Novel Experience: Dining in Utter Darkness with Blind Waiters
NYC is about to have their first restaurant that uses pitch black conditions to give diners a new and different expereince of food--it's called Dans La Noir and features blind or visually imparired waiters. I think it's going to be in Times Square.
Here's a blog post about a similar restaurant with a detailed description: https://psychologytoday.com/blog/the-...
And I suggest you don't try it at home unless you have LOTS of napkins...!
Has anyone been to one of these?
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linguafood
Oct 8, 2011 05:35 PM
Not all that new as a concept. Berlin's got two or three of those. I've been once b/c I had a 2-for-1 coupon -- the food is on the pricier side -- and it definitely was an interesting experience.
While I like a nice plating, it was lots of fun to figure out what it was we were eating (you get a menu beforehand, but it doesn't specifically tell you what you will get -- there are meat, veggie and fish options).
Yes on the napkins. Expect some juvenile behavior impulses.
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Cheeryvisage
Oct 6, 2011 08:24 PM
I wonder... would there be a dress code for places like this? it's not like you can see anything anyway....
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re: Rodzilla
"a large part of the experience in the presentation for me"
On a certain level, that's true of just about everyone.
There are now a number of studies showing that people say things taste better based on extraneous information, like price. Serve the exact same wine but label one sample as costing $10 and another as costing $90 and people say that the $90 tastes so much better. This kind of trick of the mind even affects experts.
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/11/the_subjectivity_of_wine.php
http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13091
http://kottke.org/09/11/a-blind-wine-...
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There's a restaurant called O Noir in Montreal that has the same concept. I haven't been 'cause I sort of dismissed it as a gimmick, but my friend who went said the food was surprisingly good and experience rather interesting. Now I kind of want to try it - maybe I won't need to go to Montreal to do it now.
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