Overview
- Visit Orlando confirmed that Universal Orlando hotel restaurants will take part in the 21st annual Magical Dining event running August 14 through September 30, 2026, offering three-course prix-fixe dinners priced at $40 or $60.
- This is a region-wide, time-limited restaurant promotion organized by Visit Orlando and presented by Orlando Health and not a return of Universal’s discontinued resort-wide prepaid dining plan.
- Participating Universal-area venues include returning hotel restaurants such as Mama Della’s, The Kitchen at Hard Rock Hotel and Amatista Cookhouse, plus first-time entrants Flora Taverna and Bar Helios at the Helios Grand Hotel.
- Visit Orlando will donate $1 from each $40 meal and $2 from each $60 meal to OCA and six other local nonprofits, and guests should review fixed menus, make reservations, and account for tax, tip and any extra items.
- Universal ended its prior multi-day dining plans in 2021 and has offered narrower, event-specific food packages since then, so Magical Dining mainly gives visitors predictable single-dinner pricing rather than prepaid meal credits for a stay.