The first thing you will notice about a fine dining restaurant is usually the decor and atmosphere.
Fine dining restaurants also generally offer more exotic or interesting menu items. Foods such as escargot (snails), beef carpaccio (raw beef), and foie gras (liver) may appear on the menu, so if you aren’t an adventurous eater and don’t like these things, make sure you understand exactly what it is you are ordering. The portions at a fine dining restaurant may also be smaller than at a more casual or family style restaurant, but the food will generally be of a higher quality.
