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Dans le Noir – Midtown

Sensory Gourmet Dining Experience for Two or Four (Up to $86 Off)

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Sat Nov 24 04:59:59 UTC 2012
Value
$138
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In a Nutshell

A skilled chef serves a surprise meal that requires guests to guess their dinners by taste buds alone

The Fine Print

  • Expires Dec 23, 2012
  • Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as gift. Limit 1 per table. Valid only for option purchased. Reservation required. Dine-in only.
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Blocking one sense is said to heighten the others: musicians tend to play with their eyes closed, and artists only paint when their noses are all stuffed up. Taste more clearly with this Groupon.

Choose Between Two Options

  • $95 for a sensory dining experience for two (up to a $138 value)
  • $190 for a sensory dining experience for four (up to a $276 value)

Dans le Noir keeps diners guessing with an international, surprise menu served in a pitch-black dining room. Diners choose from four basic menus—surprise, veggies, fish, or meat—each including an appetizer, an entree, and dessert. See previous menus for examples of the kitchen’s style, which centers on rich culinary preparations of unusual ingredients such as quail, crocodile, and blue shark.

Dans le Noir

After a career spent cooking for celebrities including movie stars, royalty, and heads of state such as Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush, head chef Oliver Romain now curates a spot that’s uniquely immune to vanity. Guided by a staff of blind or visually impaired servers, diners at New York’s Dans le Noir embark on an unpredictable gastronomical journey in a dining room draped in absolute darkness. Though servers take careful note of guests’ food allergies and dietary requirements, they leave the rest up to the kitchen—until diners are handed a picture of the menu they just ate upon exiting, they won’t know for sure whether, for example, that was really crocodile resting on their mushroom fricassee. No matter what, however, they can rest assured that the fish is line-caught fish, the meats are free-range and grass-fed, and the vegetables are seasonal and organic.

What began in 1997 as a one-off event organized in Paris by film producer Michel Reilhac and the Paul Guinot Foundation for Blind People has blossomed into a multinational franchise of gourmet internationl restaurants that offer in-the-dark dining with a more communal feel than curling up inside a closed refrigerator. In addition to surrounding customers in a world of intense tastes and smells experienced as if for the first time, server Sam Davis says (in a video the team made to explain the concept), “Our job here is also to change the roles here: I become the sighted, you become the blind.” In line with the restaurant’s larger social mission, 10% of all profits are donated to charity.

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Dans le Noir

3.0 out of 5
Yelp (56 Reviews)
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Reviews

  • This will always go down as a once-in-a-lifetime experience...The food was amazing, very tasty, very unique.
    Elena K., Yelp, 7/6/12
  • An incredible experience. I love the concept of this place: blind servers, serving your food to you in pitch black.
    Andrew S., Yelp, 10/6/12