You can use any number of the XML libraries available on npm. Here's an example using the simply-named "xml" library:
var xml = require('xml');
response.set('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
response.send(xml(name_of_restaurants));
See the module's documentation for a description of how it converts JavaScript objects to XML. If you need things returned in a specific XML format, you'll have more work to do, of course.