Universal City, CA — Zoinks! Universal Studios Hollywood’s Universal Fan Fest Nights 2026 food lineup serves up two Scooby-Doo items and a Universal Monsters-themed hot dog. The event is adding a Dining Pass for the first time, borrowing from the Halloween Horror Nights playbook.
Fan Fest Nights begin April 23 and continue select nights through Saturday, May 16. The new food menu, coordinated by Executive Chef Julia Thrash, spans six of the event’s IP activations.
Scooby-Doo and Universal Monsters Lead the Menu
The headline items tie directly to this year’s signature backlot experience, Scooby-Doo Meets The Universal Monsters: Mystery on the Backlot. The walk-through attraction sends guests via Studio Tour tram to Universal’s historic backlot, where they join Scooby-Doo, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy in solving a mystery involving Frankenstein, Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Wolf Man across Little Europe’s cobblestone streets and the Court of Miracles, the original filming locations for Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941). The experience replaces last year’s Back to the Future backlot attraction.
Throughout Little Europe, guests will find two Scooby-Doo items: Scooby Snacks and the Super Shaggy Sandwich, which Universal describes as “a stacked club sandwich sharable with your own Mystery Gang.” On the Monsters side, guests can order a Universal Monsters 22″ Dog.
Dining Pass Debuts at Fan Fest Nights
For the first time, Fan Fest Nights will offer a Universal Fan Fest Nights Dining Pass. According to Universal, the pass allows fans to enjoy a total of six items on their visit date for a single price, including two eligible entrée items and four eligible side, snack, dessert, or beverage items. The pass is redeemable only at participating food and beverage locations and is only available during Universal Fan Fest Nights. Universal notes that additional restrictions apply.
Pricing for the Dining Pass has not been announced.
Other Fandoms Get Their Own Menus
Universal outlined themed food and beverage offerings for five additional IPs:
- ONE PIECE. The returning “Sanji’s Galley” relocates to an expanded footprint at Hollywood & Dine. Entrées include Luffy’s Meat on the Bone, Sanji’s Seafood Fried Rice, Franky’s Loco Moco Burger, Brook’s Spicy Katsu, Jinbe’s Watermelon Salad, and Pirate’s Bounty Funnel Cake. Desserts include Luffy’s Straw Hat mousse dome and the Chopper Cupcake. Themed mocktails will be served at the new Grand Pirate Den.
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The Three Broomsticks serves traditional British pub fare including Scotch Eggs, Welsh Rarebit, Toad in the Hole, Curry Chicken, Classic Sunday Roast, and Classic English Fish and Chips. Sweets include a new Three Broomsticks Dessert Flight and the Hippogriff Brown Sugar & Oat Trifle.
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. A bento box combo meal features a spicy tuna onigiri, a Moonlight Love Sparkle drink, and Tuxedo Mask’s Raspberry Rose Sandwich Cookie. Nearby locations will sell a Moon Scepter Churro and Mystery Box Cupcakes.
- Dungeons & Dragons. The returning First Roll Tavern on the Lower Lot serves Cockatrice Hot Wings, Dragon Egg Cheesecake, Gelatinous Cube, Ranger’s Mark sandwich, and Beholder’s Brew Fondue, along with themed alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Guests must be 21+ with valid photo ID to purchase alcohol.
- SUPER NINTENDO WORLD. Chef Toad offers three themed smoothies in flavors representing the green, yellow, and purple Yoshis. A Green Yoshi drink bottle with a signature Yoshi Egg will be available for purchase.
Merchandise and CityWalk Tie-Ins
A new merchandise lineup debuts alongside the event, including Yoshi character shirts, shoulder pals, and a headband, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon items, a ONE PIECE Spirit Jersey, Scooby-Doo and Universal Monsters crossover apparel, and items inspired by Forbidden Forest: Search for the Hippogriff. Merchandise will be available inside the theme park, on Universal CityWalk, and at shopuniversal.com.
Four Universal CityWalk Hollywood restaurants will also run limited-time themed offerings: NBC Sports Grill & Brew (ONE PIECE), Voodoo Doughnut (Scooby-Doo), The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon), and Vivo Italian Kitchen (DUNGEONS & DRAGONS).
Event Dates and Ticketing
Universal Fan Fest Nights will run April 23 to 25, May 1 to 3, May 7 to 9, and May 14 to 16, 2026. For more information, visit www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com.
What This Means for the Industry (Analysis)
Halloween Horror Nights has spent years building out premium add-ons beyond the admission ticket, and food is now a major part of that. In Orlando, Universal has themed food stalls tied to the haunted houses, offering food inspired by their worlds. The Premium Scream Night ticket (which expanded to two nights this year) offers unlimited food as one of its primary benefits. The increasing scale of the food investment in Orlando shows how well food is working to increase per caps.
Hollywood debuted a Halloween Horror Nights Dining Pass in 2025, and is now importing that same mechanic into Fan Fest Nights. This signals both that bundling the food helps per cap, but also that Fan Fest Nights as a concept has legs.
Every hard-ticket event runs into the same math problem. The ticket gets you in the door, but the real margin lives in food, beverage, merchandise, and premium tours. Building a prepaid, bundled F&B product does three things at once. It lifts average per-cap spend, it locks in revenue before the event night, and it removes guest friction when lines get long and decision fatigue sets in.
The menu itself tracks with the core-fandom recalibration already visible across the 2026 lineup. Scooby-Doo and the Universal Monsters get the signature items tied to the headline experience, Harry Potter and Super Nintendo World get integrated into their existing lands, and ONE PIECE gets the most ambitious F&B build with an expanded Sanji’s Galley and a new bar concept at the Grand Pirate Den. The bet is that guests already in the park for the IP will spend more on F&B themed to that same IP.
Dining passes aren’t new, even dining passes tied to seasonal events are more commonplace now, but the difference here is that Fan Fest Nights is a separately ticketed event, whereas most of the other dining passes are an upsell during a season, which is included in annual passes. Its success underscores the potential of story-driven food experiences.
