Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano is a restaurant in the Muppets Courtyard area at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Located near Muppet*Vision 3D and Star Tours, the restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine, serving such dishes as ossobuco, wood-fired flatbread pizza, and grilled salmon. A Fantasmic! dinner package is available that grants restaurant guests quicker access to this show. This package is also offered at two other restaurants in the park: the Hollywood Brown Derby and Hollywood & Vine. Ron Douglas included the recipe for Mama Melrose's cappuccino crème brûlée in his cookbook America's Most Wanted Recipes: Just Desserts.Mama Melrose's is decorated with film memorabilia and Italian bric-à-brac. The restaurant's background music consists of songs sung by such Italian-American singers as Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra.
