What restaurant do Mike and Sulley visit in Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.?

Mike and Sulley visit Harryhausen’s restaurant in Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.

Harryhausen’s is a sushi restaurant in Monstropolis where Mike takes Celia Mae for her birthday dinner. Sulley arrives with Boo, whose presence creates a crisis because monsters believe contact with a human child is dangerous.

The restaurant sequence becomes one of the film’s major turning points. After Boo is discovered, the Child Detection Agency quarantines the location, and the characters must escape while trying to keep Boo safe. The scene also shows how strongly Monstropolis society fears human contamination.

Harryhausen’s name is a tribute to special-effects artist Ray Harryhausen, known for pioneering stop-motion creature effects in films such as The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. The fictional restaurant is not the same as a real restaurant bearing a similar name, and its name is often remembered simply as the sushi restaurant scene.