A new Monsters, Inc. themed land, Monstropolis, is coming to Hollywood Studios in 2027. Along with the long-awaited Door Coaster, Monstropolis will also offer a show, dining, and more. Disney has been slowly revealing more details about the land, this week turning their attention to two upcoming restaurants! This post will share details about Harryhausen’s and Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza.

Details are becoming clearer and clearer on the new land. Part of the land will open in 2027 and we expect that to include the two new restaurants, as well as the Glob Theater. The Door Coaster will likely wait until 2028. Let’s get to the food news for this Monsters, Inc. land!

Dining in Monstropolis

From the streets of Monstropolis to the food on your plate, this land will be packed with monster-sized personality, and its dining experiences are no exception.

The unique creative challenge of creating menus fit for a monster but still appetizing to us humans led to a series of questions this culinary team never thought they’d ask themselves: Do they slurp? Do they chew? Is this too many eyeballs?

“There were so many moments where we asked, ‘Is this too much?’” said Evan Rosenthal, Beverage Director for the land. “And sometimes we’d hear back, ‘No. Can we take it further? Can we make it brighter, bolder, and more interesting?’ Those are the moments of true collaboration.”

“Monstropolis is full of fun, adventure, zaniness, and craziness,” Chef Brian Piasecki, Director of Culinary and Concept Development, explained. “We’re taking familiar dishes and adding unexpected twists that feel authentic to this world.”

The result is something the culinary team affectionately calls “grossly fun” food: familiar flavors reimagined with playful monster-inspired twists.

Two New Restaurants Coming to Monstropolis

Two new-to-human restaurants will come alive in Monstropolis and invite guests of all ages in for a bite, slurp or chomp!

At Harryhausen’s, Imagineers are building what you saw in the film – including its head sushi chef, a new Audio-Animatronic figure you’ll see using eight talented tentacles to prep food in the center of the dining space. The table-service restaurant will offer a vibrant dining experience that feels like it’s straight out of the movie and features more than just sushi.

While the teams have room to invent new menu items and experiences, every decision starts with staying true to what fans know and love about Monstropolis from the screen.

“In a place like Harryhausen’s, it’s the swanky place that you go for a night out, but we want it to be fun for guests of all ages,” said Evan. “Making sure that the menu appeals to younger guests, to older guests, and then challenging ourselves and taking things that we love and saying, is there something we can add that gets people talking about it and gets them to come back because it’s delicious and entertaining.”

Some of the menu items being explored at Harryhausen’s include iconic ramen bowls inspired by traditional Japanese flavors, but with monster-sized personality. The dishes will feature familiar, classic ingredients like rich tonkotsu broth and alkaline ramen noodles, plus a few others with playful, monster-y twists like fishcake sliced to look like eyeballs and green eggs.

Having ramen being the dish brought up for Harryhausen’s is a bit of a surprise. This press release does mention sushi several times so I’m guessing that will also be a big part of the menu. Seeing them diversify a bit to add, at the very least, ramen is probably a wise move from the Disney culinary team. I’m curious to see if all of the offerings will lean Japanese or if the menu will branch out even further.

Just down the street from Harryhausen’s, Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza showcases a completely different side of Monstropolis. Inspired by Monsters University, this quick-service restaurant will feel like the beloved pizza spot where generations of monster college students gathered with friends after class.

“When ideating the menu, we kept those thoughts of nostalgia in the front of our minds, remembering what we loved from our neighborhood pizza shops as kids, and finding a way to add those elements of fun unexpectedness,” said Evan. “At its core, it still feels like the pizza shop that you want to go back to time after time.”

A staple from Pixar’s Monsters University will make its real-world debut at Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza.

Blort is one of the most popular soft drinks in all of Monstropolis, but no human has ever seen it or tasted it, giving Disney beverage teams the opportunity to dream big.

The result? Maybe it’s a purple frozen spin on Monstropolis’ favorite soda topped with a Scream Apple Foam that’s so tasty, it’s scary.

There’s no artwork for Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza yet. I’m interested to see how different it will be from the former PizzeRizzo. The bones of the restaurant will almost assuredly be the same but how dressed up will the space be?

We’re also curious how different the pizza will taste from the previous rat pizza. I love Rizzo the Rat, but I do prefer Remy as a chef. PizzeRizzo was bad enough to where it became an inside joke for parks fans. Walt Disney World and the culinary team is well aware of this and I’d expect something more ambitious, or at the very least tastier, once Archie’s opens.

Together, Harryhausen’s and Archie’s Scare Pig Pizza offer two distinct ways to experience everyday life in Monstropolis, from a lively night out on the town to a favorite hangout for Monsters University’s finest students.

All Eyes on Monstropolis Dining

When thinking of the creative direction behind the food that fuels our favorite monsters, the culinary team worked together with Walt Disney Imagineering, studying the rich storytelling in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University to cook up menus that guests of all ages will love.

“The best part of our job is that with every project and every story, we get to see it through a new lens and then add things to it that feel uniquely Disney and can’t be replicated anywhere else,” said Evan. “Whether that’s with one eyeball or dozens of them.”

And if you’re wondering whether there can be too many eyeballs on the menu? The team already has the answer: you can never have enough eyeballs in Monstropolis!

Amid all the fun of finding ingredients to make dishes playfully monster-inspired and showcasing the iconic dining locations from the films, the heart of this new land is its storytelling. Each dish and experience is thoughtfully designed to create meaningful memories for fans and families, inviting them to step through the screen and into the beloved story of Monsters, Inc. in a way like never before.

We’re excited to see the dining come to life in Monstropolis. I’m bullish on Harryhausen’s! Adding that restaurant to the land was almost as big of a no-brainer as the door coaster. There are very few actual restaurants from Disney movies that Imagineering has the chance to recreate. This will be one of them and I think it will be a home run.

Archie’s has me less optimistic, largely because good pizza at a counter-service Disney World theme park restaurant is hard to come by. Maybe they’ll crack the code this time, maybe they won’t. Hopefully the spot will be fun to explore and will have enough interesting menu items to become a staple in the dining at Hollywood Studios!

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