A themed-restaurant chain with only 22 other outlets, Rainforest Cafe features an elaborate rain forest decor complete with periodic bouts of simulated thunder, lightning and rainstorms. It’s stocked ...

For anyone who grew up in the ‘90s or early 2000s, it was an experience—the animatronic animals, the indoor thunderstorms, the feeling that you’d stepped into another world for an hour or two. While ...

What’s on the menu:Rainforest Cafe’s menu is literally all over the place. With all different types of entrees, including Congo Catfish Plate to Amazon Fajitas, there are dishes here from all over the ...

Where else could you tuck into a bowl of python pasta, soundtracked against the prerecorded grunts and grumbles of gorillas and screech of live parrots? For ’90s kids hosting at least one, if not many ...

Back in the 1990s, Mayor Richard M. Daley would ride around town looking for vacant lots and insisting weeds be pulled and wrought-iron fences installed. One can only imagine what Daley would have ...

Nearly a year after Rainforest Cafe closed in Mall of America, it will reopen Friday in a new location across from Bubba Gump restaurant on the east side. Asked if he was concerned about the move from ...

The rain forest is quiet no more. The animatronic gorillas, elephants and Tracy the talking tree are back to entertain diners at Rainforest Cafe in Mall of America. On Friday, the themed restaurant ...

Hair-covered monkeys, disheveled toucans and foot-long bananas are in need of homes. The assortment of odd objects are leftovers from the now-closed Rainforest Cafe in San Francisco. Last week, the ...

The former landlord of the now-long-shuttered Rainforest Café in River North is now facing a $9.3 million foreclosure lawsuit.

Some dining experiences really live up to the term as true experiences. I’m not talking about Nobu Malibu or French Laundry or any of that hoity-toity culinary pablum. No, no. Rather, dear friends, I ...