We arrange for him to pick us up later so we can check out some paladares (private restaurants).

Joe Millin, a ticket man and one of just four original employees still on the job, slipped him passes to the park's private restaurant.

Because no single agency regulates private restaurants, it is impossible to count the exact number of new ones.

New, private restaurants, geared to foreigners and averaging $20 to $25 a person, are springing up as a free market economy takes hold.

There have been signs, however, that the boom in private restaurants may be peaking.

Santiago was different: there were only two legal private restaurants in the city.

The service centres in Ontario have private restaurants and establishments.

Dining After years of state ownership there are some new private restaurants opening up.

In Moscow, two private cooperative restaurants have opened in the last few months.

"The Communist Government needed one private restaurant in order to be able to say it's possible here," he said.