This is a genuine experience that if you have the opportunity to try, it will make you reevaluate the senses that we entirely take for granted! It also makes me feel good to know that when I eat here, I am contributing to a good cause, because it not only gives jobs to the blind, but promotes education in dealing with living blind.
I have done the course with my university for a studium Generale course, and it was interesting to see how the blind learn to deal with everyday tasks such as crossing the street with traffic, getting around in general, and differentiating textures and finding things they need, while using sound as a guidance in addition to feel. All your other sense become really heightened! This course is separate from dinner and is nice for the educational value one can receive and relate to the challenges that the blind live with.
Dinner in the Dark is more of an entertaining experience and it not only allows a person to understand how it is to eat blindly, as far as technically, but it truly brings new flavors to what you are eating. You become aware of everything from smells, to orientating yourself with your place setting, finding your own face with hand coordination to take a bite, and guessing what you are eating off your plate by taste, texture, and position of the food on the plate.
They say if we all ate blindly, we would eat far less, because half of our hunger is actually visual and if we ate when our bodies told us it was full, we would require far less food to feel satisfied. It is in our nature to store food/calories and be tempted to not be wasteful so when we stare at our plates, we end up eating out of the mere fact that it is sitting in front of us, taking no warning to how much capacity our stomachs actually have!!!
Drinks are not included with your meals and they have options of veggie, meat, chicken or fish with a pricey cost of 50€ but remember you are not only paying for a meal, but an experience. The food is good, but not fine dining quality, however the service is very customized ant attentive for obvious reasons and the appreciation you will have for sight can be felt the moment you exit the main dining area.
Try it at least once and be happy that you did, because reservations to this restaurant are booked up for MONTHS at a time, so to get a spot at a table is quite the stroke of luck, unless you really book far in advance. There really are not many places like this, so the elusive price explains the exclusive cost for dinner. read more
