New Dining Concepts

The first restaurants in the modern world were probably built after the French revolution, when the nobility was ousted, leaving their chefs unemployed. Many of these chefs moved on to other things, but the more passionate and persistent among them opened up dining places or 'restaurants'. Therefore, the modern term restaurant is actually French in origin.
The first restaurants that opened served what is more commonly known as 'haute cuisine'. As the chefs operating these restaurants were previously employed with the nobility, they dished out the food that they were familiar with. …