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I'm with David2000--a restaurant is only half about the food. The other half is the "show". Music (or whatever sound is present) is definitely a crucial part of the experience. For me, the sound selection is about the "fit" with the rest of the environment and experience of the restaurant.
The Very Best Restaurant around here (in my humble opinion) doesn't play any music. It's very quiet and intimate and the food is Effing Fabulous. And expensive--lurkette and I reserve the place for birthdays and anniversaries, and when wealthy relatives come into town. It's in a big old Victorian house, and the quiet, with hushed conversation, just somehow works.
The Second Best Place in town is an art-fusion-northern-italian place. Real good food, and somewhat less expensive--we occasionally go there on a whim--plays modern and contemporary symphonic and chamber music. Nothing classical; very arty and highbrow. Again, it feels right on the rest of the atmosphere.
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