Argh, I hit "post" before I was finished - I mean, how would you know when you needed something? And how would you get their attention? What happens if someone sticks their foot out to trip them? THAT can happen to a sighted waiter in full light.
This is the crack that creaks its way through my mind on stuff like this:
Lara: Bryce, what IS this?
Bryce: Dark Dining. It's a sensory-deprivation thing - supposed to heighten the taste experience.
*dull thud, followed by tinkling of glass somewhere in the near distance* Hillary: .... Blast.
1. I danced a tango to Hernando's Hideway at my primary school graduation with a boy who had a brain stem injury from a car accident. I'm a bad enough dancer as it is, and dancing for both of us was even more complicated, but he had fun at least.
2. *snerk* at the entry tag.
3. I bet I would walk out of there with food all down my front.
I can understand romantic candlelit dinners, but pitch black? Um, no thanks. 'My steak seems really chewy and thin and tasteless! ..oh, wait, that's my napkin.'
I would actually really love to try it. I have overly sensitive senses, and while I like to eat out at restaurants, the visual clutter of the insides layered over the number of smells and all the conversation really drives me crazy in a short time.
Plus, imagine how much more you'd enjoy your food with your body compensating for lack of sight by focusing the attention by your nose and tongue... man.
This is to enhance the senses. Most of the enjoyment of food at restaurants, despite everyone saying "THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO ME", is visual. You'll like the food better if it's made prettier. They charge more for pretty, rather than quality and good taste.
A place like this 100% focuses on taste, without having to worry about the food being seen as icky due to how it looks.
It would be a fantastic experience for people who take food seriously.
The point of these places isn't to be practical, though. It's meant to give you a completely unique experience.
They talked about this on the Food Network a few times over the years, and they always come away from it raving about how amazing it was, and how it's an exceptional experience. I'd love to go for the sake of the memory alone. You only live once, after all.
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Which causes me another bit of worry. What if they grab the wrong dish? I can't complain cuz I CAN'T SEE IT TO COMPLAIN.
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This is the crack that creaks its way through my mind on stuff like this:
Lara: Bryce, what IS this?
Bryce: Dark Dining. It's a sensory-deprivation thing - supposed to heighten the taste experience.
*dull thud, followed by tinkling of glass somewhere in the near distance*
Hillary: .... Blast.
Bryce: Yeah, that's not supposed to happen.
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Now I can't get that, ahem, visual out of my head.
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2. *snerk* at the entry tag.
3. I bet I would walk out of there with food all down my front.
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3) I WOULD TOO. And god knows what all else. It just seems so............pointless.
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I can understand romantic candlelit dinners, but pitch black? Um, no thanks. 'My steak seems really chewy and thin and tasteless! ..oh, wait, that's my napkin.'
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Plus, imagine how much more you'd enjoy your food with your body compensating for lack of sight by focusing the attention by your nose and tongue... man.
Sign me up, haha.
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It sounds like that party game where you feed a blindfolded person who has to guess what they're eating. But with all the fun taken out.
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This is to enhance the senses. Most of the enjoyment of food at restaurants, despite everyone saying "THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO ME", is visual. You'll like the food better if it's made prettier. They charge more for pretty, rather than quality and good taste.
A place like this 100% focuses on taste, without having to worry about the food being seen as icky due to how it looks.
It would be a fantastic experience for people who take food seriously.
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They talked about this on the Food Network a few times over the years, and they always come away from it raving about how amazing it was, and how it's an exceptional experience. I'd love to go for the sake of the memory alone. You only live once, after all.
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