Despite the cacophony, this was just another weekday lunch at California’s last Rainforest Cafe, tucked inside a fluorescent-lit Inland Empire mall, about an hour east of downtown Los Angeles.

Upon entering the Rainforest Cafe, I was greeted by a talking tree that rattled off a slew of plant-related factoids. Pumped-in fog and canned thunder rang out, as a hostess led me through an aquarium ...

New Jersey is bidding farewell to a family favorite. Rainforest Cafe has closed one of its last remaining locations in the state. The nostalgic rainforest-themed restaurant shuttered its Edison ...