A restaurant is an important establishment and integral part of our lives most especially to working people because it prepares and serves food and drink to busy people like me. You can dine-in, dine-out or avail of its food delivery services.

Burj al Alam: Future World’s Highest Restaurant

Once the Burj Al Alam or World Tower open in 2012, it will contain the highest restaurant in the world. This 108 story with a height of 510 meters is a hyperboloid under construction in Dubai, UAE. The building will also contain 74 floors of office space, a retail area at the base, and a high-end hotel and serviced apartments in the top 27 floors. A luxury 5-star hotel section is to contain the highest hotel rooms in the world. The building will also feature a 6-storey crown that will contain a Turkish bath, sky garden, and other club facilities.

Damascus Gate Restaurant: World’s Largest Restaurant

When you visit Damascus, the capital of Syria and one of the world’s oldest cities, don’t miss dining at the largest restaurant in the world – the Damascus gate Restaurant. This huge restaurant can accommodate 6,014 costumers and employs a workforce of 1,800 people. This restaurant that opened in 2006 is called Bawabet Dimashq in Arabic. It has a 54,000 sq-m dining area and 2,500 sq-m kitchen.

El Bulli: The Best Restaurant in the World

It will be a great honor to eat in a restaurant which is regarded as the best in the world like El Bulli. This pride of Catalonia in Spain has been described as “the most imaginative generator of haute cuisine on the planet” and does a great deal of work on molecular gastronomy. It was named as the best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine a record five times – in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. It also won the Michelin star 3 times – 1976, 1984 and 1996. The El Bulli was established in 1961. The average cost of a meal is 250 euro.

Aragawa Restaurant: World’s Most Expensive Restaurant

Shinbashi district, where Aragawa Restaurant is located, is situated in central Tokyo – directly adjacent to Shiodome.

Only the rich can afford to eat in this restaurant located in Tokyo’s Shinbashi district. The cost of a dinner for one in this restaurant is a whooping $368… only!!! This steak house is famous for its beef and in fact, steak is the only food it serves. It has its own farm and serves its steaks with pepper and mustard only. As they say, the beef is very expensive but very delicious.

The Fat Duck: The Best Restaurant that Serves Unusual Dishes in the World

Are you looking for a restaurant that offers peculiar foods? Try The Far Duck restaurant in the UK. This restaurant is known for its menu of unusual dishes like snail porridge, sardine on toast sorbet, bacon and egg ice cream and salmon poached with liquorices. It was established in 1995 and had won the Michelin star 3 times and it was named as the world’s best restaurant by Restaurant magazine in 2005 and Best Restaurant in the UK in 2008 and 2009.

Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House: World’s Oldest Restaurant

Be part of of this restaurant’s history, dine at Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House located in Kaifeng, China. It is by some accounts the world’s oldest restaurant. It had been operational since 1153 and has survived numerous wars, invasions, and dynasty changes but still offers takeout food. As the name implies, this restaurant specialized in bucket chicken.

Sobrino de Botín: Recognized World’s Oldest Restaurant by Guinness World Records

Since there are no sufficient documents to prove that the Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House is the oldest restaurant in the world, the official title was given by Guinness Book Records to Sobrino de Botín. This restaurant is located in Calle de los Cuchilleros 17, 28005 in Madrid, Spain. It was established in 1725 and recognized as the world’s oldest eatery. Part of the restaurant’s folklore has it that a young Francisco Goya worked there as a waiter whilst he was waiting to get a place at Madrid’s. Specialty of the Sobrino is cochinillo asado or roast suckling pig. Other signature dishes include sopa de ajo, an egg, poached in chicken broth, and laced with sherry and garlic, and the favorite pick-me-up with Madrileño revelers.

Tour d’Argent: One of the Oldest and Historic Restaurant in Europe

Another historic restaurant that will surely provide a unique and unforgettable dining experience is La Tour d’Argent. It is located in the most visited city in the world – Paris in France. It is said to have been in operation since 1582. This 400 year-old restaurant is said to be one of the favorites of Henry IV. It specialized in pressed duck and has its own farm on which it raises its ducks.

Dining in this restaurant is truly memorable because a diner who orders a duck receives a postcard with the serial number of the duck. The restaurant also has a wine cellar containing more than half a million bottles of wine, costing many millions of dollars. This restaurant is also known as The Silver Tower or Tower of Money.

Ye Olde Union Oyster House: Oldest Restaurant in the US

If you live in the US or will visit the country dine at the oldest restaurant in the New World – Ye Olde Union Oyster House. It is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has been open to diners since 1826. Famous diners of this historic oyster house were the Kennedy-s (President John F. Kennedy’s favorite booth at Union Oyster House is marked with a plaque.), Daniel Webster, King Philippe of France and Rose Carey, America’s first waitress. The restaurant offers seafood, poultry, baked beans, steak and chops.

