ACTIVITIES Answer the questions about your restaurant. 1. Where is the restaurant?
2 in What ways is it unusual?
3 When did it open?
4 What's on the menu? Is it good?
5 How expensive is it?
6 Are there any problems?
Answers Dinner in the Sky 1 It opened in Belgium but it now has branches in Paris, Dubai, Florida, and Las Vegas.
2 Diners sit at a huge table which hangs from a crane SOm in the air. Diners wear seat belts. The chefs prepare food in front of them on a sunken platform. You need a few drinks before you start eating, to get the courage to enjoy the view.
3 It opened in 2006.
4 The finest food is available on the menu. The food is delicious.
5. It costs £10,000.
6 Conversation is difficult. Diners have to shout because of the wind. You can't go to the loo until the table descends again.
Ithaa 1 It's on Rangali Island in the Maldives, Sm below the Indian Ocean.
2 It's the first underwater restaurant in the world, but you don't need to swim there. Diners eat face-to-face with sharks, stings rays, turtles, and tropical fish. There is also a colourful coral garden.
3 It opened in 2004.
4 It's mainly fish on the menu. The food is good.
5. It costs about £160 for dinner. You can stay at the hotel and sleep underwater for £7,500 a night.
6 There aren't many seats so it's difficult to get a reservation. The building will probably last only about 20 years.
's Baggers 1 It's in Nuremberg, Germany.
2 There are no waiters. You order everything yourself with touchscreen TVs and computers. It's the first automated restaurant in the world. You pick up a credit card when you arrive, put the card into the computer and order your meal on the screen. The food is put in a pot and sent down a spiral tube where it lands in front of you. You can send emails and text messages while you wait. You can pay by direct debit at the end of the month. You never have to leave a tip.
3.It opened in 2007.
4 Freshly cooked food.
5. It's about €8 (£6) a portion.
6 No problems.