Laravel view routing - laravel-5.4

Question

I created a laravel project and I added to the resources/views : 2 blades,
home.blade.php
restaurants.blade.php
In laravel 5.4, I created a route in web.php
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('home');
});
Route::get('restaurants', function () {
return view('restaurants');
});
when I open my project localhost/food/public
the home blade is opening.
When I click on restaurants, the URL changes to : localhost/food/public/restaurants and giving me :
Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.
1/1
NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 179:
screenshot routes listing:
screenshot views folder:
htaccess :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Your image is showing that your project is in htdocs/bitfood, and you are assuming htdocs/food instead.
So try open:
http://localhost/bitfood/public/restaurants
If the page does not load correctly then try open:
http://localhost/bitfood/public/index.php/restaurants
..in order to check if the problem could be raised from .htaccess cause it could not be read.

Answer 2

Copy .htaccess file from public folder to root folder and try again.
It will remove the public/index.php from your URL.
Then try this URL
localhost:8000/bitfood/restaurants