50 of The Most Unique Restaurants In The World
We all love going out to restaurants every now and then, but there are some restaurants around the world that will give you an unforgettable experience. There are restaurants that are underwater, positioned on a rock in the ocean, floating above Bangkok, and in caves.
The world is filled with unique, wonderful, beautiful, and downright wacky places to eat. These restaurants are definitely ones you want to include in your vacation.
Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
The Ithaa Undersea Restaurant is located at the Conrad Maldives, at the Rangali Island Resort. It is a gorgeous and intimate underwater restaurant that sits more than sixteen feet below sea level.
It is an all-glass restaurant that offers its diners a two-hundred-and-seventy-degree panoramic view of sea creatures swimming in the Maldives' crystal clear waters. The menu offers fresh seafood, beef rib eye, veal, and other gourmet dishes.
Dinner In The Sky
If you like heights, the Dinner in the Sky restaurant is a must. You can eat more than one hundred and sixty feet in the air at this restaurant located in Montreal, Canada. The seating area and guests are hoisted up into the air by a crane.
Guests are securely strapped into their chairs and all seated around a table, with wait staff in the middle cooking the food. There are more of these types of restaurants located throughout the world.
Redwoods Treehouse Restaurant
The Redwoods Treehouse Restaurant is located in Warkworth, New Zealand. The restaurant was built in 2008 and is a pod-shaped structure. It sits more than thirty feet above the ground in a Redwood tree.
Guests take an elevated treetop walkway built of redwood to reach the restaurant. It is used exclusively for private functions and events with a capacity of thirty guests.
Safe House Restaurant
The Safe House restaurant is spy themed and is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The restaurant does not have a sign, and you even need a password to enter.
The menu options include "The Matrix Revisited," with spaghetti, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. It serves gourmet foods prepared by four chefs, and the restaurant is mostly frequented by government employees.
Modern Toilet Restaurant
The Modern Toilet is a restaurant located in Taipei City, Taiwan Province, China. When it was first opened, it only sold chocolate ice cream in containers shaped like a squat toilet.
However, it became successful, and a full-fledged, bathroom-themed restaurant was built. Today, it is a chain with locations throughout Asia. Guests sit at non-working toilets, and meals are served in toilet bowl-shaped dinnerware.
De Kas Restaurant
The De Kas Restaurant is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is an old greenhouse that was supposed to be demolished in 2001. It was saved by Gert Jan Hageman, a star chef, who then converted it into a restaurant.
The restaurant is a unique twenty-six-foot-high glass building that also houses a nursery. Mediterranean vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers are grown and harvested in the greenhouse and garden and then served fresh at the restaurant.
The Bubble Room Restaurant
The Bubble Room Restaurant was opened in 1979 on Captiva Island, Florida. It is a restaurant decorated with classic toys from the 1930s and 1940s that started as a small one-room eatery. Today, it has grown into a multi-themed restaurant with staff known as "bubble scouts" who each wear a different crazy hat.
Each of the three floors has moving trains, photographs of old-time movie scenes, and stars adorning every available wall space. In addition, music from the 1920s and 1940s can be heard throughout the restaurant.
O.NOIR Restaurant
The O.NOIR Restaurant is located in Toronto, Canada, and was the first to introduce dining in the dark. The restaurant's philosophy is that a diner's enjoyment is amplified when his sight is eliminated as the other senses become heightened.
The establishment prohibits cell phones, flashlights, and luminous watches. Guests place their orders at a lit bar and are then led by a server into an unlit dining room. They experience a two-hour seated dinner service, with the servers explaining where everything is placed on the table.
Heart Attack Grill
Heart Attack Grill is a very unhealthy restaurant located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The servers are dressed as nurses, and the guests' orders are called prescriptions. The restaurant's theme is giving customers a heart attack with Octuple Bypass burgers.
The burgers range from eight to thirty-two ounces of beef and can equal more than nine thousand calories. They also serve Flatliner fried, unhealthy drinks, and you can even order cigarettes from your waitress. If you weigh more than three hundred and fifty pounds, you will eat for free.
Kayabukiya Tavern
The Kayabukiya Tavern is a restaurant located in Utsunomiya, Japan. This restaurant has two monkeys employed. The younger monkey, Fuku-chan, will bring you a hot towel to clean your hands before your meal. The older monkey, Yat-chan, takes your drink order and will bring you your beverage.
They are currently training more monkeys as servers as well. You can leave a tip for the monkeys in the form of boiled edamame. The monkeys love playing with all the customers as well.
