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26 February 2007
Dans le Noir? Can't decide whether this 'dinner in the dark' restaurant is neat or lame.→[More:]
Probably depends on who you're with, and whether you're in a 'not taking it seriously' mood or not. Probably gonna try it anyway for the hell of it.
Finally, somewhere I can take really ugly people out for a meal. I'm on my last stash of brown paper bags, so this could be a real life saver. Thanks!
/runs away quite quickly
I'd be afraid a mouse or a bug would be near me or even crawl on me and I wouldn't be able to see it. I'd have to be clad in full body armor to eat there. Maybe I'll just close my eyes and pretend.
I would try it... If they had a nicer web site. Seriously. For something that's supposed to be a "concept" experience, I would expect a much more aesthetically reassuring site look and feel.
Even the food photographs suck (and this is something you really want to get right if you're a restaurant - this looks like, "hey, come try our greasy donkey balls, or our raw turnip and rock-hard, withered filet!").
"We aren't used to completely dark environment since you hardly find this level of darkness in daily life as, we are used to small rays of light from the streetlights or moonlight but in the Dans le Noir ? restaurant there is no light at all!"
I wonder if anyone keeps an eye on the room with night-vision equipment? Because I know my inner juvenile would come busting out and have me flicking peas at the folks at the next table, or something.
I'm so visually cued I sometimes have difficulty talking to people on the phone. Without seeing facial expressions I'm often at a loss. Imagine how I would feel here??
I'd probably have to go with a deaf mute friend just to be safe.
Here's the Swiss restaurant. I remember my friend saying that the waiters were blind, and that they recite the menu orally but that you have a chance to read it first in the lobby before you are seated.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
