Started fourteen years ago in Paris by entrepreneur Edouard de Broglie, Dans le Noir? is a restaurant in which dinner guests are served in total darkness by staff with little or no sight.
De Broglie says 80% of the information we perceive comes through our eyes, and by deliberately limiting our enjoyment of a meal to taste, smell and texture, it creates a unique sensory experience. As the Guardian’s food critic Jay Rayner wrote, “In the darkness, inhibitions slipped away and we became locked in deep conversation with complete strangers.”
Dans le Noir? now has locations in London, Barcelona, St. Petersburg and Auckland, as well as Paris.
