Food delivered straight to your table via rollercoaster!
Food delivered straight to your table via rollercoaster!
| Theme Park | Alton Towers |
|---|---|
| Park Area | Forbidden Valley |
| Type | Restaurant |
| Audience | All Ages |
| Opened | 13 May 2016 |
| Manufacturer | Mack Rides |
Inside Rollercoaster Restaurant
Rollercoaster Restaurant is Alton Towers' most premium food outlet and its most unique dining experience.
Instead of using human waiters, diner's meals are delivered straight to their table via mini rollercoasters which zoom around on tracks suspended around the restaurant. Food is even sent through a full 360° loop to a couple of the tables!
The restaurant offers a varied selection of main meals and snacks, plus both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (and yes, even most of the drinks come via rollercoaster!). There are separate menus for lunch and dinner sittings, with the restaurant open late into the evening to cater for guests staying in the onsite accommodation. Diners can browse the menu and then order their food from tablets which are given to each party when they arrive. The tablets are then handed over at the cash desk near the exit to settle the bill when the meal is over.
Following the rollercoaster theme, a range of park memorabilia, ride plans and old photographs can be seen around the walls of the restaurant, and each seat is even named after one of Alton's current or former coasters.
The rollercoaster food delivery system was designed by German ride manufacturer Mack, and was first used at the company's own Europa Park in their FoodLoop restaurant. The system has been tweaked for installation at Alton Towers, but it could easily be argued that the original just has the edge over the UK version.
Rollercoaster Restaurant is an interesting concept, and the food-by-rollercoaster gimmick can somewhat mask the fact that fairly standard quality food is being served at inflated prices. It is, though, a great place to go for a meal with a mid to large sized group: watching the food-carrying coaster cars racing down their tracks (and hopefully not getting stuck!) is infinitely entertaining.
Rollercoaster Restaurant
Tracks wind overhead inside
Each track leads to one of the restaurant's 13 tables
Entrance to the restaurant
Sometimes there is a queue waiting for a table
Spiral track leading to one of the tables
360 degree loop
Plates and cutlery are stored in the centre of the table
Table setting
A meal served by rollercoaster
Tablet ordering system
Rump steak details
Plates and glassware
Big screen
Spiralling coaster track
If the food gets stuck, the ladder comes out!
A quiet day at Rollercoaster Restaurant
Rollercoaster Restaurant sits in a building next to Galactica