The Airplane Restaurant
The Airplane Restaurant is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is a restaurant inside a fully intact Boeing KC-97. The plane was built in 1953 and was converted into a restaurant in 2002, seating two hundred and seventy-four guests.
The restaurant serves classic Americana cuisine, and guests sit in a room full of memorabilia and rare flight artifacts. The food will be much better than typical airplane food.
Chodovar Brewery & Spa
The Chodovar Brewery and Spa has a long tradition of brewing beer for more than five hundred years and is located in Chodova Plana, Czech Republic.
The restaurant seats three hundred people and offers views of the gardens and the historical downtown. When you are done with dinner, you can visit the spa and take a beer bath before being wrapped in fleece and handmade quilts.
Lapland SnowVillage Restaurants
Lapland Hotel's SnowVillage Restaurant is located in Kittila, Finland, and is very unique. The Snow Restaurant is made completely of snow and ice and serves classic Finnish cuisine. The menu includes salmon soup and a reindeer filet.
The restaurant is rebuilt every year and is one of the biggest ice structures in the world. Guests sit on a fur-topped tree stump at a table made of solid ice and they are served a three-course meal.
The Rock Restaurant
The Rock Restaurant sits in the water on the Michanwi Pingwe Beach in the Indian Ocean in Zanzibar. Guests reach the restaurant by canoeing, walking, or swimming.
It specializes in seafood, which is always fresh and delicious. Guests enjoy the fresh breeze from the ocean, the calming sound of the tides, and delicious dinner. It will make your experience in Africa amazing and unique.
The Grotto At Rayavadee
The Grotto is a restaurant located at the Rayavadee Resort in Krabi, Thailand. It is situated in a limestone cave on Phranang Beach; it is known as Cave Dining.
It is a romantic restaurant, and its specialty is seafood barbeque. They also serve light snacks and great desserts. Guests can take in the beauty as they are nestled under an ancient limestone cliff right on the beach.
The Labassin Waterfall Restaurant
The Labassin Waterfall Restaurant is located at Villa Escudero Resort in San Pablo City, Philippines. The surrounding area is all-natural, and visitors can enjoy authentic local cuisine at the bamboo tables. As guests eat, their feet are rinsed by crystal clear water where they can also admire the waterfalls.
Guests are also provided with entertainment in the form of traditional dance and music shows. The menu includes a kamayan-style buffet of rice, fish, grilled chicken and bananas, fresh fruit, and more.
Bird's Nest Restaurant
The Bird's Nest Restaurant is located at the Soneva Kiri Eco Resort in Thailand. It has tree pods located sixteen feet above the ground, giving you an amazing view.
A really neat thing is that the waiter uses a zip line to deliver food and drinks to you. The booths overlook the lush Koh Kood Rainforest, and guests can dine on "Willy Willy Creek Pork Belly," Renkon Chips, and other delicious foods.
Huvafen Fushi
Huvafen Fushi is a restaurant located in North Male in the Maldives. It is located at a five-star private island resort, and guests eat while sitting over the water. They serve Japanese with a Latin influence, and each dish is prepared using the finest quality ingredients.
"Fantastic place, excellent kind and professional service. We loved breakfast and enjoyed the Japanese restaurant. We stayed in the ocean bungalow that was big and comfortable with sunset views. Lots of white beaches, snorkeling, diving, pools. Go have fun! Got there by 35mins boat." ----- Shimon Akad, Customer Review.
Vista Restaurant
The Vista Restaurant is located at the Song Saa Private Island hotel in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. A bridge leads guests to the lounge, located over the water, with amazing views.
World-class chefs prepare fresh food and offer an impressive list of beverages, the finest wines, champagnes, and beers. The sunset and lounge create a romantic and memorable dinner for guests.
Grotta Palazzese
The Grotta Palazzese is located in the fishing village of Polignano a Mare in Italy. It is located in a cave at the seaside and is one of the most famous and desirable places to dine in the area.
It is a romantic restaurant with fresh seafood and a long wine list. The restaurant spills out onto a wooden terrace, looking out toward the Adriatic Sea. The menu includes Essenza, monkfish, scallops, sea bass, machamisu, and chocolate mousse.
Vertigo Restaurant And Moon Bar
The Vertigo Restaurant and Moon Bar are found at the very top of the skyscraper at the Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok. The restaurant's shape gives it a feeling of floating in the air above the city.
