Quick question: Would you consider yourself an adventurous eater?
Well, let’s see how far your curious palate will take you once you get a load of these
restaurants that defy the laws of gastronomy!
Dress up nicely ‘coz we’re taking you out to the 10 Weirdest Restaurants From Around
the World!
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Bon appetit!
#10: The Disaster Café
It’s true that when looking for a place to eat, we go where the food is excellent.
But the ambiance does complete the overall dining experience.
However, In this particular café in Lloret de Mar, Spain, they prefer crazy over cozy.
Wanna know how it feels like to dine in the middle of Armageddon?
Then the Disaster Café might just be your cup of tea.
The experience starts with customers wearing hard hats and being taken to a cave-themed
underground restaurant.
The staff then brings out the food in heavy-duty dishes because they are about to serve you…
in the middle of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake!
Complete with lights going off, furniture shaking, and dishes flying everywhere, the
simulated earthquake adds a unique twist to the café’s signature dishes.
They sure give a whole new meaning to the term “stress eating!”
Keep watching because our top pick might just be your next dinner destination!
#9: The Heart Attack Grill
Aptly located in the heart of Sin City is this diner that’s bound to give you a heart
attack!
Because the selling point of the hospital-themed restaurant is their sinful, high-sugar, high-calorie,
high-cholesterol menu!
Owner: I am saying loudly and as clearly as any business in America can.
This is dangerous.
For the full experience, customers are made to wear hospital gowns, as they are attended
to by waitresses in sexy nurse uniforms.
The diner named its burgers according to the number of heart bypasses you might need after
devouring them.
There’s the single, double, triple, or perhaps you’d like to go YOLO and get the octuple
bypass burger that has around 8,000 calories!
For sides, there’s the all-you-can-eat Flatliner Fries cooked in pure lard, which you can wash
down with a Butterfat milkshake.
As if that’s not enough, customers who weigh more than 350 pounds eat for free!
Just like the diner’s spokesman himself, Blair River, who weighed 575 pounds.
Sadly, Blair died in 2011 from pneumonia.
But feisty owner Jon Basso—who by the way isn’t a real doctor despite his costume—aims
to preserve Blair’s legacy by pushing more artery-blocking treats to their patrons.
Jon: What would Blair hovering above me want me to do right now.
And Blair would say this, “Put back on the stethoscope.
Let’s keep being the doctor that everyone loves to hate.
#8: Amix Coffee
The Vietnamese coffee has earned its rightful spot in the hearts of a lot of coffee connoisseurs.
But this flooded café in Ho Chi Minh city take it up a notch with their unique concept.
Amix Coffee lets its customers enjoy their Vietnamese coffee while relaxing in the company
of koi fish!
This café has floors that are flooded ankle-deep and filled with the Japanese carp.
To dine in, customers are required to take off their shoes and clean their feet, so the
kois can nibble on their dead skin!
The café uses a triple filtration system to keep the water crystal clear, so visitors
can kick off their shoes with ease.
However, Amix received criticism for alleged animal cruelty, forcing the café to change
its concept and transfer the fishes to clear tanks placed around the café to serve as
decor rather than foot doctors.
#7: The Modern Toilet
Fancy some turd-looking meatballs for late lunch?
How about “diarrhea” cocoa?
Or soft-serve chocolate ice cream in mini-toilet bowls?
Thanks to the power of social media, the IG-worthy Modern Toilet in Taiwan has found a cult following
among millennials looking for a crappy culinary experience.
Upon entering, you are greeted by large turds and toilet figures, so you can only bet it
gets more interesting from here on out.
The chairs are actual toilet bowl seats, and tables are glass panels fixed on top of sinks.
As you would expect, their food is served in mini toilet bowls, and the meatballs, breads
and curries are like live-action poop emojis.
But how do they actually taste like?
Man: Let’s just jump into it.
It’s starting to look more like meat and less like actual poo.
Mmm, that’s actually good.
Just like a curry meatball.
If you’re the type who doesn’t eat with their eyes first, then this is one toilet
you wouldn’t mind staying in for a long time.
#6: Fortezza Medicea
Picture this: You’re about to go on a fancy dinner for two on the hilltop of a romantic
Tuscan town, but the catch is, you’ll be seated inside an actual prison!
The Fortezza Medicea is an actual fortress located in Volterra, Italy, built in 1447
and which served as a high-security prison for criminals serving sentences of at least
7 years.
