While dining ringside, the audience is encouraged to cheer for the knights jousting in the arena. It's quite a spectacular show, engaging audience members in each tournament battle. The horses alone, in their elaborate costumes and splendid showmanship, will surely dazzle old and young. Escape to the days of yesteryear while in Chicago with a night at the Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament. This exciting dinner show provides a full four-course meal alongside the thrilling competition of six knights battling each other in games of skill and bravery. Walk away will all your senses satisfied with a night of dining an entertainment at the Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament.  Medieval Times is more than the nation's #1 and longest running dinner attraction — it's a living link to the past where the glory, chivalry and valor of old burst to life in authentic pageantry and thrilling tournament action. While guests enjoy a hearty four-course banquet medieval style, without silverware, six brave knights compete in games of skill astride magnificent Andalusian stallions. Lances splinter against shields of steel, broad swords spark and a champion emerges, to the cheers of the enthusiastic crowd. The spectacle unfolds nightly inside a fully enclosed, climate controlled European-style castle.  ****Children less than three years old can dine for free if they sit in a parent's lap. You won't find highchairs, but booster seats around. Opened in February 1990, the New Jersey Castle is located just one mile west of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, the Meadowlands Castle is just a short 15-minute drive from Midtown Manhattan. The 80,000 sq. ft. castle features a 1,350-seat tournament arena.

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