going out to eat at a nice restaurant is
a luxury enjoyed by many but with the
age-old tradition has come an enormous
number of restaurants catering to every
cuisine imaginable in order to attract
customers some unique restaurants have
adopted unusual and just straight-up
weird practices to serve up once in a
lifetime experiences visiting these
restaurants will make you forget all
about the food let's get it on
cafe icon pet cafes where people pet
cute dogs or cats while sipping their
morning coffee have become hugely
popular worldwide but the cafe icon in
ho chi minh city vietnam takes the
concept to a whole new and pretty weird
level this unique cafe is flooded in 25
centimeters of clear water through which
hundreds of fish swim around the feet of
patrons as they munch on their meal if
you're thinking that nobody would ever
go in there and let their shoes get
ruined you're right people have to
remove their shoes and thoroughly wash
their feet before entering still the
water is cleaned through a triple
filtration system that replaces half the
fish water every hour in order to
maintain the pristine clarity that
creates the illusion of the fish
actually flying above the floor kayabuki
cavern if you thought robot waiters were
the strangest sort of server be ready to
go bananas over the hair-raising staff
of kaiubuki cavern the only restaurant
in the world with waiters of a different
species here guests have their drinks
and hot towels presented to them by a
staff of monkeys the fascinating part is
the monkeys weren't originally trained
to replace human workers but instead
they were wild and began imitating the
original staff of the restaurant one day
on their own many years later they're so
fully integrated into the restaurant
that they've become its main selling
point and how could they not be after
all you're not going to be served by our
primate cousins or any other animal for
that matter anywhere else in the world
the monkeys aren't allowed to bring food
to tables for health reasons but the
staff swears that they can understand
orders perfectly plus patrons are too
busy marveling over the monkeys to begin
with to care that a regular human is the
one bringing over their actual meals
when not on the clock the monkeys enjoy
the soybeans they get paid in just
adding to the unusually human behaviors
on display at kayubuki cavern
roller rink restaurant roller skating
rinks were a staple of pop culture
throughout the late 20th century but
since have largely faded into obscurity
that is except for this hot pot spot in
xing china where waiters masterfully
balance full trays of food and drinks
while gracefully gliding along the
marble floors in retro roller skates it
takes some serious skills to get a job
here as most inexperienced skaters spend
most of their time face planting into
the ground so imagine the difficulty of
having to quickly deliver orders while
balancing on wheels of course this
attraction brings in all manner of
customers from around the world as this
is a totally unique version of dinner
and a show
sky lodge many restaurants are
considered high-end but some restaurants
like the sky lodge in south america and
fang wang restaurant in china take the
term to a whole new level not for the
faint of heart these restaurants are the
only two in the world dangling over the
sides of cliffs while the south american
version came first the chinese fang wang
is a much larger and more luxurious take
on the idea of building a glass
structure right into the side of a cliff
the capsule near cusco known as the sky
lodge doubles as a hotel and is made for
adrenaline junkies to experience what
it's like to stare down the side of a
massive mountain from dusk till dawn
however fang wang restaurant is part of
the much larger city of yi chang where
all buildings are built along cliffside
so aside from tourists the regulars are
quite used to the dropping view and
likely have gotten over their fear of
heights literally
hajime robot restaurant many dining
experiences here are prohibitively
expensive for the average person but the
hajime robot restaurant in thailand is
both affordable and utterly unique a
japanese barbecue style restaurant the
twist as the name suggests is that the
staff of this restaurant are robots and
not the scary terminator types but more
the fun chuck e cheese types with a
dancing samurai robot gliding up and
down the aisles to deposit orders to the
tables of the guests at an average of
roughly 15 for all you can eat hajime is
inviting to all and unlike any other
restaurant you've ever seen guests order
from touch screens and aren't just
treated to dinner but also some top
quality live entertainment
makes you wonder if in the future all
restaurants will be staffed by such
fun-loving robots
via escudero waterfalls restaurant the
via escudero encomienda style restaurant
tucked away in the philippines is truly
an unbelievable sight to behold hidden
below the leveson falls this jungle
themed restaurant provides guests from
all over the world a dining experience
they're sure to remember while
conversations might be difficult when
you're right next to the roar of
millions of gallons of water crashing
down there really isn't much talking
going on anyway as everyone's mouth is a
gap and awe at the waterfall hopefully
they're not too worried about their
meals getting splashed
dinner in the sky
if you're scared of heights the idea of
dining while dangling 180 feet above the
ground would probably be the furthest
thing from a romantic night out for you
but for those with nerves of steel and a
taste for gourmet adventures dinner in
the sky is exactly that giving a whole
new meaning to the phrase pop-up
restaurant this traveling restaurant
lifts a platform big enough to carry a
waiter chef entertainer and a table for
22 on a massive crane originally
starting in belgium dinner in the sky
has floated patrons above the skylines
of cities and countries all over the
world including the us france malta
australia and more dinner in the sky is
available to rent out for anyone crazy
enough to want to the unique experience
also comes with its own photographer to
capture your gravity-defying dinner
although it's unlikely you'd need photos
to remember something as unconventional
as this and while the view provided by
this restaurant may be out of this world
you'd better make sure to not drop your
fork or you're not getting it back
giraffe manor the giraffe manor located
in nairobi kenya is a genuinely wild
combination of safari and luxury resort
unlike any other located on a massive
track of land the 10 room manor contains
every luxury a hotel can offer along
with some guests that no other hotel
shares as their name suggests guests
constantly interact with rothschild
giraffes who love to poke their heads in
and get fed alongside the amazed humans
inside giraffe manor is also teeming
with hundreds of other exotic species of
african fauna while giraffes might seem
scary with their towering height the
giraffes here are incredibly loving even
kissing the guests nice enough to feed
them by hand when the manor was
established in the 1970s there were only
90 rothschild giraffes left worldwide
but thanks to the efforts of this wild
hotel that number is increased to more
than 650 just on the property much of
the funds for this conservation came to
the manor where a single night stay cost
920
including your every need being catered
to that means room bed entertainment and
of course giraffes etha undersea
restaurant etha undersea is a restaurant
pulled right from a sci-fi setting with
a five-star restaurant located five
meters below the surface of the ocean
where diners sit under a single 275-ton
piece of glass doming separating them
from the exotic indian ocean above
providing a 270 degree view to accompany
their meals guests are mesmerized by the
bluish hue of sunlight filtering from
above as tropical fish and sharks dance
above their heads and right beside them
with seafood being the specialty of an
undersea restaurant you can't help but
wonder if the sharks are a bit jealous
while the fish are relieved it isn't
them on the plate ice restaurant finland
is a country that borders the arctic
circle making the people there
accustomed to long sunless winters and
below freezing temperatures nearly year
round with an environment like that
humans adapt and make the most of what
they've got and the lapland ice hotel is
certainly the very best an intricately
carved hotel made entirely from 400 tons
of ice freshly built every year when the
temperature starts dropping lapland is a
location unlike any other on the planet
tourists brave enough to endure the
bitter cold new experience the unique
designs return every year to a brand new
hotel with brand new bars and
restaurants inside to be amazed by how
incredible the new sculptures and
ever-changing architecture endure in
such a challenging environment every new
year brings a new theme meaning the ice
bars and ice restaurant feature new
themed drinks decor and of course dishes
every winter meaning that a meal here is
the very definition of a once in a
lifetime experience