Bigfire at Universal CityWalk Orlando

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What is Bigfire?

A giant, custom-made wood-fire grill is situated in the very heart of Bigfire, allowing guests to see the food cooked right in front of their eyes. But this dominating feature also sets the stage for the entire dining experience; “fire-kissed” American fare, from steaks and burgers to salmon avocado toast, is presented in a warm, cozy atmosphere designed to conjure nostalgic feelings of summers by the water. One of the big draws here is the special type of wood, whether that be Cherrywood or Pecanwood, that is used to complement each dish on the menu so that the smoked flavor is always just right.

Where is Bigfire located?

At Universal CityWalk Orlando.

Bigfire – hours and reservations

Bigfire is open for dinner year-round and for lunch during peak periods. Hours, however, are subject to change.

Sunday – Thursday 3:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Friday – Saturday 3:00 pm – 12:00 am

Reservations are available here.

What’s the story behind Bigfire?

For the full scoop on Bigfire’s backstory, please see our complete write-up.

Bigfire – theming

Conceived in conjunction with Universal’s theme-park designers, just as the impeccable Toothsome Chocolate Emporium and Savory Feast Kitchen was, Bigfire consists of small touches throughout, making this one of the most detailed venues at CityWalk (even if that theming is meant to be more subtle than bold). The restaurant is designed to feel like a grand lakeside lodge, employing warm colors, cast-iron and wood accents, retro camp lanterns, a cozy fireplace inside, and a fire pit outside in order to pull off the effect. Every outdoor seat comes with a tableside s’mores kit, and there are also oversize plaid blankets and various lawn games strewn about out here, as well, sealing the family-on-summer-vacation deal.

What was Bigfire’s opening date?

June 26, 2019

What’s on the menu at Bigfire?

Note that three different types of wood – cherry, pecan, and oak – are paired with many of the dishes (and, even, some drinks) to increase their flavor profiles.

Shareable Starters

Hearth Oven-baked Bread – $9.00
Bigfire’s signature hearth oven-baked bread served with herbed butter, orange peach preserves

Smoked Brook Trout Dip – $17.00
Paired with house-made crackers

Skillet-roasted Mussels – $18.00
Sizzling with herb broth, white wine, chives, smoked salt, grilled bread

Bourbon Cheese Fondue – $17.00
Served with crispy cauliower, blistered shishito peppers, grilled bread, lavosh, hearth grilled baby carrots
Add hearth grilled Andouille sausage or cola braised pork +4

BBQ Chicken Flatbread – $16.00
Pulled chicken, bourbon apple butter, smoked cheddar, pickled red onions, sherry vinegar reduction

Wood-charred Brussels Sprouts – $12.00
Roasted Brussels sprouts and shishito peppers, served over toasted almond smear and topped with micro arugula

Soup & Salads

Campfire Chili – $11.00
Cozy up by Bigfire’s hearthstone grill with a bowl of campfire chili, served with sour cream and cornbread

Seasonal Soup – $11.00
Smoked Florida tomato bisque, grilled cheese croutons, basil oil

Cobb – $22.00
Bigfire’s signature wood blend grilled chicken, pork belly, corn, sweet potatoes, avocado, goat cheese, egg, almonds, honey barbecue dressing, cornbread 

Wedge – $16.00
Avocado, red onions, tomatoes, egg, bacon, blue cheese dressing
Bigfire’s signature wood blend-grilled NY strip + $7.00

Apple Salad – $14.00
Grilled and marinated apples, frisée, endive, apple cider gel, Marcona almonds, goat cheese, poppy seed and apple dressing

From the Hearth

Grilled over Bigfire’s signature wood blend of specialty woods. Served with fire-grilled baby carrots, crispy smashed potatoes

Bigfire Fire-grilled Steaks
Filet Mignon: 8 oz. – $45.00
NY Sirloin Strip: 12 oz. – $51.00
Boneless Ribeye: 16 oz. – $53.00

Entrées

Beer Can Chicken – $30.00
Bell & Evans chicken half, Brunswick stew, slaw, cornbread

Vegan Sausage Cassoulet – $28.00
Black-eyed peas, Fungi Jon mushrooms, baby kale, pickled bell peppers, fennel pollen

Hearth Grilled Lamb Chops – $48.00
Roasted squash, Brussel sprouts, toasted couscous, mint and basil marmalade

