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Cherry Creek's Rainforest Cafe Abandons Denver

DENVER-Cherry Creek shopping center is looking to fill 24,000 sf that's been vacated by Rainforest Cafe. Everything had to go, including the fish and birds, to make way for the restaurateur's refocus on tourist-heavy markets.

By John Rebchook | Updated on January 29, 2001

DENVER-If you don’t believe it’s a restaurant jungle out there, consider this: Houston-based Landry’s Seafood Restaurants Inc. has given the ax to the Rainforest Café in the upscale Cherry Creek shopping center.

Rainforest Café, with much hoopla, had opened in Bloomfield Hills, MI-based Taubman Co.’s upscale mall less than three years ago. The $6.5-million, 24,000-sf eatery had been one of Denver’s most popular when it first opened. Patrons often had a two-hour wait to be seated in order to eat food amid animated animal statues, live bird shows and a large archway aquarium. In recent months, it has still drawn moderate crowds. But restaurant reviewers have not been kind to it, saying it is expensive and serves mediocre food.

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