Three words: Cap'n Crunch Chicken. I can't give anything but love and kisses to such a brilliant invention and to Planet Hollywood, the restaurant that sold it.
― Nackles (Nackles), Wednesday, 27 June 2001 02:49 (twenty-four years ago)
four years pass...
Ok, I guess if I had kids I could tolerate Hard Rock Cafe or even Planet Hollywood, but The Rainforest Cafe has got to be the most retarded thing I've ever seen.
When you enter the plastic thick of the plastic jungle, you're greeted by a Rockefeller Center-style golden Atlas-holding-the-world-while-for-some-reason-also-kneeling-in-a-fountain, emblazoned with the motto "Rescue the Rainforest." Typically American, the restaurant shows total ignorance of the thing it tries to save. The "animal life" consists of animatronic apes, elephants, parrots, and large butterflies, who do a kind of silly dance every few minutes when thunder sounds. Another thing that happens every few minutes is that a waiter half-heartedly shouts "Volcano!" and marches out of the kitchen with a giant chocolate-and-ice-cream mound. Meanwhile, there's never a moment in any of this that you learn ANYTHING about the rainforest, not even, like, what you have to rescue it from, or why it needs to be rescued at all.
What's even more depressing is that people come to places like Niagara Falls (where I was this weekend, very briefly, thank God), or even New York City and then waste their time on these places. So go ahead, call me a snob.
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)
How about Johnny Rockets?
The have this '50s Diner theme and the waiters sing and dance ever 10 minutes.
BAD!
― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 18 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)
Any restaurant with kitschy shit on the walls is not a restaurant worth going to.
BTW - I once asked a friend what would be in a futre "1990s retro" restaurant, and he said it would be a big building that you walk into, and inside this building is a Johnny Rockets.
― Millions of people, swarming like flies (David Allen), Monday, 18 July 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)
Moe: If you like good food, good fun, and a whole lot of...crazy
crap on the walls, then come on down to Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag.
Marge: [looking at the walls] An alligator with sunglasses? Hah! Now
I've seen everything.... Street signs? Indoors? Ha ha, whatever!
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
To skew this toward ILM, I offer these reviews:
Jimmy Buffet's Restaurant: DUD
B.B. King's: DUD
Elvis Presley's Memphis: DUD
Commissary of Graceland: CLASSIC
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)