Animatronic animals, thunder, and jungle sounds turn dinner into an adventure at this Illinois rainforest-themed restaurant inside a popular mall.
Despite the cacophony, this was just another weekday lunch at California’s last Rainforest Cafe, tucked inside a fluorescent-lit Inland Empire mall, about an hour east of downtown Los Angeles.
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 ...
Rainforest Cafe is still alive and well, but with fewer locations, you might have to travel farther to visit one. Here's where Californians can dine at one.