There’s a Giordano’s Pizza on the other side of the freeway - it takes about 45min for their deep dish pizzas but we called in our dine-in order in advance when we started walking out of the park and it was ready 10 min after we sat down - perfect.

Yukon BBQ and Windy City are the best restaurants in the park by far.

There are some great local breakfast & lunch spots near the park, but they close around 2-3pm (Tina's Italian Bake Shop, Gurnee Donuts, Riverside Cafe)

The Culver's across the street from the park is also consistently high quality, and Timothy O'Tooles Pub next door serves good food.

I prefer to eat outside the park. I like Mama K's in the little strip mall across the street, or Salutos across the interstate and west a bit if I'm looking for something a bit fancier.

Depending on where you're coming from, you may enjoy the nearby Culver's (burgers and such).

One very subpar slice of pizza at Primo's Pizzeria near The Dark Knight was $16.99. WTF.

In defense of chicken strips, the ones I had this year at the park were surprisingly delicious.

Your ride and refresh cup should be the same as the plastic ones but either way they’ll scan your barcode to refill. If it’s not I would bring a sharpie to write your name on it.

As someone said the spray bottle fans are good to have. I never brought one before but even an umbrella for shade. There’s never shade around. Have fun!

If you're going all day from open to close, the All Day Dining pass is a great value. I have the season dining pass for 2 meals per visit, my wife and I usually get the meals that are shareable and have a high quantity of food. Meals that come with lots of food are the Cilantro lime chicken nachos at Food Etc & the orange chicken & teriyaki chicken bowls. The loaded nachos at Twin Charged Tacos, chicken strips from Johnny Rockets, and anywhere else that has them.

Not sure if you already tried the Bbq Mac anc cheese place across from full throttle already but it’s one of my favorite foods throughout the park. I would try bringing a mist bottle to stay extra cool

Prestige pass grants you early entry through the VIP gates…they’ll “rope drop” around 10:20am every morning…

Aside from some repaints and remodeling many areas, including bathrooms, it’s still the same park with not much change.

The best way to find out is to download the six flags app. Click on your home park and then choose dining at the bottom of your screen. Now you can browse all of the dining options. Meal plan will be labeled next to all of the items on the menu that you can utilize the dining plan for. There are quite a few options. If you have the money, definitely go for it. In my opinion the dinning plan options are hearty and delicious for the price. Get a diamond pass with a meal plan! You will be all set with food and beverages for the rest of 2023 and 2024. Let me know if you have any more questions. Enjoy!

Things of note. You’re generally restricted to the regular or “smaller” menu items. Like you can get the single cheeseburger, but not the double. You can get the foot long hot dog, but not the chili cheese footlong hotdog. Our home park has very few healthy items available. My son was able to upgrade some chicken strips one day to the hot chicken strips by paying an up charge, so that might be an option, but if I’m paying at every meal then I need to question the value of the food pass. Keep in mind the 3 hour rule and how long you’ll actually be in the park. We’ve ran into “problems” a couple of times now where we’re not ready for dinner, but most of the restaurants in our home park start to close up around an hour before closing. So if we get to the park at 11 and eat lunch, we need to be in one of the restaurants by 5:00 (if the park is closing at 6, which has been the case on Sundays now). We’re not always ready to eat by that time since we need to be heading to dinner around 4:45 if we’re going to get our 2nd meal that day.

Ultimately the food at Six Flags isn’t great. I haven’t really been thrilled with the quality. However, the portions are generally big and it isn’t hard to go enough to get your value out of it. The average meal is around $15-17 from what I’ve seen. So you can do some math and figure out the value you think you’ll get out of it. Our home park costs $100 for the 2 meal dining plan. We’ve been 3 times so far and have gotten 6 meals per person (2 per day). That puts us at roughly $90 per person that we would have spent had we been paying out of pocket. Now in reality, we’ve gotten a 2nd meal in the park that we wouldn’t have normally gotten (either got fast food on the way home, which would be much cheaper, or waited to eat until we got home). Since we just got our passes, and have all of next year to go, it’s not hard to see we’ll be coming out way ahead by the end of the next season.

It all depends on your park and how long do you stay in park. My is SFGA and food quality is bad and expensive. I never stay for more than 3-4 hours in a visit. It does not makes sense for me to have a meal plan.

