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FM
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Me personally....NON

http://www.danslenoir.com/london/



You are going to live an unbelievable experience: eating or having a drink in the pitch darkness.

Sensory experience

Dans le Noir? allows you to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste.
Without sight, other senses are offered a new sensation and emotions.
Darkness leads to truthfulness about taste, kills preconceptions and let you face the realities of ingredients and cuisine. Our chef elaborates a refined and sensorial cuisine with fresh ingredients to help our senses to enjoy the β€œtruth” taste of food.

True conviviality

Dining in the total darkness represents a very unusual social experience. How many times have you ever had the chance to talk to people without any preconception that sight implies?
At Dans le Noir? there is no more pressure of other people’s visual judgment. You talk more freely and spontaneously. The absence of vision changes completely the way you act and react, both emotionally and socially. That’s why Dans le Noir? is far more than just a restaurant: it offers a social and convivial experience. Dans le Noir ? raises some questions such as the role of sight in the way we relate to others.

Empathy

In the dark room, you are guided and served by our blind staff.
A magic switch between sighted and blind people happens. For once, blind people actually become your eyes.
This reversal of roles implies a transfer of trust from the sighted person to the blind guide because without him we are just lost. Who actually feels the most Dans le Noir??
The experience is emotionally strong and this empathy really encourages mutual trust and respect.

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It all sounds a bit affected to me. BUT - I can see where they are coming from. I remember reading about this experiment where they put a full cooked breakfast or something in front of 4 people and all but one cleared their plate and enjoyed it.

The next day they served the same meal to them blindfolded. None of them cleared their plate because they weren't guided by the empty plate idea and some of them disliked tastes they couldn't "see".

I'd have to know what I was eating though - I eat most things but the things I don't like a really don't like. I guess we'd all be sniffing the food like mad before we bit into it.  
Cariad
I am posiinf rhis in rhw daek.

As an experiment I tried typing the above sentence with my eyes shut. 17 letters correct, 5 out by 1 key, and 1 way out. I am not a touch typist who would do a lot better. That's just under three quarters correct. I'm not sure I would feel too comfortable about the idea of eating in the pitch black. How would I know whether I was trying to eat something which I had cut too large? What about eating fish with bones in - could be lethal.
El Loro
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Cariad, so does that mean then that all the food we tasted would be horrible anyway, so therefore even less of a good experience 
Noooooo!!!!!  It just meant that SOME of the food on their plates didn't taste as good as the visual expectation it engendered. We are so driven visually and by smell sometimes what we actually taste has more to do with that than what our tongues are actually telling us. Once blindfolded all they had to go on was smell and taste. So bacon may not be as "tasty" as our brain tells us it might be just by looking at a plate of crispy bacon sizzling on our plate. 

I had a quick nose and while the menus aren't listed apparently you can pick your menu once there (unless you deliberately go for the "Surprise" menu. And there are vegetarian/seafood/meat menus you can choose from. Having said that the food looks like finger food (can you imagine knives, forks, gravy - sorry jus lol - and soup?) and visually it looks really nice. I can't imagine it's a con to make you feel ill - after all they want people back. And any decent chef takes great pride in visual appeal as well as taste. So I'm guessing it's exactly what we'd expect visually if we could see it but we can't. What I'd love is to see a pic of the plate before I got stuck in.

I still think it's a bit affected but I am rather intrigued. I may try this at home once the nights draw in a bit. See if I can get my son to eat sprouts or sommat.  
Cariad

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