T-Rex Cafe

[SSRmonkey]

My parents and I are checking into SSR on Thursday! I can hardly wait! I'm trying to convince them to take me to the T-Rex Cafe Thursday night for some prehistoric fun. Has anyone eaten there? How does it compare to the Rainforest Cafe? Even though we're from the same family, the gorillas at RC scare me! So are the dinosaurs scary? And will I enjoy the cuisine? (I'm a pretty picky monkey!)

Thanks!

 

[flyinglizard]

Check this thread...

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1996123&page=1&highlight=flyinglizard

 

[Lynne M]

I ate there a couple of weeks ago, it was OK. I have no need to go back.

It's a Rainforest Cafe with dinos instead of gorillas. Ice room instead of jungle. Meteor shower instead of thunderstorm. I much prefer the RC theming.

The one thing that really stood out was the outrageous pricing. We had one order of tacos (that my friend didn't like and couldn't finish), one salad, and two sodas, and the bill was over $50 (incl tip). Really, really out of line for chain restaurant food.

 

[SSRmonkey]

Thanks for the info! That definitely helps!

 

[cdhheidi]

We ate there opening week, and the noise level was awfully loud. DH kept on saying that the employees should be wearing earplugs or they would lose their hearing if it stayed that loud! Hopefully it is better now....

 

[Caskbill]

Moving this thread over to the restaurants board since this is not a DVC related question.

 

[cpdwiz]

My parents and I are checking into SSR on Thursday! I can hardly wait! I'm trying to convince them to take me to the T-Rex Cafe Thursday night for some prehistoric fun. Has anyone eaten there? How does it compare to the Rainforest Cafe? Even though we're from the same family, the gorillas at RC scare me! So are the dinosaurs scary? And will I enjoy the cuisine? (I'm a pretty picky monkey!)

Thanks!

Food was not too impressive....High priced...theming was pretty good....I would try it once, and I would ONLY order appetizers....

 

[WhateverLolaWants]

Food was not too impressive....High priced...theming was pretty good....I would try it once, and I would ONLY order appetizers....

This, pretty much. Overpriced and mediocre food. I would eat there once just to say you have, but I definitely wouldn't go back.

 

[ScottJoseph]

In terms of the food, T-Rex is better than Rainforest Cafe. The animatronics are better, too, and the dinosaurs can make the gorillas look downright cuddly.
Scott
www.scottjosephorlando.com

 

[Dean]

We've eaten there 3 times and what we had was much better than Rainforest on all 3 occasions.

 

[i3utterfli82]

T-Rex is so cool, we visited today. We will def. eat there when we go back.

 

[MyDogStitch]

I liked T-Rex...its very similiar to Rainforest....the food while decent wasn't spectacular but the atmosphere makes it worth the few extra bucks....one thing that did stand out for me on our visit was a truly excellent waiter who was probably the nicest and most efficient waiter we encountered during the week.

 

[PatriciaH]

I ate there a couple of weeks ago, it was OK. I have no need to go back.

It's a Rainforest Cafe with dinos instead of gorillas. Ice room instead of jungle. Meteor shower instead of thunderstorm. I much prefer the RC theming.

The one thing that really stood out was the outrageous pricing. We had one order of tacos (that my friend didn't like and couldn't finish), one salad, and two sodas, and the bill was over $50 (incl tip). Really, really out of line for chain restaurant food.

Totally agree. DH and I spent $75 for lunch on 2 iced teas, 2 soups and 2 crappy fish dishes.

 

[corpcomp]

I looked at the website and found out that the Rain Forest and T Rex are owned by the same company

Landry Restaurants!!

 

[Lynne M]

I looked at the website and found out that the Rain Forest and T Rex are owned by the same company

Landry Restaurants!!

You can tell that the minute you walk into T-Rex, if you've ever been in an RC.

It literally looks like they took an RC, removed the jungle decor and replaced it with rocks and ice, and replaced the animals with dinos. Even the fish tanks looked like the ones in an RC.

 

[corpcomp]

You can tell that the minute you walk into T-Rex, if you've ever been in an RC.

It literally looks like they took an RC, removed the jungle decor and replaced it with rocks and ice, and replaced the animals with dinos. Even the fish tanks looked like the ones in an RC.

Except from the comments it seems the prices are higher

 

[dianemb]

We ate there last week and had a great time. Our waiter was fantastic. Couldn't do enough for us. Yes the prices seem high but your also paying for the SHOW, just like when you go to a charecter meal at Disney. If your not interested in the SHOW then it's not the place to go. I would go back again. It's definatly better then rain forrest cafe.

 

[CruiserMom]

We ate there opening week, and the noise level was awfully loud. DH kept on saying that the employees should be wearing earplugs or they would lose their hearing if it stayed that loud! Hopefully it is better now....

It's not any better now...we ate there 5 days ago, and I have to say it was louder than even Rainforest Cafe. We had pretty bad service too, very slow. One member of our party had to wait an extra 5 minutes for her food, when they had already brought out everyone elses' food (and she had ordered a salad!), plus DH's hamburger was undercooked (pink inside) and had to be sent back.

It was cool to see, but not pleasurable to eat in.

 

[Dean]

I looked at the website and found out that the Rain Forest and T Rex are owned by the same company

Landry Restaurants!!

Landry's owns a number of restaurants. Besides T-Rex and RFC, they own Landrys seafood, Yak & Yeti's, Crab House, Chart House, Muer Seafood, Saltgrass Steaks, Tower of the America's in San Antonio and a number of others. Rainforest's Safari club will give you 10% off or a free appetizer (often their choice not yours which one) at most of them. They used to own Joe's Crab Shack but sold it 2 or 3 years ago.

As for noise, I think the design of the place echos sound far more than does RFC so I doubt the noise level will change.

 

[sapereaude]

We ate at T-Rex last weekend. We went in for an early dinner at 4:30-5pm on Sunday, and had no trouble getting seated right away for 7 people. My mom and I had gone shopping at DD a few days before (Friday the 12th maybe) and there was a huge line of people out the door at 9pm. So getting their early is a good strategy.

We thought it was pretty neat, the dinos were cool, it was very loud. However, it wasn't so loud we couldn't carry on a conversation except whent he 'meteor shower' came and everything went nuts. My kids got some kind of signature drink in a huge bone cup they got to keep. The ice room was cool, we sat in the fern room (or something like that) which was next to it, it was neat to see it change color but when walking through it on the way out we decided we were glad we didn't eat in there, it would be very hard on the eyes all that blue light. Definitely not an adult or even teen dinner destination until you are really into that sort of thing, but for my 3 & 5 year old it was pretty cool

The food was good, but typical fare, the waiter did screw up something and my kids drink in the bone cup came with half the bone mostly air, but he brought us extra and fix mistakes pretty quick, so I chaulk that up to working out the kinks in a new restaurant. Overall, it was a fun experience.