The once famously dry Disneyland is about to get a little boozier in the outer rim outpost of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as the Anaheim theme park’s long-standing prohibition on alcohol continues to crumble.
Docking Bay 7 Food & Cargo in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland will serve wine, beer and hard seltzer during the Nighttime Gathering fireworks dining package starting Friday, Nov. 8.
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The twist: The booze will be available only to Disneyland visitors paying for the $89 Nighttime Gathering fireworks dining package.
The Star Wars-themed dining package includes cheeseburger croquettes, charcuterie with apricot goat cheese, dragon fruit yogurt and cream puffs served in a bento box and a specialty drink in a souvenir cup before viewing the fireworks show from the Falcon Overlook patio.
The separately purchased alcohol may only be consumed at Docking Bay 7 during the Nighttime Gathering event that runs from 8 until about 10 p.m. when the “Fire of the Rising Moons” fireworks show ends.
Alcohol must be consumed inside Docking Bay 7 and won’t be permitted on the Falcon Overlook patio.
The Docking Bay 7 quick-service restaurant won’t sell alcohol throughout the day or to visitors who aren’t taking part in the Nighttime Gathering event. Disneyland has no plans to add alcohol to the Docking Bay 7 menu.
Disneyland guests like the option of enjoying an alcoholic beverage as part of their dining experience and have shared positive feedback about the enhanced option, according to Disneyland officials.
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“Fire of the Rising Moons” debuted in April during the Season of the Force and has continued since the seasonal event ended in June.
The Galaxy’s Edge pyrotechnics displays synched to a Star Wars soundtrack vary depending on which Disneyland fireworks show is playing on any particular night. The Star Wars soundtrack will change when Disneyland shifts from “Mickey’s Mix Magic” to “Believe… in Holiday Magic” on Nov. 15.
From the earliest days at the park, Walt Disney warned that serving liquor at Disneyland would attract an undesirable crowd of rowdy troublemakers.
“No liquor, no beer, nothing,” Walt Disney told the Saturday Evening Post about Disneyland in 1956. “Because that brings in a rowdy element. That brings people that we don’t want.”
Nearby Oga’s Cantina became the first public location in Disneyland to serve alcohol when Galaxy’s Edge debuted in 2019.
Since then, beer, wine and specialty cocktails have been added to the menus at Blue Bayou, Cafe Orleans, River Belle Terrace and Carnation Cafe. Diners can not get their drinks to go. Beer, wine and cocktails must be consumed inside the restaurants.
Disneyland made the decision to add alcohol to the table service restaurants after the park’s food and beverage team received thousands of requests for more beer, wine and cocktail options from international travelers and young adult visitors.
The exclusive, private and mysterious Club 33 above the Blue Bayou has long served beer, wine and cocktails to its well-heeled members.
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