Kat Saka's Kettle

Kat Saka's Kettle: dining at Disney's Hollywood Studios — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

4.5· 50 Google ratings

Visitors say this quick-service location offers delicious cold brew coffee with vanilla foam and chocolate cereal pieces, and also features a sweet and savory popcorn mix. They also highlight the convenient mobile ordering option and the friendly, in-character staff. Guests mention the immersive atmosphere makes them feel like they are on another planet.

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The MouseHub take

Kat Saka's Kettle is a walk-up window in the Black Spire Outpost market, on the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge side of Disney's Hollywood Studios. It opened with the land on August 29, 2019, and reads in story as a stall run by the grain merchant Kat Saka, with grains from all over the galaxy on display around the counter. The menu is nine items long. Two popcorns at $6.99, the sweet and spicy Outpost Popcorn Mix and the plain Buttered Blue Grains, a Joffrey's cold brew under sweet cream cheese and chocolate puffs, and bottled drinks.

Treat it as a snack stop rather than a meal. There is no seating, so whatever you order gets eaten standing at the edge of the market or walking toward Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run. Mobile Order through the Disney app skips the counter line, which is worth using in the morning, when the cold brew pulls the longest wait of the day. Adventurous eaters come away pleased. Anyone expecting caramel corn runs into the spice hiding under the sweetness.

At a glance

Best for
Snackers who want something they cannot get anywhere else in the park, and coffee drinkers deep inside Galaxy's Edge
Skip if
You are hungry enough to need a meal, or you want to sit down in the shade while you eat
Worth ordering
Outpost Popcorn Mix, Buttered Blue Grains, Cold Brew Black Caf, Spiked Cold Brew Black Caf, Jabba's Sail Barge Bucket
Reservations
Nothing to book. Walk up to the counter or send a Mobile Order through the Disney app
Value
Popcorn at $6.99 and the cold brew at $6.79 price like any park snack. The souvenir buckets at $29 and $30 and the spiked coffee at $17.50 do not, and no Disney Dining Plan meals are accepted here

The good

  • The cold brew is the reason most people stop
    Cold Brew Black Caf is $6.79 and arrives under a layer of sweet cream cheese and chocolate puffs. Reviewers rate it well above the popcorn and line up for it early.
  • The blue popcorn is just buttered popcorn
    Buttered Blue Grains look alien and taste like the tub at a movie theater, same $6.99 as the spicy mix. That makes them the safe order for a kid who will not touch the other one.
  • The stall is a real set piece
    Disney runs it in story as the shop of grain merchant Kat Saka, with grains from all over the galaxy on display around the counter. It has been part of Black Spire Outpost since the land opened in 2019.
  • You can send the order from your phone
    The window takes Mobile Order through the Disney app, so you can queue the popcorn while you are still walking across the land and collect it at the counter.
  • There is a grown-up version of the coffee
    The menu carries a spiked cold brew mixed with chocolate liqueur, which is an unusual thing to find at a popcorn window and a shorter wait than the cantina.
  • The line moves faster than it looks
    A menu this short keeps the counter quick. A queue that looks discouraging from across the market usually clears sooner than the length suggests.

The bad

  • The signature popcorn splits people down the middle
    Outpost Popcorn Mix is a sweet and spicy blend, and the heat catches out anyone who read the color and expected caramel corn. Reviewers describe abandoning half a bag.
  • You will eat it standing up
    There is no seating attached to the stall and no shortage of people around it, so the snack gets eaten on the move or on whatever bench you can find in the land.
  • The cold brew drinks like a dessert
    The cream cheese topping sits heavy over the coffee. Anyone who wanted a strong black cold brew ends up with something closer to a milkshake.
  • The spiked cold brew is $17.50
    Adding chocolate liqueur takes the $6.79 coffee to $17.50, which is cocktail money for a drink you collect at a popcorn window and carry out into the market.
  • The buckets cost more than four bags of popcorn
    Jabba's Sail Barge Bucket is $30.00 and the BDX Droid Bucket is $29.00, both filled with the same $6.99 popcorn. Disney bands this whole menu at $14.99 and under per adult, which three items ignore.
  • The queue blocks a narrow walkway
    The market path outside the window is tight, and on a busy afternoon the line for the popcorn is one of the things making that stretch hard to walk through.

Veteran tips

  • Send the order before you reach the land
    Place a Mobile Order in the Disney app as you walk over, then go straight to the pickup window instead of joining the counter line.
  • Get the cold brew early
    The coffee draws its heaviest crowd in the first few hours of the day. Come by before mid-morning and the wait is a fraction of what it becomes later.
  • Stir the drink before the first sip
    The cream cheese topping sits on top rather than mixing in. Work it down into the coffee, or the first mouthful is all topping.
  • Order Buttered Blue Grains for anyone heat-shy
    Same fun color, none of the spice, same price. It is the order for kids and for anyone in the group who wants popcorn to taste like popcorn.
  • One bag goes round a group
    Disney describes the $6.99 serving as a generous helping, and reviewers back that up. Buy one and share it rather than one each, especially with the spicy mix.
  • Do the bucket math at the counter
    The souvenir buckets come filled with your choice of either popcorn, so the vessel itself is costing you about $23. They sell while supplies last and the pair on offer changes.
  • It stays open late
    The window runs 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM, so it is still serving after most of the park's counter-service spots have shut and the land has thinned out.
  • Raise allergies at the counter
    There is no separate allergy-friendly or plant-based menu here. Speak to a cast member when you order, and ask for a Special Diets Trained Cast Member if you need one.

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

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