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The former landlord of the now-long-shuttered Rainforest Café in River North is now facing a $9.3 million foreclosure lawsuit. According to court documents, the lawsuit alleges the building's owner ...

If a reptile café was going to open anywhere in Toronto, let’s be honest, there’s nowhere it would thrive better than the biosphere known as Kensington Market. Mystik Café, which bills itself as North ...

The Rainforest Cafe’s former landlord is facing a $9.3 million foreclosure suit over the River North property. A venture of lender Alecko Capital filed today to foreclose on the 22,000-square-foot ...

Two of Chicago’s more colorful real estate figures are squaring off in court over the former Rainforest Cafe site in River North. Alecko Lending, led by founder Alexander Pissios, filed a foreclosure ...

Researchers developed a cost-effective way to collect DNA from species high in the rainforest canopy: they hung umbrellas to collect rainwater that washed through the trees. The method revealed 562 ...

Coming soon: The team behind Harvard Square tiki lair Wusong Road has a new Latin American restaurant in the works at the CambridgeSide mall (100 Cambridgeside Place), says owner Jason Doo. “We’re ...

In 1998, the US "Rainforest" Cafe opened its first restaurant in Hong Kong, featuring immersive rainforest decor, mechanical animals, and thunderstorm effects. The restaurant closed in 2003. A man ...

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 ...

The Rainforest Cafe... a fever dream the mind of restauranteur Stephen Schussler, has since become a wildly exotic chain of restaurants. Come with us as we delve deep into the past, to the very ...