It is located on the sixty-first floor and offers a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the Bangkok skyline and its surroundings. It serves a wide range of drinks at the illuminated bar, and the menu ranges from seafood to premium steaks. You can even step out on the glass-floored 'Moon Walk' if you dare.
Under Water Restaurant
Under Water Restaurant is the first permanent underwater restaurant located in Brussels, Belgium. Guests dine in The Pearl, which is a 6.6-foot-wide sphere, located sixteen feet below the surface.
It can hold up to four people who enter the air-filled bubble after they scuba dive down and remove their scuba gear. Many even change into fancier clothing, once they are in the bubble. It is a little pricey, costing about one hundred and eleven dollars per person.
The Eagle's Nest
The Eagle's Nest, also called Kehlsteinhaus, is a restaurant located in Bavaria, Germany. The property was originally gifted to Hitler on his fiftieth birthday, and it became a symbol of Nazi rule. However, today it is a seasonal restaurant that serves traditional Bavarian cuisine.
The restaurant sits on the edge of Mount Kehlstein in the Bavarian Alps and is accessible via a windy road carved into the mountains. Guests are then brought to the dining room by a brass elevator.
Berggasthaus Aescher
Berggasthaus Aescher is a restaurant located in Schwende, Switzerland. The restaurant hangs from the side of the Ebenalp mountain in the Appenzell region of the Swiss Alps. It was originally built by farmers as a place to rest while their goats grazed the mountainside.
Today, it is a breathtaking and jaw-dropping restaurant that specializes in local ingredients and traditions. In order to reach the restaurant, guests take a long, arduous hike or ride on a cable car. That is followed by a shorter walk up to the restaurant.
MIL
The MIL Restaurant is located in Peru in the remote Sacred Valley, which is nearly twelve thousand feet above sea level. The restaurant is located near the mysterious Incan ruins and surrounding farms.
The chefs' ingredients are strictly sourced from the ecosystem surrounding the restaurant. Guests will enjoy chef Luis Valderrama's innovative eight-step tasting menu. The ingredients are grown by the Andean communities.
Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar
The Tonga Room & Hurricane Bar is a surreal experience located in San Francisco, California. It is inside the Fairmont San Francisco hotel and is a tiki-style bar with a massive lagoon in the middle.
It has extravagant décor and periodic tropical rain storms with thunder and lightning. While guests eat, the Island Groove Band performs hits from a thatch-covered barge while the dance floor rocks. Guests are served Polynesian-fusion cuisine.
M6m
The M6m restaurant is located on Maadhoo Island in the Maldives. The restaurant is decked out with plush furnishings and serves an indulgent seven-course seafood menu with delicious wine pairings.
It is an underwater restaurant that is surrounded by a turquoise lagoon and the underwater world. Guests are transported to the restaurant by a luxury speedboat on a forty-five-minute journey across the waters of the Indian Ocean.
Cat Cafe
The Cat Café is located in Melbourne, Australia, and is home to cats from rescue shelters. The café offers a range of cakes and coffees, but there is a small entry fee to get in.
The furry residents are the main attraction at the establishment and roam around, hoping to be cuddled. If you really like one of the cats, you can even adopt it. There are also similar coffee shops in France, the UK, Taiwan, and Germany.
Chillout Ice Lounge
The Chillout Ice Lounge is an icy wonderland located in Dubai, UAE. It is the first of its kind in the Middle East, where guests can relax on chairs made of ice at temperatures of twenty-one degrees Fahrenheit.
When guests arrive, they are given a hooded parka and wool gloves, shoes, and socks. They are also given a few minutes in a buffer zone to help them acclimate. There is an entry fee, and the menu consists of soups, sandwiches, and hot chocolate.
Rollercoaster Restaurant
Rollercoaster Restaurant can be found in several locations, including Hamburg, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, and UK's Alton Towers theme park. At this unique restaurant, customers place their orders on tablet computers.
They then wait for their meal to be delivered via a roller coaster-style conveyor belt. The menu includes roast chicken with fries, coleslaw, pasta carbonara, and cheeseburgers.
El Diablo
El Diablo is a unique restaurant located in Lanzarote, Spain. What makes this restaurant unique is that the chefs use the heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food. They barbeque meat and fish on a giant grill that is laid across an opening where, six feet below, lava bubbles.
The dormant volcano has been peacefully gurgling below the surface since it last erupted in 1824. In addition, the restaurant offers an amazing otherworldly panoramic view of Lanzarote's Tomanfaya National Park.
Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant
Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant is located in Diani Beach, Kenya, and offers a romantic candle-lit evening under the stars. The dining room sits inside a natural coral cave thirty feet underground. The cave is said to be one hundred and eighty thousand years old.
The menu leans toward fine dining with an emphasis on seafood, including pan-grilled barracuda and chili crab. The cave also features a natural hole in the ceiling, allowing guests to see the stars and moon on a clear evening.
The Yurt At Solitude
The Yurt at Solitude is a restaurant located in Solitude, Utah. Guests can strap on a pair of snowshoes and take a short hike along a lantern-lit trail to the restaurant. It is surrounded by the pine forests of the Solitude Mountain Resort ski area.
Once you reach the warmth of the Mongolian yurt, you will dine on treats like pork loin with blue cheese, potato gratin, seared scallops, caramelized onion tarts, and molten chocolate cake. Guests feast on a five-course meal.
Catacombs At Bube's Brewery
The Catacombs at Bube’s Brewery is a stone-lined vault forty-three feet below street level that is located in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. Guests receive a history tour of the brewery on the way down to dinner.
Then they are offered a selection of house-brewed beverages to compliment the main dishes, such as chicken piccata and crab cakes. Guests will receive a unique upscale dining experience.
Under
Under is a semi-submerged restaurant in the North Atlantic Ocean located in Lindesnes, Norway. It is the world’s largest underwater restaurant at 5,328 square feet, and it plunges to 18 feet below the water’s surface. The restaurant looks like a sleek, minimalist capsized ship and opened in 2019.
Guests are exposed to the wild seas and aquatic life of Norway and architecture that acts as an artificial reef. It is also known for its menu, which includes local seafood, seabirds, and wild meats.
Restaurant At Arctic Bath
The Arctic Bath Restaurant sits in the middle of a river in the middle of nowhere in Harads, Sweden. In the summer, it glides on the river, and in the winter, it is frozen in place.
The menu is always changing but is driven by regionally sourced ingredients such as berries, mustard, and honey. They serve fish and reindeer meat and other meals using traditional northern cuisine with a modern twist.
El Avion
El Avion is a very unique restaurant located in Quepos, Costa Rica. The restaurant is located inside a 1980s Cold War aircraft, the Fairchild C-123, and is perched above the popular Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. Its sister plane was shot down over Nicaragua, and this one was abandoned at Costa Rica’s main airport in San Jose.
In 2000, the plane was moved and transformed into a restaurant and bar. Its terraces overlook the ocean, and the menu offers seafood dishes such as coconut shrimp, seafood curry, Yellow Fin Tuna Steaks, and fried calamari. “Our plane may be on the ground, but El Avion’s famous sunsets paint the sky almost every evening. As we are about 150 meters above the beach, we have a bird’s eye view of the prettiest panorama anywhere in Manuel Antonio.” ----- Allan Templeton.
Uluru 'Sounds Of Silence'
Uluru (which means ‘Sounds of Silence’) is a restaurant located in Ayers Rock, Australia. It is located on top of a dune overlooking the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and is an outdoor restaurant. Guests dine under the stars and can soak up the magical atmosphere of the Australian outback during the four-hour dining experience.
The meal starts with champagne and canapes, followed by sampling a bush tucker-inspired buffet while listening to a live Didgeridoo performance. In addition, guests receive a guided tour of the night sky, showing all of the zodiac highlights.
Easey's
Easey's is a cool, quirky burger bar in Melbourne, Australia. The restaurant serves burgers and beers five stories up in a rooftop train carriage overlooking Melbourne City. There are three train carriages perched on the roof of a building. The restaurant features a retro soundtrack, original features, and walls that are decorated with graffiti.
It also serves hot dogs and has an extensive drinks list which includes beers, wines, and cocktails. "I wanted to visit here on my last trip to Melbourne, but I ran out of time, so I had been looking forward to this for years! It was worth the wait. I loved walking towards the restaurant and seeing the trains on the roof. The whole venue has a cool vibe. Great friendly service. The burgers and beer were scrumptious!" ----- BargainBinBec.
Bientang's Cave
Bientang's Cave is a restaurant located in Hermanus, South Africa. The restaurant is situated on the shores of Walker Bay and is carved into the depths of a century-old cave. It sits in the heart of the best land-based whale-watching area in the world.
Guests can dine on daily specials and a full a la carte menu, including an array of seafood, meat, poultry, and vegetarian options. They also offer delectable desserts, coffees, and cocktails. The cave was once inhabited by a Koi Strandloper of the same name.