Stiftskeller St Peter: Oldest Restaurant in Europe

The authenticity of Stiftskeller St. Peter as the oldest restaurant in Europe is yet to be proven. It is claimed to be Central Europe’s oldest inn because of a document mentioning it in 803. If this will be authenticated, it will be the oldest, not only in Europe, but in the world. This historic restaurant is located within the monastery walls of St. Peter’s Archabbey in Salzburg, Austria.

Le Grand Vefour: Paris’ First Grand Restaurant

Paris is famous for Lovre, Eiffel, Triumphal Arch, fashion, palaces and Le Grand Vefour – its first grand restaurant. It was opened in the arcades of the Palais-Royal in 1784. Famous diners include long list of immortal heavyweights of French culture and politics. It was closed from 1905 to 1947 and re-opened in 1948 to continue its tradition of gastronomy at the same location, “a history-infused citadel of classic French cuisine”.

360 Restaurant: World’s Highest and Largest Revolving Restaurant

The CN Tower in Canada is the most remarkable landmark of Toronto in Ontario. It was once the tallest free-standing structure in the world. This famous tower contains the world’s highest and largest revolving restaurant at a height of 351 meters or 1151 feet.

Piz Gloria Restaurant: World’s First Revolving Restaurant

Dining in a revolving restaurant will surely be a unique experience and one of the best is – Piz Gloria. It is located in Schiltron, Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. The Piz Gloria restaurant, which offers breathtaking views of the surrounding area, claims to be the first revolving restaurant in the world is atop of the Schilthorn over Murren at 2,970 meters or 9,744 feet.

The creation of Piz Gloria restaurant originated in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963). It features a James Bond exhibition (memorabilia and film clips) in the lower floor.

Metro-Alpin Restaurant: World’s Highest Revolving Restaurant

Metro-Alpin Restaurant in Switzerland at 3,456 meters or 11,483 feet at the top of the Saas-Fee lift system is regarded as the highest revolving restaurant in the world. Saas-Fee, where the restaurant is located, is the main village in the Saastal or the Saas Valley and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais.

Sirocco: World’s Largest Open-Air Restaurant

Aren’t you afraid of height? Do you enjoy watching panoramic views from high places while having your dinner? If you say yes, then Sirocco, the world’s largest all open-air restaurant and Sky Bar, is the right place for you. The restaurant’s main feature is a spectacular 270° panorama of the Chao Phraya River and Bangkok City. Mediterranean foods are the specialty of this restaurant.

This restaurant is located on the 64th floor of the State Tower in Bangkok, Thailand. This building is the largest in Southeast Asia and the second tallest in Thailand.

More restaurants in the sky

Skylon Tower

Experience dining in the sky at the Skylon Tower located in Niagara Falls, Ontario in Canada while watching the breathtaking views of the American Falls in New York and the Horseshoe Falls in Ontario. Skylon Tower has two revolving restaurants that can accommodate 276 people and revolves once every hour.

Cairo Tower

The Cairo Tower in Egypt is another place where you can dine while watching the scenic views of the city. It is one of Cairo’s most famous and well-known landmarks. A single rotation of the tower’s rotating restaurant takes approximately 70 minutes.

Encounter Restaurant: A One-of-A-Kind Restaurant

This space style restaurant is located at Los Angeles International Airport in LA California in the United States of America.

This uniquely-shaped restaurant serves good but affordable food. Dine at night, and you’ll see the floodlit arches change color every few minutes.

Banyan Treehouse Café: Unique Restaurant

This unique restaurant is located in Onyama Park in Okinawa, Japan. This one’s not actually a restaurant on top of a tree. It is actually a replica of a giant Banyan tree or Gajamaru tree. The tree is made of concrete and built as a restaurant. This eatery serves Asian foods. Customers ascend via a lift inside the trunk. The restaurant has a spiral staircase fire escape at the side.

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant: Unique Restaurant

Well, this one’s real. It is a real restaurant built 40 feet up the trunk of a real giant Redwood tree by Yellow Pages. This unique restaurant which can accommodate 18 customers is located near Auckland in New Zealand.

Ithaa: Underwater Restaurant

Looking for the most unusual dining experience? How about dining underneath the sea? Ithaa is the right place for you. Ithaa is the world’s first underwater restaurant located 5 meters below sea level at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa in Maldives.

It was constructed in Singapore and was brought to Maldives in 2005. This peculiar restaurant can accommodate 14 costumers. The cost of meal ranges from US$120.00 to US$250.00. This unique undersea restaurant’s estimated life span is 20 years.