Walt Disney World has announced the Beak & Barrel Bar opening date, and revealed a first look at the full menu for the new Pirates of the Caribbean tavern coming to Adventureland in Magic Kingdom very soon! This covers all of the latest news, when you can book ADRs, and shares photos of the food & drinks!
According to Walt Disney World, the Beak and Barrel bar will extend the story of Pirates of the Caribbean. Established by the legendary pirate rumrunner, Captain Meridian “Merry” Goldwyn, and her talkative first mate, Rummy, this lively pirate pub will soon welcome bandits and buccaneers of all ages from every corner of the seven seas.
As Merry’s trusted companion and first mate, Rummy serves as the tavern’s quartermaster keeping an eye on the place from his roost high atop the bar. Although retired from seafaring life, Rummy is a dutiful crewman to his beloved Merry, ensuring everything is ship-shape, sharing tales of piracy and leading the bar in a rousing toast or two. The Beak and Barrel is a haven for all pirate-kind—from seasoned scoundrels to small swashbucklers. While you sip and snack, you’ll be immersed in the Tortuga world through sing-alongs, storytelling and surprises.
The Beak and Barrel Bar will open on August 29, 2025 in Adventureland at Magic Kingdom, right outside the exit to Pirates of the Caribbean!
All around the Beak & Barrel, you’ll be immersed in an adventure across the Seven Seas with nods to both the classic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction and beloved films. As you join the pirate fun, you’ll enjoy thirst-quenching tropical beverages, delicious small bites, sing-alongs, storytelling, and enchanting surprises.
Advance Dining Reservations for the Beak & Barrel open on August 14, 2025. ADR availability is expected to be incredibly competitive, on par with or even exceeding GEO-82 at first. As we explain below, it’s a perfect storm of sky-high demand colliding with limited supply. You will absolutely want to be up bright and early on August 14 if you’re hoping for a chance of an ADR at Beak & Barrel on August 29 or anytime over Labor Day weekend.
Here’s the food and drink menu for the Beak and Barrel Bar at Pirates of the Caribbean…
Food & Drink Menu for Beak & Barrel Bar
The Treasure Trove
The first is the Treasure Trove, an imaginative non-alcoholic beverage cloaked in mystery. As you sip on this mix of ube, lemon, and coconut, you can also snack on some sweet treats, like a vanilla cake plank, chocolate cannonball, and golden caramel popcorn.
The Cursed Treasure
The other non-alcoholic drink at Beak & Barrel is the Cursed Treasure. This features a delicious combination of coconut milk and cookie crumbs topped with vanilla foam and pirate’s gold cookie. It’s that iconic cookies and cream flavor, in drink form.
Kraken’s Catch
Blimey! The adventurous foodies out there will have their eye on the Kraken’s Catch. This cold salad is quite unique with octopus tentacles – yes, you heard that right – marinated in lemon and lime juice and paired with olives, bell peppers, avocado, and Piquillo pepper-almond foam.
Salty Seas mARRRgarita
For adult pirates, there’s quite the selection of refreshing, colorful cocktails to enjoy, like the Salty Seas mARRRgarita. This drink features Southeast Asian flavors, such as ube which gives it the striking purple color, as well as Lalo Blanco Tequila, Cointreau Liqueur, and lime.
Siren’s Whisper
A siren song draws us towards the next drink. The Siren’s Whisper will lure you in with its captivating blue color and promises of eternal youth. It combines Pot & Column Still White Rum with citrus and spice. This sip was inspired by the Fountain of Youth, also known as the Aqua de Vida from the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise.
For the final drop of allure, the drink is topped with a special siren tear. (Legend has it that they were the ones shed from fanboys on the Rivers of America’s closing day.)
Cook’s Corn Griddle Cakes
The treasure map has led to the Cook’s Corn Griddle Cakes. This warm corn cake is stuffed with melted cheese, lime sour cream, and chili peppers topped with cotija cheese.
There are two paths you can take on your foodie adventure – one with roasted corn and poblano peppers or one with chipotle-braised chicken.
Barrels Ablaze
Next up, we’ve got the Barrels Ablaze. If you’ve got a taste for bourbon, you’ll find treasures with this one. It features Jack Daniel’s Bonded Bourbon, a hint of honey, and a dash of spice.
Hibiscus Rum Punch Royale
Yo ho, yo ho, it’s the Hibiscus Rum Punch Royale for me.