Giraffe Manor
Giraffe Manor is a restaurant that offers a unique dining experience located in Langata, Kenya. It is a hotel built in a colonial-era mansion on twelve acres of land, which is located just adjacent to a one-hundred-and-forty-acre forest.
The restaurant is located in the hotel and offers dining while giraffes are poking their necks through a nearby window. The grounds are home to many giraffes who visit the hotel and restaurant every morning and evening. Guests can also feed them treats.
Sip 'n Dip Lounge
Sip 'n Dip Lounge is deep-sea dining in Great Falls, Montana. It is a tiki-themed restaurant that has dancing mermaids and mermen swimming past huge glass windows in an adjacent pool.
The restaurant serves burgers, prime rib sandwiches, freshly made soups, chicken fried steaks, and creative fishbowl cocktails. The restaurant first opened in 1962 and featured "Piano Pat" Spoonheim, who played piano at the restaurant from 1963 until 2021.
Hobbiton Restaurant
The Hobbiton is a restaurant located in Matamata, New Zealand. It is located at the Hobbiton Movie Set, where scenes from Peter Jackson's movies were filmed. Guests begin by receiving a tour through some of the twelve-acre The Shire site and then go to The Green Dragon Inn.
There they feast on a hearty, hobbit-friendly meal, which includes slow-cooked lamb shanks, salmon filets, and roasted pumpkins. That is all served with sweet potato mash and garlic and thyme roasted potatoes. Finally, they are served Bakewell tarts, and apple crumble for dessert. A lantern-lit walk finishes the experience.
Max's Restaurant
Max's Restaurant is located in Grindavik, Iceland, and is one of the best places to view the Northern Lights. The restaurant is located at the Northern Lights Inn and offers a front-row seat to view the aurora borealis. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all served with an Icelandic fusion focus.
The experience is enhanced with incredible food, such as a rich seafood soup, pan-fried cod, and grilled lamb. "My wife and I stumbled upon this place after leaving the blue lagoon. It is tucked into a hotel. Great food, friendly staff, and great service. I highly recommend this place." ----- Dcowill, Customer Review.
Observation Wheel Dining
The Singapore Flyer is an observation wheel dining located in Singapore. It is the world's second-largest observation wheel. It offers fancy butler-serviced dinners onboard a private capsule.
As you dine, you rotate five hundred and forty feet above landmarks such as the F1 Circuit and Collyer Quay. The experience includes a four-course meal with selections from a rotating menu and the city's signature drink, a Singapore Sling.
Heli-Dining
The Heli-Dining is located at Four Seasons Resort Whistler and offers a new twist on a buffet dinner. Guests are transported by helicopter to a glacier for an open-air buffet made by the resort's culinary team.
Mountaintop dining offers endless backcountry horizons and a customized menu that can include altitude beer sausages and bacon-infused vodka cocktails.
Lunch Train Restaurant
Lunch Train Dining is located at Terry Bison Ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It is an authentic western-style ranch where guests can hop aboard the Sunday Lunch Train and munch on buffalo burgers and more. It was voted the best in Wyoming by the Food Network. As you eat, you travel through the prairies of the private estate, which spans into Colorado.
You will enjoy the beautiful country and the bison roaming along the tracks. "We went with the grandparents on the Sunday Lunch Train, and it was a perfect multi-generational activity. The ribs were excellent, and it was so neat to have lunch while you voyaged out to see the buffalo." ----- Travelcolomama, Customer Review.
Amangani Restaurant
The Amangani Restaurant is a winter highlight at the top of the cliff. It is a western-style dinner at the Tipi Camp, located by sleigh ride along the winding Snake River.
As you travel through the National Elk Refuge, you can take in moonlit vistas of the Gros Ventre Butte. Then guests will go into the warmth, where they are treated to a feast of free-range buffalo prime ribs and salmon.
Piz Gloria Restaurant
The Piz Gloria Restaurant is located in Schilthorn, Switzerland, and is one of the most well-known and unique restaurants in the world. While you dine, you can take in stunning three-hundred-and-sixty-degree views of the Bernese Alps. The restaurant rotates and is located on the top of a mountain.
The menu includes several James Bond-themed items, including 'Spaghetti James Bond' and 'Indian Vegetarian Dish.' It was the filming location for the 1969 hit 007 movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Guests can ride to the top of the Alps to the restaurant by using an aerial cable car.