Now for a quick word on dining in the dark: The first dark restaurant was opened in Zurich for the purpose of providing ‘employment for the blind’ as wait staff. At Whale Inside Dark no such pretense exists. The servers are fully sighted, university aged, and wearing night vision goggles.

The second idea behind the dining in the dark experience is that denying one’s sight will heighten the other senses. Personally, I was more keenly aware of my sense of touch. However, this can probably be attributed to the fact that I have never had to put on plastic gloves and grope around a table in pursuit of meat.