Rose & Crown
| Rose & Crown | |
|---|---|
| Park | EPCOT |
| Land / area | United Kingdom Pavilion |
| Type | Pub and table-service restaurant |
| Opened | October 1, 1982 |
| Status | Operating; scheduled to close for refurbishment January 11, 2027 |
Rose & Crown is a British pub and table-service dining room in the United Kingdom Pavilion of EPCOT at Walt Disney World Resort. The location combines two linked venues under one roof on the shore of World Showcase Lagoon: the Rose & Crown Pub, a walk-in bar modelled on a traditional British local, and the Rose & Crown Dining Room, a reserved restaurant serving classic British dishes indoors and on a lagoon-side patio. It has operated since EPCOT Center opened on October 1, 1982, when the United Kingdom Pavilion opened as one of the original World Showcase pavilions with Rose & Crown as its restaurant.[1][2]
History
The United Kingdom Pavilion was designed as a compressed British streetscape, its buildings moving through several centuries of English architecture, from a thatched cottage inspired by Anne Hathaway's Cottage to Tudor, Georgian and Victorian facades. Rose & Crown was part of that opening-day picture, the pavilion's single full-service restaurant alongside its shops, and it has remained the pavilion's dining anchor ever since, while the quick-service Yorkshire County Fish Shop nearby came to specialise in fish and chips alone.[3]
The Dining Room has closed for refurbishment before. Its most recent closure before the 2027 project ran from February 15 to March 20, 2021, and was understood to be largely back-of-house kitchen work; guests saw no major change to the dining room itself when it reopened.[4]
Dining room and pub
The Dining Room serves the dishes most visitors associate with a British pub menu, including fish and chips, bangers and mash and shepherd's pie, with desserts such as sticky toffee pudding. The patio is prized at night because it looks directly across World Showcase Lagoon, and Rose & Crown is one of the EPCOT restaurants that has offered fireworks dining packages tied to the park's nighttime spectacular, as well as dining packages for the EPCOT Candlelight Processional in the holiday season.[5]
The Pub next door needs no reservation and pours British and Irish beers, ales, ciders and stouts alongside cocktails and mixed pub blends, with live piano entertainment a long-standing part of its atmosphere. Because the two spaces share a building and a kitchen operation, a closure of one has often left the other trading — a pattern that makes the scale of the 2027 closure notable.[6]
2027 refurbishment
As of November 2026, Disney's notice states that both the Rose & Crown Dining Room and the Rose & Crown Pub will close for refurbishment on January 11, 2027, for planned maintenance, and will reopen later in 2027, with no exact reopening date announced.[7][8]
That plan is not the one Disney first published. On October 6, 2026, Walt Disney World posted a bulletin covering the Dining Room only: it was to close on February 15, 2027 and reopen in spring 2027, while the Pub and Yorkshire County Fish Shop stayed open. The following day the bulletin changed to the present plan — both venues closing together from January 11, 2027, reopening later in 2027 — before the warning briefly disappeared altogether and was then restored in that second form.[9]
A Notice of Commencement permit filed on October 14, 2026 for the Rose & Crown address, naming Gulf Coast Utility Constructors for general construction, carries an expiration date of June 29, 2027. That date is a permit deadline rather than a Disney reopening announcement, but it points to work continuing into summer 2027. Disney has not described the scope of the work beyond planned maintenance, and Yorkshire County Fish Shop is expected to remain open during the closure.[10][7]
See also
References
- ↑ United Kingdom Pavilion at Epcot. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Five Things to Know About the United Kingdom Pavilion in EPCOT. TouringPlans. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ United Kingdom Pavilion at Epcot. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Rose & Crown Closing for Refurbishment Until Later in 2027, Permit Suggests Summer Reopening. Disney Tourist Blog. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Five Things to Know About the United Kingdom Pavilion in EPCOT. TouringPlans. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ United Kingdom Pavilion at Epcot. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 CONFIRMED: Full List of Closures Announced by Disney World This Month. AllEars.Net. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Where to Drink in EPCOT's UK Pavilion When Its Most Popular Pub Closes in 2027. Disney Food Blog. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Rose & Crown Closing for Refurbishment Until Later in 2027, Permit Suggests Summer Reopening. Disney Tourist Blog. Retrieved 2026-11-15.
- ↑ Rose & Crown Closing for Refurbishment Until Later in 2027, Permit Suggests Summer Reopening. Disney Tourist Blog. Retrieved 2026-11-15.