San Angel Inn Restaurante

San Angel Inn Restaurante: dining at EPCOT — location and planning data on MouseHub.

Visitor sentiment

4.1· 2,385 Google ratings

People say this Mexican restaurant serves delicious enchiladas de pollo, ribeye tacos, and fish tacos. They also highlight the flavorful guacamole, chips and salsa, and margaritas, as well as the attentive service and beautiful, immersive atmosphere. Other reviews mention the food can be overpriced.

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The MouseHub take

San Angel Inn Restaurante is the table-service Mexican restaurant inside the Mexico pavilion at EPCOT, open since October 1, 1982 and run by the company behind the original San Angel Inn in Mexico City. Disney describes it as a 17th-century hacienda at the base of Mayan ruins, and the dining room sits in perpetual twilight under a simulated evening sky, the same trick the Blue Bayou pulls at Disneyland. Boats from Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros float past the back of the room. One menu covers both seatings, lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:55 PM and dinner from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with entrees from $22 to $54.

The room is what people book, and the food is what draws the complaints. Portions read small against the prices, the light is dim enough that diners reach for a phone flashlight to read the menu, and tables sit close enough to hear the next party's conversation. Families use it as an indoor sit-down break from the heat and the afternoon storms, which it handles well. Anyone hoping dinner brings a bigger menu than lunch is booking the same list twice.

At a glance

Best for
Couples who want an unhurried dinner in a dark, cool room, and families who need an hour off their feet in the middle of an EPCOT day
Skip if
Anyone after a large, cheap Mexican meal, since entrees start at $22 and a basket of chips and salsa is a $10 order
Worth ordering
Sopa Azteca, Queso Fundido, Tacos, Enchiladas de Pollo, Pollo a Las Rajas
Reservations
Disney calls advance reservations highly recommended and books this as an in-park table service, so a confirmed reservation for every member of the party is the safe plan. Diners without one report the podium turning up tables anyway, more often at the edges of the lunch window than at dinner
Value
The restaurant page bands both meals at $15 to $34.99 per adult and the menu runs well past it: five of the nine entrees cost more than $34.99, topping out at $54.00 for the Carne Asada. Appetizers are $10.00 to $16.00 and specialty margaritas $18.00 to $24.00, so a two-person dinner clears the band quickly

The good

  • The room is stuck in permanent twilight
    Disney models the space on a 17th-century hacienda at the base of Mayan ruins and lights it as a courtyard at dusk under a simulated evening sky. It is the closest thing EPCOT has to the Blue Bayou.
  • A volcano rises behind the tables
    It sits in the scenery past the dining room, part of the same twilight backdrop as the Mayan ruins. Look up from the table before the food arrives.
  • Boats float past the back of the room
    Disney's own page says diners seated at the rear can watch the boats of Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros drift by. Kids who have already ridden it tend to watch the whole meal.
  • The kitchen answers to Mexico City
    The restaurant opened on October 1, 1982 and is operated by the company that runs the original San Angel Inn in Mexico City, which is why the menu leans on mole negro and chile pasilla rather than Tex-Mex.
  • You get an hour indoors and cold
    This is an enclosed room in the middle of World Showcase, so it works as a break from the Florida sun and from the storms that clear the walkways in the afternoon.
  • The margarita list is a real list
    Ten specialty margaritas run $18.00 to $24.00, alongside three tequila flights and a mezcal one. Black Magic, a frozen blackberry margarita created by Neil Patrick Harris, is $21.00.
  • Walk-ups do get seated here
    Diners who show up without a reservation report the host stand finding them a table often enough to be worth the ask, especially away from the dinner rush.

The bad

  • You cannot read the menu
    The perpetual twilight that sells the room also makes it hard to see the page. Phone flashlights come out at most tables, which rather undercuts the effect.
  • Tables sit close together
    The layout packs parties in tightly, so chairs bump and the next table's conversation is part of the meal.
  • Portions read small for the price
    The recurring complaint is leaving a $33.00 entree still hungry. This is a la carte, with nothing shared or refilled to pad the meal out.
  • Chips and salsa are a $10 order
    Totopos, the corn chips with white cheddar cheese and salsa, sit on the appetizer list at $10.00. Nothing arrives free at the table before your food does.
  • The room gets loud
    A full house under a hard-surfaced ceiling means the chatter carries. Nobody should book this expecting a quiet, candlelit dinner.
  • Dinner is the same menu as lunch
    One list runs under a single lunch and dinner heading at identical prices, so an evening booking buys the room after dark rather than a bigger meal.

Veteran tips

  • Ask for a table at the back
    The boats are only visible from the rear of the dining room. Put the request in at the host stand when you check in, and expect it to depend on what is open.
  • Book ahead, and cancel on time
    Disney charges the card on the reservation a per-person fee if you do not show or you cancel outside the policy. The details arrive with the confirmation email.
  • The app offers a walk-up list
    San Angel Inn is missing from Disney's Mobile Dine Walk-Up Availability page, but My Disney Experience shows a Join Walk-Up List option for it anyway. Check there from inside EPCOT before walking to the host stand.
  • Bring a layer for the table
    The air conditioning runs cold, and the twilight lighting hides the fact that you are sitting still in it for an hour. A light sweater is worth the space in the bag.
  • Split two appetizers instead of entrees
    Sopa Azteca is $13.00 and Queso Fundido and Guacamole are $16.00 each, against entrees at $22.00 and up. Two people sharing three starters eat well for less than one Carne Asada.
  • Ask about the mole if nuts matter
    The mole negro on the Enchiladas de Pollo and the Osso Buco contains nuts, and the menu says so twice. Disney's line is to speak with a Special Diets Trained Cast Member when you arrive.
  • A meal here is one table-service credit
    The $54.00 Carne Asada is excluded from the Disney Dining Plan, and so are the San Angel Inn Margarita, Black Magic, and the tequila flights. Everything else comes off a single table-service entitlement.
  • Kids order off their own menu
    Create-your-own entrees for ages 9 and younger run $12.00 for quesadillas to $16.00 for beef tacos, each with two sides chosen from green beans, corn, rice, or fruit.

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

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