Disney Sets October 1 for Hurly-Burly at the BoardWalk and Publishes the Full Menu, With Prices

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Hurly-Burly, the seaside-theater lounge taking over the former Jellyrolls space at Disney's BoardWalk, opens October 1 as a walk-up-only room with no reservations. Disney's menu lists eight sharable small plates at $11 to $21, each with an allergy-friendly version, ten theater-themed cocktails at $17 to $21 and three non-alcoholic specialties under $7, with trivia and games for families in the afternoon and live music for guests 21 and older from 9 p.m.

Disney Sets October 1 for Hurly-Burly at the BoardWalk and Publishes the Full Menu, With Prices

Hurly-Burly, the seaside theater lounge Disney announced for Disney's BoardWalk back in June with nothing firmer than a "late 2026" window, now has an opening date, a published menu and prices. It opens October 1 in the space Jellyrolls left last year, it takes no reservations, and it runs as two different rooms in the same day: trivia and games for the whole family in the afternoon, live music for guests 21 and older from 9 p.m. Small bites run $11 to $21, cocktails $17 to $21, and the three non-alcoholic specialties come in under $7.

Beautiful Hotel at Disney's Boardwalk.
Beautiful Hotel at Disney's Boardwalk. Photo: Miosotis Jade via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Three mini sandwiches with roast beef, white sauce, and everything bagel seasoning on buns are arranged on a blue patterned tray next to a cocktail garnished with a cherry and lemon peel.
Three mini sandwiches with roast beef, white sauce, and everything bagel seasoning on buns are arranged on a blue patterned tray next to a cocktail garnished with a cherry and lemon peel. Photo: Disney Parks Blog

A vaudeville theater on Crescent Lake, reopened

Disney's BoardWalk wraps the south side of Crescent Lake, close enough to walk to EPCOT's International Gateway in one direction and Disney's Hollywood Studios in the other. The whole area is themed to a turn-of-the-century Atlantic coast boardwalk, and Hurly-Burly commits to that fiction harder than most of its neighbors. The story is that the space was a seaside theater that once hosted the BoardWalk's best-known vaudeville performers, dark for close to a century, now open again.

"Hurly-Burly is opening its doors once again with entertainment offerings, vintage drinks and lite bites inspired by an era of world class performances and nautical novelty." (Disney, publishing the menu)

The theater premise runs through the drink names, which read like a stage bill: an Overture in Orange, a Road to Fame, an Off-book Bramble, a Quality EntertainMint. One of the small plates, Theater Concessions, is a snack tray of meatballs, a sugar cookie and buttered popcorn, which is about as literal as the joke gets.

Key Details

The Hurly-Burly small bites menu

There is no entree section. Everything on the food menu is sized for sharing across a small table, eight items in total, two of which can be made plant-based on request. Disney's own price band for the venue is $15 to $34.99 per adult, and the plates sit inside it: nothing on the food list costs more than $21.

Disney Parks put four photographs of the lineup on its X account the same day the menu went up, the first look at what any of it actually arrives as.

Three mini roast beef sandwiches with white sauce and caramelized onions on seeded buns, plated beside a cocktail garnished with a cherry and lemon peel
Roast beef sliders on seeded buns, served with a cocktail. Photo: Disney Parks via X
A board of sliced meats, cheeses and pickled vegetables with breadsticks and sliced bread on a decorative plate
Sliced meats, cheeses and marinated vegetables: the Antipasto. Photo: Disney Parks via X
Sugar-coated doughnut holes in a red paper container beside a small green bowl of dark sauce on a white plate
Sugared doughnut holes with a dark dipping sauce: the Mini Apple Cider Doughnuts with miso-caramel. Photo: Disney Parks via X

The doughnuts are the only dessert, and the miso-caramel sauce is the part worth noting. Apple cider doughnuts are standard boardwalk fair food; the savory sauce is the version of the idea that could only come out of a Disney test kitchen. At $11 they tie with the tomato pie as the cheapest plate on the list, and the $12 Theater Concessions tray is the most on-theme.

Every small bite has an allergy-friendly version

This is the part of the menu that deserves more attention than it will get. Disney's menu page lists an allergy-friendly version of all eight small bites at the same price as the standard version, each stating which allergies it accommodates, plus a ninth line for plant-based meatballs.

Publishing that alongside the standard menu rather than leaving it to a request at the door is a real improvement for guests who plan Walt Disney World trips around allergy management.

Non-alcoholic drinks, including a caramel corn cold brew

Three specialty drinks are open to guests of any age, all under $7, and two of them are also poured at the walk-up window facing the BoardWalk.

The Overture in Orange is the BoardWalk's entry in a category Walt Disney World has been quietly good at for years, the orange-and-cream frozen drink. Disney's menu calls it a nostalgic frozen treat, and to anyone who has spent time at Magic Kingdom it will read as a close relative of the Citrus Swirl at Sunshine Tree Terrace. The cold brew is the more useful one, since it gives anyone walking the boards before noon a reason to stop in.

