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Pitch black restaurant

I would have to try this out someday. It would be neat to notice any differences.
 
zyzygy said:
Has anyone here ever eaten in a pitch black restaurant?

https://www.restaurants.com/blog/dining-in-the-dark-top-10-pitch-black-restaurants/#.WANUkoN973g
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A few years ago we did a halloween dinner at a restaurant in Grand Rapids where they blindfolded you. We have eaten there before and it is very good. The dinner was lots of fun and the food was good as well. They orient you to the plate and glasses in front of you using a clock face system that is very easy to pick up. The food was mostly things that could be eaten with the hands or a spoon. No cutting or knives were involved.

https://www.sanchezbistro.com

'Dinner in the Dark' set for three dates at San Chez Bistro (Todd's To Do Tonight) | MLive.com

It was a lot of fun and you taste things that you would not if you were sighted.

They did not tell us what we were eating until after the course was done and then they told us. That was a neat part of it.

It was well worth it.
 
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haymarket said:
A few years ago we did a halloween dinner at a restaurant in Grand Rapids where they blindfolded you. We have eaten there before and it is very good. The dinner was lots of fun and the food was good as well. They orient you to the plate and glasses in front of you using a clock face system that is very easy to pick up. The food was mostly things that could be eaten with the hands or a spoon. No cutting or knives were involved.

https://www.sanchezbistro.com

'Dinner in the Dark' set for three dates at San Chez Bistro (Todd's To Do Tonight) | MLive.com

It was a lot of fun and you taste things that you would not if you were sighted.

They did not tell us what we were eating until after the course was done and then they told us. That was a neat part of it.

It was well worth it.
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There is a restaurant in Berlin which is in pitch darkness, the waiters are blind. That's the kind of place that I want to try. That dinner sounds like fun, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
 
LowDown said:
Eating with a blindfold is said to be a method used in Japan to address over-eating. You pay attention to how full you are rather than how much food is left on your plate that way, goes the theory, and so you eat less.
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There may be something in that. Interesting.
 
MaggieD said:
Never have. I don't think I'd go out of my way to do same. I'm rather untrusting of servers, especially if I've complained...which I rarely do.
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Dont worry about the servers if you complain worry about the cooks if you send your food back.
Think about it the server is working for tips so they want to make you happy. The cook is just in the back sweating in a hot kitchen under constant stress and with no immediate correlation between how happy the customer is and their income. Pissing them off by sending stuff back, especially for something nit picking (I wanted extra medium rare not regular medium rare) is not the best thing to do without good reason.

Yes I worked in restaurants when younger
 
Quag said:
Dont worry about the servers if you complain worry about the cooks if you send your food back.
Think about it the server is working for tips so they want to make you happy. The cook is just in the back sweating in a hot kitchen under constant stress and with no immediate correlation between how happy the customer is and their income. Pissing them off by sending stuff back, especially for something nit picking (I wanted extra medium rare not regular medium rare) is not the best thing to do without good reason.

Yes I worked in restaurants when younger
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I'm easy going in restaurants. If the service and/or food is bad then it goes on my blacklist. It's a short list, there is competition in the sector and a bad restaurant will not be in business long.
 
zyzygy said:
I'm easy going in restaurants. If the service and/or food is bad then it goes on my blacklist. It's a short list, there is competition in the sector and a bad restaurant will not be in business long.
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Agreed, But I have seen people send back plates 2-3 times. Usually because they are trying (and failing) to impress and appear to be big shots. Sometimes though it is for a good reason, I have never seen anything bad happen in such cases.
 
Quag said:
Agreed, But I have seen people send back plates 2-3 times. Usually because they are trying (and failing) to impress and appear to be big shots. Sometimes though it is for a good reason, I have never seen anything bad happen in such cases.
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You don't see it but I wouldn't eat the food that came back.
 
zyzygy said:
You don't see it but I wouldn't eat the food that came back.
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Like I said if you return the food for legitimiate reasons (ask for rare steak they give well done, soup is cold, not what you ordered etc) I have never seen a problem. When you send it back because you are being nit picky/jerk (orderign medium rare but then complaining there is some pink, complaing that one of the shrimp on the surf and turf is a bit smaller than the others etc) That is something you probably shouldnt eat when it comes back.
 
