Eating out with friends and family comes highly recommended for feeding your soul – not to mention your stomach. An increasing number of restaurants, however, are looking to improve the creative side of their service, going beyond a good menu, excellent atmosphere, or outstanding service to offer something more. Restaurants the length and breadth of the globe, in fact, have gone…quite far. Let us explain.
Dinner by the sea? Looking out at a lake? No, a little further: in Labassin Waterfall Restaurant, in the Villa Escudero Resort in the Philippines, you’ll have the chance to dine at the foot of a waterfall. Yup, a waterfall.
You might end up a little damp while you’re eating, but that’s nothing compared to having a giraffe stick its head through the window and finish off your scraps, which is what happens when you’re dining at Giraffe Manor, in Kenya.
For our next restaurant, we’d really need a doctor to confirm what eating at 4,000m does to your digestive system but, if it appeals, it’s something you can do at Aiguille Du Midi in Chamonix, France.
This one is for the sci-fi and space terror cinephiles – the H.R Giger bar museum, in Gruyéres, Switzerland. It’s dedicated to the creator of Alien and the particular aesthetic feel of the classic cinematic saga. When you bring someone here for lunch, don’t forget to stop dramatically in the middle of the meal, convulse violently, fling yourself to the table and pretend a small alien has decided to join you via your abdomen. Sure, it’s a little gory, but it’s practically obligatory!
Sticking with our cinematic theme, we shouldn’t forget The Green Dragon Pub in Hobbiton, New Zealand. This is where you’ll be able to enjoy dinner in a perfect recreation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythical Lord of the Rings universe.
Ice and snow restaurants are a classic in this type of article. Sure, they might be a little hackneyed, but everyone loves an ice hotel! As a result, we offer you the SnowCastle of Kemi, in the homonymous town in Finland.
BBQ? Stone-grilled? Pah, try cooking on a volcano! This restaurant is called El Diablo (the Devil), and it’s located on the island of Lanzarote. The dishes here are cooked in the heat that rises from the volcano that runs under this marvellous island.
We’ve got lots of other options that we’ll describe in future articles, but today we’re going to leave it at The Clinic, in Singapore. It’s a strange place where you’re never quite sure if you’re going for dinner or a nephrectomy. Either way, enjoy!
