Top 5: 5 of London’s most unusual dining experiences

While most restaurants in London will go for a very cosmopolitan feel, that diners would recognise as your more mainstream approach to ensuring their customers have an enjoyable evening. There are a few London based restaurants that offer a very unusual style of dining experience.

The Rainforest Café,Piccadilly

The Rain Forest Café is dedicated to environmental causes; this becomes fairly obvious from the choice of décor. Adding an exotic zest to the dining experience with large fish tanks on display and rain forest like decorations, making it popular among children as well as adults.  The exotic theme doesn’t stop at the choice of decorations. The menu is just as adventurous, with options like “Raging Thunder Buffalo Wings and Rasta Pasta.

Bel Canto, Paddington  

The Bel Canto combines a dining experience with the theatrical excitement of an opera house. The unique combination of a talented pianist and professionally trained opera singers makes a night at the Bel canto a very unique experience. Not only do dinners get to gorge on some fantastic French cuisine, but they get serenaded by opera singers throughout the night.

Shaka Zulu – Camden

Shaka Zulu restaurant is a South African style restaurant, with a reported 5 million pounds spent on the venue. As well as a special royal blessing from the Zulu king HRH Goodwill zwelithini. Spread over two floors covering 27,000 sq ft. The lower floor is awash with 20ft high statues of Zulu warriors looking over the diners. The South African theme doesn’t end there.  More adventurous diners have a selection of game meats from Kudu, ostrich and Zebra to choose from.  

Dans Le Noir – Clerkenwell

 

Dans Le Noir offers a unique dining experience by plunging their dinners into pitch black, being served by blind staff as they enjoy their meals. The idea behind it is that by cutting out our main sense of sight it requires us to rely more heavily on our taste and smell. Dans Le Noir offers a French inspired cuisine. However guests can only choose from menus that describe a general category. The idea is that guests should not know exactly what they are eating, based on the idea of blind tasting.  

Gilgamesh – Camden

The Gilgamesh restaurant has a glamorous style, with a Babylonian era feel. The pan-Asian style cuisine is served in a truly amazing setting with pillars inlaid with lapis, a 40ft high fully retractable ceiling and furniture carved with equivalent finesse. The Gilgamesh serves an amazing range of dishes from Prawn tempura to Thai Green Curry. The restaurant also contains a Tea room, which offers diners a fantastic view of the city through distinctive floor to ceiling glass panels.