Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo: dining at Disney's Hollywood Studios — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

4.2· 868 Google ratings

Diners like this restaurant's delicious and flavorful dishes, including the crispy chicken, ribs, and pot roast, with many noting generous portions. They also highlight the immersive Star Wars atmosphere and the friendly, cool staff. Some reviews mention the dishes can be overpriced.

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The MouseHub take

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo is the main counter-service restaurant in Black Spire Outpost, built inside a working hangar bay where Chef Strono "Cookie" Tuggs has parked his food freighter. Most of the seating is indoors and cooled, with rustic overflow tables outside against the crumbling walls of the old marketplace. Every dish wears an alien name, and Disney's own menu copy promises food that will not look familiar. Underneath the names sit birria pot roast, barbecue pork ribs, crispy chicken with house-made macaroni, and a chickpea falafel plate. Entrees run $13.29 to $19.99, and the doors are open from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM.

The room fills at every meal, and the crowd is what people complain about. The indoor tables go first, and the walk-up line spills out the door around noon, so a Mobile Order window booked before you are hungry does more for lunch here than anything else. Star Wars fans and anyone tired of burger-and-fries counters tend to leave happy. Families feeding a kid who eats chicken nuggets and fries do not, since neither one is on the menu.

At a glance

Best for
Star Wars fans who want to stay inside Black Spire Outpost for lunch, and anyone worn out on standard theme park counter food.
Skip if
You are feeding kids who want chicken nuggets and fries, or you want a calm, seated meal in the middle of the lunch rush.
Worth ordering
Endorian Fried Chicken Tip Yip, Sweet Puffer Pig Ribs with Portion Bread, Shaak Pot Roast with Kublag Mash, Felucian Falafel and Hummus Garden Spread
Reservations
No reservations, since it is quick service. The only thing to book is a Mobile Order return window, and those fill at peak meal times. Some dining plans are accepted.
Value
Entrees run $13.29 to $19.99, and Disney rates the meal at $15 to $34.99 per adult. Visitors rate the cooking above counter-service average and the portions below it.

The good

  • The air conditioning does half the work
    The hangar dining room is indoors and cooled, and a midday meal here lands as a break from the heat as much as a meal. Visitors say so more often than they talk about the food.
  • The cooking outruns normal counter service
    Reviewers who expected burger-and-fries park food keep noting that the plates arrive seasoned and put together. Nothing on the menu is a patty on a bun.
  • You eat inside the hangar bay
    Disney built the dining room into a working hangar, and visitors describe eating on cargo crates and inside transport pods. The theming does not stop at the ordering counter.
  • The falafel plate is a real vegetarian meal
    The Felucian Falafel and Hummus Garden Spread comes with roasted beet hummus, a beet-tomato-cucumber relish, and grilled pita, and Disney builds its plant-based items without meat, dairy, eggs, or honey. Vegetarian guests rate it among the better meatless plates in the park.
  • Mobile Order moves faster than the line
    Guests who order on their phones report collecting their food while the walk-up line is still working its way through the door.
  • The allergy-friendly menus go deep
    Disney publishes a separate list for eight allergen groups here, from gluten and wheat through sesame and soy, and most entrees appear on several of them.

The bad

  • The names tell you nothing
    Every entree carries a Star Wars name, so ordering means reading the description underneath it. First-timers slow the line down working out what Tip Yip is.
  • Indoor tables are gone by noon
    The dining room seats fewer people than the restaurant draws at lunch. Guests report circling with full trays waiting for a crate to open up.
  • Portions run small for the price
    The recurring complaint is that the plate looks better than it fills, and hungry adults want a snack a couple of hours later.
  • Picky kids get two choices
    The kids' menu is crispy chicken with macaroni and cheese, or plant-based pasta rings, both served with roasted vegetables. No burgers, no nuggets, and no fries anywhere on the menu.
  • Outdoor seating gives back the air conditioning
    When the hangar fills, the overflow is the marketplace courtyard outside. Those tables sit in the heat most people came inside to escape.
  • A beer costs more than most entrees
    The Gold Squadron Lager is $15.75 for a 16 ounce draft and the Surly Sarlacc cocktail is $16.50, against $16.29 for the fried chicken plate.

Veteran tips

  • Book the Mobile Order window early
    Return windows at peak meal times run out, and the walk-up line is the thing you are trying to avoid. Set your lunch window in the morning while you are somewhere else in the park.
  • Read the line under each name
    Tip Yip is crispy chicken, Puffer Pig is pork ribs, and Shaak is the birria pot roast. Every name on the menu carries its description right underneath.
  • Send one person ahead for a table
    Have someone claim a spot in the hangar while the rest of you wait on the Mobile Order pickup. At lunch the table is the harder of the two to get.
  • Arrive at 11:00 AM when the doors open
    Service runs 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM, and the first hour is the easiest time to land an indoor table. Mid-afternoon works the same way.
  • After 3:00 PM you can order a Ronto Wrap
    The dinner menu adds the Ronto Roaster specialty, roasted pork and grilled pork sausage with tangy slaw and yuca fries, for $15.99. It is the one thing here you cannot get at lunch.
  • Pull up the allergy menu before you order
    The restaurant's menu page carries a separate allergy-friendly list for each of eight allergen groups. Ask to speak with a Special Diets Trained Cast Member when you arrive at the location.
  • Kids can get chicken and macaroni
    The Fried Chicken Tip Yip Youngling Meal is crispy chicken with house-made macaroni and cheese and roasted vegetables, with milk or water, for $10.99. The other kids' plate is the plant-based Ithorian Pasta Rings.

MouseHub editorial, written from visitor reports and official Disney sources. Last reviewed .

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