Universal Studios Hollywood · Super Nintendo World
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Mains around $19 to $23, desserts around $12, a full meal about $35 per adult as of July 2026
The best food inside Universal Studios Hollywood, and the only restaurant here worth planning your day around. Expensive, themed to the hilt, and the kitchen is doing real work behind it.
Toad's restaurant in Super Nintendo World, where every plate is themed and the food is genuinely the best inside this park.
Last verified July 2026
Toadstool Cafe is inside Super Nintendo World, presented as a restaurant run by Toad, with an animated Toad appearing on a screen in the kitchen hatch and the dining room done as a mushroom house interior. It uses a virtual queue or booking system at busy times rather than a straight counter line, so check the app before walking up.
Every dish is themed to the point of absurdity — a burger shaped like Mario's cap, a mushroom soup served in a bread bowl shaped like a Super Mushroom, a dessert built as a question block — and the remarkable thing is that the kitchen is not hiding behind that. The food is genuinely good. The burgers are properly cooked, the pasta is not an afterthought, and the plating survives being carried to a table.
It is the best food inside Universal Studios Hollywood and it is not a close contest. That says something about the competition as well as about this kitchen, but it holds up on its own terms too.
The dishes this kitchen is actually known for. Menus change seasonally, so treat this as what to look for rather than a guaranteed list.
Prices we have checked ourselves, with the month we checked them. Mark anything here and it saves to your device.
A bacon cheeseburger served under a bun shaped and colored as Mario's cap, plated with fries and presented on a themed tray.
Our take: The signature plate and, surprisingly, a properly cooked burger rather than a prop with meat in it. The kitchen here is doing real work behind the gimmick.
A cream of mushroom soup served inside a bread bowl baked and decorated to look like a Super Mushroom, red cap and white spots included.
Our take: The best-looking savory dish in the park and a genuinely decent soup underneath the presentation. The best vegetarian order inside these gates.
A cube of tiramisu built and finished as a Mario question block, complete with the question mark on the face, served with a mushroom-shaped garnish.
Our take: The single best dessert inside this park and the rare themed item that people photograph and then finish. If you order one thing at Toadstool Cafe, order this.
A tomato and mozzarella salad arranged as a Piranha Plant emerging from a pipe, with basil and a green pesto base.
Our take: A properly conceived vegetarian dish rather than a substitution off a meat menu, which is rarer at this park than it should be. Light, which matters at lunchtime here.
Spaghetti and meatballs in a spiced tomato sauce, plated with a fire-flower motif and served in a bowl rather than on a tray.
Our take: The least interesting plate on a strong menu, and still better than most of what this park serves. Order the burger or the soup ahead of it.
A sparkling lemon drink served with a star-shaped garnish, non-alcoholic and the most refreshing thing on the Toadstool Cafe menu.
Our take: Ten dollars for lemonade is a Universal Studios Hollywood price. It is genuinely good lemonade, and the cheapest way to sit in the best air-conditioned room in the park.
Not a reservation in the traditional sense, but at busy times it runs a queue or booking system through the Universal app rather than a walk-up counter line. Check the app early in the day, because it fills by lunchtime.
Yes. It is the best food inside this park by a clear margin — the burgers are properly cooked, the pasta is not an afterthought, and the themed plating does not come at the expense of the kitchen. It is the one restaurant here worth planning around.
The Mario bacon cheeseburger for the signature plate, the Super Mushroom soup in a bread bowl if you want the best-looking savory dish, and the question block tiramisu for dessert. The dessert is the item people photograph and then eat entirely.
Yes, and better ones than anywhere else in the park. The Piranha Plant caprese and the mushroom soup are both properly designed dishes rather than a substitution off a meat menu.