O.Noir: $64 for a Three-Course Dine in the Dark Experience for Two (20% Off)
Today’s Groupon Toronto Daily Deal of the Day: O.Noir: $64 for a Three-Course Dine in the Dark Experience for Two (20% Off)
Buy now for only $
64
Value $79.90
Discount 20% Off
Save $15.90
The Groupon Deal
C$64 for a three-course Dine in the Dark experience for two (C$79.90 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 deal is a very hot seller. Groupon has already sold over 450+ vouchers at the time of this post.
This is a limited 2-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Friday April 1, 2015.
Click here to buy now or for more info 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
Promotional value expires Oct 31, 2016. Amount paid never expires. Not valid April 18-30. Reservation required. Limit 3 per person. Limit 3 per table. 24-hr cancellation or re-scheduling notice applies. Valid for Dinner services Mon – Thurs; no exceptions. Please contact merchant ahead of time (preferably 10 days before expiry) to get a reservation before expiration and the benefit of the promotional value. Guests will pay the difference between promotional value and full value if visiting on days other than Mon to Thurs or after expiration. Tax/tips not included. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
O.Noir
http://www.onoirtoronto.com/
620 Church St.
Toronto, ON M4Y 2E4
+14169226647
The Experience
You step into the windowless waiting area, a preserved classic 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, chemical-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Dr. J. R. Feng, who further transformed 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 other community organizations to provide the visually impaired with mainstream job skills.
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