Does any cafe give you what they want to give you?

I would love a restaurant like this.

My favorite meals have been at restaurants that serve a set menu (multiple courses).

In the UK HelloFresh will deliver meals to your door every day. Every meal is a surprise and is designed to be tasty and nutritious.

I so want to try this restaurant: http://elizabethsgoneraw.com/

The place is open on Friday evenings, by reservation only, and it has a set menu that changes monthly. Even non-vegans love the food.

But, the seven-course meal costs $80 per person, plus $60 for a wine pairing. I’ll need to save this one for a very special celebration.

There are restaurants that specialize in doing only one specific dish, or one specific multi-course meal and nothing else. The meal may change from day-to-day, but when you go there you get what they’re serving. These places tend to be more upscale, however.

In Japan there are some high end restaurants that serve a “full course”. You basically say “Omakase” which means I will leave it up to you. You trust the chef to make something wonderful! And they always do!
While in japan I once had to entertain a group of about 18 people for dinner. I was still learning Japanese but knew some handy phrases. When the waiter came to ask what everyone wanted I just said ” Juhichi nin, Onegaishimasu.” Meaning: 18 people Do what you think is right. The guy stepped back saying “Hai! Wakarimashita.” (Yes! I got it.) He started bringing various courses out. We had a wonderful evening enjoying different foods and drinks.
Everyone was so impressed. I was a hero.

There used to be a place here in North Beach called The Basque Hotel. It wasn’t a hotel, but a shabby door in the side of a building on a street so steep
that the sidewalk was actually stairs. You opened the door to find a large dark dining room with rows of long tables, just like those prison scenes from black & white movies. You paid in advance at the door and crowded into whatever space you could find at whatever table you could fit and with whatever company was already seated. The food would appear at both ends of the table, and was usually a huge salad bowl that one person would hold while their neighbor wielded the tools of salad for himself and whoever held the bowl. When the bowls met somewhere mid table, someone would appear to whisk them away. The next course was usually a pasta with the same deal, huge trays passed the length of the table. Trays of roughly sliced sourdough loaves, lots of butter on the table. The cheap wine was poured from pitchers by girls walking between the tables. Those were great days when you could actually live here on very little money

There used to be a restaurant in Pleasanton called The Big Yellow House. They pretty much did this. They didn’t last long.

I found this article about restaurants with no menus. In one case, you tell the chef what you would like, but for most of the others you have very little choice of what to order.

Prix fixe (“fixed price”) is the term in American restaurants. The idea is the chef is putting on a show for you. Like a variety stage show but with courses of food.