Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano

You know, so if you're walking, uh, th- and I assume they, did they...

I don't know if they bulldozed Mama Melrose's or not, but-

Mm-hmm

... whatever, you're kind of just walking straight down that road, and g- you, you know, you gotta go on that angle in order to get to the coaster.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, what I wonder is, a- and because maybe I just haven't looked at enough images because I'm not ready, um, I know there's two dining locations.

Are those two dining locations just Mama Melrose's and Pizzerizzo, uh, addressed differently?

Right.

Hollywood Studios is my favorite park, if anyone did know.

Mama Melrose used to be there.

I don't think it's there anymore.

R.I.P.

Yeah.

No, not Mama Melrose.

That was completely...

Rosa Mexicana.

I'll mention that at the end.

The, we're just talking about the existing space that was, um, that whole Muppet Courtyard area with Pizza Rizzo, with Muppets 3D, with Studio One, with Mama Melrose's.

It's that space, and h- how different is it really going to be? Now, in truth, they're having to do the same thing that the Disney Cruise Line does.

It has a particular template, the Wish class ship, and they're outfitting and re-theming these restaurants in different ways.

This week, they talked about grossly fun food.

And so let's talk about some of the newer announcements.

Harryhausen's, which we've known, is coming in in the place where Mama Melrose's was.

Here, Imagineers are building what you saw in the film, including its head sushi chef, which is going to be an audio animatronic figure you'll see using eight tentacled, um, eight tentacles to prep food in the center of the dining space.

Yeah, I mean, my goodness.

And, you know, Brown Derby, to me, kind of like Mama Melrose's did in a way, they're these little spots that hold a piece of the way it was, and for those reasons, I wouldn't want to see a change.

But at this point, it doesn't fit in as well, especially on that side of the park, where you have Mickey and Minnie's, and now you have the Animation Courtyard, and then you have that kind of in the middle.

It's, it's not...

So that's definitely something that we didn't try the tasting and that we threw a risk out and that they brought back.

And I also asked specifically for the hot honey and prosciutto flatbreads from Mama Melrose.

And I didn't know if that was going to get approved because the restaurant had already closed down.

But they approved of it and they brought it out for the cocktail hour.

And that's something that if anybody is a big Mama Melrose fan, the menu is sitting there.

So I highly recommend asking because I definitely ate multiple plates of that during my cocktail hour.

Any cake flavors you would recommend?

It's it's, It's bland there for sure.

Yeah, especially since getting rid of Mama Melrose.

I actually liked that restaurant quite a bit.

So I'm sad to see that go.