Dining In The Dark KL

A melhor, mais incrível e mais rica experiência que já vivi! Susana e Yus foram os melhores possíveis! Sempre muito educados, simpáticos e gentis.
No início, ficamos tensos e um pouco desconfortáveis, pois não enxergar absolutamente nada, sem vultos, nos deixou tensos. Mas logo nos acostumamos e passamos a agir com mais naturalidade. A comida era excelente! Não deixem de provar os sucos, que também são «misteriosos».
Como estávamos comemorando nosso aniversario de casamento, ainda ganhamos uns «mimos».
Visitando KL, não deixem de ir ao Dining in the Dark. Inesquecível!

I heard this place in social media and that everyone was commenting, it was a great experienced and what made me curious is how you eat in the dark? So i bought a Groupon for Rm75 they waived Rm150 which is a pretty good deal.
I went the other day and i really love the friendly vibe welcoming me with a complimentary cocktail drink and we needed to guess the drink — not going to tell you if not you will know the answer. this is test your sense of taste. Another game was to find 4 safety pins in a small bowl of rice and it took me 10 minutes. This is to test your sense of touch and another game is when your partner is blindfolded and need to fix back shapes to a board with your guidance — sense of hearing.
Then we were ready to go inside, my heart was full of excitement, we dont even know what is the food being served, a blind man escorted us in the pitch black dark place and brought us to our seats. My partner was trying to figure out where we were going and being seated. Our appetizer was served in 4 small pates on a board and in a pitch black room, my hands was more focused touching and feeling the bowl before i eat with my hands. My eyes tends to automatically close in the dark without me realizing. Soup came in 2 small cups — a mushroom soup and parsnip soup. Then the main course came in 3 small plate which was lobster with pineapple sauce, slice octopus with apple cinamon sauce and i forgot the other one. I love the the mash potatoes! I could tell you the menu because they changed it every month. Then the dessert came in 4 plates and 1 small cup which was the jackfruit ice cream.
I honestly love the food as it tested our sense of test in different flavours such as parsnip, the lavender crème brûlée, the apply cinammon sauce and the jackfruit ice cream. I never talked in the dark before while eating and it feels weird, feels like your talking alone. I never had a 3 plates of main course food to eat before!
What a great experience and after you come out from the dark, you will be given a feedback form and a look at the food menu. I met the manager and he explained the concept and all. Really interesting place.
P:S: You might want to bring more money here. Just the 4 course meal cost RM236 excluding other chargers and drinks, luckily they waived off RM150 if not my partner needs to pay RM300 for 2 pax.

We wanted to try something a little different for our anniversary dinner and I’m glad that chose to have dinner at Dining in The Dark. Prior to the visit, I had heard mixed reviews on the place, but decided to go anyway.
We actually couldn’t find the place at first as it is situated on the first floor, amidst other establishments. The signage leading up to the restaurant is quiet, unassuming yet full of promise, a precursor of the dining experience that we were about to have,
As the place requires you to reserve your spot in advance, they knew who we were as soon as we walked in. I thought that was a nice touch. First, we played a little game of find the paperclips in a cocktail glass of rice. Would have been easy had we not been blindfolded. It was surprisingly tough and really helped to make us realise how difficult it must be to go through life blind.
After the game (which was accompanied by a welcome drink), we were introduced to our wait staff for the night, a nice lady who was medically blind. She was very gentle as she told us to hang on to her shoulder as we descended into the darkness. Honestly, I was a little freaked out initially, but I was amazed at how my sense of hearing seemed to sharpen in the presence of darkness. My sense of touch seemed to be on hypermode too.
The highlight, however, was the food. It was beyond delicious. The chef knew his food chemistry alright. It is difficult to explain how it felt like to eat in the dark. When I told some people about it, their reaction was, «Just turn off the light at home and eat la!». A little simplistic but then again, this experience is probably better suited for the more curious type.
We thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It really helped to build empathy for the visually impaired, and amplified our gratitude for the sense of sight!