As you sip, you’ll enjoy the lightly sweet and refreshing taste of this rum-based drink topped with prosecco. The bubbly effervescence combined with hibiscus, demerara and citrus will make you feel like you’re charting the Atlantic.
Island Provisions
Once they taste it, pirates will soon be telling tales of Island Provisions.
This dish takes flair and flavors from the Caribbean and Central America regions. Grab your crew for this shareable bite with plantain chips, blue corn tortillas, and toasted flatbread served with various savory dips.
Port of Call
For those gin-loving pirates out there, Port of Call is the drink for you. This delightful sip brings the flavor. With London Dry Gin, Ruby Port, lemon juice, and spiced cranberry, you’ll be wanting to live the pirate’s life.
Lit Fuse
You don’t need to search uncharted waters to find this next beverage. The Lit Fuse is quite the tasty concoction. With Los Siete Misterios Doba -Yej Meszal, and flavors of banana, coconut, and smoked chili bitters, this beverage will light up your taste buds.
Plunderer’s Punch
Where’s the rum gone? Into the Plunderer’s Punch! It has Kraken Black Spiced Rum, blackberry, vanilla, and a hint of citrus. For some added treasure to take home with you, this sip comes in a souvenir pirate skull mug.
This special loot is limited to one per guest. Those watching from their home port shouldn’t worry, the eBay pirates will pull up to the park, pillage and plunder the souvenir skull mug, and list them for $199 each before opening day is over! So when this mug is sold out by September 1, at least you’ll have that easy and affordable alternative…right?!
Wines and Exclusive Draft Beers
Finally, for the beer buccaneers out there, you’ll be impressed with this lineup, savvy? The Beak and Barrel will be home to exclusive draft beer, including Victory Brewing Co. Pirate’s Paradise Blonde Ale and Wicked Weed Brewing Berried Treasure Session Sour, as well as bottled and canned lager and IPAs, such as Modelo Especial Lager, Red Stripe Lager, and Bell’s Two Hearted IPA.
The wine connoisseurs will also be saying, “shiver me timbers,” with wine by the glass options from various places across the seven seas available. These include the Spice Route ‘Chakalaka’ Red Blend, Quinta de Santiago Vinho Verde, and the Viarae Prosecco.
Beak & Barrel Bar Merchandise Sneak ‘Beak’
For some fun you can take home with you, there’s even some special keepsakes available for purchase. To be dressed in your pirate best, there will be a new T-shirt inspired by The Beak and Barrel and a Parrot Shoulder Plush.
You can check out the store next door, Plaza del Sol Caribe Bazaar, to find these treasures.
All in all, this is pretty much what we were expecting with the food and drinks at the Beak and Barrel Bar.
We’ve been comparing Beak & Barrel to Oga’s Cantina for a while, and the menu seems to further reinforce that. If anything, I’d say this pleasantly surprises on the upside and looks more ambitious than the Star Wars bar in Galaxy’s Edge. Presumably, that’s because this is expected to be less popular over time since it doesn’t have a blockbuster IP attached.
I don’t know if that’s entirely accurate. Pirates of the Caribbean is incredibly popular, both as a ride and a film franchise (even if it’s dormant…for now). This bar should be tremendously popular as a result, and a license to print money for Walt Disney World. Between that and the lack of an 0n-site kitchen, it makes sense that the food menu would be fairly limited. I was hoping for a bit more–enough to turn this lounge into a sleeper spot for a small meal (similar to BaseLine Tap House), but oh well.
As you might recall, Walt Disney World’s official website was updated a while ago to indicate that Advance Dining Reservations would open for the Beak and Barrel during Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party.
That never happened. The website was corrected the next day (back in May) to remove that banner, strongly suggesting it was added to Beak and Barrel by mistake, when updating other restaurant pages for MNSSHP.
Interestingly, a new banner just appeared today: “Want to dine at this restaurant during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party? Check back in September 2025 for details!”
This would seem to suggest that Beak and Barrel will not be open during Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party when it first debuts. After all, why else skip the closer MNSSHP and jump right to ADRs for MVMCP?
It could be that Beak and Barrel won’t be fully staffed or is slowly ramping up operations, and thus won’t be open during MNSSHP. It could also be that Beak and Barrel won’t be open for the start of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party season but will be beginning August 29, so they’ve left off the message–it’d be too confusing (all it would take is another sentence explaining that it’d be available for MNSSHP event nights “starting August 29). Or it might be that Beak and Barrel is going to be open on a walk-up basis during MNSSHP.
I guess we’ll find out soon.
UPDATE: Walt Disney World has confirmed that the Beak and Barrel Bar will be open for guests attending Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom starting August 29, 2025.
On select nights during MNSSHP, guests with valid party tickets will be able to “take a break during the party” and “savor snacks and refreshments at The Beak and Barrel when it opens.” According to Walt Disney World, “witches, ghosts and bats are welcome, but a valid party ticket is the only way to enter the park and join the festivities!”
This means that, like other ADRs that are after Magic Kingdom closes for the regular operating day, special event admission will be required to gain access to the Beak and Barrel. Anyone should be able to make ADRs right up until regular closing (and thus extend their day), but ADRs with a starting time of 6 pm (and during MNSSHP) will be required to have MNSSHP tickets. That is, assuming ADRs are available during MNSSHP (as opposed to Walk-Up Waitlist). That still isn’t clear, but we should find out soon!
Regardless, I plan on being at Beak and Barrel on opening day, August 29, 2025. That is, assuming I can score a coveted ADR for the new Pirates of the Caribbean Bar. That is Destination D23 weekend, a time when diehard dorks like me are descending upon Walt Disney World, and there will be thousands of us–along with the usual suspects–who all want to experience the new PotC bar on opening day or opening weekend.
You know how GEO-82 was highly competitive for opening day and is still impossible to book unless you’re 60+ days out? Beak and Barrel will be like that on steroids for Labor Day weekend, with demand eventually leveling off a bit (by comparison) thanks to the (presumably) higher capacity and more stringent rules and time limits.
Speaking of which, here’s what else we know about the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean tavern in Magic Kingdom…
The menu at Beak and Barrel features tasty options for pirates of all ages—as well as refreshing cocktails for Guests ages 21 and up. This is Walt Disney World’s way of saying that, unlike GEO-82, kids will be allowed at Beak and Barrel.
Advance Dining Reservations are strongly recommended. Because space is extremely limited, the Beak and Barrel is limited to 45 minutes per party. Check back later for details about making reservations.
Even before this announcement, it was widely expected that the Pirates of the Caribbean bar would be all-ages and serve alcohol. Honestly, I’m not sure which would be more controversial here: a pirates bar with the rum actually being always gone, or more alcohol in Magic Kingdom? As it turns out, Disney chose to do Jack Sparrow proud.
As you’re likely aware, Walt Disney World long ago crossed the rubicon with alcohol in Magic Kingdom. It had only been in table service restaurants, and limited to a two drink maximum, until now. This is a lounge, so not quite the same, but we’d expect the drink limit to persist-in addition to the 45 minute stay limit.
All of this positions the Beak and Barrel as a Magic Kingdom and pirates-themed counterpart to Oga’s Cantina at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. That Star Wars bar has a similar time constraint due to space, and for many guests, it’s a one and done due to the rushed nature of the experience.
Ultimately, the Beak and Barrel bar has a lot of standalone potential and could also bring new life to neglected areas of Caribbean Plaza. This whole area used to be a purpose-built Pirates of the Caribbean mini-land, but has been diluted and lost to time over the years, with a variety of spaces converted to storage, abandoned fountains, and more.
I know we’ve beat on this drum several times before, but is it really too much to ask for live pirate performers and a steel drum band, retail revival, as well as a full transformation of Tortuga Tavern and the addition of the Beak & Barrel? This is a good step in the right direction, especially given everything on the horizon for this side of Magic Kingdom, but Caribbean Plaza needs and deserves more. Perhaps the popularity of Beak & Barrel will “prove” that to the beancounters, once and for all.
This sleepy corner of Adventureland could soon become much busier. Investing in Caribbean Plaza to improve its capacity and utilization would be a savvy forward-thinking, but still relatively low-cost move for the company. It would also make sense to do this sooner rather than later, as Piston Peak is going to make this corner of the park much more popular. We assume that’ll also mean overhauling Pecos Bill, in which case Imagineering first turning its attention to nearby Tortuga Tavern would make a lot of sense. Perhaps that’ll be a 2025 Destination D23 announcement with work to commence later this year or in early 2026?!
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Your Thoughts
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