S.H.I.E.L.D. Galley
Character dining buffeteria
Buffet featuring American dishes and Avengers character encounters
By far the largest public restaurant in Avengers Airspace is S.H.I.E.L.D. Galley, located below decks in the Helicarrier’s aft section. Guests will dine just like Avengers or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Helicarrier’s steel galley, enjoying American dishes which are both simple and of very high quality. This is an exceptional character dining location! Guests are practically guaranteed to interact with one or more Marvel superheroes at their table, making this a truly unforgettable experience.
The Galley entrance is located on the enclosed level beneath the upper landing deck, near the rear port turbine wing. Guests enter through frosted glass walls bearing the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo. Cast members check guests in using high-tech touchscreen cabinets inspired by Nick Fury’s command deck.
A large, low-slung mess hall serves as the sprawling buffeteria floor. Minus the details, this is like any aircraft carrier galley, a sparsely functional military setting. But those details! There are four serving stations, each one dedicated to a different main Avenger, each one bearing the seized gear of that Avenger’s villains.
Captain America’s station serves entrees. Shelf space above the food trays bears 1940s Hydra tech, vintage dieselpunk ray guns, Red Skull’s skull-octopus hood ornament, and more.
Green items such as salads are of course found at Hulk’s station. Here you will find Hulk’s war trophies from the Battle of New York, with items like Chitauri blasters, quantum grenades, and Loki’s helmet (complete with a massive fist indent).
Thor’s station is where you’ll find the desserts. Shelving displays busted Destroyer armor, Dark Elf masks, Scourge’s executioner axe, and various stones from a felled Kronan.
Lastly there is Iron Man’s drink station. Naturally, here you’ll find seized technology made by Stark’s enemies, with items ranging from Iron Monger’s helmet to a Hammeroid drone to Whiplash’s whip gauntlets and arc reactor.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Galley serves guests breakfast, lunch and dinner, with unique menu items available for each meal. The cuisine here is classic, non-threatening American food, all standard safe-but-elevated dishes such as meatloaf, baked potatoes and Cobb salads. The primary desserts are New York cheesecakes, available in a variety of seasonal flavors.
The main dining area sits on a slightly sunken level within view of the buffeteria. This is the below decks hangar bay, with mess hall tables stationed around a central F-15 fighter jet. Cargo boxes and ammo can supplies are neatly stacked around the base. Klieg lights dance in the darkness. Electrical wires running overhead provide a dazzling lightshow like similar details in the MISSION: Breakout queue. There is a large video screen on the far end, meant to be the hangar bay’s outer windows, providing constant mid-flight views. Like the screens in the queue for Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet, it is always daytime in these videos. Occasionally, Nick Fury will come across on the Helicarrier’s PAs issuing orders to S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel.
Dedicated restrooms set in a latrine alongside the hangar bay maintain the same featureless steel look as the public restrooms on the Helicarrier deck.
There are four private, highly-themed dining rooms, one each for the four main Avengers. Reservations are required to dine in these rooms, and are highly coveted as well since a meal here includes an extended face-to-face meet ‘n’ greet with the room’s owner...extremely conversational face performers who excel at in-character improvisation.
The Tony Stark Room is a makeshift garage workshop which he has built into the Helicarrier. It comes complete with futuristic Stark Tech, computer consoles and fabrication machines, filling every available space. There are some noteworthy items on display from Iron Man’s early adventures, like the original arc reactor mounted in a glass cube. The red and gold Iron Man Mach 42 suit is seated cross-legged on a bench, with space next to it for guest photo-ops.
The Steve Rogers Room is decorated like a vintage 1940s diner. This serves as Rogers’ escape from the modern world. Framed newspapers detailing Cap’s WWII-era heroics line the walls. The central spot of honor goes to a mounted vibranium shield. Tabletop displays consist of old military medals and baseball mementos. A vinyl record player continually belts out crackly, old-timey swing music.
The Thor Odinson Room is dominated by a central wooden long table, set before a large fireplace. Burning inside, out-of-reach, is the Eternal Flame. Thor has personalized his quarters to resemble an Asgardian Great Hall, with a great number of Norse props on hand. A mantlepiece over the fireplace displays Thor’s armor. Golden friezes along the steel wall depict the great historic battles of Bor and Odin. Mjolnir hangs daintily from a coat rack, but of course guests find it impossible to lift. Face character Thor has no trouble at all though.
Lastly, the Dr. Bruce Banner Room is a meditation chamber designed to keep Banner’s monstrously explosive temper at bay. It’s all fairly minimalist in contrast to the other rooms, with the main feature being a row of screens simulating a tranquil lakeview. Off to one side is a chemistry lab. Scientific treatises on gamma rays line the tabletop.
Occasionally the lab’s beaker chemicals will boil. The entire room will suddenly shake and turn green. A mounted painting of Bruce Banner changes into the Hulk, an effect like the Haunted Mansion paintings. Guests can even hear Hulk himself rampaging and roaring with rage, off in the distant bowels of the Helicarrier. Our Bruce Banner face performer likes to trigger these effects just before making his entrance.
Super Dogs
Snack cart
Hot dog wagon
Ah, the classic New York City hot dog cart! So simple, so obvious, but we would be remiss not to include one. Serving in that esteemed role is Super Dogs, dishing out hot dogs and corn dogs across from Shawarma Palace since 2012.
There really isn’t much theming which can be added to a basic hot dog vendor...just a little dressing up to fit the Avengers’ universe. A cheesy, off-brand plywood cutout of the Avengers “graces” the wagon’s front panel, alongside the menu. All around are plastic grocery crates and metal ingredients boxes, which guests can use as benches if they so please. Or guests can sit on one of several shaded benches overlooking Langley Lagoon, enjoying their treat along with panoramic views of Mt. Helios.
Capsicles
Snack cart
Soft serve with character motifs
Over on Liberty Isle, all the way on the other side of the Helicarrier, there is a similarly simplistic snack stand. Capsicles is a touristy ice cream truck with a Captain America theme, parked in the shadows of Lee Bridge and Avengers Academy Boytique. Like so many of the establishments in Avengers Airspace, Capsicles was founded to capitalize on Avengers Fever™. The truck’s chintzy decorations - its “Welcome Back Cap” banner and its side panel mural of Cap frozen in ice - severely clash with the somber tone of Liberty Park...
That surrounding Liberty Park greenery, with its many historic tributes to Captain America, provide most of the ambiance and theming. Capsicles provides the food...soft serve ice cream dishes brightly colored to represent various Avengers. There are cookies shaped like Cap’s shield, or Mjolnir-shaped popsicles. Try the premier flavors from Ben & Jerry’s, like Stark Raving Hazelnuts (a little chalky) or Hunka-Hulka Burnin’ Fudge!
