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| - I highly recommend experiencing this restaurant at least once in your life. The premises, a completely dark restaurant, and i mean completely dark- your eyes will never adjust to the darkness. There are no shadows, no black lights, if you close your eyes, that is exactly what you will see.
Your experience begins in the very well lit bar. Where you peruse a menu and make your meal selection. You can do a two course meal of an app and dinner or a three course meal of app, dinner and desert, at a fixed price. Aside from the menu choices you can choose to be surprised as what you will receive. Not being that adventurous, i only ordered a surprise cocktail.
After you place your order you are introduced to your blind server. you will place your hands on her shoulder and your partner will place their hands on your shoulders. you are taken into a transition room, when the door behind you shuts another door in front of you opens, and you will know this because your server will tell you, not because you see this door, because now EVERYTHING is in darkness.
Your server takes you to your table and places your hand on the chair, she explains everything on the table, the location of your water glass, the contents of the bread plate..while you sit there and take it all in. Trying helplessly to get your eyes to adjust to the darkness, trying to find your fork, listening to other tables drop their utensils on the floor.
Every time the server approaches your table, they announce their arrival, otherwise you would have no idea they were standing there. Our server was amazingly friendly, helpful and answered all our questions. I found the complete darkness to be claustrophobic, and feared my dinner partner had left me every time his side of the table feel silent. If at any point you decide dining in the dark is just too much, you can take your meal in the bar area.
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