Where is the Restore button for iCloud?

I've safely backed up my iPad to the cloud but don't seem to be able to find the Restore button in case I have to do a restore.
Grateful if someone can help.
I'm using IOS5 on my iPad 2.

You have a very good question and this is something that I wondered about as well. There is no button in the settings to restore from iCloud. That would be too easy. So much of the stuff that you have to do on iDevices is sort of o"one thing leads to another" type logic. Bold type was copied from the user guide book from the iBooks Store.
You can use iCloud or iTunes to restore iPad from a backup.
Restore from an iCloud backup:  Reset iPad to erase all settings and information. Sign in to iCloud and choose Restore from a Backup in the Setup Assistant. See Reset.
Restore from an iTunes backup:  Connect iPad to the computer you normally sync with, select iPad in the iTunes window, and click Restore in the Summary pane.
When the iPad software is restored, you can either set it up as a new iPad, or restore your music, videos, app data, and other content from a backup.
For a company that claims that it "just works right out of the box" and "we don't want the user to have to think about how it works" a lot of the issues are really not very clear to me.
Bottom line, apparently you would have to Erase All Content and Settings on the device and then sign into iCloud and choose Restore. Where do you sign into iCloud??? Well if you have Googled this - apparently the "start up" screen appears on the iPad - just like the new ones now come out of the box - and that is where you sign.
Does that seem intuitive to you? If there is a button in iTunes and there are buttons for every other darn setting on the device - could one have not been put on the device for this???
Frankly I just don't get Apple reasoning sometimes. Maybe I'm too dumb for this stuff anymore.

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