Out of This World’ Dining Experience At Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant at Disney's

[Wendy]

“Terrifying Plants” stalk the planet and “Invaders” touch down from another dimension at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, featuring favorite science fiction and monster flicks teamed with the finest drive-in food known to earthlings and aliens alike.

The Setting:

On a replica of a studios soundstage, the 250-seat restaurant re-creates a 1950s drive-in theater smack in the middle of Hollywood Hills without the smog. Diners are seated in re-creations of flashy, chrome-gilded cars of old, and fiber-optic stars twinkle overhead in the night sky as all ears tune in to real drive-in speakers mounted next to each car.
All cars are facing the big screen, but guests can’t resist checking out the wheels next door. The '50s era automobiles, complete with fins and whitewalls, are painted in a rainbow of colors ranging from fire-engine red and emerald green to ice blue and metallic lavender.

The Menu:

Carhops decked out in campy versions of a '50s drive-in costume take guests’ orders from a menu that’s out of this world. The food arrives from the drive-in’s “Snack Bar.” “Main Features” range from smoked baby back ribs to shrimp penne pasta. No earthling could resist the lineup of desserts for all tastes, like the warm apple and pecan crisp or hot fudge sundae.

The Show:

The screen comes to life with trailers from “Cat Women of the Moon,” “Invasion of the Saucermen” and more. The Sci-Fi Dine-In’s film is a 45-minute compilation of the best (and worst!) of the science fiction trailers and cartoons, including segments from “It Conquered the World,” “Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster,” “The Amazing Colossal Man” and “Missile to the Moon.”

[ukwdwnut]

i had no idea the scfi dine in was like that, wow

do you need an adr for there??

[Isafari]

Thanks Wendy... Never been before but we have our first ADR already made for our next trip. ::

[Keith]

hehe I love sci-fi! First time we went we couldnt believe we'd missed it so many times before! Another hidden treasure, ADRs DEFINITELY needed! they turn people away all the time

[disney1sttimer]

Where is this place?

[Isafari]

Where is this place?

It's at Disney's Hollywood Studios (former MGM)

[Tink]

I've heard that they've taken the hamburgers off the menu here? Can that possibly be true! How can you have a drive in without a burger?

Has anyone else heard this?

[Beccaberry]

Was the burger made of filet mignon?

Haven't heard that Tink, but I agree, how on earth could it be a proper drive-in without burgers?

The kids love this place, and I enjoy it as well...we actually visited it for the first time on our first "solo" trip to WDW...since then it's sort of become our very own tradition...

[Tink]

I'm rather hoping it's "over rumoured-itis." You know, one rumour gets started and then they snowball from there! "I heard filets off the menu at WDW!" "yeah, well I heard they aren't doin' burgers at Sci-Fi..."

That sort of thing?

[Keith]

Hope so! The burgers the only thing I eat there