Roundup Rodeo BBQ
Roundup Rodeo BBQ is a table-service restaurant in Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Opened in 2023, it was billed as the first Toy Story table-service restaurant in the world, and it remains the only full-service restaurant in Toy Story Land. The restaurant places guests, shrunk to the size of toys, inside a rodeo arena that Andy has built in his backyard from playsets, cardboard and toys, and serves all-you-care-to-enjoy barbecue family-style for lunch and dinner.
History
Toy Story Land opened in 2018 with only one dining location, the quick-service Woody's Lunch Box, and a table-service restaurant for the land was discussed for years before it was built. Roundup Rodeo BBQ, a collaboration between Walt Disney Imagineering, Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney World's food and beverage team, was developed for a site just inside the land's entrance.[1] Reservations opened on February 21, 2023, and the restaurant welcomed its first guests on March 23, 2023.[2][3] Its arrival gave Disney's Hollywood Studios a new table-service option aimed at families, and demand for reservations was strong from its first weeks.
Setting
The premise is that Andy has staged a rodeo for his toys, and guests are honorary toys taking part. The building sits near the entrance to Toy Story Land, and the storytelling begins before the meal: children in the waiting party may be given a stick pony to ride to their table. Inside, the restaurant is assembled, in story terms, from Andy's playthings — cardboard boxes taped together, crayon drawings, a western town playset and a train station playset propped up with coloured pencils.
There are two main dining rooms. One is anchored by large figures of Jessie and Trixie, the other by Bo Peep and her sheep, with Woody and Bullseye dividing the space. Everything is oversized, brightly coloured and deliberately handmade in appearance, matching the aesthetic of the rest of the land, where guests are meant to feel toy-sized in Andy's backyard.
Unlike most heavily themed Disney restaurants, Roundup Rodeo BBQ is not a character dining location: Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie do not visit tables, continuing instead to meet guests elsewhere in the land.[4] The characters are present as figures, drawings and artwork throughout the rooms rather than as performers. The signature interactive moment is borrowed directly from the films: from time to time an announcement warns that Andy is coming, and the entire restaurant — guests and servers alike — freezes in place until he passes, just as the toys do when a human approaches.
Cuisine
Lunch and dinner share the same fixed, all-you-care-to-enjoy menu, served family-style in courses for a set price per guest. The meal begins with cheddar biscuits served with sweet pepper jelly and a selection of salads, including a watermelon salad. The main course is a shared platter of house-smoked meats: pork ribs sold as Evil Dr. Porkchop's smoked ribs, Buttercup's beef brisket, a fire-grilled pork sausage named for the line "There's a sausage in my boot", and barbecue chicken.[5] A plant-based trio built around cauliflower, a plant-based bratwurst and a rib chop substitute is offered as an alternative platter.
Tables choose four sides from a list that has included loaded potato barrels, macaroni and cheese themed to Slinky Dog, corn on the cob, baked beans, coleslaw and fried pickles. Dessert is chosen individually rather than shared, with options that have included a cupcake themed to Forky, the character introduced in Toy Story 4, alongside pies and other sweets. Additional servings of any course are available on request, in keeping with the all-you-care-to-enjoy format.