Fast Company

‘You’re not just there for the food’: Social media is falling in love with Rainforest Cafe all over again

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 ...
Chicago Reader

Gone but not frog-otten

I watch a TikTok where the Rainforest Cafe frog sits on a trailer in a parking lot, dismantled. When I fall asleep, I dream I have adopted the frog. I am trying to convince my roommate we have the ...
Chicago Tribune

Woodfield Mall’s Rainforest Cafe will close Jan. 1. That giant frog in Chicago shouldn’t get too comfy either, its landlord says.

The Rainforest Cafe at Woodfield Mall is closing Jan. 1 and the chain’s Chicago location, marked by a giant green frog, could be endangered in a couple of years. The restaurant at Schaumburg’s ...
Houston Chronicle

Rainforest Cafe pulls out all the stops to delight families

A bouncing Caribbean beat pursues people onto the flagstone deck overlooking Galveston's seawall, a faint musical aftertaste of the frenetic entertainment within. "It was awesome," 10-year-old ...