To me the idea of eating in pitch darkness - were they give you unbreakable glasses 'cause you
are bound to knock them over - is ridiculous. I want to enjoy my companions, one or two might be better if they stayed
in the dark mind but perhaps I should pick better looking friends, not talk to a disembodied voice. And I certainly
want to see what I am eating. Pretentious? You bet!
This seems to be the conclusion of the Independent reviewer of Dans Le
Noir the London outlet of a French restaurant concept. It is so
dark you can even get up to go to the loo without someone holding your hand. The reviewer raises a point too - they say
they give you such and such a dish but how do you actually know if you can't see it? What if you knock the veg on the
floor and didn't realise? And how do you fill up your wine glass without over-filling it?
Isn't one of the
important concepts of eating out the delight in the food's presentation? If you cant see it what are you paying for? If
I wanted to eat in darkness I'd have a packet of chocolate biscuits under the duvet thank you.
If you're interested in how the concept came about, check out our previous article.

Your son or daughter never eats bread crusts and refuses to tough either peas or pasta sauce. Picky eater,
right? Maybe not. As children age they develop preferences about their food, based on flavor, texture and, eventually,
political and nutritional preferences. Simply because a child refuses a food once, they are not necessarily a picky
eater. Often, a food will have to be offered to a toddler or child from 5 to 10 times before they become accustomed to
it. The kids who eat the foods are not really picky eaters. No child has been fooled into eating a carrot because it
was crunchy like a potato chip – and any parent whose child was “tricked” into that had a child that
wasn’t entirely averse to the carrot in the first place.
From the Times today, the top ten restaurants for Breakfast, and for once they actually venture outside London with a
couple of recommendations -
British consumers are Europe's biggest spenders on eating out. They are expected
to spend more than £300 each on eating out over the coming year. That is more than twice as much as Spain, a
country, at least from a British point of view, that is reknown as a country that eats out.








