Texas Amusement Park Takes Menu Offerings To New Heights

Businesses all around Texas are constantly devising new ways to entice their customers to try new things with hopes of returning again and again.

One of those businesses that is changing the way its guests view its menus and offerings has just hired a chef with Michelin Star credentials. This isn't your typical business that hires a chef of this caliber.

Six Flags Over Texas has just hired a chef to transform the park's offerings to its guests

When you think of theme park food and snacks, especially at Six Flags Over Texas, you think about:

The Pink Thing - sadly discontinued in 2024
cotton candy
corn dogs
turkey legs
funnel cakes
pizza

What you don't think of is gourmet options prepared by a gourmet chef

Six Flags Over Texas is hoping to change the way park guests eat and view their food options this season. As tastes and health habits change, so do the menu options at the Entertainment Capital of Texas.

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Six Flags plans on offering new menu items that have been curated by Chef Douwe Iedema, who has quite the international culinary experience. Chef Iedema has worked all over Europe, at NATO headquarters in the Netherlands, with the Dutch Royal Family, and at several Michelin Star restaurants.

This is quite the change for a park that has been offering traditional theme park options since opening its gates on August 5, 1961. The park will now offer many fresh ingredients, homemade dishes, healthy options, and smoked-in-house meats that will be served throughout the park.

Chef Iedema says,

My goal is to reimagine the food options at our park, so they rise to the level of the world-class roller coasters and immersive entertainment that our guests come to enjoy year after year.'

Six Flags Over Texas is committed to these new offerings. The park is investing in the re-theming of two of its restaurants with updated interiors and exteriors and creating an elevated experience for the guests with this new level of service and menu options.

Six Flags Over Texas and Chef Iedema have announced that these new options will be offered in the following locations:

JB’s BBQ – Upon entering the park, the smell of the smoked-in-house brisket, chicken, and pulled pork will lead guests to the refurbished JB’s BBQ, now offering delicious side dishes like smashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cornbread, healthy salads, and peach cobbler.
All American Café – The most popular restaurant gets a major renovation to provide guests with more seating and shaded areas and an all-new menu that includes double-patty diner-style burgers, hand-breaded chicken tenders, Detroit-style pizza, and milkshakes.
Casa de las Banderas – Opens this summer with a brand-new menu of street tacos, freshly fried tri-color tortilla chips, and elote.
La Cantina – Opens this spring with a new menu featuring Mexican tortas and traditional sides such as Spanish rice, pinto beans, and cilantro lime crema.
Texas Tacos – All roads will lead to Texas Tacos, where guests will find Dallas-style brisket and pork tacos, all made with fresh meat smoked in-house for the first time.
Etiennes – Opens this summer to delight guests with fresh beignets dusted with powdered sugar and sweet and savory crepes.
Primo’s – Totally reimagined pizza stop offers New York-style pizza made with a fresh pizza crust, plus tossed-to-order Caesar salad and a new selection of cannoli.

I am looking forward to these new options because when I visited the park as an early teenager and ultimately worked there for ten seasons, nothing like this was being served at the park.

Happy eating, and don't get too full and get on Titan or The New Texas Giant!