Unique Restaurant Experiences

Dinner in the Sky

Not for the faint of heart, Dinner in the Sky is a compelling and irresistible take on dining. Lifted more than 160 feet in the air by crane, this is the highest restaurant on our list, offering fine dining and entertainment all right there at your table. The table offers a 22-seat arrangement with a chef, waiter and entertainer also included. You can also include a second “hoist” for personalized entertainment like a piano. The best aspect of Dinner in the Sky is the company has expanded to 15 countries including the US.

Have Dinner in the Sky in Dubai, Paris and Brussels

In this century, people can fine dine anywhere they choose. If the under-the-sea restaurant wasn’t odd enough for you, now you can also have Dinner in the Sky. This restaurant has branches over Dubai, Paris and Brussels. Here, up to 22 seat-belted diners can have their meals on a seven-ton table which hangs by a crane. The table hovers 165-feet above the city. This is not a very good idea if you happen to be afraid of heights.

It’s also not ideal if you don’t have enough money. To reserve for the restaurant, you need to pay $30,000 for eight hours. This includes the two hours it takes just to set up, one hour to prepare before the lift, and only about a minute to lower the table if anyone needs to go to the bathroom. It’s just a bother, though, because if one person needs to go to the loo, the entire table needs to descend with him/her.

 Chillout Ice Restaurant

Chillout is the first Ice Restaurant located in the Middle East. The restaurant has created everything from ice including sculptures, glasses and furniture. Even the Dubai skyline has been carved out of ice. After donning the complimentary Parka, gloves and shoes, you pass through an air-lock to enter the -6º lounge and served with a complimentary Mocktail or Hot Chocolate beverage.

Maldives Underwater Restaurant

This gorgeous restaurant is secured 5 meters below sea level at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Made of acrylic, diners have a 270º panoramic view of the sea life overhead and can even request to spend a night in the “aquarium”.

Yellow Treehouse Restaurant New Zealand

Built in Auckland, New Zealand, this restaurant has an apparent sense of environment surrounding it. Constructed from Pine and Popular wood, the Yellow Treehouse is secured 40 meters above ground level. Since it is built on a hill, access to the restaurant is easy with the elevated tree-top walkway. The restaurant can accommodate 30 guests.

Dans Le Noir Restaurant London

This unusual restaurant has a lot to offer, but not for your eyes. Dans Le Noir (in the dark) restaurant offers a dining experience led by a team of blind waiters called “Guides”, that allow you to embark on an journey that summons respect from all the other senses. The beautiful thing about this restaurant is it has a natural ability to bring the diners together. Speech is everything, so once sitting in the pitch black room, diners begin dialogue with each other. No matter your appearance or social status, Dans Le Noir brings people together.

The Clinic in Singapore

Unless you’re actually afraid of hospitals, lunch or dinner at the clinic in Singapore should prove to be a very interesting eating experience. Here, the food takes the shape of science experiments. A food critic called it a “molecular gastronomy” as chefs and waiters dressed up as hospital attendants serve you food made from the restaurants open-demo kitchen. To top it all off, this demo is illuminated by operating lights.

The menu is interesting, to say the least. Among the yummiest concoctions in its 13-course list include the Dashi soup which with has soba noodles made from olive oil. The noodles are “self forming” produced by squirting olive oil on a bowl of hot liquid.

The food will be served to you on a surgical table, and you’ll be sitting on a gold-plated wheelchair while you dine here. If the experience isn’t too bizarre for your taste, you’ll probably come back and bring friends just for the fun of it. The place probably has full bookings during Halloween. 

‘s Baggers in Germany

That was not a typo, and what we’re going to feature is an actual restaurant as well. Here, we’re introducing the first ever automated restaurant in the world. We’re talking about ‘s Baggers owned by Michael Mack. This restaurant owner probably got tired of hiring waiters, or he listened to his past customers and designed one which is free from surly waiters and waitresses.

This restaurant is located in the outskirts of Nuremberg, Bavaria, and while the food is still cooked by humans, orders are taken my touch screen monitors on the table and served by gravity. Yes, gravity. All over the restaurants are spiral conveyer belts which deliver the food to hungry customers once they’re done. Talk about efficient.

You won’t get bored, either, because these touch screen menus are connected to the internet. The restaurant lets customers check their emails and SMS through the machine while they’re waiting for their food. Mack has already claimed the patent for this automated system. It won’t come as a surprise if more and more restaurants use the same serving system.

The best dish in the house is Frankische Kanneloni. These are pancakes which are stuffed with kraut and mincemeat. This restaurant is not so odd as it is impressive.

Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei

 

If you grew up in the West, you probably won’t understand how any restaurant which has such a deep association with the loo can possible be a staggering success. As odd as it is, the Modern Toilet Restaurant in Taipei fetched quite a lot of customers. This restaurant is run and owned by 27-year-old Eric Wang. The seats are actually toilet seats (with the lid on, of course) and the glass tables have tubs under them.

Noodles in this joint are served on a steaming, pink toilet bowl, and they also have a bidet full of soft-serve choco ice cream. What’s even more bizarre is that the concept was so successful that Taipei has a chain of these toilet restaurants, now. The bathroom décor goes well beyond the tables and chairs. You’ll also find neon faucets and urinal lamps.

If you’re thinking of dining here, prepare around $10 for lunch which includes soup, a full meal, and dessert. Their best dish is the curry hot pot. If you like the experience, you can also sign up for their frequent-flusher program. This lets you reserve your own toilet seat just in case you plan to eat here regularly.