http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/03/unsicht-bar/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/03/unsicht-bar/#comment-159 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:18:23 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/03/unsicht-bar/#comment-159 There is one of these in LA, too. It is a restaurant called Opaque. I remember seeing a piece about it with Bill Geist on CBS Sunday Morning. CBS’s website has a write-up of that piece here. The whole concept seems a bit hokey to me. I’m a total foodie, and I think that visuals are a large part of a fine dining and/or drinking experience. As far as providing publicity and empathy for the plight of the blind, I do understand that bit (in fact, the waiters at Opaque are blind – who else could bring food to your table in the dark without ditching it all in your lap?). But I’m afraid I’m not compelled to actually eat at one of these places on those merits alone… But that’s just me, your local, resident food snob I suppose…

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