What’s It Like to Eat at Rainforest Cafe in Las Vegas?

Rainforest Cafe is a fun, jungle-themed restaurant at the Las Vegas Strip. Food there is great and our kids love their electronic animals.

On our last trip to Las Vegas we decided to take our kids to Rainforest Cafe for lunch. This is a restaurant chain where you can hop into the middle of a rainforest.

Even though it might seem a little comical with its howling animals and fake plants, it is a fun place with good food, and especially the kids love it.

We have been in Rainforest Cafe in Las Vegas and elsewhere multiple times so we already knew what to expect. We have had only good experiences in this restaurant and our daughters had a blast on this visit too.

The one in Las Vegas is located in Harmon Corner on the Strip.

TROPICAL ANIMALS AND NORTHERN LIGHTS

The Rainforest Cafe is a chain which was first started in 1994 at the Mall of America, Minnesota. From there it expanded to ten different states, and even outside the USA to Canada, France, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, and Malta.

Usually you can recognise the Rainforest Cafe from far away, because there are lots of plants and steam at their front door.

Every now and then the animals inside the restaurant will start moving and making noises. The elephants will flap their ears, a monkey hanging in a swing closed his eyes and even the snakes were sticking their tongues out at us.

Despite of the fish in fish tanks, the animals at the Rainforest Cafe are not real of course. They are all mechanical and even the plants are plastic.

We went to this same restaurant some years ago, and I have also visited the one in San Francisco which was closed in 2017. I am almost positive that I have also been to one in Chicago.

There was also a bizarre thing going on in this rainforest. After the day turned to night, a sky full of stars lit up the ceiling…and with Northern Lights!

I bet that the countries that actually have Northern Lights don’t usually have rainforests! Like my home country, Finland.

While visiting the Rainforest Cafe one should take a little stroll around it while waiting for the food; just to check out all the animals they have.

They also have a souvenir shop in the lobby where kids can find all kinds fun things to take home.

Rainforest Cafe Menu

The Rainforest Cafe menu is a pretty typical American restaurant menu. There is plenty to choose from and something for everyone. Salads, snacks, burgers, sandwiches, pasta, pizza, fish, chicken and meat… and of course, a separate menu for kids.

I wasn’t terribly hungry, so I chose some coconut shrimp with mashed potatoes. This was easily sharable with our little one too, who still needed pureed type of food.

But since we were in Vegas, I decided to have a drink before our dinner. I wanted to try something new, so I ordered a CoronaRita. It wasn’t until I saw the drink that I realised what I had ordered. It is two drinks in one; a margarita with a a bottle of beer. And I don’t even like beer!

For some reason my brain didn’t register that I was ordering something so huge. But hey, since we were in Vegas, the rest of the drink was given to us to go!

This appertizer we shared with a bigger group on one our previous trips and it was so yummy! It had Chimi-Cha-Chas, Spinach & Artichoke Dip, Cheese Sticks, Chicken Strips and Guacamole.

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Las Vegas has so many fun things to do but if you are traveling with kids or just want to experience something different, the Rainforest Cafe is great. The food is good but a little bit pricier some other American style restaurants.

Among strolling around the strip, visiting different resorts and eating well, we always love to do a day trip or two on the surrounding areas. So far our favourites have been hiking at Valley of Fire and our visit to Hoover Dam.

But I definitely think that we will be stopping at Rainforest Cafe too again.