Animal Kingdom 
Tusker House offers all-day safari-inspired character dining with Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and Daisy. It's the only character dining location at Animal Kingdom. Parties of any size can sit inside one of the restaurant’s many large dining rooms, each filled with African and safari artifacts. Morning buffet selections include Simba and Mickey waffles, Safari Bread, and African breakfast curry with Durban Chicken, eggs, and Jasmine Rice. Lunch and dinner selections include Tandoori Chicken, Berbere-Marinated Pork, Braised Beef Tajine, Green Curry Shrimp, African bread and dips, and salad. Kid-friendly faves include mac and cheese and chicken strips. 

Tips for Making Dining Reservations for Large Groups at Disney

Making dining reservations for a large group takes extra planning, but enjoying Disney with your extended friends and family is worth it! The best chance of snagging a dining reservation for your large group at Disney is to:

• Book your reservation right when your dining window opens (at 5 am CST, 60 days before your check-in date). 
  
• Stay at a Disney Resort (so you can make reservations for up to 10 days on the first day your booking window opens). 
  
• Monitor open reservations and cancellations, especially closer to your trip. 
  

If you can’t get one dining reservation for your entire group, you may consider splitting your group into smaller parties and making reservations for similar times (within 15 minutes of each other, if possible). Once you arrive at the restaurant, you can request to be seated together. This may increase your time waiting for a table, and it isn’t guaranteed (especially if the restaurant is busy), but you can always check. 

Disney Vacation Planning with Large Groups

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