PHOTOS, VIDEO: Tour the Mead Hall in How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk at Epic Universe

Mead Hall offers quick-service dining, and the menu includes platters and entrees of Viking-inspired fare. Alcoholic beverages are available to guests 21 years of age and older.

Here’s the place to eat and drink like a Viking! The massive Mead Hall is Berk’s main gathering place, a grand chamber hewn from mountain rock where Vikings feast on a hearty menu including meat, fish, sandwiches and desserts. Beverages include assorted meads, ciders and ales.

Location

Mead Hall is located in How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk, on the opposite side of the lagoon from the portal.

Menu

Mead Hall has a selection of quick-service entrees with names based on “How to Train Your Dragon” characters and icons. To match the Viking feast theme, a large portion of the menu is meat based, but some plant-based options are also available. The menu includes salads, salmon, the Thawfest Platter, and more.

Guests over the age of 21 can partake in a selection of beers and bottled beverages. This location also has the usual Universal Coca-Cola Freestyle machine.

Mead Hall is located in the large central mountain that stands directly in front of the land’s portal.

The large double-doors, which Universal notes are over 16 feet tall, are flanked by two large statues. The statue on the left is Hiccup’s father, Stoick the Vast. The statue on the right is an unnamed Viking holding an axe.

On the very tip of the mountain, Gothi’s Hut can be seen in the far distance. Forced perspective is used to make the mountain appear taller in-person.

Mead Hall Entrance and Ordering Area

After passing through the massive double doors, guests arrive in what is supposed to be a dining hall carved out of the middle of the mountain. The entrance looks like arched stone doorways with flickering yellow lights painted to look like flame lamps.

The hallway to the right of the entrance leads to the queue for the ordering windows. There was no line when we visited, but this location may have more of a wait once Epic Universe officially opens.

The hallway is painted to look like more carved stone with large braziers hanging overhead. The hall is lined with several Viking-themed tapestries, which we will see in more detail in a moment.

Past the hallway, guests reach the main ordering stations. The room is meant to look like a storage space, perhaps for the many barrels of mead stored behind the counter. The top barrel on the left side has been carved and painted to look like a dragon with a smaller barrel in its mouth. The lower barrels are the taps for Mead Hall’s alcoholic beverages.

Each ordering station is numbered with a round wooden sign hanging from a chain attached to the ceiling. The main counter is also painted to look like it was carved out of stone and wood, with the images of hungry dragons below each station.

Large metal pendants hang from the ceiling using more chains. The ceiling itself is painted the same stone color as the walls and floor, with wide wooden beams acting as supports.

The ordering room is not massive, with only two stations taking up the whole space.

Main Dining Room

Coming out of the ordering room leads into the restaurant’s main dining room. The whole space is taken up by a singular round room with no smaller dining rooms on the sides.

The dining room is also accessible by heading straight past the entrance hall. Like the ordering room, the floors and walls are all painted grey with slight cracks and lines to look like stone.

Hanging from the wooden means in the middle of the space is a giant chandelier made with ornate bands of dark grey metal. Each band is lined with individual wax candles, matching the Viking theme.

The columns around the room are painted red with more heavy metal bands holding the columns together. A lime green band in the middle of each column has been patterned to look like diamond dragon scales.

On the side of the room to the left of the main entrance is an alcove with Coca-Cola Freestyle machines. The alcove has been lined with a heavy wooden beam resembling a mantlepiece with Viking-style knot carvings in red, yellow, and blue.

There are a total of four machines available in the restaurant for guests to use.

Each individual Freestyle machine has the standard red and white Coke colors, but with black weathering lines to make the machines look like they were constructed using wood planks.

Above the Coca-Cola alcove is the first of several tapestries decorating this central dining room. The scene depicts a group of Vikings and dragons celebrating together by having a feast. The Vikings are scarfing some turkey legs and mead while dragons fly overhead carrying fish.

To the right of the Freestyle machines, the side of the room directly across from the main entrance is meant to look like the Viking chief’s throne.

A gap between the tables has a single wooden seat carved with two arched dragon heads.

