Otherwise you are likely to bump into something or somebody else. Want to use the bathroom in the middle of your meal? The staff will escort you from your table. That means that anybody eating there has to put a lot of trust into the staff. While that might seem counterintuitive, the blind staff is used to walking around in the dark and are best able to navigate the restaurant and assist diners. To get food to your tables, the restaurant employs blind waiters. Hearing, touch and smell take over where people normally rely on sight. They are then led into a pitch-black dining room and seated at big communal tables.Įating in the dark might be a bit of a challenge but de Broglie said that people quickly learn to use their other senses. To keep the dining room completely dark, after placing their orders, patrons are asked to place all potential sources of light including watches, cell phones and cameras in lockers in the reception room. Without sight, the flavors and smells - even the varying temperatures of the plates - mix together to make a unique experience. Pick meats, fish, vegetarian or a complete surprise tasting menu and warn the kitchen of any allergies. No, here the international menu with a French influence is a surprise. But don't think you are picking specific dishes. The dining experience starts in a room - with lights - where diners read a menu and make their meal selections. "It's a big country."Ī handful of other restaurants in America do offer so-called dark dining, including CamaJe Bistro in New York which uses blindfolds and the Opaque restaurants in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego which have darkened rooms and blind wait staffs. "If it is a success in New York, we will try to go to other cities," de Broglie said. Now a New York restaurant is slated to open at the end of this year or early next year, depending on when it gets necessary permits The restaurant just passed its first hurdle by getting a liquor license. (There have also been temporary restaurants for special events in Warsaw, Bangkok and Geneva.) It expanded to London and Moscow in 2006 and Barcelona in 2009. Dans le Noir? became the first such privately-run restaurant in 2004 when its Paris location opened.
A restaurant, Blinde Kuh, was opened in Zurich in 2000 by a foundation for blind people.
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