Rainforest Café Closes at Disneyland Paris After 27 Years

The Rainforest Café in Disney Village at Disneyland Paris serves its last meals on Sunday, November 15, 2026. Disneyland Paris confirmed the closing date, and the restaurant shuts for good 27 years after it opened. It's the only Rainforest Café in France, and Sunday is the last chance to eat under its fake thunderstorms.

The closure has been settled since September 17, 2026. That day Disneyland Paris presented the next phase of its Disney Village makeover and said the Rainforest Café would close permanently by the end of 2026 as part of it. The resort hasn't announced which restaurants or shops come next, and it hasn't said whether the building gets refitted or torn down.

The end date moved before it landed. In the spring, the talk around the restaurant pointed to September 15 as the last day, a date Disneyland Paris never confirmed. By the end of August the staff were telling visitors the restaurant would stay open until mid-November, and by the end of September part of the shop had already been cleared, with strollers parked where the plush toys used to sit.

Nobody on the team is being laid off, according to the French site Disneyphile. The restaurant is run by Groupe Flo, a subsidiary of Groupe Bertrand, and its staff move to Casa Giulia, an Italian restaurant from the same group that opens on December 1, 2026, at the entrance to Disney Village. Casa Giulia seats 440 over two floors, with a terrace for another 120, and its neighbor Giulia Express sells pizza by the slice, focaccia, Italian pastries and ice cream from just over 80 seats.

The restaurant opened in 1999 on the site of the former Key West Seafood. Diners eat among artificial plants, animatronic gorillas and mechanical crocodiles, and every so often a staged thunderstorm rolls through the dining room with lightning. That formula made it a fixture for families who wanted the show as much as the food, and Disney Village doesn't require a park ticket, so the café also worked as a standalone night out near the Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy station.

The café leaves a village in mid-rebuild. The makeover's second phase starts in 2027, Annette's Diner is closed for a refurbishment that should end in the first quarter of 2027, and Vapiano closes at the end of 2026 for a new interior. Rainforest Café is the first of those doors to shut for good, and it's the one that won't reopen in any form.