Tag: restaurant

Coffin-Shaped Restaurant is Unsurprisingly Death-Themed

When you’re an undertaker, and take the initiative to erect the world’s largest coffin — a death-themed restaurant seems inevitable. That’s just what a few undertakers in the Ukraine did, opening Eternity — a one-door windowless coffin for your dining pleasure. And the decor… death.

Walls, lined with funeral flowers and other more human-accommodating coffins, and a menu that includes “Nine Day” and “Forty Day” salads, named for local mourning rituals. No mention if they keep food at optimal temps, or not — you know, just to help their “other business.”

[via io9]

Guest Checks, Restaurant Check Art

Santy Cruise by Patrick O’Connell

We’ve all received one at one time or another… The restaurant “guest check.” Most likely it came after breakfast at the diner or luncheonette, and the closest thing to art on it, was a smiley face drawn by the waitress. Guest Checks is a site dedicated to something that never gets old — taking the mundane and making it beautiful.

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Bon Rappetite, The World’s First Hip Hop Restaurant

Although all signs point to this being nothing more than a marketing campaign for a social media company, Bon Rappetite is the World’s First Hip Hop Restaurant — albeit fictional. Despite no mention of what makes the restaurant “Hip Hop” besides claims of “a menu that caters to the ballers,” we are treated to some of the greatest food puns in recent memory. Some offerings from Bon Rappetite include; Wu Tang Clams, Snoop Doggy Corndogs, and Pone Thugs and Hominy.

And while you wait for the rest of your imaginary entourage to arrive, you can hang at the bar and throw back a few Long Island Ice-Ts — easy on the Ice Cubes.

Most links on the site are broken, but you can check out more rap-inspired dishes and punny goodness here. Thanks Erika.

The Dancing Squid Dish Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Just in time to ruin lunch, the Dancing Squid as it’s known, might also haunt your nightmares. Unless you’re from Hakodate, Japan — where the reanimated and tentacle-flailing squid is quite popular.

Either way, try to enjoy lunch, and our apologies in advance.

[link, via Videogum]

The Japanese Restaurant That Lets You Catch Your Own Fish

Zauo (ざうお), a chain restaurant in Japan, offers patrons their seafood of choice, cooked (or not) to their liking. As long as you catch it yourself.

Although a unique approach to interactive dining, any semblance of sport is far removed from the actual fishing. For one, the water is crystal clear, removing any guesswork as to where the fish are. And, the obviously hungry fish will immediately bite at anything lowered into the water — not unlike any aquarium.

It is the closest thing to shooting fish in a barrel that you can get. Unless you’re in one of the lower U.S. states, where there are barrel fishing restaurants at every gas station.*

[Tofugu]

*we assume