T-REX Restaurant

[missypaws]

Anyone have info on the new T-REX opening at DD? What kind of food?

 

[TDC Nala]

There's one of those restaurants already existing somewhere (Kansas City?) so if you google it you might be able to find a menu.

I understand it's just Rainforest Cafe with dinosaurs, so I bet the food is similar.

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

www.trexcafe.com
and photos...

http://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...oA?ei=UTF-8&p=T-REX Cafe&fr2=tab-web&fr=b2ie7

 

[angelmav]

I believe its an entirely different menu from Rainforest, heres a link though.

http://www.trexcafe.com/Main/Eat.htm

Lollipops mom you beat me to it LOL!

 

[KarlaG4Kids]

We live 20 minutes from KC T-Rex. We took the grandkids and went once. The food was comparable to Rainforest Cafe. Decor is dinosaurs and jellyfish (they look really cool). Some kids were TERRIFIED!!!!!! Lots of crying, but it was hard to hear the crying over all of the noise...it was way noisier than Rainforest even. We went just a month or so after it opened, went in the late afternoon (4ish) and we had a 2 hour wait to be seated. There was a guy in a dinosaur suit walking around and it sent some kids over the edge. DH swore he would never return. I would like to go back some time when it is less busy (if there is a time). I don't think it would ever be too quiet in there though. It is certainly NOT for kids that are young or the least bit scared of anything.

 

[lyzziesmom]

I also live about 20 minutes away from the TRex Cafe in Kansas City. We went last February and it's been open for a couple of years now at least. We went at about 3pm and had almost a 2 hour wait for a table. Very busy, very noisy, very crowded, and very expensive. While you wait, they have a ton of expensive activities to keep the kids busy, as well as a pricy gift shop. There is a build-a-dino area tied in with Build-A-Bear, a place where you pay extra to go do a "dino dig" and dig around in pebbles for buried plastic bones to make a mini-dino that you can then bring home (or you can buy the same kit in the shop for 1/3 of the price), and there is an area with computer games and a "cave maze", also for extra admission. The line for this stuff was pretty long. They had a photographer walking around taking pictures, then they stick a border on it and try to sell you the photo for about $10 - very similar to several WDW character meals, but minus the characters. I have pictures but am too tired to find them right now. I'll try to post them another day.

The food was excellent, we all liked it a lot more than RFC (we have one of those in our mall) but it was pretty overpriced for what you get. Desserts were huge and had fun dino-themed names. Similar to RFC's "tropical storm", the TRex Cafe has a "meteor shower" every 20 minutes or so - loud, dark and scary for little kids.

It's a fun place, but definitely a wallet-buster, much more so than RFC. The place is absolutely HUGE, it's 2 stories and each room has a different theme. It's beautiful, well themed, and lots of fun. But it is very loud and hectic, and can be scary for some kids. Mine loved it and can't wait to go back, but I'm in no hurry. I imagine the DTD one will be similar, if not bigger, than the KC one. I heard it's slated to open in 2009.

 

[KarlaG4Kids]

I also live about 20 minutes away from the TRex Cafe in Kansas City. We went last February and it's been open for a couple of years now at least. We went at about 3pm and had almost a 2 hour wait for a table. Very busy, very noisy, very crowded, and very expensive. While you wait, they have a ton of expensive activities to keep the kids busy, as well as a pricy gift shop. There is a build-a-dino area tied in with Build-A-Bear, a place where you pay extra to go do a "dino dig" and dig around in pebbles for buried plastic bones to make a mini-dino that you can then bring home (or you can buy the same kit in the shop for 1/3 of the price), and there is an area with computer games and a "cave maze", also for extra admission. The line for this stuff was pretty long. They had a photographer walking around taking pictures, then they stick a border on it and try to sell you the photo for about $10 - very similar to several WDW character meals, but minus the characters. I have pictures but am too tired to find them right now. I'll try to post them another day.

The food was excellent, we all liked it a lot more than RFC (we have one of those in our mall) but it was pretty overpriced for what you get. Desserts were huge and had fun dino-themed names. Similar to RFC's "tropical storm", the TRex Cafe has a "meteor shower" every 20 minutes or so - loud, dark and scary for little kids.

It's a fun place, but definitely a wallet-buster, much more so than RFC. The place is absolutely HUGE, it's 2 stories and each room has a different theme. It's beautiful, well themed, and lots of fun. But it is very loud and hectic, and can be scary for some kids. Mine loved it and can't wait to go back, but I'm in no hurry. I imagine the DTD one will be similar, if not bigger, than the KC one. I heard it's slated to open in 2009.

Gosh lyzziesmom, you are right...I remember all of the extra priced activities now. I was trying to avoid those with 4 grandkids . It was really difficult to find anywhere to sit or anything to keep 4 kids occupied without paying extra for those activities.

 

[lyzziesmom]

Yikes, I thought I had my hands full with two kids! Now that I think about it, there was a pressed penny machine which was good cheap entertainment.

Here are our pictures from the KC T-Rex Cafe in February 2007:

Outside on the side of the building (it was too windy out front):

In the gift shop:

The pressed penny machine:

Outside the restroom door:

Looking down on the first floor from upstairs. The entrance door is down in the bottom left-hand corner:

One of the aquariums:

Seated in the dining area, you can sort of see the room decor in the background:

This big dino was near our table, I think it moved slightly and roared once in a while. Please ignore my goofy child.

These dinos were adjacent to our table. The kids kept reaching out and touching them. They would move and roar every few minutes. The little one sounded sort of like a goat.

DD didn't like when I called her Chocolate Tar Pit dessert her "chocolate arm pit."

Some more of the decor, these are the jellyfish that hang from the ceiling. It sounds weird, but one of the rooms and the bar area are decorated like a prehistoric underwater aquarium. That's a giant squid below the jellyfish.

Hope the pictures helped!

 

[Daisie]

Wow - great pictures - it reminds me exactly of Rainforest!!
I'm sure it will a fun place to eat and look around (at least once)!!