{"id":278,"date":"2008-05-23T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/dans-le-noir"},"modified":"2008-05-23T23:01:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:01:49","slug":"dans-le-noir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/dans-le-noir","title":{"rendered":"Dans le Noir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dans le Noir<\/em> is a restaurant in London and Paris where you eat in complete darkness. Here is the motivation for the concept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danslenoir.com\/london\/\">from their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sensory experience<\/p>\n<p>Dans le Noir? allows you to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste.<br \/>\nWithout sight, other senses are offered a new sensation and emotions.<br \/>\nDarkness leads to truthfulness about taste, kills preconceptions and let you face the realities of ingredients and cuisine. Our chef elaborates a refined and sensorial cuisine with fresh ingredients to help our senses to enjoy the \u201ctruth\u201d taste of food.<\/p>\n<p>True conviviality<\/p>\n<p>Dining in the total darkness represents a very unusual social experience. How many times have you ever had the chance to talk to people without any preconception that sight implies?<br \/>\nAt Dans le Noir? there is no more pressure of other people\u2019s visual judgment. You talk more freely and spontaneously. The absence of vision changes completely the way you act and react, both emotionally and socially. That\u2019s why Dans le Noir? is far more than just a restaurant: it offers a social and convivial experience. Dans le Noir ? raises some questions such as the role of sight in the way we relate to others.<\/p>\n<p>Empathy<\/p>\n<p>In the dark room, you are guided and served by our blind staff.<br \/>\nA magic switch between sighted and blind people happens. For once, blind people actually become your eyes.<br \/>\nThis reversal of roles implies a transfer of trust from the sighted person to the blind guide because without him we are just lost. Who actually feels the most Dans le Noir??<br \/>\nThe experience is emotionally strong and this empathy really encourages mutual trust and respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danslenoir.com\/london\/\">restaurant website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le Noir is a restaurant in London and Paris where you eat in complete darkness. Here is the motivation for the concept from their website: Sensory experience Dans le Noir? allows you to completely re-evaluate the notion of taste. Without sight, other senses are offered a new sensation and emotions. Darkness leads to truthfulness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/dans-le-noir\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dans le Noir?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}