Onoir - eating in complete darkness
 

Doing a Toronto search, I found this restaurant where you eat in the dark. Also in Montreal. I wonder if anyone tried it, and what was the experience.

http://www.onoirtoronto.com/

Haven't tried it, but there are so many quality food experiences in Toronto where you get to choose the food...

This is such a gimmick, designed for people who want to impress their friends by bragging they did it...

PS... give me $500 and I'll turn out the lights at my house (we're serving burgers)...

I haven't tried it and don't want to. I want to see what I'm eating for two reasons -- I need to see that it 'looks right e.g. exactly what I've ordered and correctly cooked' and also how food looks and is plated adds to the pleasure of it for me.

Also, how do you know the place is clean if you can't see it?

I would go for experience, but being in complete dark makes me nervous even thinking about it.

What is the point?

Maybe the idea is that blocking out other senses will make you more conscious of taste? Not that I have the slightest interest in trying it!

Ah, Thursdaysd, that makes perfect sense. I used to teach students to throw pots on a potter's wheel by blindfolding them, and people to pet their cats with their eyes closed, so they felt the cat's response. Sometimes, I tell DH or my Granddaughter to close their eyes when I give them a taste of something I am cooking.

Sorry for not coming back for a while... they employ blind waiters in this place, maybe the whole idea is to be compassionate to people with disabilities?

I think I'll take Gary's offer :))

I'll use the good meat...

:)

That sounds interesting. I would try it. :)

Actually the experience is really something. I do not know about the Canadian one, but we ate at Dans le Noir in Paris, and it gave us a different outlook on taste. We were served by blind waiters in a completely black dining room. One could get a "known" menu in which there were no surprises, or a "Mystery" menu in which you were not told what you had eaten until the meal was over. So much of taste is controlled by our sight that I was completely wrong on a number of menu items.

I do not think we will repeat the experience, but for that single time it was memorable and completely worth the cost.

BTW, we were told the room is actually monitored by an infrared camera so that the seeing staff can take care of any unforeseen emergency circumstances.

I don't think it will be on our "to go" list as the kids refused, and I don't think I can be in complete darkness.