Eating in darkness
 

From Oct 25th the restaurant "Diablo Mundo", at calle Espronceda 34 (Madrid), begins a new gastronomic experience: blindly dinners every last Thursday of the month. Senses of touch, smell and taste are the tools to find out what are you eating and drinking, but you'll get some clues, i.e. "it's red on the outside and red on the inside" or "the fished fisherman". Dinner consists of 5 plates + 2 desserts + 3 wines and it costs Euro 50.

How bizarre!
I wonder how it will be received... Interesting concept.
Thanks for sharing!

Hi all,

This was done in Zürich also, the Blind Kuh, or Blind Cow. It opened in 1999, with one in Basel in 2005. Here's more info:

http://www.blindekuh.ch/stiftung/bli...ssetext_en.pdf

It was also featured on NPR --

s

Sorry, but it sounds to me like they are running out of ideas :-)

Zürich has had this for years.

It's called the "Blinde Kuh". They are sold out months ahead of time.

Hi Swandav:

We posted the same time!

The experience is ,in some way, to give people "a taste" of how is going to a restaurant being blind.
If I don't recall badly, the Spanish blind people association has something to do with it.

Hi schuler! Yes, I was hoping more folks would remember the BK!

For kenderina, the Blind Cow is also associated with a foundation for the blind, the Blind-Liecht foundation.

s

O Noir, in Montreal, opened a few years ago. Here is an explanation of the theory
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/columns/m...d-poutine.html

I went to a Fringe show a few years ago, based on the same concept. We were all seated around a big table and the idea on that occasion was not to experience what it's like to be blind, but to find out how you perceive strangers when you can't see them, whether any assumptions or prejudices cae into play, etc. At the end of the meal the lights went up so we could compare our reactions to peopele before & after.

Don't wear your nice white blouse :)

We ate at a restaurant in Berlin last summer called Unsicht-bar (http://www.unsicht-bar.com/unsicht-b...me_1_idea.html). It is the same type of restaurant. I teach kindergarten and I thought it would be interesting to test out my five senses. It was an experience. I went with my two children and my daughter's friend. We were often dizzy feeling and overwhelmed with our hearing. It was very difficult to eat using utensils so we ended up eating with our hands...and it didn't matter what we ate. Gooey or not we used our hands. The restaurant has a menu out front in the lighted area. The menu uses descriptions for the food and you then go into the dark restaurant with the blind wait staff. All the waiters are blind. It was an experience that I will not forget. My son did not enjoy it at all. We did end up with food on our faces and clothing which we noticed afterwards in the lighted restroom! I heard New York City has a restaurant like this also.

Cool. This may give a blind date a whole new dimension :) I am sure it must be interesting enough for one time although knowing people "I" sometimes I dine with, I would just be worried about someone else eating my sushi :) Then again, I could always ask them get their hands off my sushi!

Just kidding.

Look at this:


http://www.darkdiningprojects.com/upcoming.htm

Paris, also:
51, rue Quincampoix 75004
http://www.danslenoir.com/

Big deal...Ive been to a few Tapas bars and had the same experience


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