REMINDER: O.Noir – $54.50 for Three-Course Dine in the Dark Experience for Two with Choice of Starter, Entree, and Dessert (30% Off)
Reminder Update: I originally posted about this deal yesterday. Here’s a reminder that it’s still available to buy today. This deal is a hot seller! At the time of this post, they have already sold over 550+ vouchers so don’t miss out!
Today’s Groupon Toronto Daily Deal of the Day: O.Noir – $54.50 for Three-Course Dine in the Dark Experience for Two with Choice of Starter, Entree, and Dessert (30% Off)
Buy now for only $
54.50
Value $78
Discount 30% Off
Save $23.50
Eating in the dark allows you to appreciate a dish’s flavor without focusing on its appearance or the shifting eyes on the dining-room portrait of your rich, mysterious uncle. Shut your eyes and take a bite of this Groupon.
The Deal
$54.50 for a three-course Dine in the Dark experience for two (a $78 value)
- Choice of starter
- Choice of entree
- Choice of dessert
Designed to engage all of the senses except for sight, the menu features simple, upscale dishes based around steak, chicken, pasta, and seafood. For each course, you may choose to order a surprise dish not listed on the menu. You’ll order your meal in the lighted bar area before making your way into the pitch-black dining room. Click here to view the FAQ.
This is a limited 6-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Quantities are limited so don’t miss out!
In a Nutshell
Experience simple, upscale cuisine and surprise dishes through taste and smell during a pitch-black dinner
The Fine Print
Expires Dec 20, 2013
Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as a gift. Limit 1 per table. Not valid for alcohol. Dine-in only. Not valid for lunch. Not valid Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Must purchase a food item. Must use promotional value in 1 visit.
O.Noir
http://www.onoir.com/
620 Church Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2E4
(416) 922-6647
The Experience
You step into the windowless waiting area, a preserved 1970s lounge. You order your dishes, and find your server—who you soon discover is blind. He’ll ask you to place your hand on his shoulder, and you follow him into the dimming light until everything goes black.
O.Noir is perhaps one of the only restaurants where you wouldn’t notice a power failure. The dining space is kept in total darkness so that diners ignore the appearance of their food and instead grow attuned to its subtle tastes and textures. And yet this dining experience also serves another purpose—to help you get a taste of what it’s like to live without sight.
The Highlights
Service staff, all of whom are blind, guide diners through the experience
Diners are encouraged to eat however they choose—whether with hands or utensils
To maintain total darkness, cellphones and lighters are prohibited in the dining room
Who They Are
When blind pastor Jorge Spielmann invited guests to dinner at his Zurich home, he would blindfold them—letting them share his dining experience and introducing them to his sightless world. In 1999, he turned this unique custom into a full-scale experiment with Blind Cow, a combination restaurant and social-justice project that provides jobs to the blind and teaches others about the world of the visually impaired. Over the next decade, his idea sparked a new culinary trend on an international scale.
Moe Alameddine brought the sightless dining concept to Canada when he opened the first O.Noir in 2006 in Montreal and then a second one in Toronto in 2009. In 2011, the restaurant was transferred to a new owner, chemist-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Dr. J. R. Feng, —further transforming the rooms of a dark basement and former retro bar into a sensory dining venue. O.Noir Toronto has since partnered with Canadian National Institute for the Blind and Horizon Travail—to provide the visually-impaired with mainstream job skills.
Click here to buy now or for more information about the deal. Don’t miss out!