Above the throne, a red tapestry shows a Viking riding a grey dragon. The Viking looks excited, with both of his hands raised in the air like he is riding a rollercoaster.

On the left and right sides of the throne are two alcoves carved into the rock with stone Viking statues displayed inside them. The interior of each alcove has been painted a light red color.

The right Viking statue is holding a sword with both hands and has its mouth open. The Viking is wearing a helmet with pointed horns and has a mustache.

The Viking statue on the left side has an axe in either hand crossed in front of its chest. This statue has a long beard and is wearing an ornate belt buckle over its armor.

Looking further around the rest of the room, each column has two more wooden dragon heads carved on either side of the main support beams near the ceiling.

The room is lit with more of the hanging braziers seen in the ordering hallway, with the tops covered in pointed orange glass meant to appear like flames.

The tables in Mead Hall are situated in a loose circle pattern. There are larger wood tables that can seat more people around the back walls, with some smaller two-person tables closer to the center.

The tables have a mixture of individual chair seats and longer wooden benches. Some of the tables have a combination of chairs and a bench.

Both the tables and chairs are made of wood and painted to look like they were hand-carved. The arch by the legs of the table and the legs of the beeches have more Viking-style swirl decorations as well.

The music in Mead Hall is similar to the rest of the background music in Isle of Berk, with some original instrumentals mixed with iconic songs from the film series.

Mead Hall Tapestries

While the walls and floors are all grey stone, the space doesn’t look too plain thanks to the many unique tapestries hanging across all of the walls.

Over by the ordering room, a grey tapestry shows a group of dragons, including two Terrible Terrors and a Monstrous Nightmare. The three dragons are perched together on a fixture that looks similar to the fountain in the middle of the land.

Along the queue hallway, tall tapestries hang from nearly the ceiling to a few feet off the ground. This blue piece shows a Viking grilling a turkey leg that is stuck on a metal skewer. Rather than regular flames, the fire is coming from the mouth of his blue dragon.

Also in the queue hallway for the ordering room is a second tapestry showing a Viking woman cooking a fish over a metal grill. The flames for the grill are coming from her blue dragon, whose head is perched underneath her feet.

Moving into the main dining room, a few more square tapestries show more unnamed Vikings dining with their dragons. This blue dragon is holding a barrel of mead, which a Viking is pouring into two metal goblets.

Another dragon that appears to be a Monstrous Nightmare is looming over the shoulder of its Viking friend, licking its lips at the sight of a massive sandwich the Viking has constructed.

Many of the other tapestries in the dining room are longer and more narrow than the previous square shapes. This blue tapestry shows a Gronckle launching out of some clouds to grab a falling fish in its jaws.

These narrow tapestries also include some familiar characters from the film series. The left piece in this set of two pink tapestries shows Fishlegs riding his Gronckle, Meatlug. Fishlegs is holding an overlarge fork, and the two stare down at a massive pile of fruit and vegetables.

The pink piece on the right side shows an unnamed Viking seemingly fighting with his green dragon over a fish, with both of them having one side already in their mouth.

The next familiar character is Snotlout riding his Monsterous Nightmare, Hookfang. Snotlout has a yellow fish speared on the end of his fork-shaped weapon.

Astrid is also pictured on her own tapestry, holding a fish high into the air. The side profile of her Deadly Nadder, named Stormfly, looks out behind her.

Not to be left out, Tuffnut is seen without his twin on top of his Hideous Zippleback, Barf and Belch. Tuffnut is victoriously holding a carrot in one hand and a chicken in the other.

While Hiccup may not be pictured in Mead Hall, Toothless gets a larger-sized tapestry with the Light Fury flying alongside him. The two dragons are pictured catching fish from the sea alongside their three children, known collectively at the Night Lights.

The last tapestry is located just above the main entrance doorway, which also acts as Mead Hall’s main exit.

This final tapestry shows three of the iconic Berk sheep frowning as they chow down on some green grass.

If you want to see even more of Mead Hall, you can watch our full tour video below.