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Would you dine out in pitch blackness?
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The other day I went to a restaurant in London called Dans le Noir which is quite literally eating a meal in pitch blackness.
You dine in a room with no light or source of illumination and can literally not see your finger an inch away from your face.
The gastronomic delight is only made possible by the waiters and guide who all happen to be blind. Your food simply arrives in front of you and you have to find it to eat. The concept is that loss of sight will heighten the sense of taste.
So my question to everyone is would you dine in the pitch black unable to see your food let alone any of your surroundings?
Was it a calculated risk that small restaurant is not likely to have a high risk, or that a place where people eat in the dark would need to be cleaned well by someone other than a waiter.
or am I just living life on the edge?
I actually found the experience very liberating being able to enjoy time with a good friend in the dark in public without anyone having a clue who we were or what we looked like.
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David
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cantstopscratching
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Wed Apr 1 2009 16:30:33
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HELL NO!!!!! But, good for you that it was a good experience.
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bedbugdude
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Wed Apr 1 2009 18:11:19
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I went to that place and I swear the waiter lifted my wallet but I can't prove it.
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pleasenotme
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Wed Apr 1 2009 18:46:35
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Sounds like fun to me! I guess I'm just not that paranoid.
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Hair in food creeps me out, so I guess I would be wary.
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wigginonbugs
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Wed Apr 1 2009 18:57:48
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Dine out in pitch darkness? Saw that on one of those "for the love of somebody shows".
But Bedbugs do it all the time LOL!
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paulaw0919
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Wed Apr 1 2009 19:12:50
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This is too funny, but a great idea for a restaurant. First off, I slept with a small night light in the room before we had our infestation. We have no street lights or anything so here when it's dark, it's really Dark!
But I wonder if I would be one of the annoying people that brought a flashlight or a lighter just to peek at my food before I ate it! Did any of that happen during your dinner David? If so, blame my evil twin.
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OutOutDarnBugs
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Wed Apr 1 2009 19:26:17
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David, I passed that restaurant when I was in London visiting the bf. He suggested we go, but I reminded him that I like to see what's going on around me at all times...he was fascinated by it, though.
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Adele
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Wed Apr 1 2009 20:49:59
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Great place to go if you are going out and don't want to have other people see you!!!
but not my kind of place
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I heard of one in NYC where people dined "au naturale." It was some kind of private club so it was legal (got around food service regulations about clothing.)
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Adele
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Wed Apr 1 2009 20:57:22
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Nobugs - that is really not an appetizing thought - but I am curious if this place is private - how idd you hear about it?
is it an "urban legend?"
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No! And I have never been there. It was on some travel show or news report -- cannot remember which. It was "private" in the sense of not being a normal restaurant.
See: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212008/news/regionalnews/the_naked_city_120845.htm
(That was not where I first heard of them; but I just googled it. Yoga too! Yikes.)
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Thu Apr 2 2009 7:42:04
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First off in NYC you can find an eatery of every and any type. And yes making them private or members allows them to skirt a myriad of regulations and codes, till they get famous and move on.
Second as far as hair in food, attractive diner partners, having to face the door and other issues, it does seem like an interesting deal, out of site out of mind.
There was a CSI show which utilized this setting for an episode. -
paulaw0919 - 13 hours ago »
But I wonder if I would be one of the annoying people that brought a flashlight or a lighter just to peek at my food before I ate it! Did any of that happen during your dinner David? If so, blame my evil twin.
Hi Paula,
No, I believe we were the first to be seated on that session (other than the room being silent how could I tell) and there was non light at all visible throughout he whole meal. I did find myself imagining flashes of light passing through my vision but I am usually such a visual person I think it was my brain missing input.
At the end of the meal we were escorted by the waiter back into the dimly light lobby of the restaurant and until we passed through a few sets of black out curtains I could still see nothing.
We had originally planed on eating at the restaurant that serves insects on the menu but their non dairy selection is not that good.
I am not too keen on the "au naturale" dining concept although I am aware of a SoHo restaurant that serves sushi on people rather than plates, I hear the wasabi sauce has something of a kick. You can find all sorts of dining clubs in major cities if you look in the right or the wrong places.
I would have loved CSI to have a pulled a cimex out of the foam pit at Lady Heather's but sadly all they found were a few victims. I am a big forensics fan as a science and concept and did some of my previous science work with some of the UK pioneers although most of that was on the lab rather than field side.
David
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bed-bugscouk - 9 minutes ago »
We had originally planed on eating at the restaurant that serves insects on the menu but their non dairy selection is not that good.Yes.
Because crickets are so much tastier with a nice gruyère.
(Hee hee. )
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Thu Apr 2 2009 10:55:54
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Actually teriyaki stir fried.
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dottie
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Fri Apr 10 2009 13:31:12
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No. The spector of this has always made me realize how the blind have to cope with eating. Not to mention cooking. I'm still freaked out and it has been 15 years since I was making instant mashed potatoes and I opened the cupboard door above the stove to get the salt. I was simultaneously stirring the potatoes with my other hand. When I opened the door I saw a cockroach dangling on the bottom of the door and it dropped into my potatoes and immediately got stirred into them! I could have easily not seen that happen and just proceded with the meal. Yuck! No telling what we eat!
Once I was visiting an elderly lady who lived alone. She was sighted but she could not see all that good. I noticed her syrup bottle on her counter was brown, not from syrup but from thousands of little ants that had got stuck in there. It was absolutely thick with their bodies. Evidently she had left the lid off enough for tons of the little devils to march in there. I threw the bottle away but who knows how many times she poured it on her breakfast.
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