What restaurants that are unique in your country are especially well known and loved?

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1. There is one where all the waiters are blind and there is no light at all. You can choose from three menues, which you eat in complete darkness.

2. How would restaurants be well known outside of the city or place they are in?

3. We have 2-dimentional cafe, its quite trippy, better see pics for yourself https://www.instagram.com/cafe_bw/

4. I don’t know how unique is that but I’ve been to restaurants in Poznań that serves crepes with meats, cheeses and veggies. I know that there’s a chain with such crepes but I don’t know if it’s popular anywhere else.

   For example, the one I usually take is with mimolette cheese, chicken, dried tomatoes, pumpkin seeds and curry sause. It’s divine.

   One time my friend brought her Norwegian boyfriend at the time with us to such a restaurant and he said he didn’t have anything like it and wasn’t aware that such crepes would taste good.

5. The best Spanish restaurant is the one with the most lorries parked next to it.

6. There is a chain of fast food restaurants named “Quick”: it was originally created in Belgium and is still very popular in Belgium – at par with their competitor McDonalds. They also have restaurants in France, and also a couple of some other countries, but I think Belgians are sentimentally attached to the brand as a sort of local “guilty pleasure”: Burger King acquired Quick some years ago, and when they announced they would change all Quick restaurants in Burger King restaurants, it was a bit of a shock. They made a market study and came to the conclusion they should still keep the brand and their specific products (the sauce of the “Giant” burger has no match), and rebrand only a part of the restaurants.

7. Well probably every German city/village has a restaurant called “Bauernstube” or something like that. Mostly they serve typical German and regional known food

8. A lot of people in my region (Tuscany/Toscana) go to ARCI circles, cultural associations with historical ties to the now defunct Italian Communist Party to grab a cheap meal(often it’s a poorly done pizza) and have a talk, under this aspect they serve the same purpose of pubs or fast foods in other countries. I don’t think a lot of tourists know about this, and honestly there’s no reason to know if you don’t live here. Also, I come from near Florence, Italy and you might associate my area to bistecca or gelato or lampredotto but my favorite restaurant is a place in the country that serves sheep meat, frogs, snails and fried rabbit

9. Bouchons Lyonnais where I live.

   Historically they were serving silk workers (Lyon was renowned for that at some point) who started early and did a hard manual labor.

   As the clientele was not rich and hungry because of work they focused on cooking less popular parts of the animals such as guts and serving huge portions.

   Still today the bouchons serve traditional cuisine from Lyon and real traditional ones seat you at a big communal fable with strangers and you pass dishes along the table after serving yourself.

   Typically don’t plan for anything too intensive in the afternoon.

   It’s also very not vegan friendly, traditional cuisine from Lyon is very and meat based.

10. In Italy we have a few places places (a well-known one is/was la parolaccia – the swear word – in Rome) where they because insult the customers all the time.

    For instance you might walk in with your girlfriend and they would start to shout things like “oh wasn’t she here yesterday with another guy? Oh yeah I remember her! What a slut!!”. They also invent short songs whose lyrics make fun of the people sit at the tables at any time.

11. We don’t have many chains in the Netherlands, but if I had to pick 2, it would be FEBO (nobody said it had to be good or that those who love it had to be sober) and La Place (or had to have Michelin stars), the restaurant chain of a bankrupt warehouse chain. The restaurant (focused on (hot) lunches, not dinners) is generally good, uses fresh ingredients and is affordable. They’re generous with their sandwich toppings.

    The most well-known quality restaurants are De Librije (former Michelin star holder), in Zwolle and Simonis, in the Hague. Simonis is the fish wholesaler of the Hague who opened a restaurant. All fish they serve is caught that day.