Everyone likes to go to a good restaurant (according to the Sinhalese spelling, Apana Hall means a store that sells food items, while Apana Hall is called a liquor store) and enjoy a mouth-watering meal when they have some extra money in hand. Restaurant owners want to give an unforgettable experience to the customers who come to their restaurant from time to time because that wonderful experience can be spread by word of mouth and new customers can be created.
Some restaurant owners have gone so far in their efforts to provide an unforgettable experience to their customers that their restaurants have become famous among tourists as well as around the world due to their wonderful features. Information about some of these restaurants.
Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
Built sixteen feet below sea level, this wonderful restaurant is located on the island of Rangali in the Maldives. Opened in 2005, it is owned by the Conrad Hotel Group, which is controlled by the Hilton Hotel Group, and it can accommodate 14 people at a time. The restaurant usually serves lunch and dinner, most of which are a fusion of Maldivian and Western cuisine.
Formed in the shape of a cylinder using transparent acrylic glass, it allows the people inside the restaurant to enjoy the amazing 270-degree panoramic view under the sea. The entrance to this wonderful restaurant is located above sea level as a small thatched pavilion. The engineers have estimated that this restaurant will have a life span of 20 years after considering factors such as the erosion caused by sea water to the restaurant building and various sea plants growing on it. Twelve years have already passed, so those who wish to enjoy a meal at Ithaa Undersea Restaurant should make reservations as soon as possible.
Cat Café Nekorobi
Cat lovers must visit this restaurant located in Tokyo, Japan. This restaurant is designed in such a way that you can spend time relaxing with a pet cat while drinking a cup of coffee. In addition, the restaurant owners have provided facilities for the customers who come to this restaurant to read books, play computer games, listen to music and watch movies.
Apart from the felines, Cat Café Nekorobi is most popular among Japanese people because of the bowl of miso soup (a traditional Japanese dish made from rice, barley, soybeans and seafood) that they serve. Also, if you go to this restaurant for dinner, you can sit in a circle around a floor lamp and see how the cats calmly enjoy their dinner.
Safe House Restaurant
Opened in 1966, this restaurant is located in Milwaukee, the largest city in the state of Wisconsin, USA. Everything inside the restaurant is designed based on a secret service theme and David J. Baldwin’s design of this wonderful restaurant is based on the concept of Safe House used by the world-famous secret services (that is, a place that looks like a normal house from the outside, but a place where intelligence officers can secretly gather and plan their activities).
A password must be provided when entering this restaurant, just like in a true safe house. The website of the restaurant states that a customer entering the restaurant must first ask for the password from the special agent standing behind the door marked ‘International Exports’. Also, only 12 people can gather in the restaurant at one time.
Grotta Palazzese
It would not be wrong to say that the small fishing town of Polignano a Mare in southern Italy is most famous among tourists because of the Grotta Palazzese restaurant. Centuries ago (around 1,700 AD to be exact), this restaurant was first built in a limestone cave 74 feet above sea level.
In the early days, this restaurant was used for holding evening parties of nobles. But nowadays anyone can visit this restaurant between May and October (i.e. spring season) and enjoy their favorite Italian meal. The restaurant itself provides facilities for those who want to walk around the narrow streets of the medieval town that still remain before eating.
Restaurant en Kwekerij De Kas
If you want to enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits, this restaurant in Amsterdam, Netherlands is the place to go. The specialty here is that after a customer orders a certain meal, the vegetables grown in the restaurant’s farm and greenhouses are harvested at that time and the relevant meal is prepared. Accordingly, a customer is allowed to monitor his food order prepared using fresh vegetables from the time of picking the vegetables until the delicious food arrives at the table.
The building and farm where this restaurant is located was built in 1926 as a nursery owned by the city council of Amsterdam. Scheduled to be demolished in 2001, chef Gert Jan Hagemann bought it and created Restaurant en Kwekerij De Kas. Today, in addition to regular vegetables, medicinal herbs, Mediterranean herbs and edible flowers are grown in the restaurant’s greenhouse, which is about twenty-six feet high.
A380 In-Flight Kitchen
Located in the capital city of Taipei, Taiwan, all the facts of this restaurant are done in a plane. But the management here has taken care to provide its customers with more delicious and varied food than the food served in the airplanes. Located in an ordinary commercial building in the capital city of Taipei, the amount spent on the interior design is about 2 lakh US dollars.
