Pizza al Taglio

Pizza al Taglio: dining at EPCOT — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

2.7· 49 Google ratings

Diners appreciate this cafe for its fast service and extra-large pizza slices. Other reviews mention the pizza can be flavorless and doughy.

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The MouseHub take

Pizza al Taglio is the walk-up pizza window next to Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria in the Italy pavilion at EPCOT, and Disney describes what comes out of it as Neapolitan pizza by the slice. The food side of the board is two pizzas and a dessert: Pizza Pepperoni at $9.25, Pizza Margherita at $9.00, both with tomato sauce and mozzarella, and a Seasonal Tiramisú at $8.00. The drink list runs to sixteen items, including six Italian wines between $12.00 and $13.00, four beers, a $15.00 Bellini, and a $19.00 Limoncello Mule.

Posted hours are 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, and visitors still report walking up to a closed shutter often enough that nobody should build a meal plan around it. Take it when you find it open, mid-lap of World Showcase. You order at the window, carry the slice to an outdoor table, and eat with the lagoon in front of you and nothing overhead. Guests who want fast, cheap food and a glass of Chianti with it come away happy. Anyone who needs a guaranteed lunch, a shaded seat, or a pizza that is not pepperoni or cheese should eat somewhere else.

At a glance

Best for
Guests lapping World Showcase who want a nine-dollar plate of food and a real glass of Italian wine without booking anything
Skip if
You need a meal you can count on, a table in the shade, or a choice wider than pepperoni and cheese
Worth ordering
Pizza Margherita, Pizza Pepperoni
Reservations
Disney lists this as an Italian quick-service kiosk, so there is nothing to book. You walk up to the window, and the only real question is whether it is open
Value
The Margherita is $9.00 and the Pepperoni $9.25, inside Disney's $14.99 and under per adult tier. Visitors call that steep for one slice and say it fills them up anyway

The good

  • Nine dollars buys lunch in Italy
    Pizza Margherita is $9.00 and Pizza Pepperoni $9.25, which puts a full plate of food inside Disney's cheapest EPCOT price tier.
  • The slice eats like a meal
    Visitors describe a portion big enough to count as lunch rather than a snack, and big enough that two people can split one.
  • The sauce and the cheese taste fresh
    Reviewers single out the sweetness of the tomato sauce and the mozzarella on both pizzas, which are the only two things on the food menu.
  • You order without booking anything
    Disney classes it as an Italian quick-service kiosk. Walk up, order, and eat, with no reservation and no table-service commitment in a pavilion full of them.
  • The line moves quickly
    Two pizzas make up the entire food menu, so ordering takes seconds and visitors report the line clearing faster than its length suggests.
  • There is real wine at a pizza window
    Six Italian wines run $12.00 to $13.00, including a Chianti and a Gavi, alongside Peroni on draft at $12.00. Most walk-up windows do not carry a list this long.

The bad

  • The window is often shut
    Disney posts hours of 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, and visitors still report arriving to a closed shutter. Nobody can tell you in advance which day you will get.
  • One slice costs nine dollars
    Guests call the price high for a single slice, and a family of four is $36 in before anyone orders a drink.
  • The board runs two pizzas long
    Pepperoni and Margherita, both with tomato sauce and mozzarella, are the whole food menu. The kitchen prints no vegetable pizza and no plant-based option.
  • Drinks cost more than the food
    The Limoncello Mule is $19.00 and the Bellini $15.00 against a $9.00 pizza, so a slice and a cocktail turns a cheap stop into a $28 one.
  • Nothing covers the window or the tables
    Guests wait and eat in open sun on the World Showcase promenade, which on an August afternoon decides how long you stay.

Veteran tips

  • Check the shutter before promising pizza
    Walk past and look before you tell anyone in your party this is lunch. Reviewers who planned around it are the ones who leave annoyed.
  • Nothing opens here before 11:30 AM
    Posted hours run 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, so a morning lap of World Showcase gets you a dark window even on the days it does open.
  • Send someone for a table first
    Seating is outdoors and first come, first served, with views across World Showcase Lagoon. Split the party: one orders, one claims a spot.
  • Buy the wine right here
    The same window pours six Italian wines at $12.00 to $13.00, four beers from $11.00, and frozen sangria at $12.50. There is no reason to carry the slice somewhere else for a drink.
  • Split one pizza between two people
    Visitors report the portion defeating one appetite. Half a slice each leaves room for the rest of World Showcase and cuts the cost in half.
  • Save $8.00 for the tiramisú
    The Seasonal Tiramisú at $8.00 is the only dessert on the menu, and it costs almost as much as the pizza. Decide before you order.
  • Water is the cheapest thing on the board
    Italian Mineral Water is $4.50 against $5.50 for a fountain drink and $8.50 for the Frozen Wild Blueberry, which comes in fifty cents under the Margherita.

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

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