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

Gen Zers who missed the restaurant’s heyday are posting videos of their first-time visits.

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, of your birthday meals surrounded by animatronic wildlife at the Rainforest Cafe was a right of passage. Now, the eatertainment chain is going viral online.