Eating in the dark is one thing eating without sense of smell is another.
 
MaggieD said:
Never have. I don't think I'd go out of my way to do same. I'm rather untrusting of servers, especially if I've complained...which I rarely do.
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Quag said:
Dont worry about the servers if you complain worry about the cooks if you send your food back.
Think about it the server is working for tips so they want to make you happy. The cook is just in the back sweating in a hot kitchen under constant stress and with no immediate correlation between how happy the customer is and their income. Pissing them off by sending stuff back, especially for something nit picking (I wanted extra medium rare not regular medium rare) is not the best thing to do without good reason.

Yes I worked in restaurants when younger
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Same hear and some were like that but as i moved up the chain to five establishments everything and everybody waz perfect0
 
Bodhisattva said:
Same hear and some were like that but as i moved up the chain to five establishments everything and everybody waz perfect0
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I worked in higher end restaurants. It is the same everywhere because humans are the same everywhere. Doesnt mean it will happen everytime but you get a customer complaining and sending something back because they got what they ordered not what they actually wanted on a busy night well.........

Basically I am saying if you act like a dick dont be surprised when people do the same to you
 
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Quag said:
Dont worry about the servers if you complain worry about the cooks if you send your food back.
Think about it the server is working for tips so they want to make you happy. The cook is just in the back sweating in a hot kitchen under constant stress and with no immediate correlation between how happy the customer is and their income. Pissing them off by sending stuff back, especially for something nit picking (I wanted extra medium rare not regular medium rare) is not the best thing to do without good reason.

Yes I worked in restaurants when younger
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I have a lot of restaurant experience, too, and I never send anything back. Ever. If it's that bad, I just don't eat it and never return.

I never did anything to anyone's meal, and the vast vast majority of my co-workers never did either, but a relative few did and as a customer you don't know which one you're getting.
 
Quag said:
Like I said if you return the food for legitimiate reasons (ask for rare steak they give well done, soup is cold, not what you ordered etc) I have never seen a problem. When you send it back because you are being nit picky/jerk (orderign medium rare but then complaining there is some pink, complaing that one of the shrimp on the surf and turf is a bit smaller than the others etc) That is something you probably shouldnt eat when it comes back.
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That would be an exception to my rule. If I ordered a t-bone and they gave me liver & onions (I hate liver & onions) I would send that back and expect my steak.
 
Quag said:
Dont worry about the servers if you complain worry about the cooks if you send your food back.
Think about it the server is working for tips so they want to make you happy. The cook is just in the back sweating in a hot kitchen under constant stress and with no immediate correlation between how happy the customer is and their income. Pissing them off by sending stuff back, especially for something nit picking (I wanted extra medium rare not regular medium rare) is not the best thing to do without good reason.

Yes I worked in restaurants when younger
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I saw this diner the other day send back hot wings. And when the hot wings came back he still wasn't happy. I heard him tell the manager that they werent crispy enough, saying at least this batch was edible. He went on to complain about the waitress, who I thought was doing a pretty good job.


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radcen said:
That would be an exception to my rule. If I ordered a t-bone and they gave me liver & onions (I hate liver & onions) I would send that back and expect my steak.
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I actually got a hot pasta dish once that was icy cold. I sent that one back without any fear of something nasty beign done, they obviously messed up. Wasnt a jerk abotu it just told them what was wrong.
 
Quag said:
I actually got a hot pasta dish once that was icy cold. I sent that one back without any fear of something nasty beign done, they obviously messed up. Wasnt a jerk abotu it just told them what was wrong.
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Had you complained, there would have been evil stuff in the spaghetti sauce. ;)
 
Well, that sounds like a stupid fad meant to bamboozle hipsters and libertines. From the blog in the OP (not that I didn't expect the following to be the rationale):

One current trend that has cropped up is dining in total blackness. Many people believe that the other senses—especially those most aligned with eating, taste, and smell—are heightened when sight is taken away.
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Even the visceral rationale on which they base their novelty is self-defeating, as the other senses do actually contribute to our enjoyment of food. Take sight for instance; the presentation of the meal, the artistic chemistry between the ingredients, and the ability to individually admire the ingredients all add to the dining experience. I bet they charge extra for turning off the light :lol:
 
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