Restaurant/Bar/Lounge - 30-31 Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU - London - TEL : 020 7253 1100 - Fax : 020
3217 2072 - booking@danslenoir.com
Welcome to a truly
sensory culinary experience
You are going to live an unbelievable experience: eating
or having a drink in the pitch darkness.
If this idea seems to be a little strange to you at first, it
is maybe because by suppressing the dominant sense of the sight, each
person
naturally starts a deep self-questioning.
With the help of our blinded guides you are going to completely
re-evaluate the notion of taste and smelling through our gastronomic
and pedagogical process.
Dans le Noir? London is located at 30-31 Clerkenwell Green in a trendy
area of Clerkenwell. It can accommodate sixty people in the dark room, the
main dining area. It also has a lit bar and a lounge where delicious cocktails
are served before and after a dinner
Click here to understand our concept
Dans le Noir ?... A
unique human and sensory experience
of a dinner in the pitch dark…
Sensory experience
Dans le Noir? allows you to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste.
Without sight, other senses are offered a new sensation and
emotions.
Darkness leads to truthfulness about taste, kills preconceptions
and let you face the realities of ingredients and cuisine. Our chef
elaborates a refined and sensorial cuisine with fresh ingredients to
help our senses to enjoy the “truth” taste of food.
True conviviality
Dining in the total darkness represents a very unusual social experience.
How many times have you ever had the chance to talk to people without
any preconception that sight implies?
At Dans le Noir? there is no more pressure of other people’s visual
judgment. You talk more freely and spontaneously. The absence of vision
changes completely the way you act and react, both emotionally and socially.
That’s why Dans le Noir? is far more than just a restaurant: it
offers a social and convivial experience. Dans le Noir ? raises some
questions such as the role of sight in the way we relate to others.
Empathy
In the dark room, you are guided and served by our blind staff.
A magic switch between sighted and blind people happens. For
once, blind people actually become your eyes.
This reversal of roles implies a transfer of trust from the
sighted person to the blind guide because without him we are just lost.
Who actually feels the most Dans le Noir??
The experience is emotionally strong and this empathy really
encourages mutual trust and respect.