In 2006, the property’s administration opened a restaurant within the prison grounds and
enlisted actual inmates to work there as part of the facility’s rehabilitation program.
Since then, Forteza Medicea has gained a steady stream of tourists wanting to experience being
served by prisoners… who are serving time!
As per usual protocol when entering a prison facility, diners must go through a tedious
process of several checkpoints.
When they finally get inside, they are treated to a sumptuous meal complete with the finest
Italian prosecco.
Reporter: How is it having dinner inside a prison?
Man: It’s very strange because we don’t know if we come and we come back.
When it comes to great food and one-of-a-kind ambience, they are surely guilty as charged!
#5: Cabbages and Condoms
It might not sound like an appetizing combo but stay with me on this.
In the hopes of promoting safe sex and overall sexual health in their home country of Thailand,
the owners of Cabbages and Condoms decided to open this contraceptive-themed restaurant
in the heart of Bangkok.
And get this, all their profits go to the Population and Community Development Association—a
sex education and HIV prevention group.
The place is littered with mannequins decked in latex, and they even feature fun jokes
and visuals meant to be conversation starters.
After your sumptuous meal of traditional Thai cuisine, they even give you free condoms instead
of mints!
Talk about a guilt-free afternoon delight!
Man: It’s very rare that I have the opportunity to bask in the ambience of such a classy lady
such as yourself.
#4: Robot Restaurant
If you’re down for some trippy techno good time in Tokyo, then check out the psychedelic
vibe of the Robot Restaurant that’s a literal assault on the senses!
Hey, it’s even Will Smith-approved!
Anthony Bourdain once called it the “greatest show on Earth,” and it doesn’t disappoint.
The Robot Restaurant’s main draw is its insane lights show and night club performances
that might just induce your vertigo.
There’s just so much blinding neon lights, gigantic animatrons and dizzying visual spectacles
that it makes you wonder why they even called this a restaurant when it’s really more
of a Blade Runner-style rave party that serves food on the side.
But hey, who’s complaining!
#3: Le Refuge des Fondus
Of course this list won’t be complete without an entry from one of the most famous culinary
destinations in the world—France!
Le Refuge des Fondus is a quirky little joint in Montmartre, Paris, that specializes in
all things fondue.
But if you’re expecting some classy, fine dining set-up—because this is the City of
Lights after all—then you might wanna reconsider.
Instead, you’ll be greeted with long communal tables that might be a little too hard to
navigate especially when the place is packed!
Back in the 1960’s, the owner decided to redesign the floor plan with just two long
solid tables with benches.
This is to avoid the usual accident of spilling fondue.
But because of this, the customers would have to literally step over the table if they wanted
to go to the other side, causing many a wine glass to topple over.
The solution?
Serve them in baby bottles!
Sweet child of wine!
Now that’s definitely one way to look 30 years younger without any surgery.
#2: New Lucky Restaurant
Herein lies a restaurant that’s absolutely to die for!
Located in the city of Ahmedabad in India is the New Lucky Restaurant, that has been
sitting on top of a cemetery for over 50 years!
Instead of paving over the graves, its owner decided to capitalize on the morbid concept
and built his restaurant around the burial plots.
Man: Many of them consider it lucky to have eaten here.
They believe their wishes will come true here.
Out of respect for the dearly departed, steel bars are built around the graves to protect
them, and they are adorned with fresh flowers each morning.
But despite the deathly décor, patrons swear by the heavenly home-cooked dishes that bring
their tastebuds to life!
Compliments to the grim reaper, I guess?
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#1: Twin Stars Restaurant
Our top pick certainly hits the spot, twice over!
Twin Stars is a 2-in-1 concept restaurant in Moscow, Russia, where all the staff are
identical twins – from the waiters to bartenders, and even the chefs!
They must also wear matching outfits and work alongside each other in their specific stations
in the restaurant.
Wait, does this mean double the tip too?
Ross: I have a problem, I tip way too much.
Way, way too much.
The owner of the restaurant, Alexei Khodorkovsky, was so obsessed with the 1964 movie “Kingdom
of Crooked Mirrors,” that he thought, “Why not turn fantasy into reality?”
Who cares about the double salary!
Unfortunately, that’s perhaps the very reason why the diner is now permanently closed.
So, in terms of concept, which of these restaurants would you give a 5 out of 5?
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‘Til then, stay quirky, fact-natics!
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