Review of T-REX RestaurantOn Saturday December 6th we left the OKC Memorial and headed north on I35 (with hundreds of Oklahoma University Sooners fans heading north passing us at peaceful 75 to 80MPH for a game against Kansas City). Our next planned destination stop was to visit the T-Rex Cafe in Kansas City, KS.
Driving through Oklahoma and Kansas was very scenic. The land was mainly flat, many small oil drilling rigs, large farmland. The beautiful untouched prairies at the Flint Hills was simpy amazing. Wichita (the largest Kansas city) seemed no bigger than Nashua or Salem NH to me. If you blinked you might of missed it!
T-REX
Landy Restuarants, the same fine folks that bring you the themed Rainforest Cafe and the Aquarium restuarant also bring this very cool and exciting experience of dining with the dinosaurs and other sea and land creatures. If you love those places chances are you are going to love T-REX as well!
Atomosphere:
The atomosphere, experience, thrill, curosity, or whatever you want to call it is the main reason to visit T-Rex. We made a 100+ mile detour on the way home to have this dining experience (which we heard about at our recent Aquarium visit). The front of the building is amazing with life size dinosaurs statues and "pre-historic rock". Inside just about every dinosaur creature (fully skinned of course ;->) you can think about comes to life at some point. On two floors, T-REX has 7 different theme dining rooms so your dining experience is sure to be different if you visit often. There are aquariums, creepy-crawly things on the walls, and even a "meteor shower" every 1/2 hour.
Check out my pictures to see how this restuarant is themed.
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/569571323QcmUkQ
Grade: A++
Food:
We ordered quesadillas for an appetizer and sodas. For dinner my wife and I had a thin crust tomato sauce pizza with sausage, onions. The boys had a plain cheese pizza and my youngest daughter had the alfredo noodle sauce kids meal. The quesadillas were good (not the best I've had) but the pizza was only mediocre to put it politely. Well food is not the main reason to come here and we could have ordered some more of the expensive items on the menu. Perhaps higher quality???
Grade: C+
Service:
Unfortunatley the service during our visit was horrible. It was the 1st time I've left less than a 15% tip in a long time. We had to wait over 15 minutes to get a table and they had plenty of seating as the resturant was only 1/2 full and upstairs was mainly empty. It was a good time to snap some photos. The waitress was even worse as it took forever to get our food and when I asked for a drink refill it didn't arrive until the end of the meal. I ended up sitting at my table waiting for the waitress to return my credit card while my family shopped in the gift shop. This restuarant was staffed mainly by teenagers who in my opinion had very little experience. Quite a difference from the great service we got at the other Landry restaurant, the Aquarium in Nashville
Grade: D
Shopping
Great shopping area with lots of souvieners (no postcards though :-<). My wife let my youngest son "build-a-dino" sponsored by Build-A-Bear.
Overall we had a great time. The only problem I have with these "Theme-Restuarants" is that I wish they would provide some higher quality lower priced items on the menu
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