German Restaurant

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Is it possible to create a vegetarain restaurant around this idea and see if the meat eaters can tell the difference?

 

 

Ivan Weiskott <eye-van1

Wed Sep 22, 2004  05:45:48  PM US/Pacific

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German Restaurant

Ivan Weiskott <eye-van1

 

Thought the people on this site would find this article interesting.

 

http://www.unsicht-bar.de/

 

Pitch Dark Bar Opens for Blind Dates

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they

are eating and have to be guided to their table by blind waiters because the

bar is pitch black.

 

The restaurant, which opened Wednesday, aims to make guests concentrate on

senses other than sight.

 

Holding on to one another, the first visitors followed waiter Roland Zimmermann, 33, into the dining room. Although the PhD student has been blind since childhood, he is the only one able to point out chairs, cutlery and drinks.

 

"I'm putting your plate right in front of you," Zimmermann said. "I can't find my mouth," one voice replied out of the dark. "I wonder what this dish is -- Lasagne? Or some casserole?" another invisible guest said.

 

In the "unsicht-Bar," which means invisible in German, diners cannot choose

complete dishes from the menu but can only indicate whether they would like

a fish, meat or vegetarian option.

 

"We want people to have an extraordinary experience of tasting, feeling and

smelling," said Manfred Scharbach, head of the organization for blind and

sight-restricted people, which is running the bar.

 

"People are surprised that their tongues and taste senses are taking over

and are sending signals, which their eyes would normally have sent," he added.

 

Of the 30 staff, 22 are blind.

 

An average meal lasts about three hours and the waiters are always around to

help, Scharnbach said.

 

And at the end of the night, they will even reveal what customers have

actually been eating.