Monday, May 11, 2026

CW Update: Could The CityWalk Lily Pad Return To Its Concert Role?

We've received word that Hot Dog Hall of Fame in Universal CityWalk will be closing in July.

With bleacher seating similar to baseball parks around the country, they were famous for serving hot dogs themed to baseball parks around the country such as Chicago-style dogs, NYC-style dogs, Dodger dog-style etc. Interestingly, HDHOF will be replaced by a different hot dog restaurant called Fat One's Hot Dogs & Italian Ice, a new concept from Joey Fatone and Joe Mulvihill of boy band fame *NSYNC (USA).

This area of the restaurant we've always referred to in the past as the Lily Pad. Since the restaurant opened in 2014 it has always been used only as another seating area.

In earlier years the Lily Pad was home to electronic music concerts every Sunday night of Labor Day weekend. The 2013 show was the last one and it was headlined by DJ Baby Anne (USA). 

The CityWalk plaza used to get packed for those annual shows because during those years you wouldn't normally hear electronic dance music at CityWalk except that particular night. We can hope but it seems unlikely the Lily Pad will return to it's concert role at CityWalk. But it sure would be cool if it did.

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