An engagement in a restaurant always affords the opportunity of a private meeting in public, and allows the diner to establish a special relationship with his or her spatial environment. This book represents an excellent sampling of restaurant designs whose main premise is to privilege the exterior surroundings. We are guided along a route which takes in noteworthy establishments with diverse styles. They have been chosen due to their new construction or because they opted for unusual architecture. This is also a meeting with well-known names in contemporary architecture who, by means of innovative designs, have discovered new perspectives in this type of locale.