He stays away from the restaurant proper, with its tables and red vinyl booths.

After the drinks, they went inside the weather shield to the terrace of the restaurant proper.

It now feels like a much more proper restaurant.

I passed through the wood-paneled bar into the high-ceilinged restaurant proper.

By comparison the machines in the restaurant proper were intelligent.

A proper sit-down restaurant in Spain is like any other in the western world.

And they are sometimes the bar of a proper sit-down restaurant.

And, this being Spain, there's even a proper restaurant serving great seafood.

In some ways, Comfort is barely a proper restaurant.

For the host, the benefit is to make some money and experiment with cooking without being required to invest in a restaurant proper.