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A windmill with its sails on fire, serving cocktails in the middle of the cursed village — the best-looking bar at Universal Orlando.
Last verified July 2026
The Burning Blade Tavern is a bar built into a windmill whose sails are alight, standing in the middle of Darkmoor. It is the best piece of visual design at Epic Universe that you can also buy a drink at, and photographs of it are why a good number of people put this park on their list in the first place.
The drinks are theme-park cocktails — well-made, heavily themed, priced accordingly — and the seating is outdoor, which in this world is entirely the point. You are here to sit in the village with the manor on the hill and the fire turning overhead.
Go after dark. The whole thing is a lighting effect, and in the middle of a Florida afternoon it is a windmill with some flames on it. At nine at night it is the single most striking thing in the park.
The best-looking bar at Universal Orlando and worth one drink for the setting alone. Go at night or do not bother.
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A heavily themed cocktail from the windmill bar in the middle of Darkmoor, served under sails that are on fire.
Our take: The drink is ordinary and the setting is the best in the park. Buy one after dark, stand where you can see the sails, and consider it money well spent.
A non-alcoholic version of the tavern's themed drinks, served in the same glassware with the same garnish.
Our take: Genuinely worth ordering rather than a consolation prize, which makes this a bar an entire party can use. Twelve dollars is still twelve dollars.
For one drink after dark, absolutely. It is a windmill with burning sails in the middle of a fogged village and it is the most striking thing to look at in the park. The cocktails are ordinary theme-park cocktails at ordinary theme-park prices.
Yes, and the specialty non-alcoholic options come in the same themed glassware, which makes this a bar that works for a whole party rather than just the drinkers in it.
Bar snacks rather than meals. For actual food in Dark Universe you want Das Stakehaus a short walk away, which is the world's only substantial counter-service.