Five of the world’s most unusual restaurants
If you’re looking to spice up your eating experience and you aren’t afraid to try something completely new than you might want to check out these restaurants, they’re all anything but ordinary and boring. Dinner in the Sky Well technically it can be dinner, lunch, breakfast or any other meal you like, as long as you have the money and can secure a surface of 500 square meters to install a huge crane. Dinner in the Sky offers people the opportunity to turn something ordinary into a unique and memorable event. Basically you and 21 other people get the chance to enjoy a fine a meal and each-others company at a table suspended 50 meters high in the air by a huge crane. What’s great about this service is that it can be held in any place, be it public (if you want to show off) or private as long as you get the proper authorization. If you want to impress a special someone with a special diner, this is definitely an option worth considering. Photo credits: 1, 2 Toilet Restaurant Let me just start by saying that eating is not the first thing that comes to mind when you walk into this place. But ever since The Toilet Restaurant opened in Taipei, Taiwan it has become one of the city’s major attractions and the owner is now thinking of opening an entire network of restaurants all across Asia. In the Toilet Restaurant everything makes you think only of…well a toilet. Clients sit on toilet bowl-shaped stools, eat their food out of dishes resembling male urinals, toilet bowls or bathtubs. Even the food itself is designed to look like…you know, and if you don’t check out the chocolate ice-cream in the photo. I for one wouldn’t go there to grab some grub, but apparently kids and teenagers love it. I wonder what the toilets look like in the Toilet Restaurant, restaurants maybe? Dans Le Noir? If you’re ever in Paris and want to try one of the most original dinning experiences the city of love has to offer, than you must try Dans Le Noir? restaurant. It doesn’t look very impressive from the outside but it’s the only place where you can have a meal in total darkness. As soon as you enter Dans Le Noir? you find yourself in a cocktail lounge where you can enjoy a drink and choose what you’re going to eat, before being guided into a dark quiet room by a waiter. Once there you discover you actually can’t see a thing and you can only hear the whispers of the other guests. You also have the chance of ordering the “surprise menu” so you can discover what you are eating for yourself. Dinning can be pretty tricky in these circumstances and if you’re not careful, it can get pretty messy. No need to worry about your purse or wallet being stolen in the darkness as the restaurant has infrared cameras precisely to prevent this. D.S. Music Restaurant Don’t even mind the name, D.S. is a restaurant that doesn’t have much to do with music, it is actually a hospital-themed establishment, probably the only one in the world. Just like the Toilet Restaurant, you can find D.S. Music Restaurant in Taipei, a town where the bizarre is very popular it seems. From the moment you walk into the lobby, a wheelchair lets you know this isn’t a conventional restaurant and the crutches hanging on the walls, the hospital beds used as tables and the waitresses dressed as nurses make you feel you’re in a genuine hospital. The owner admits they can’t compete with the more sophisticated food of other high-end restaurants of Taipei, so they had to emphasize the service. And it’s a pretty good strategy, many people would rather serve their meals on a hospital bed and drink vodka from an i.v. rather than have dinner in a luxury restaurant. Ithaa Restaurant Set in the natural paradise of the Maldives, Ithaa is the world’s first underwater restaurant that allows its visitors to enjoy their meal and observe the beautiful underwater scenery at the same time. The mostly acrylic restaurant stands at 5 meters bellow the sea level offering its customers a 270 degrees panoramic view of the coral reef that surrounds it. Ithaa can only accommodate 14 people at a time so be sure to book your table in advance if you plan to spend your holiday at the Hilton Maldives complex. It will cost you up to $300 but at least you know you’ve eaten in a truly exclusive location.
