Unique Restaurants & Bars

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

Every dish at this restaurant claims to have a health benefit.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

Tucked in an urban forest, this restaurant specializes in homemade, healing rakijas.

This antique rail car has been reborn as an urban cafe.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Get fishing gear and craft beer at this restaurant on the pier.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Who said a biker bar is no place for a taxidermy squirrel collection?

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Chefs from Tibet's Kham region offer steaming meat pies and noodle soups in this nook behind a jewelry store.