BBQ Shrimp – $29.00
Blackened, cream sauce, signature coleslaw, cornbread

Beer-glazed Scallops – $36.00
Bacon, fire-grilled vegetables, charred hearth bread

Grilled Pork Chop – $35.00
12 oz. bone-in, whipped honey & carrot purée, Fungi Jon mushrooms, spring vegetables, fried shallots

Hearth Oven Baked Seafood Stew – $34.00
Wood oven roasted catch of the day, shrimp, mussels, tomato and fennel ragu, caper verde, lemon butter

Dutch Oven Beef Burgundy – $34.00
Red wine, mushrooms, bacon, pearl onions, buttered egg noodles

Cauliflower Steak – $24.00
Shishito peppers, roasted vine tomatoes, warm farro salad, charred tomato sauce

Catch of the day – MP
Roasted butternut squash risotto, warm brown butter and almond vinaigrette, sage

Brook Trout – $30.00
Served with fire-grilled seasonal vegetables, crispy smashed potatoes, and tarragon tartar sauce

Salmon – $35.00
Arka salmon, warm potato salad, horseradish cream sauce, fresh herb salad

Handhelds

Served on a signature Bigfire brioche bun with your choice of side

Elk Sloppy Joe – $23.00
open-faced, beer cheese, onion rings, house-made pickle chips, Texas toast

Bigfire Cheeseburger – $20.00
1/2 lb. Black Angus beef, cheddar cheese, bibb lettuce, beefsteak tomato, signature brioche bun

Grilled Chicken – $19.00
Walnut pesto, peach preserves, bibb lettuce, grilled red onion, smoked cheddar cheese, signature brioche bun

Salmon BLTA – $24.00
Bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado, smoked caper aioli, signature Bigfire brioche bun

Sides

$7.00 each

Fire Grilled Vegetables

Signature Coleslaw

Sweet Corn Pudding

Bigfire Fries

Premium Sides

$8.00 each

House Salad

Crispy Potatoes and Herbs

$10.00 each

Bigfire Bacon Mac & Cheese 

Loaded Fingerling Potatoes

Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto

Kids’ menu

Entrees

All meals served with your choice of strawberry applesauce, grapes, or fries

Chicken Fingers – $11.00

Cheeseburger Sliders – $11.00

Mac & Cheese – $11.00

Chicken & Beef Skewers – $12.00

Grilled 4 oz. Sirloin – $12.00

Drinks

Soft Drinks – $3.50
Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, HiC Pink Lemonade, Fanta Orange, Sprite, Rootbeer

Iced Tea – $3.50
Sweet or unsweetened

Hot chocolate – $5.00
With marshmallows

Juice – $3.50
Apple, Cranberry, Orange, or Pineapple

Milk – $3.50
2% white and 1% chocolate

Desserts

Tableside S’mores – $19.00
Marshmallows, graham crackers, chocolate, peanut butter cups for two
Each additional portion – $9.00

Rocky Road Baked Alaska – $12.00
Chocolate ice cream, toasted marshmallows, caramel praline crust, huckleberry core, meringue, torched tableside

Dutch Apple Pie – $11.00
Vanilla ice cream

Skillet-baked Chocolate Cake – $12.00
Flourless chocolate cake, cherries, bourbon ice cream

Dessert Drinks

Grown Up Hot Chocolate – $17.00
Premium hot chocolate, choice of liquor

Keep It Simple – $18.00
Premium coffee, choice of liquor

Drinks

Soft Drinks

Fountain soda – $4.75
Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta Orange, HiC Pink Lemonade, Rootbeer

Iced Tea – $4.75
Sweet or unsweetened

Hot Chocolate – $5.00
With marshmallows

Hot Coffee – $4.75
Regular or decaf

Cappuccino – $5.00

Latte – $5.00

Espresso – $3.25

Hot Tea – $4.25
Green, Earl Grey, or decaf

Juice – $3.50
Apple, orange, cranberry, pineapple, grapefruit, or tomato

Milk – $3.50
2% or 1%, chocolate

Bottled Water – $6.00
Acqua Panna or San Pellegrino

Old Fashioneds & Manhattans

Smoked Old Fashioned – $19.00
Knob Creek Maple, smoked over oak

The Classic – $18.00
Classic old fashioned with Bigfire Select Barrel Woodford Reserve

PB&J – $17.00
Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey, Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon, Crème de Framboise

