Medieval Times Restaurant and Show — Restaurant in Lazise

I wanted to go at Medieval Times since I first saw “The Cable Guy” back in the 90s. Well, that was definitely a case of “better late than never”. So, here’s a bit of a long take.

I will begin with the only negative experience, which was waiting too long in both queues with a reservation on hand, just to find out we were on the wrong one. No specific sign or info at the entrance, or even directions to/from the parking lot. Seemed like they purposely let everyone wait, in order to merge the small crowd into one show and fill all the seats. There was some outdoors intro to the show from actors, but we missed it during all our ticket struggle.

Other than that, once you get inside, the experience kicks in. The restaurant’s consistent theme awakes your inner child - and I recommend you to not resist the desire to believe that you are an interactive resident of another era. The sooner you’re going to let yourself go and sync with the rest of the audience, the longer the fun you’ll have.

The food in our case had as a starter some wonderful mushroom soup in a metal bowl (which you use as a drinking cup and then use it as a hammer to cheer for your knight). Then, every single person was served an entire roasted chicken with potatoes came as a main course, to eat exclusively with bare hands, as a proper middle age savage should (equip yourself with wipes beforehand, thank me later). Refills of beer, soda or water were non-stop. As a dessert we were served ice-cream and warm apple pie, which was a brilliant combo I would never have thought of. Same goes for the small espresso as a final touch, which gives you a boost to move yourself after all that feasting. I liked though, the suggestion from other reviewers about giving a small paper bag for the leftovers, since not everyone devours the whole thing as quickly as me.

The show was immersive, the plot played out with classical hero/anti-hero archetypes and ethical twists. The actors (especially the knights) were doing a GREAT job of drawing the audience in, all while riding real horses. Runtime was almost two hours long and it felt perfect, neither too fast nor dragging. The only thing I would add was some spear jousting between the knights, but as an all-ages show, I understand why it was left out. Same goes for the half Italian/half English dialogue, since you get what’s going on if you move your head up from the food to pay a little attention, it’s not rocket science (I don’t know practically any Italian).

Definitely was an electrifying experience, whether you’re going with kids or simply as adults who want to nerd out, you surely...

-- Review for Parents -- Now with 2 daughters (3, 7 y.o) we finally had another visit since our last one about 12 years ago! And indeed some things have changed!

Listen up parents!

This is not a normal restaurant. It's dinner and a show. The focus is the show, not the dinner. Keep this in mind when going.

Bring with you a snack or 2 and water. Don't expect to receive food/drinks immediately or even quickly. There are many people to serve (especially in high season) and some waited more than 30 min for their drinks.

For toddlers, consider bringing ear muffs to suppress the noise in the arena. It gets quite loud! Our 3 year old managed to have fun until about 20 to the end of the show. Then she wanted to leave.

Food has changed a bit. Now it's mainly bread with soup, chicken, dessert. No vegetables! (unless you count the soup). Bread was OK, soup is tasty, chicken was nice but a bit dry TBH.

Servers are slow and not the friendliest. They are there to put your food on the plate or serve you a drink. Don't expect special requests or even proper English from them.

The show and atmosphere is where it's at. Nothing like it around and main reason to go. Kids had a blast!

You will read plenty of reviews with people complaining over all sorts things. Again, this is not a normal restaurant! Don't expect to raise your hand and ask for something. If you're lucky your server understands English and maybe can help with something but please do lower your expectations for the restaurant and raise it for the show.

Should you go? I would say 100%. Worth it for the experience.

-- before having kids review: Show is really fun we got super excited about it.

The food is good: you get beer for adults & coke for the kids, water as well. Drinks are free fillup. There is a tasty soup and you get a full small chicken to eat with your hands! Just like they would...

Did the Medieval Times show after a day in Movieland 20. It was my wife and daughters first time.

It was nice setting with the arena right next to the eating area. It was a better layout then the ones in California / Las Vegas.

Service was good and fast, they came by constantly but often times only had one thing with them. For someone who wasn’t drinking beer I waited frequently for water.

The food, I ordered vegetarian (3 burger Pattie’s) the first - smallest and 3rd - largest were good. The middle - spinach wasn’t to my liking. The French fries were cold and hard. And the chicken was massive (a whole chicken) so wife and daughter didn’t get through much of it. The soup was really good. And the desert was OK.

I feel that the meals could be better quality’s which was why I mainly rated it a 3 star. Perhaps a half chicken and fries. The desert size was good. And more soup.

The only other complaint was there was a man (who wasn’t even drinking) but he was slamming his plates and bowls together so pound and slamming it on the table non stop. I understand it’s fun but it ruined the experience for many of us in the area. Even the Italian couple next to me we’re constantly looking and sighing and upset.

We went for a nice time and ended up with a headache and not...