What is the most beautiful restaurant you have ever eaten at?

Der Weinerschnitzel

My mother's kitchen.

Not a restaurant, but I wouldn't tolerate food "sucking" at a restaurant no matter what the view or decor. For Christ's sake, these desperate doltish threads.

R2, thank you for being that person whose taste is entirely in their mouth. Now, if you wouldn't mind taking your superiority complex and fucking yourself with it for the rest for the rest of the night, we'd be ever so obliged.

Sorry OP, if the food at a fancy restaurant sucked, I wouldn't be happy to pay a pricey bill for the food even if it were the Taj Mahal. The ambience is import, but not more than the food you went there for.

The Flagstaff House way up in the mountains outside of Boulder Co. Not only is the food excellent, but the view will knock your socks off

I don't really care if the restaurant is gorgeous and the food sucks...the food still sucks and that's why you're there in the first place.

Any clean restaurant with a fabulous view in a fabulous location. Cairo, Istanbul, Rome, Amalfi Coast, Venice, the Alps, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Pacific Coast etc etc etc.

The most drop dead view can be found in the modest restaurants up on the mountain in Zermatt.

For classic ambiance, Pavillon Ledoyen Paris and l'Hôtel de Paris in Monte-Carlo.

McDonald's.

The rock quarry

You will note, R4, that I never said the food HAD to suck.

Just that if it did, the venue would still be worth a visit.

I go to restaurants for ambiance, service, drinks, noise level all first first. Food comes second and sometimes not at all.

That said, the food can be excellent in places that provide the first four.

Italian restaurants in general always look so sumptuous and steeped in glamor, so I will say Italian restaurants, yes, even if the food sucked, which of course it never does. Has anyone eaten at an Italian restaurant that didn't have outstanding food?

R11 Let me introduce you to Olive Garden.

R11 - unfortunately the coastal cities of Italy are filled with mediocre restaurants.

The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Boston (when the Ritz was located on Arlington Street overlooking the Public Garden...before it moved to the most unlikely location on Avery Street).

The old Ritz is the brick building on the left...

McDonald’s on Main St.

The Brave Bull

Don't laugh but the view from the windows of the dining car of the California Zephyr are really great and the food served on Amtrak's long distance trains is surprisingly good.

The ever changing views of the Rockies while enjoying a good meal is pretty fine.

Del Taco—the one on Prairie.

Le Train Bleu in Paris

Not technically a restaurant but the regency club on the top floor of the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile. The food and free booze are great but can barely focus on them because of the view.

That’s a shitty picture if you’re trying to get us there…

The photo doesn’t do it justice.

Here's the Gornegrat hotel, restaurant, ski station in Zermatt. You take a cog train from the town. I've even slept in the little hotel. It's all very functional Swiss. The food is all serviceable and won't break the bank. It's heavenly on a sunny day without much wind. But it's entrancing in all kinds of weather. One time I stayed over because I was skied out and there was a storm that night. The walls are thick stone. I woke up early in the morning and a snowy mist had penetrated.

[quote]unfortunately the coastal cities of Italy are filled with mediocre restaurants.

Fortunately the coastal cities of Italy are also filled with fabulous restaurants.

OP is struggling, and even spouts an irrelevant whatever as she tries, tries, tries.

And, again, the question is for what?

Rock n roll Hardees’ on Clearlake

La Grenouille NYC - gorgeous flowers, very good food, and the most flattering lighting you can imagine… everyone looks beautiful in this room!

R25, I'd like to know what restaurants have beautiful design/architecture/views/atmosphere.

I am sorry if that does not make sense to you.

BTW, how many times DID your mother drop you on your head?

Could you round it down to the nearest hundred?

Restaurants are decorated?

I attended a wedding at Tavern On The Green many years ago. The weather was perfect and the decor with amazing floral displays was quite a sight. I have zero recollection of the food.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

R30 that place was more tacky than Jackie at her tackiest. Ugh.

Warner LeRoy was very tacky.

The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Terminal

71 Above in LA at the Library Building

The dining room at Claridge's (prior to present ownership)

Café New York in Vienna

The Boat House in Lambertville, NJ (a bar rather than a restaurant)

The Grill (formerly the Four Seasons) in the Seagram Building at New York

New York Café is in Budapest.

The old Four Seasons restaurant in NYC. Though it had a very masculine look befitting a power lunch place for (mostly) men for the first couple of decades.

The food wasn’t bad either, though it was orobably fussy by today’s standards.

I was just a kid, but I remember dining at a restaurant that was full of beautiful birds. It was otherworldly lovely with pink and white cockatiels, parakeets and swans 🦢. It was very stylized in a way only the late 1960s could be. I don’t remember a damn thing about the food.

I mentioned this in another thread, L'Hotel Paris. The restaurant is small and intimate, moody. lux fabrics, cut silks and mohair, menu has become a little too haute for me, I prefer a more bistro menu.

Between the “a” and the “t,” OP.

The Olde Pink House in Savannah

How is the food at The Grill, r34? I've wanted to eat there for a while.

Leg de Spread e Oprah

I went to this place in Cape Town because my partners relatives wanted to go there. I'm not a foodie but I seem to recall the food was pretty good, but the reataurant was absolutely amazing, I could live in it. I spent time between courses just looking at the interior

Link is to their gallery which should give you some idea of the look

Restaurants with really good ocean views are not know for having the best food. Adequate, yes, but it's hard to find a combo of great view and exceptional food.

The coolest looking restaurant I've ever eaten at is Rules in London. I ate there before Downton Abbey made it more famous than it already was.

The food was very good, too. Rich (buttery).

94th Aero Squadron anywhere.

Greens restaurant in San Francisco (Marina) has a very nice atmosphere. Mediocre food, IMO.

It's a vegetarian restaurant. I'm pretty much vegetarian except for occasionally fish / shellfish. So, it wasn't the vegetarian food that bothered me.