Patch Notes // latest change 2026.08.15
Monstropolis · Hollywood Studios · Walt Disney World
Restaurant · tracked since 2024 · Hollywood Studios · 2 changes on record
Biggest recent change: D23 2026 confirmed Harryhausen's opens with Monstropolis in 2027, taking the table-service building Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano held until it closed on May 10, 2025. The restaurant will feature a tentacled Audio-Animatronic sushi chef preparing monster-sized dishes in view of guests, and Imagineering said the menu goes well beyond sushi. (Aug 15, 2026)
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D23 2026 confirmed Harryhausen's opens with Monstropolis in 2027, taking the table-service building Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano held until it closed on May 10, 2025. The restaurant will feature a tentacled Audio-Animatronic sushi chef preparing monster-sized dishes in view of guests, and Imagineering said the menu goes well beyond sushi.
At Disney's D23 event in August 2024, Disney announced Harryhausen's, the upscale sushi restaurant from the film Monsters, Inc. (where Mike takes Celia on their date), as a full-service dining venue coming to the new Monsters, Inc. land, later named Monstropolis, at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
That's every change on the record at Harryhausen's since 2024.
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The latest documented change (documented Aug 15, 2026): D23 2026 confirmed Harryhausen's opens with Monstropolis in 2027, taking the table-service building Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano held until it closed on May 10, 2025. The restaurant will feature a tentacled Audio-Animatronic sushi chef preparing monster-sized dishes in view of guests, and Imagineering said the menu goes well beyond sushi.
2 documented changes, dating back to 2024 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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