Ten cocktails named after the theater business

The bar list opens with ten specialty cocktails, and it is where the pricing sits highest, from $17 to $21. The Mertini is a gin martini riff pitched as a nod to the theater's maritime melodrama. La Taquilla Picante translates roughly to "The Hot Ticket" and arrives as a spicy margarita with a spiced nutmeg rim.

Three garnished cocktails lined up on a bar next to a small bowl of nuts, with blurred lights in the background
Three of the ten specialty cocktails, on the bar at Hurly-Burly. Photo: Disney Parks via X

The naming convention is doing real work here. Mertini, Off-book Bramble, Quality EntertainMint and Road to Fame are all theater jokes, which tells you how committed the theming is before you get through the door. The two $21 pours, the Caramel Corn Old Fashioned and the Road to Fame, are also the two built on American whiskey.

Eight small plates, three specialty non-alcoholic drinks, ten cocktails, nine wines, and the most expensive thing on the list is a $34 glass of Napa cabernet.

Wine, beer, cider and hard seltzer

Nine wines are listed across four categories, weighted toward American producers and priced from $11 to $34 a glass. The sparkling pours are Viarae Prosecco from Veneto at $11 and Empire Estate Blanc de Blancs Brut from the Finger Lakes at $16; Viarae also tops two of the cocktails, so a bottle of it is doing a lot of work behind this bar. The one rosé is La Fête du Rosé from Provence at $16. Whites are Hillick and Hobbs Estate Dry Riesling from Seneca Lake at $21, Massican Sauvignon Blanc from Napa at $20 and Jordan Chardonnay from the Russian River Valley at $19. Reds are MacMurray Estate Vineyards Pinot Noir at $19 and Tablas Creek "Patelin de Tablas" Rouge at $20, both from California's Central Coast, and Schweiger Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa at $34. Two New York State wines on a Walt Disney World list is unusual, and it fits the Atlantic seaboard framing of the venue.

Beer splits into two groups. The Atlantic Coast Favorites are Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA from Milton, Delaware, Allagash White Belgian-Style Wheat Beer from Portland, Maine, and Brooklyn Brewery Amber Lager, all on draft at $12.50, plus Original Sin Black Widow Hard Cider from New York in a can at $13, all of them East Coast picks that hold the theme. The Classic Selections are Stella Artois Lager at $12, Modelo Especial Lager at $10.50, Michelob Ultra Lager at $10.25, High Noon Pineapple Vodka Hard Seltzer at $12.75 and Athletic Brewing Co. Upside Dawn Golden, which is non-alcoholic, at $8.50.

What Hurly-Burly replaces

Jellyrolls ran in this building for almost 30 years before the dueling piano bar closed in April 2025 and set about relocating off property, and the exterior has been under transformation since. Disney's June announcement did not name it, but the walk-up-only policy Hurly-Burly opens with is the one Jellyrolls ran on. The new venue is themed to a historic seaside theater and runs a split operating model. Disney's listing says the room welcomes the whole family, children included, from opening until 9 p.m., with daytime games and activities led by a host. At 9 p.m. it becomes a live music venue for guests 21 and older, with musical acts whose genres change nightly.

That afternoon-to-evening split is the notable structural change from Jellyrolls, which was a 21-and-over room from open to close. Adding daytime family hours turns a space that was previously useful to a narrow slice of BoardWalk guests into something a family staying at Disney's BoardWalk Inn or the Villas can use during a rest afternoon.

The Buzz

Jellyrolls had a following that long outlasted its era, and its closure was one of the more mourned losses on the BoardWalk. A full menu with prices is the first hard evidence of what is replacing it, and the answer is more ambitious than a straight swap: a themed theater concept with a ten-cocktail list, an allergy-friendly version of every dish, and afternoon hours that Jellyrolls never had.

What to know before October 1

Hurly-Burly does not work like a BoardWalk table-service restaurant, and the practical details follow from that. It is walk-up only and takes no reservations, so there is nothing to book in My Disney Experience and no 60-day window to plan around. You show up and get in line. It also means the afternoon block, when the trivia and games are open to everyone, is the version families can use; the room turns 21 and older at 9 p.m. for live music.

If the line is long, or the evening crowd has taken the room, the walk-up window is the fallback. It pours the Caramel Corn Cold Brew, Cherry Marquee, Caramel Corn Old Fashioned, Cherry-Vodka Limeade, The Atlantic Review, Bubble Brava!, La Taquilla Picante and Off-book Bramble without anyone going inside.

The prices give a useful budget marker: two of the mid-priced plates and two cocktails come to about $70 before tip. What is still missing is the quick-service restaurant teased for Disney's BoardWalk alongside Hurly-Burly and the Basin on the BoardWalk bath and body shop, which has no name, no menu and no date. Everything on this menu is also listed as subject to change and availability, which with a month left before the doors open is worth reading literally.

Sources

GenieGrove rewrote this story; the original reporting is theirs.