{"id":1114,"date":"2011-08-11T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:56:20","slug":"rainforest-cafe-las-vegas-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/08\/rainforest-cafe-las-vegas-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainforest Cafe – Las Vegas – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mika (my 9-yo daughter) had been asking me to take her to the Rainforest Cafe for months.\u00a0 We’ve been to the one in San Francisco<\/a> a couple of times, and she loves it.\u00a0 However, the Rainforest Cafe is not just out of the way, all the way in SF, but it’s also ridiculously expensive – and the food isn’t even very good.\u00a0 However, I knew she was going to find out that there was a Rainforest Cafe in Vegas (as it was at one of the hotels we were staying at), and she’d demand we go there, so I made plans to do so.\u00a0 My plans basically consisted on going elsewhere for dinner, and just having dessert at RC.\u00a0 They sort of worked – Mike, Camila and I had burgers at In-n-out and then a dessert at RC, but Mika insisted in having dinner there as well.<\/p>\n

The Rainforest Cafe in Vegas is located at the MGM Grand hotel.\u00a0 It’s a pretty small affair, in particularly in comparison to the one in San Francisco, and, IMHO, not nearly as cool.\u00a0 The fact that you can see the people walking in and out of the hotel from your table (or at least, from the table we were seated at), really detracts from the experience.\u00a0 There are relatively few animatronic animals, and they are static most of the time, but they’re pretty cool when they move.\u00a0 I did like the rain effect behind me.\u00a0 Mika liked it well enough.<\/p>\n

Food at the Rainforest Cafe in Las Vegas is even more outrageously expensive than at other RCs.\u00a0 Most entrees are in the high 20’s, and even children’s meals are $10, and all they include is a drink (not dessert).\u00a0 You can get a coupon for a free appetizer with the purchase of one entree in several of the coupon books you find in Las Vegas, and when we went the first time there was a man downstairs (by the entrance from the self parking lot) handing out coupons for one free child’s meal with the purchase of an adult entree.\u00a0 Still, the food is super overpriced.\u00a0 On the plus side, the adult portions seem to be quite large and may be large enough to share.<\/p>\n

Mika had the fettucini alfredo, and she was happy enough with her dish. No complains there, but really, she’s happy with the Budget Gourmet’s version of this dish, so she’s not picky.<\/p>\n

We all shared the “volcano” ($15), a dessert consisting of three long brownie balls, surrounding two scoops of vanilla ice cream and covered with chocolate fudge.\u00a0 There is a glitter stick on top to suggest an explosion.\u00a0 I’ve had it before, but I had forgotten just how bad this very expensive dessert is.\u00a0 The brownies are way too dry, the fudge is way too sweet, and there isn’t enough vanilla ice cream for the amount of brownies available.\u00a0 There were four of us eating this dessert, but we couldn’t finish it.\u00a0 Actually, we didn’t want to either.\u00a0 I know I’ll have to return to the Rainforest Cafe (though hopefully not to the Las Vegas one), I hope to remember to order something other than the Volcano.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, service was very good by our very cordial and cheerful waitress.\u00a0 She didn’t seem to mind at all that we were ordering so little food, and was very pleasant to us and the kids.<\/p>\n

Rainforest Cafe
\nMGM Grand Hotel & Casino
\n3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
\nLas Vegas, NV
\n(702) 891-8580
\nhttp:\/\/www.mgmgrand.com\/restaurants\/rainforest-cafe.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mika (my 9-yo daughter) had been asking me to take her to the Rainforest Cafe for months.\u00a0 We’ve been to the one in San Francisco a couple of times, and she loves it.\u00a0 However, the Rainforest Cafe is not just out of the way, all the way in SF, but it’s also ridiculously expensive – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[160,156],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-chain-restaurants","tag-las-vegas","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}