Blackberry Citrus – $19.00
Spirit of the Oak Bourbon, blackberry, orange

Classic Manhattan – $18.00
Classic Manhattan with Bigfire Select Barrel Woodford Reserve and sweet vermouth

Flights

Uncle Nearest – $23.00
Uncle Nearest Small Batch, Uncle Nearest Rye, Uncle Nearest Single Barrel

Hidden Gems Bourbon – $19.50
High West American Prairie, Hudson’s Baby, Noble Oak “Double Oak”

Specialty Cocktails

Bulleit Smash – $17.00
Bulleit Rye, simple syrup, fresh mint, blackberries and lemon

Florida Sour – $18.00
Chairman’s Reserve spiced rum, lime and grapefruit juice, passionfruit purée, vanilla bean paste

Big Fire 75 – $17.00
St. Augustin New World gin, St-Germaine Elderflower liqueur, Piper Sonoma® Brut, lemon juice, blood orange syrup

Lakeside Punch – $17.00
St. Augustine Florida cane vodka, orange, pineapple & cranberry juices

Raspberry Lemonade – $17.00
Tito’s® vodka, fresh lemonade, Crème de Framboise

Specialty Mocktails

Blackberry Breeze – $11.00
Muddled blackberries and mint, ginger beer, spiced blackberry, crystalized ginger

Strawberry Elderflower Pink Lemonade – $12.00
Muddled strawberry, basil, elderflower tonic, lemonade

Whiskey

A distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash

Michter’s
Slaughter House
Jack Daniel’s
Jack Daniel’s 10yr
Jack Daniel’s 12yr
Bear Gully
Gentleman Jack
Southern Comfort
Southern Comfort, 100 Proof
Stranahan’s
George Dickel 13 yr Bottled in Bond
Tin Cup
Uncle Nearest, 1856 Premium Aged
Westland Distillery, American Single Malt
Balcones Corn Brimstone
Balcones True Blue
Screwball Peanut Butter

Bourbon

An American whiskey made using a corn-based mash

Bigfire Select Barrel Woodford Reserve
Horse Soldier, Small Batch
Basil Hayden Toast
Dark Door Spirits’ Spirit Of Oak
Bradshaw
Michter’s
Old Forester
Bird Dog, Small Batch
Bird Dog Chocolate
Wild Turkey
Wild Turkey Longbranch
Basil Hayden
Booker’s
Hudson’s Baby Bourbon
Maker’s Mark
Maker’s 46
Knob Creek
Knob Creek Smoked Maple
Angel’s Envy
Russell’s Reserve 10 yr
Smooth Ambler “Big Level”
Blanton’s
Jim Beam
Buffalo Trace
Eagle Rare
Stillhouse Black Bourbon
St. Augustine Bourbon
Evan Williams
Yellowstone Bourbon
Bulleit
Bulleit 10 yr
High West American Prairie Bourbon
Four Roses Yellow Label
Four Roses Small Batch
Four Roses Small Batch 100 Proof
Rabbit Hole
Jefferson’s Very Small Batch Bourbon
1792 Ridgemont
EH Taylor Jr, Small Batch
Devil’s River Small Batch Texas Bourbon
Garrison Brothers, Texas Bourbon
Noble Oak, Double Oak Bourbon
Smooth Ambler Contradiction
Smooth Ambler Big Level

Rye

A spicy, dry American whiskey made using a rye-based mash

Rittenhouse
Old Overholt
Bulleit
Limestone Branch, Minor Case
Templeton, 4 yr Rye
Michter’s
Whistle Pig Rye
Sagamore Spirit, Cask Strength Rye
Splinter Group, Whip Saw Rye
Balcones Rye
Knob Creek Rye
Sazerac 18-year
Thomas H Handy Rye

Draft Beers

$12.25-$13.00

Bell’s Two Hearted
Abita Amber
Lexington Bourbon Barrel Ale
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Sam Adams Seasonal
Crooked Can Florida Sunshine Lager

Bottles & Cans

$9.50-$11.25

Budweiser
Bud Light
Miller Light
Michelob Ultra
Angry Orchard
Wicked Weed Pernicious
PBR
Coppertail Unholy

Wine

White

Kendall-Jackson “Vintner’s Edition”
Chardonnay, Fulton,California
Bottle 53

St. Hubert’s “The Stag”
Chardonnay, Yarra Valley, Australia
Bottle 56

Chalk Hill
Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast, California
Bottle 60

