Weird Eatery Themes Around the World
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Here are some unusual eateries around the world that you might want to try just for the heck of it. They will put a new aspect to the whole 'novel' dining experience.
At Modern Toilet, you should avoid judging your meal by how it looks — dinner here is served to you in a toilet. This Taipei seats diners on porcelain bowls at sink tables, offering menu items such as Korean kimchi hot pot or beef curry, served in Western-style toilet bowls, and ice cream swirls delivered to diners in squat toilets. If you're looking to try the toilet-dining crazy but not leave the U.S., a Los Angeles suburb has become the home of the first toilet-themed restaurant in the U.S.
Some restaurants serve the kind of food that may send you to the hospital with salmonella. This eatery, however, . No you’re not crazy, but that won’t stop your nurse/waitress from putting you in a straightjacket and feeding you from a hospital tray in a room designed to look like an emergency ward. The food is traditional Latvian fare and, despite the intriguing theme, the restaurant has gone through phases of opening and closing down (with waxing and waning public interest), so call ahead to check if the doctor is available to see you…
While being stuck in the middle of an earthquake is not necessarily going to make most people feel like eating a meal, it’s actually this eatery’s literal bread-and-butter. With the theme of utter destruction, this entire restaurant will suddenly start to shake and rumble with the force of a major earthquake (don’t worry, it’s simulated). Fair warning, diners are not tipped off in advance about when the rockin’ and rollin’ is going to start.
Packed with neon signs, video screens, strobe lights, mirrors, and scantily-clad “android” servers and performers, this restaurant is all chaos. Go for the experience, not for the food
It started in Belgium, but this restaurant theme has proved so popular that it’s been exported to since its inception. Imagine dining at a regular restaurant table, except that it’s hoisted up with a crane and you eat while dangling around 150 feet in the air. The menu varies depending on the chef and the country you’re dining in.
War, guns, and sandwiches: What more could you want when it’s comes to strange and inappropriately themed fare? This eatery is decorated with a militaristic motif and plays pre-recorded gun sounds instead of your regular Top 40 hits over the sound-system. The sandwiches, with names like the Torpedo and the Viper, come wrapped in camouflage paper and the chefs wear helmets.
The theme of Alcatraz ER restaurant in Tokyo — a "prison hospital from hell" — is definitely a bit eerie and frightening. They certainly don’t shy away from their theme, either, serving items such as the "human intestines," which are long sausages in a kidney dish, or the Nounai Hassha Brain Buster, a vodka cocktail served in a life-sized mannequin head.
This popular establishment is attached to the H. R. Giger Museum in Switzerland. Giger is the Swiss surrealist painter and sculptor who most of the world knows as the set designer of the iconic Alien movies. Although it is truly a visual feast and, technically, you can eat the bar snacks this is really a bar, not a restaurant.
Servers dressed like ninjas dropping down from the ceiling are the norm at Japanese restaurant in New York City. The unique design of the restaurant consists of a long maze leading to the dining room, with the goal of even further setting the scene of dining in a Japanese mountain village.
