Dining at Festival '64 -- The American Restaurant -- is a highlight of World's Fairing. You expect to linger over luncheon or dinner. The food is superb, much of it prepared to order at tableside. The panoramic view, through the restaurant's walls of glass, is unequaled anywhere at the Fair.

By day, Festival '64 is a sunlit island surrounded by pools and flowers. By night, when the lights of the Industrial Area are a fairyland of color, the exquisite blues and greens of the restaurant take on a sophisticated excitement. The decor was planned to blend with the natural garden setting of the Festival of Gas pavilion, which hosts the newest of New York's fine restaurants.

Festival '64 is one continuous garden, following the design of Festival of Gas pavilion, where restaurant is located.

A leisurely lunch at Festival '64 is a "must" for most World's Fair visitors. Gas air conditioning for all-weather comfort is provided by Carrier.

Restaurant Associates -- operators of the famed Four Seasons, Forum of the Twelve Ceasars, la Fonda del Sol and other New York restaurants -- created an authentic American beauty in Festival '64. it pays tribute to the native gourmet cooking of the United States with such dishes as St. Augustine Shrimp Ramekin, Plantation Wedding Cake, Shaker Herb Soup, Green Corn Pie with Shrimp, West Coast Lime-Broiled Chicken, Crackling Bread and California Broiled Fig on Ham. These dishes have been re-created by Restaurant Associates in their distinctive style. Food editors from all over the world, who were sent to seek out the best dining at the Fair -- have requested and reprinted the recipes.

Festival '64 dining should be an unhurried, luxurious experience. You can have a prime spot for seeing the Fair, while a prime steak broils to your taste at your own table, and a waiter tenderly stirs a sauce for it. Pots of fresh fragrant herbs are close at hand for seasoning and garnish. The specially-designed gas cooking carts have double-decker smokeless broiling units which cook several steaks or halves of chickens at one time.

All of the cooking at Festival '64 is done with gas. The restaurant's superbly-equipped gas kitchen has been compared to the finest in the United States. Don't miss it.

Festival '64 offers maginficent view of nightly fountain and fireworks display.

Two iced teas with fresh-picked mint coming up! Restaurant grows its own herbs.

Specialties are foods prepared at the table from the gas cooking cart. Both broiling and delicate sauce-making are done to order.

New way of hanging glass, rather than framing it, elimintes corner posts. Indoors and outdoors merge in medley of blue-greens through panes of crystal-clear Saint-Gobain glass.