When it comes to Disney World’s theme parks, there’s arguably none better known for its dining than EPCOT. From the cross-cultural restaurants of the World Showcase to the park’s annual International Food & Wine Festival, cuisine is arguably its calling card.
Galaxy Spritz
However, from our experience, the hardest reservation to get in the park isn’t at a restaurant set in one of World Showcase’s eleven themed international pavilions. In fact, it’s not set on Earth at all.
Space 220 first opened at the park in September of 2021, and in the nearly 5 years since, the restaurant has become one of EPCOT’s most popular.
Space 220
Guests first board a “space elevator” that mimics taking them 220 miles above the Earth to the Centauri Space Station, where they’ll dine. Once seated, the restaurant’s massive panoramic windows — actually screens — provide simulated daytime and nighttime views of the Earth inside the dining area.
Not a bad view
The restaurant’s menu offers a prix fixe selection — two courses during lunch, three courses for dinner — featuring modern American cuisine.
Lunch costs $55 per person, and includes one Lift-Off appetizer…
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… and one Star Course entree.
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For an additional cost, Satellite Sides and Super Nova Sweets are available.
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Moving from lunch to dinner, the cost jumps to $79 a per adult but now includes a Super Nova Sweets dessert. The Lift-Offs….
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… and Star Course entrees somewhat differ for dinner.
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Dinner also offers some additional supplemental options.
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There are also kids’ menus available for both courses, which cost $29 for lunch and $35 for dinner, as well as a menu of Atmospheric Spirits cocktails…
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… and an array of beers and wine.
If you want to know more about Space 220 — or to learn more about any Walt Disney World restaurant — check out our Guide to Disney World Dining, which pulls it all together with information on every eatery so you can stop stressing and focus on the fun without feeling like you’re missing a thing!
Like other Disney World restaurants, guests are able to book 60 days beginning at approximately 6:00 AM EST (though you can start refreshing at 5:45 AM EST) online and beginning at 7:00 AM EST over the phone. Of course, if you’re staying at a Disney World hotel, you’ll actually be able to book for the whole duration of your trip (up to 10 days) beginning 60 days before your arrival, so you could conceivably book up to 70 days out. This is key to scoring a table Space 220. However, if you’re unable to snag one, there’s still a way to see the interior of the Centauri Space Station.
Space 220 Lounge
Space 220 also features a lounge with its own menu of Flight Bites, which has seen a great deal of evolution over the years.
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During our most recent visit, we really enjoyed the Blue Moon Cauliflower, which is made with Tempura-fried Cauliflower, Housemade Hot Sauce, and Bleu Cheese Dust. It had a light, crispy batter on the outside, with saucy cauliflower on the inside, while the buffalo sauce added a nice kick.
Blue Moon Cauliflower
We paired that with the Gamma Burst Cocktail, which is made with Grey Goose Strawberry and Lemongrass vodka, Midori Melon Liqueur, and Strawberry Popping Pearls. It’s a fruity and tropical concoction that fans of sweet and refreshing cocktails will enjoy.
Gamma Burst
Of course, no meal is complete without dessert, and we decided to sample the best of all worlds (no, couldn’t resist the pun) by trying the Flight 220 sampler, which currently includes Cosmic Cheesecake (featuring a chocolate mousse base with a chocolate shell ), Cookies and Cream Macaron (a nice and crunchy macaroon filled with a fluffy cookies and cream mousse and a salted caramel filling in the middle), and Strawberry Saturn (a strawberry mousse filling surrounded by a white chocolate shell with a white chocolate ring and strawberry crumble that is light, milky, fluffy, and creamy, almost like eating strawberry milk, that’s what this is like).
Flight 220
Whether you’re able to score a full table service reservation for Space 220 or simply check out the lounge, odds are your experience will be out of this world. Stay tuned to DFB for more on Disney’s dining options.
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We have been to the 220 lounge twice and loved the sliders . You still get an amazing experience , i fully recommend it .
Pity it’s not on the dining plan !
Disagree with you. The experience may be interesting though the food is mediocre at best certainly not Worth the price for admission. Definitely not a signature restaurant!
Wow! Who can afford those prices? I guess one can budget for this experience. For me, not so much 😔
We only did the lounge not the restaurant
Never been to Space 220. We prefer Geo-82.
We only had the sit-down dinner once. The food was unimpressive, and we didn’t think the experience was all that impressive either. We also felt rushed and our server was inattentive, as in she literally did not stop walking when she ‘came by the table to check on us.’ She would decide we were fine and kept moving. We have since been lucky enough to snag 220 lounge reservations for most of our trips. The lounge food was very good, the service was good, and for the (lower) price you pay for lounge service, the experience was fun enough. We might try the dining experience again sometime, but the menu will have to be a little less esoteric to appeal to some members of our group.
Have to agree with Marc and Thumper – food is mediocre and prices are out of reach for most of us, especially for what you get. In addition, the wait staff seemed pretty unenthused when we ate there. Overall, don’t waste too much time and energy trying to get a reservation here – there are plenty of more magical and affordable options in EPCOT!
This would be rated the worst restaurant at Epcot for us.
Meh service
Meh food
Over hyped experience. Feels very dated.
Super expensive.
Our adult son was desperate to go so when our parents gave us cash to “spend on a nice meal” when we went to WDW we decided to go for lunch. It was a fun experience and the food was lovely. It did feel a bit like being on an aeroplane though, with that sort of droning in the background.