Here is the menu for 2022. While it is no doubt different now, it will give you a sense of the types of food Six Flags makes available:

https://static.sixflags.com/website/files/sfgm\_dining-pass-brochure.pdf

Prices are generally the same, so it just depends what you want. The tacos by Goliath are good. And I enjoy the Max'd Out Mac and Screaming Spuds, though it is a bit greasy.

Assume to spend roughly $20 for each meal.

My personal ranking:

1. Chicken sandwhich from the chicken coup by West Coast Racers
2. Full Throttle buffalo wings
3. Loaded baked potatoes near FT
4. Brisket Sandwhich from Full Throttle sports bar
5. Everything else in the park
6. big Belly burgers (just go to Johnny Rockets if you really want a burger.

The loaded baked potato:

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Ace o clubs by wonder woman is pretty good. I got the tri tip and my gf got the pulled pork. The portion sizes are enough for 2 people imo. Highly recommend the dining plan and using it twice, without it, the price is nearly the same with drinks without the dining plan.

The smart water they sell is also the large size bottles, enough to share with 2 people.

Katys kettle by tatsu is not bad either, decent chicken sandwhich for the price or chicken strips.

I’ve been going for years. My go to’s are usually the orange chicken spot by Goliath, chicken spot by west coast, tacos spot by west coast, bbq place by riddlers and if they are open, sandwich shop by colossus. Their food quality has been slowly picking up. The CEO six flags had for a bit seemed to emphasize on food quality, so food has gone up a lot since the pandemic days. Get the food pass if you’re planning on visiting 3+ times this year. You’ll save A LOT

Les Frites in Italy is the best deal and the best food in the park

Mobile order a kids meal. The options are limited, but they’re all around $10 and the portions are reasonable.

The pretzel sandwich in Germany across from verbolten is probably the best deal

The chicken tenders at squires grill is enough food for 2 people for $15. It’s our go-to.

We eat a big breakfast, pack heavy snacks for the park and plan to buy like one snack there (like their giant pretzel for $10), and have a cooler in the car with sandwiches and sides after we leave. We tend to leave early bc of our young kids, though.

ETA: If you're going to buy food, I think the hand cut, loaded fries at Les Frites are delicious and the best value

Bring your own food in a cooler and tailgate. Assuming they still allow re-entry, I wouldn't pay for any food at that place. It's going to be overpriced and underquality.

For Six Flags there is a ticket with a Dining Pass you can buy online that gets you a refillable cup and unlimited meals (every 90 min or something). Totally worth it to get ONE meal pass and share. My kids and shared a chicken fingers and fries as many times as we could. Got like six meals and at least 10 refills over the full day.

We were at six flags yesterday. I wouldn't prepay for food. We went to the water park and snuck food in our bag. Nothing large just enough to get through the day. If you I would do a chair rental/cabana rental so you have a home base. It is around $50 for Six flags and HH add on. The water park is fun though and large, we were there for around 5 hours plus ride time. We did rides first, did the water park and then a few rides after

I think Six flage has a summer pass including parking for $79.00 per person who like to go more or every other weekend. Food is way overpriced so take with you in pocket.( dry food okay in a purse)

Were you looking at Canobie Lake from your perspective or theirs? My 8yo loves the heck out of that park. It's huge to them. Maybe by 14 you're a little jaded... I get what you mean though, it's relatively small. We went 3x last year and 1x so far this summer. But I love how it's not exhausting for an old fart like me.

Yum Yum Café is definitely my favorite place to eat, though Granny's is also great!

Granny's and Yum Yum Café have revamped menus this year, and I think the food quality is stepped up (but the portions might feel a little smaller).

Mama Flora's is a pretty good choice as well!

Yes, the Premium upgrade allows it to work at all parks. Have you installed the Six Flags app on your phone? You can add the pass to it so you don't need the physical card, and it tells you what parks it works with, plus all the discounts/offers you have.

Yes, the premium dining pass allows you to eat at any six flags (:

We got the chicken and waffle sandwich at the Chicken Coupe last week and really liked it! I also like the Mac and Cheese with garlic knots from the place by Full Throttle.

The wings are really good by Full throttle

Twistedwiches cheesesteak sandwich by far

Exit the park, head down Magic Mountain Parkway, google whatever kind of food you want, Santa Clarita/Valencia has it all.

Food etc chicken nachos