Restaurant Hakuna Matata

Hakuna Matata Restaurant is a restaurant at Disneyland Paris at the Disneyland Resort Paris in France. It is themed to the 1994 Disney film The Lion King.

Les Epices Enchantees
Originally, when the park opened on April 12, 1992, the restaurant was known as Les Epices Enchantés (The Enchanted Spices). Main building of the African part of Adventureland, it features many African artifacts, in the setting of a peaceful jungle. Its original meals, however, could be inspired by Africa, Asia or the West Indies.

The restaurant permanently closed in 1994 and was replaced by the Hakuna Matata Restaurant.

Hakuna Matata Restaurant
With the release of the film The Lion King in 1994, the perfect theme came through to link the restaurant to the Disney universe. As such, it was renamed Hakuna Matata Restaurant which was named after one of the songs from the movie "Hakuna Matata" around 1995. The building itself remains unaltered though, except for murals of the characters Timon and Pumbaa which were added later.