Posts in Custom postype not visible on frontpage wordpress

Question

I have created a custom post type restaurant. But Its not coming on the main page. But I'm able to see the post in single view when using the permalink. Is it that I have to make any changes in the index.php? If yes what changes? I'm using the default Twenty Ten theme in wordpress 3.

And how can I get only the custom post type in another page with pagination?

Answer 1

It's best to use postmeta for this instead of messing with the post_type as there is wordpress functionality which is depended on post_type.