Human limbs for dinner anyone?
July 16th, 2010
I’m involved in a project at the moment that’s all about weird restaurants around the world. It’s been a lot of fun (and a little scary) researching them and, if all goes well, it will be a lot of fun (and a little scary) going to them in person. And boy, there are some wacky folk out there not only opening these wacky restaurants but actually dining at them. My favourite so far is Hospitalis restaurant in Riga, Latvia where they serve hearty Latvian dishes and cake topped with realistic-looking body parts such as fingers, noses and tongues. The food is served (or hand fed if you’re in a straight jacket) by scantily clad nurses on gurneys and operating tables. The restaurant provides diners with cutlery such as syringes, tweezers and scalpels to devour their meals and guests are treated to disturbing dinner entertainment including morbid tunes on violins, while deranged patients are escorted through the restaurant in straightjackets and wheelchairs. I bet the fingers and noses still taste better than real hospital food, though.
My other favourites include:
You can order a Burger Bomb at Buns and Guns in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon. The chef wears a military outfit and the customers sit behind a wall of sandbags. Food is served under the slogan ‘a sandwich can kill you’. Just don’t ask for any shots.
Warning, may contain nuts. The ‘Clothing Optional Dinner’ takes place once a month in a restaurant in New York City. A group of nudists wanted something a bit more elegant than the wilderness getaways and beach resorts they generally frequent, so now they can nude up in style. Just watch where that hot chilli sauce falls…
Every meal is shit. That’s because every meal is served in a toilet. Oh, and you sit on a toilet as well. The toilet-themed restaurant is in Hangzhou, in the Zhejiang province of China. I suppose it saves getting up to go the toilet.
Going to the toilet might be a little more difficult at this restaurant. The restaurant in Brussels, Belgium is actually a dining table suspended by crane 50 metres above the street. Here a toilet ’seat’ might come in handy.
And lastly you can’t go past a Naked Sushi Restaurant (or Nyotaimori as they’re called in Japan). Pretty much it’s a naked woman covered in sushi that you, well, eat off. There’s quite a few of these around, so they must be popular. And at least it gives a whole bunch of young women and men a nice steady job (or the sashimi will fall off).
I could keep going, but it’s time for dinner – ‘Nurse!!’
On July 20th, 2010 Craig Balfour said:
On July 20th, 2010 Brian Thacker said:
On August 5th, 2010 Jen Li said:
On August 15th, 2010 Epiphanie said: