Halloween at Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar has become one of the most talked-about spooky season traditions at Disney Springs, and now we finally know who dreams up those wild presentations. Meet Chef Gary Miles, the puzzle-loving culinary mind behind the Candelabra Eggs, Bone Kebabs and the rest of this year’s eerie lineup at the lakeside lounge.
Who Is the Chef Behind Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar Halloween?
Chef Gary has spent 28 years at Walt Disney World. He started through the Disney Culinary Academy apprenticeship program and worked his way through kitchens across the parks, picking up the Walt Disney Legacy Award along the way. These days he cooks for the Disney-owned restaurants at Disney Springs, and he has been there since the district first opened.
His story didn’t start in a fancy kitchen. At 15, Gary was lounging at home in Ohio watching the TGIF lineup when his mom called from the Mexican restaurant where she worked and asked if he wanted a dishwashing shift. He went back the next day, and the next. What hooked him was watching the line cooks laugh and joke while they worked, and within a few months he was cooking right next to them on the hotline. He says that same team spirit is what he tries to build in his Disney kitchens today.
Solving the Halloween Menu Puzzle
Gary calls himself “a puzzle person,” and the Hangar Bar handed him a tricky one. He helped build the very first holiday menu at Jock’s back in 2019, but when the team added a Halloween overlay last year there was a problem: beyond candy, Halloween doesn’t really have a signature dish. His answer was to keep the flavors familiar and on trend, then make the presentation the star. Since the Hangar Bar isn’t tied to one cuisine, the team can borrow from anywhere in the world (fitting for a bar run by a globe-trotting pilot).
His favorite dish this year is the Candelabra Eggs, and getting them onto that candelabra took some trial and error. The team needed food-safe cups that would hold a deviled egg just right. Cupcake liners and bamboo cones both missed the mark. The winner turned up in a storage room: tiny two-piece martini cups that fit perfectly. Gary compared it to snapping in the last piece of a puzzle.
What’s on the Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar Halloween Menu
The Halloween overlay runs through November 9, 2026. Here’s the full lineup of eats and sips:
- Candelabra Eggs (New): deviled eggs topped with crispy fried chicken, sweet-and-tart pepper sauce and aji amarillo custard
- Dark Forest Dip (New): roasted mushrooms and baby rainbow carrots over hummus with toasted pumpkin seeds and pita
- Bone Kebabs (New): pork and beef kebabs with prosciutto, creamy tomato sauce and crunchy kataifi straws
- Midnight Mayhem Popcorn Chicken (New): fried chicken, candied bacon, spiced walnuts and popcorn with hot honey
- Skull of the Dead Dip (New): barbacoa beef and cheddar sauce with spicy onion straws and plantain chips
- Alien Invader Sliders: Nashville hot fried chicken, provolone and dill pickles on cheddar-chive biscuits with queen olives
- Fright of the Espresso (New): a trio of cold brew sips, including a pumpkin spice liqueur version, a salted caramel version with Kahlúa, Tito’s and Baileys topped with caramel popcorn, and a toasted marshmallow version garnished with candy corn marshmallows
- Skull and Sour (New): Jameson, peach schnapps, lemon and pumpkin spice syrup with green apple pearls and gummy strands
- Temple of Doom Margarita (New): Patrón Silver, blackberry brandy, blackberry purée and habanero-lime syrup with a black sugar rim
- Midnight Relic (New): Tito’s, ube syrup, cream of coconut and lemon with a pinch of edible glitter
- Viper’s Nest (New, non-alcoholic): pineapple and white cranberry juices, green apple and blue curaçao syrups, Sprite and butterfly pea extract with green apple pearls and gummy candy
Disney hasn’t posted prices for the Halloween menu yet, so check the menu on the official Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar page before you go.
A Spooky Spin on Jock’s Hangar
Fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark will remember Jock Lindsey as the pilot waiting with his seaplane to fly Indiana Jones away from danger, and his pet snake Reggie, who did Indy no favors. The bar’s backstory says Jock settled down at Disney Springs and turned his hangar on the lake at The Landing into a lounge full of souvenirs from his adventures. For Halloween, it gets a cozy 1940s makeover with vintage lanterns, pumpkin scarecrows by the entrance (look for the one dressed like a pilot) and jack-o’-lanterns floating over the diving bell seating.
Planning more spooky snacking? Our roundup of the Disney Springs Halloween foodie lineup for 2026 covers treats all over the district. And Gary says that’s what keeps him at Disney Springs after all these years: whether it’s the Hangar Bar, D-Luxe Burger or a snack kiosk, there’s always a new puzzle to solve, and the best part is the joy on guests’ faces when they dig in.
Will you be ordering the Candelabra Eggs on your next trip to Jock’s?
