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Dans le noir ? London | More than a restaurant…
It is a sensory experience that awakens your senses and enables you to completely re-evaluate your perception.
Unusual, you will discover a sensory journey, a human exchange & a social conviviality…
Dans Le Noir? 30-31 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1 | The ...
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"Instead of reviewing a normal restaurant, where people eat a romantic meal with knives and forks in discreet lighting, you'll go to that place where everyone dines in spooky total darkness, you'll think you've gone blind and you'll pour red wine down your front.
Six of us went into the gloom in single-file, our right hands clutching the shoulders of the people in front, like that picture in the Imperial War Museum, of soldiers blinded by mustard gas.
In the bar, before entering the darkness, you choose either the red menu (meat), the blue (fish), the green (veggie) or the white (surprise!)
In anticipation, the food is served tepid – but, perversely, it isn't finger food.
The 'fine food to die for' at this horror-themed restaurant includes a Severed Finger Platter with ribs, meatballs and potato skins (£9.95).
Dans Le Noir review: London's darkest culinary experience is a ...
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But the first impact of the darkness at Dans Le Noir is something quite different.
And that's not because the food is bad, far from it, but stepping into Dans Le Noir's blackness plunges you into a room devoid of light.
An almost dizzy sensation caused by - for the first time - being able to see absolutely nothing.
I shan't ruin the surprise for any potential visitors, but the starter - in our case from the meat menu, one of four sets offered by Dans Le Noir - made way for a superb main that once again proved a poser.
While the main talking point and feature of the restaurant is the light - or lack of - and the other-worldly experience, what you really come away talking about is the food.
London restaurant review: Dans le Noir? - Telegraph
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The manager boasts similar restaurants will open in Russia and China: soon the world shall be eating in the dark.
If there is an A-level essay point to this restaurant it is that by removing sight, other senses are heightened.
Diana and my friend Ian engage a formless body, which turns out to be the waitress.
This doesn't stink, but tastes worse, with rice and chewy meat.
Outside the restaurant, we chat with a pretty woman celebrating her 19th birthday.
Dans Le Noir, London EC1 - restaurant review | Life and style | The ...
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Dans Le Noir, 31-33 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1 (020 7253 1100).
Meal for two, including wine and service, £120 It was when the woman downtable from me said, 'I'm propping my plate on my boobs, so I don't spill any', that I concluded Dans Le Noir really was a restaurant like no other.
Dans Le Noir, on London's Clerkenwell Green, is the British branch of a Parisian concept, which invites diners to eat in a blacked-out room.
As my companion I invited Peter White, the BBC's disability affairs correspondent, on the grounds that to a blind man, it would be just another bloody restaurant.
The starter: some sludgy gnocchi swamped by a blue cheese and whisky dressing with, on the side, a scoop of nasty floral lavender ice cream, which tasted like the inside of an old lady's sock drawer.