Rosie's All-American Café

Rosie's All-American Café: dining at Disney's Hollywood Studios — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

3.7· 280 Google ratings

Diners enjoy this cafe's well-priced and tasty, shareable Buffalo chicken salad and appreciate the good outdoor seating with heaters. Other reviews mention the food can be poor quality and wait times can be excessive.

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The MouseHub take

Rosie's All-American Café is an open-air counter window on Sunset Boulevard at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a short walk from The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets. The menu runs to Angus cheeseburgers, a chili-cheese foot-long, chicken strips, and fries, with entrees between $10.99 and $15.49. You order at the window or through Mobile Order in My Disney Experience, then carry a tray to shared outdoor tables. Disney tags it a Quick Service Kiosk, so there is nothing to reserve and no walk-up list to join.

Families with a picky nine-year-old do well here, and the allergy-friendly menus run deeper than the burger board suggests. The seating is where the complaints collect. The tables sit outdoors under awnings that handle sun better than rain, and the birds have learned where the fries land. Reviewers who wanted something more interesting than a cheeseburger say so plainly. Come in before noon or after two, use Mobile Order, and Rosie's does the job it is built for, which is feeding a family between two Sunset Boulevard headliners.

At a glance

Best for
Families with young kids who want a familiar burger fast, with no reservation to make and no menu to explain
Skip if
You want to sit indoors in air conditioning, or you want a meal worth remembering after the trip
Reservations
Nothing to book. Disney tags this a Quick Service Kiosk, so the app offers no reservations and no walk-up list, only Mobile Order or the window line
Value
Entrees run $10.99 for chicken strips to $15.49 for the chili-cheese foot-long, kids' meals are $8.99, and a side of fries is $5.49. Reviewers call the portions fair for the money even when the food does not impress

The good

  • The location does most of the work
    Rosie's sits on the same stretch of Sunset Boulevard as Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster. You can eat and be back at a ride entrance without crossing the park.
  • Nobody has to be talked into the menu
    Angus cheeseburgers at $13.29, a chili-cheese foot-long at $15.49, and chicken strips at $10.99, most of them served with fries. A Hot Honey Buffalo Chicken Chef Salad at $12.99 is easy to miss on a board full of burgers.
  • You can get a beer with your burger
    Beer runs from a $9.75 bottle of Bud Light to cans of Stella Artois at $12.00 and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale at $12.50. There is a red sangria at $14.00 and three cocktails at $17.50, including a spiced hurricane and two spiked cherry lemonades.
  • Special diets get real options
    The menu carries separate lists for gluten and wheat, egg, fish and shellfish, milk, peanut and tree nut, sesame, and soy, plus a plant-based dog at $11.79. Disney asks guests to speak to a Special Diets Trained Cast Member on arrival.
  • Mobile Order skips the window line
    Place the order in My Disney Experience while you are still in a queue somewhere else, then collect the tray at the pickup window.
  • Kids eat for $8.99
    The kids' cheeseburger and the kids' chicken strips both come with two sides and a milk or water. Both sit under the menu's Disney Check heading, which flags meals meeting Disney's nutrition guidelines for ages nine and younger.

The bad

  • The seating is all outdoors
    There is no indoor room and no air conditioning in the dining area. In July and August the shade is the only relief on offer.
  • The awnings lose to the rain
    An afternoon storm sends everyone under the same few covered tables, and there is nowhere else to go with a tray.
  • The birds have this place figured out
    Birds work the tables for dropped fries and unattended trays, and it comes up in review after review.
  • The food does not try for much
    Reviewers describe basic theme park cooking with nothing to set it apart. The menu's one featured item is the Red Velvet Riveter, a $5.99 slice of red velvet cake.
  • The window line backs up at peak
    Noon to two moves slowly, and the tables run out before the line does.

Veteran tips

  • Order in the app before you get there
    Mobile Order in My Disney Experience lets you set an arrival time and walk past the order line. Place it while you are still riding something else on Sunset Boulevard, then tap "I'm Here, Prepare My Order" when you reach the window.
  • Send someone for a table first
    Seating is shared and unassigned. One person claims a table while the rest of the party collects the trays.
  • Take a table under an awning
    The covered tables are the only shade and they go first at lunch. They help more with the sun than with a sideways downpour.
  • Eat before noon or after two
    The lunch rush fills the line and the tables at the same time. Either side of it, you walk up and sit down.
  • Keep a hand on your tray
    Birds move on unattended food within seconds. Feeding them brings more of them to your table, not fewer.
  • Look elsewhere before ten
    Rosie's opens at 10:00 AM and runs a single lunch and dinner menu all day, so there is no breakfast here. Fairfax Fare, further along Sunset Boulevard, opens at 9:00 AM and serves from 8:30 AM during Early Theme Park Entry.
  • Pair it with a Lightning Lane return
    Rock 'n' Roller Coaster sits in the first Multi Pass group at Hollywood Studios and Tower of Terror in the second, so you can hold a return time for both and eat in the gap.
  • Do not count on it for After Hours
    Disney names three quick service spots trading during Disney After Hours at Hollywood Studios, and Rosie's is not one of them. Eat before the event starts.

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

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