Rombauer
Chardonnay, Carneros, California
Bottle 83

Rombauer
Chardonnay, Carneros, California
Bottle 83

Cakebread Cellars
Chardonnay, Napa Valley, California
Bottle 109

Seghesio
Chardonnay, Sonoma Valley, California
Glass 16
Bottle 60

Michael Pozzan Special Selection “Annabella”
Chardonnay, Napa Valley, California
Glass 14
Bottle 53

Gravel Bar
Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, Washington
Bottle 56

ZD
Chardonnay, Napa Valley, California
3oz. 19
6oz. 31
Bottle 116

Honig
Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley, California
Glass 14
Bottle 53

Decoy
Sauvignon Blanc, Sonoma County, California
Bottle 64

Acrobat Vineyards
Pinto Gris, West Valley Region, Oregon
Bottle 60

A to Z
Riesling, Newberg, Oregon
Glass 14
Bottle 53

Forge Cellars
Riesling, Burdett, New York
Bottle 56

Schramsberg Brut Rosé
Rosé Sparkling Wine, Sonoma County, California
Bottle 113

San Simeon
Viognier, Paso Robles, California
Bottle 64

Elk Cove
Pinot Blanc, Willamette Valley, Oregon
Bottle 64

Gundlach Bundschu Gewurztraminer
Californian Gewürztraminer, Sonoma, California
Glass 17
Bottle 64

Belle Glos “Oeil de Perdrix” 
Rosé,  Napa Valley, California
Glass 15
Bottle 56

Sparkling

Chandon Blanc Demi Sec
Sparkling Wine, California
Bottle 64

Piper Sonoma Brut
Sparkling Wine, Sonoma County, California
Glass 21
Bottle 79

Schramsberg Brut
Rosé Sparkling Wine, Sonoma County, California
Bottle 128

G.H. Mumm “Cordon Rouge”
Brut Champagne, Champagne, France
Bottle 173

Red

Canoe Ridge Expedition
Cabernet Sauvignon, Horse Haven Hills, Columbia Valley, Washington
Bottle 60

Sebastiani
Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma Coast, California
Bottle 49

St. Hubert’s The Stag 
Cabernet Sauvignon, North Coast, California
Bottle 79

Austin Hope
Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles, California
Bottle 98

Jordan
Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
Glass 27
Bottle 101

Sean Minor “Four Bears”
Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles, California
Glass 14
Bottle 53

Silver Oak
Cabernet Sauvignon, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California
3oz. 23
6oz. 38
Bottle 143

Ghost Pines
Merlot, Napa Valley, California
Bottle 64

Stags’ Leap Winery
Merlot, Napa Valley, California
Glass 20
Bottle 75

Duckhorn Estate
Merlot, Napa Valley, California
3oz. 19
6oz. 32
Bottle 120

Oberon
Merlot, Napa Valley, California
Bottle 68

Tortoise Creek
Clarksburg, California
Glass 12
Bottle 45

La Crema
Pinot Noir, Monterey County, California
Glass 16
Bottle 60

Erath
Pinot Noir, Oregon
Bottle 56

Meiomi
Pinot Noir, California
Bottle 64

Row Eleven Viñas 3
Pinot Noir, California
Bottle 60

Three Saints
Pinot Noir, Santa Maria Valley, California
Bottle 75

Evening Land “Seven Springs Vineyard”
Pinot Noir, Eola-Amity Hills, Willamette Valley, Oregon
3oz. 18
6oz. 30
Bottle 113

Rodney Strong “Upshot”
Red Blend, Sonoma County, California
Glass 15
Bottle 56

King Estate “North by Northwest”
Red Blend, Columbia Valley, Washington
Bottle 53

Orin Swift Abstract
Red Blend, California
Bottle 98

The Prisoner
Red Blend, Napa Valley, California
Bottle 105

Mount Peak Winery “Gravity”
Red Blend, Napa County, California
Bottle 124

Flora Springs “Trilogy”
Red Blend, Napa County, California
3oz. 30
6oz. 50
Bottle 188

Matchbook Malbec
Malbec, Dunnigan Hills, Yolo County, California
Glass 14
Bottle 53

Michael David Winery “Inkblot”
Petit Verdot, Lodi, California
Bottle 83

Michael David Syrah Petit Petite
Petite Petit, Lodi, California
Bottle 64

1000 Stories
Zinfandel, Mendicino County, California
Bottle 64

Mount Peak “Rattlesnake”
Zinfandel, Napa,California
Bottle 113

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