Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano is now permanently closed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios as the park prepares for a Monsters Inc. reimagining of the Muppets Courtyard area. The closure is the first in the area, with MuppetVision 3D and PizzeRizzo scheduled to close next month. We made it out to Disney’s Hollywood Studios this morning to take a look.
Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano Permanently Closed
Here’s a look at the restaurant from our visit to Disney’s Hollywood Studios this morning.
A Look Back at Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano
Here’s a look back at the dining location that featured Checked curtains, overhead string lights, hanging foodstuffs, and walls crowded with Mama’s eclectic mementos. The backstory of Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano was that once upon a time, a young girl from a small Sicilian village moved to Hollywood to become a star. However, she soon found that cooking was her true calling as she re-created her papa’s secret recipes for her starving actor friends.
At their urging, she opened a restaurant in a vacant backlot warehouse once used to store film equipment. Mama’s culinary talents soon attracted the patronage of film industry insiders, who dubbed her Mama Melrose, after the lively Los Angeles thoroughfare. Her establishment became known as the place “where Italy meets California in the heart of the Backlot,” and the rest, as they say, is history.
Here’s a look back at the dining location from our April 2024 review of the new menu.
For even more photos of the restaurant and the food, check out our full review below!
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