Dining in the Dark is a dining experience that I feel everyone should go through at least once in their life. It is a real eye opener — no pun intended.
I bought my girlfriend to this restaurant and when we first reached the restaurant they invited us to play a simple game where you are required to find a number of paper clips in a container of rice while being blindfolded; I found it extremely difficult and took a long time to find it. My girlfriend on the other hand was surprisingly good at this game and managed to find all the paper clips in a way shorted time than me — impressive! After that we were led into the actual dining area and to our table by one of the waiters where it is completely pitch black. We were served shortly and then taught by the waiter some of the rules of locating our utensils or glasses in the dark and also how to eat when you cannot see anything. The experience was amazing and I would find doing day to day activities really hard; I could never seem to locate where my mouth is. Finally, when we were done through all the courses, we were led out once more by the waiter and asked to guess the food that we had. As I am not an expert on food, I only managed to guess one or two correct– terrible, i know!
However, it is a bit costly at RM150 per person, but it is an experience worth feeling as it really helped me to appreciate life more and whatever we are gifted with. Also, I have to mention that the waiters there are blind and it is really touching to see how passionate they are at what they’re doing.

You get the gist. Basically, the restaurant requires diners to sit in a pitch-​black restaurant.
The menu is pre-​set. So, before heading in the restaurant, you have no idea what you’re going to eat. The menu was only revealed at the end of the night. We were blindfolded at the door and led by blind staff. After taking our seats, staff explained the setting of table.
The meal arrived promptly as we savor the dishes in pitch black environment. Half-​way through, my partner couldn’t take it and left. It was a dining experience so strange that I find it once is more than enough.

Nervous thoughts filled my head as I lounged outside Dining in the Dark, the first of its kind in KL. All I knew was that in a few minutes, I will be led inside a pitch-​black restaurant and will be having my meal in the dark with other strangers. The preset menu will not be revealed until the meal is over to maintain the element of surprise. This unique concept was introduced by restaurateur Werner Kuhn who wanted to bring his guests on a gastronomic journey focusing on purely the other senses except for sight. The service staff consists of visually impaired and blind waiters who will lead and guide the tasting session.
I was ordered to store away any mobile phones or watches beforehand in the lockers provided to ensure that there will be no light inside the room. Dutifully, I lined up alongside a handful of other strangers and placed my hands on the shoulder of the person in front of me. A blind waiter greeted us and proceeded to lead the group inside the pitch-​black restaurant while constantly reminding us not to let go in case we get stranded. The first step inside the dark room immediately stripped us of our sight and proved to be too much to handle for some as the girl behind me let out a Unilocal and ran off into the opposite direction as fear took over. I took a nervous gulp and continued on.
The restaurant did a great job at ensuring every single inch of light was covered as I could not make out anything and it was terrifying. Slowly the waiters led us one by one to our tables, as we struggled to find our seats and we were briefed on where each cutlery was located at in front of us. Thankfully, there were no knives in place as that could be a catastrophe. Only chatter could be heard as strangers seated together conversed to ease the tension. Let’s just say this may not be a good place to bring a date as there is no escape route though it forced people to chat instead of occupying themselves with their gadgets.
The waiters clearly knew their way around as sight wasn’t an issue to them since they were already used to being visually impaired. Though it was a three course meal, it was one of the longest meal of my life as time seemed to slow down with the absence of sight. I picked at my food slowly while stabbing what I could on the plate with my fork though it was a little hard to pinpoint at the rubbery texture in my mouth. There was also a surprise piano performance halfway throughout our meal by a talented blind pianist which made us appreciate our sight even more. At the end of the meal, we were lined up again and led out of the room much to our relief. There was a good laugh around the room as our meal was revealed to us. Though the Dining in the Dark experience was a unique one, my first visit will definitely not warrant a second one as the food was mediocre as the focus was clearly more on the entire experience.

Dining the dark is all about the often repeated notion that the loss of one sense is compensated with the enhancement of our other senses hence crafting a dining experience unlike any other. Personally, I found it to be a harrowingly hilarious experience more so than an orgasmic culinary escapade of the senses. The words Pitch black is an understatement in describing the form of vision you have here. Journeying to the fancy side of dining is usually one that doesn’t often excite me with its small portions and supposedly world class crafted menu, which I have to say in terms of food isn’t totally wrong about dining in the dark with its standard menu that changes every week. However what makes this dining exploit worth those extra Ringgits, is the experience and that is what you’re paying for. Whether with a friend or that special someone, the memory of Dining in the dark will no doubt be forever engraved in your mind.