"Hello. I'm going to be your Car Hop today." is the greeting you will hear inside the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant, arguably the park's most iconic restaurant.

Take a trip into this kitschy timewarp restaurant and it is not so much lunch or dinner as a fully fledged exercise in 1950s nostalgia, complete with the requisite language of the day and the comfort food to match.

The dark, cavernous interior sets the scene for a series of six-seater "cars" arranged in four rows in front of a 20-foot-high movie screen. Still intact in its opening-day glory is the classic 45-minute film reel that was pieced together from nine major 1950's B-movie monsterpieces, plus News of the Future snippets, a few cartoons, vintage snack bar commercials and clip's from Disney's Man In Space TV series (as directed by genuine Disney legend Ward Kimball).

So, while diners chow down on classic burgers, sandwiches, salads, ribs, shakes and some sumptuous desserts, they are regaled in their cool "nighttime" setting by such film epics as Plan 9 from Outer Space, Devil Girl from Mars, The Blob and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

Other than sitting in "cars", tables are available at the back of the restaurant which can handle larger parties. There is often a much shorter wait time to dine in these seats.

So, the next time you are in Disney's Hollywood Studios and you want to enjoy a literal taste of Tinseltown, be sure to book a dining reservation at the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater. And tell them The Amazing Colossal Man sent you!

(excert taken from the Fall 2009 Orlando Atteractions magazine, written by Simon & Susan Veness)

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