Walt Disney World is undergoing huge expansions, and in the coming years, theme park guests will get to experience new rides based on Encanto, Indiana Jones, Cars, Disney Villains, and, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Monsters, Inc. During a hardhat tour of the Monsters, Inc. construction site, we learned lots of new details about Walt Disney Imagineering’s ambitions for this expansion.
Disney announced that the Monsters, Inc. land will feature a new restaurant that will directly recreate a familiar setting from the movie. This is just one of the new Disney World restaurants coming soon. We have details from Imagineers and hints for what to expect. Mickey Visit brings you the latest Disney news and planning resources, including a new store at Disney Springs and Disney World menu changes.
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Restaurant from Monsters, Inc. Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios
A new land based on the Pixar film Monsters, Inc. is coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World!
The land is called Monstropolis, named after the city from the movie, and will feature an indoor suspended roller coaster taking riders through the door factory, just like in the film’s climax.
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The area will also include smaller experiences, like an indoor theater show, and, just confirmed, a restaurant based on a familiar eatery from Monsters, Inc.
Harryhausen’s will officially be part of Monstropolis at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. In the movie, Mike Wazowski and Celia celebrate their anniversary dinner at Harryhausen’s, a sushi restaurant. Their date is frantically interrupted when a human child, thought to be toxic to monsters, runs loose throughout the restaurant.
Harryhausen’s was visible in concept art Disney revealed in 2024 when the company first announced the Monsters, Inc. land, but Disney didn’t officially confirm that the space would be a restaurant until our recent hardhat tour of the construction site.
Mickey Visit was among select media invited to see the work in progress with Walt Disney Imagineers, who shared their vision for the land’s storyline. Monstropolis is still a few years away, but we are excited for what guests will experience here.
Imagineers told us that the land will feature even more details than what appears onscreen in the Pixar movie. Playing out this exercise, we can imagine how Pixar filmmakers only showed the audience Mike and Celia’s table at Harryhausen’s, but in the theme park land, guests will get to visit the restaurant as a fully realized place of business.
At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Harryhausen’s will be located in the building that formerly belonged to Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano, a table service restaurant.
Disney has not mentioned if Harryhausen’s will be table service or quick service. However, given that the former PizzeRizzo quick service location is nearby and will likely be transformed into another Monstropolis eatery, we think there’s a good chance Harryhausen’s will be a table service restaurant.
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This will mark the first time Harryhausen’s has existed as a restaurant in a Disney theme park, though a recent Disney project may provide a glimpse of what’s to come. Mike & Sulley’s – Flavors of Asia, pictured above, opened in spring 2026 onboard the new Disney Adventure cruise ship.
Inspired by Harryhausen’s but not meant to be a direct copy of it, the overall aesthetic of Mike & Sulley’s could evoke the same feel that Imagineers are going for with the upcoming restaurant at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
That restaurant on the cruise ship features four unique meal options: a full-service Japanese steakhouse, a teppanyaki room, an Omakase bar, and a casual walk-up area for sushi and sashimi. Some dishes here include a Taraba Kani Chawamushi, a savory Japanese egg custard and a chocolate hazelnut roll crepe.
Pixar filmmakers named Harryhausen’s after Ray Harryhausen, a stop-motion animator whose work was prominent in the ’60s and ’70s.
See much more from our hardhat tour of Monstropolis in our separate coverage.
Changes at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Disney’s Hollywood Studios just debuted Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, a permanent replacement of the former Aerosmith thrill ride, as well as a new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse stage show and a new version of Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run, now starring the Mandalorian and Grogu.
Later this summer, the park will open The Magic of Disney Animation, an interactive, museum-like experience with drawing classes hosted by an Olaf Audio-Animatronics figure.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios closed 10 attractions to make way for these and other upcoming projects.
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