What is the difference between the two:
- 高｛たか}い値段｛ねだん｝レストラン
- 値段{ねだん｝が高{たか｝いレストラン
In other words, what is the difference between:
- adjective-noun
- noun-が-adjective
Another example would be this:
- ボブは魚｛さかな｝が好き｛すき｝だ
- ボブは好き｛すき｝魚｛さかな｝だ
I was reading http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/adjectives which uses the first form in these examples, but it also says you can modify a noun just by placing an i-adjective before it, and Google Translate gives me the same translations for both forms.
To expand upon Yuuichi's answer, the difference is one of nuance and emphasis, and of the grammatical requirements of the construction, much as in English.
Japanese is a bit more flexible than English when it comes to what terms are allowed to directly modify other terms. We can say 行{い}く車{くるま} in Japanese (literally "goes car", or depending on context, "will be going car"), but in English, relative clauses modifying nouns like this require grammatical words to tie things together: "the car that goes".
Adjective-Noun is a noun phrase like 高い値段、好きな魚.
Noun-が-Adjective is a sentence or modifies noun like 魚が好きだ, 値段が高いレストラン.
