Dinosaurs dwarf the customers at the entrance to the T-Rex Cafe The T-Rex Cafe at the Legends in Kansas City, Kansas is the first in what may become a chain of restaurants. The second will open at the Downtown Disney's Market Place in Orlando, Florida in 2008. The theme of the restaurant is dinosaurs, ocean, ice age and fire. While T-Rex Cafe solidly meets the criteria of being a memorable Kansas Restaurant, it is one where I will say little about the food. If you have been to one of the Rainforest Cafe restaurants (also owned by Landry's Restaurants), the menu will feel very familiar. Basically good theme park restaurant style food at theme park style prices. Not bad, but this is a restaurant where the food takes second place to the entertainment and marketing. I recommend getting the T-Rex Cafe's ribs or rotisserie chicken. The exterior of the large restaurant has plants, water, smoke, and several dinosaurs. The largest feature is the 125' long skeleton of an Argentinosaurus. The T-Rex Cafe interior is filled with giant creatures from dinosaurs, to mammoths, to nautilus, to an enormous octopus that looms (and moves) above much of the dinning area. The sound level is always high at the T-Rex Cafe, and some may find the noise of the periodic "meteor showers" to be a little too much. T-Rex Cafe is worth visiting, even if you are not ready for a meal. In addition to walking through and viewing the many moving creatures, there is a large gift shop with a Build-a-Dino, and the Paleo Zone where you can pay for your children to dig for hidden fossils or pan for precious stones. The wait for a table can be long at times, but if you are in a rush, there is open seating at the bar. T-Rex Cafe is just one of many places worth visiting in and around Kansas City, Kansas' new Legends shopping complex.
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