Restaurantosaurus Exterior

Restaurantosaurus was located near DINOSAUR and made up of multiple connected buildings. It provided a lot of indoor and outdoor seating.

The main entrance was on a large patio below a roof topped with props, including lawn chairs and discarded cans.

Suction cup arrows and bows hung on the side of the building by the chairs. A couple of pyramids made from empty cans decorated the back wall just behind the roof. Discarded work boots were scattered away from the chairs. One pair of work boots, with a toy dinosaur on either side, sat just in front of the cooler, which was tied down to keep it from falling off the roof.

The top of the restaurant had a weather vane with a Spinosaurus on it.

A small set of stairs led to and from the bar inside Restaurantosaurus. In recent months, Donald Duck’s meet and greet was located right outside this area.

A sign outside the restaurant indicated that composted leftovers and tableware were used to fertilize plants. The sign read: “Your food scraps haven’t fossilized! We fertilize these plants with dirt made from your trashed tableware and leftovers. – The Compost(osaurus) Club.”

Restaurantosaurus Ordering & Pick-Up

Two sets of double entrance doors were at the front of the restaurant, leading to the order queue.

The first room of the restaurant encapsulated the central Old Museum area. With anatomic images, fossils, dinosaur mounts, and more.

Old Museum Dining Room

Most of the Old Museum area can be found in the Old Museum Dining Room. It featured rustic chairs and tables beneath hanging, thematic lighting fixtures. The lights had mental cutouts of dinosaurs. A large portrait of dinosaurs and Jurassic life hung above the doorway.

Casts of dinosaur bones, including a T.rex skull, adorn shelves and hang on the walls.

Even the hallway bathroom is decorated with dinosaur art.

A photograph of Walt Disney with a pair of animatronic dinosaurs is framed on one wall.

The entrance to the Motor Pool dining room is through this doorway marked with a “Vehicle Maintenance(osaurus)” sign, plus an old-fashioned metal sign for “Rex’s Towing.”

The Dino Institute’s Motor Pool

The Motor Pool dining room is themed like a mechanic’s Quonset hut covered with oily handprints, some creating dinosaur art.

An exit to the outside is marked “Exit(osaurus).” A pegboard and hooks hold car repair tools and hoses.

Sketches adorn this wall below an “(Auto)Mobile(osaurus)” sign, with a woman in a car joyriding with the Carnotaurus and saying “Thanks for the cay Jimmy.”

This doorway off the Motor Pool leads to the Lounge, which is designed like an archaeological site tent.

Restaurantosaurus Lounge

The tent-like interior of the Lounge has a centerpiece of shelving units protected with chicken wire. The shelves hold an assortment of bones and tools.

The interns have left their marks all over the shelves with declarations of dino loyalty, funny messages, and illustrations.

Did you know a deinocheirus claw is a 75 million year old can opener?

Backpacks and sleeping bags are hung up in the corners.

Intern Dorms

Accessed off the Old Museum dining room, the Intern Dorms form an expansive dining room with two distinct areas.

The first room resembles a storage or site preparation facility with shelves of rubs and outdoor equipment, bones and castings, and faded photographs with weathered notations.

The second area more closely resembles a dormitory, complete with ladders leading to the interns’ individual bunks (although the ladders are pulled up).

Recipients of the “Zip Award” are immortalized on crude plaques hung on the bunks.

The interns’ bunks feature little personal touches like books, bedding, candles, instruments, luggage, and more.

Photos of the interns onsite at a dig are preserved in cute themed frames below a collection of cheeky mugs.

The interns have taken to using this Triceratops head as a hat rack.

Another “Exit(o-saurus)” leads off the dorms to the patio.

The interns have left their marks around the dorms with a Godzilla poster, Christmas lights, messages by the phone, a community whiteboard, and more.

The shelves are laden with books, toys, and other dinosaur paraphernalia.

The dorms lead to The Hip Joint dining room, distinguished by this X-ray inspired sign accented with Christmas lights.

The Hip Joint

The interns have taken over this spot for a hangout, installing a jukebox and hanging funky dinosaur art. The shelves feature books, painted message rocks from former interns, and board games and recreation equipment.

If it says “dinosaur,” the interns have hung it in on the walls in here.

This intern got very creative with their word choices.

Cheeky Easter eggs are everywhere, such as “Here we come a-fossiling” (a pun on wassailing).

The area with the jukebox is made to look like an Airstream trailer parked alongside.

A dartboard is marked with the different prehistoric eras.