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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts
Slide Nr 1Usually when we go out for a meal, we just want tasty food and an enjoyable atmosphere. These quirky restaurants around the world, however, are serving up good food with a side of good times. Gimmicky? Sometimes. Memorable? Always.
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Slide Nr 2Výtopna. Prague, Czech Republic. We don’t care how old you are: model trains are always cool. And the owners of this local Czech chain would agree. Overlooking Prague’s Wenceslas Square, the original restaurant features a 400-metre-long model railway, complete with drawbridges, tunnels, towns and countrysides, with the trains – reaching up to 20 kph – choo-chooing across dining tables and delivering drinks to delighted customers. The concept proved so popular, the owners opened a second outpost in Prague’s Palladium mall, and a third in downtown Brno. The fare is mostly pizza, pasta and a few Czech favourites, like Wallachian cabbage soup. Beer enthusiasts should order tankové pivo, an unpasteurised 90-day-matured pale Czech lager served straight from the cask.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 4Slappy Cakes. Portland, Maui and Various Asian Locations. You don’t usually go to restaurants to cook your own meal …but you do if you’re going to Slappy Cakes. Here, patrons are given pancake batter, a griddle and a spatula, and told to go to town, choosing between various batter flavours and a large selection of sweet and savoury toppings – anything from fresh fruit to chocolate chips and lavender honey, or goat cheese, chorizo and toasted almonds. There’s also a full menu of dishes they’ll whip up for you in the kitchen, but that seems pretty boring when you can spend the meal flipping your own flapjacks and slathering on the fixings.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 5The Clink. Across the UK. Prison-themed restaurants can be found the world over, but why pretend to go to the slammer when you can actually dine in one? UK charity The Clink runs four restaurants based out of correctional facilities, operated in tandem with the inmates themselves. As they serve their time, prisoners can also serve up gourmet meals, learning and implementing valuable skills as chefs, waiters and business operators, in order to be placed in relevant jobs after their time behind bars. You get a first-rate dinner, they get a second chance at life once they’re back on the outside.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 7The Loading Bay. Cape Town, South Africa. At this restaurant-retailer hybrid in the De Waterkant district, you can load your shopping bags full of hip menswear brands like Acne and Our Legacy, then load up on comfort food classics – we don’t suggest doing it the other way around. The menu runs the gamut from heart-healthy to just plain hearty, offering fresh smoothies, Bircher müsli and seared salmon fillets alongside grilled cheese sandwiches, burgers and chicken strips. Don’t miss out on their truffle salted fries – just trust us on this.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 8The Laundromat Café. Iceland and Denmark. Snagging digs in a prime city location often means sacrificing space and amenities – and the washing machine is among the first to go. Laundromats are dismal places, but if you’re lucky enough to live near one of these welcoming washerettes, there’s no need to dread the regular laundry detail. Just put on a load, then tuck into a breakfast, brunch or lunch of omelettes, burgers and sandwiches, heaped with vibrant veggies and freshly made hummus, salsa or guacamole.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 12Chillout. Dubai, UAE. Pack your parka, you’re going to… Dubai? Kept at a constant -6°C, this undeniably “cool” lounge is a surefire way to beat the desert heat – and maybe even make you miss it a little. Order a warm soup and sandwich or sip on hot chocolate as you admire the way the mood lighting illuminates the ice block walls, frozen sculptures and ceiling made of dazzling icicles. Don’t worry, no one expects you to come dressed for the weather indoors; thermal clothing is provided.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 16The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant. Melbourne, Australia. Normally, digging into a hot meal while riding the tram will get you dirty looks, but in this tram car, everybody’s doing it! Choose from morning tea, lunch, early dinner or late dinner, arrive punctually at the designated time, then get ready to enjoy a seasonal, multi-course meal as you cruise through the streets of Melbourne in a swanky vintage tram. A ticket to ride doesn’t come cheap, but it does include Australian wines, as well as drinks from the fully stocked bar, for the duration of the journey.
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Fun Food: 20 Cool Restaurants And Dining Concepts.
Slide Nr 19Ocean Restaurant by Cat Cora. Singapore. Can’t justify shelling out more than $200 a plate for an underwater restaurant experience? Good news: You can dine in the deep blue sea for a fraction of the price. Well, sea-adjacent. US culinary celebrity Cat Cora serves up Mediterranean-inspired Californian cuisine at this fine-dining venue with front-row seats to the S.E.A. Aquarium™’s Open Ocean Habitat, home to 40,000 marine animals representing 120 species including reef manta rays, leopard sharks, hammerhead sharks and goliath groupers. Granted, you’re not quite under 5 metres of ocean, but you might as well be.
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Slide Nr 20CuliAir. Netherlands. Having dinner in a hot air balloon might seem romantic, but not exactly like a culinary innovation. That’s where Angélique Schmeinck steps in. A daring master chef, Schmeinck can prepare a meal for up to 14 persons hundreds of metres in the air using the heat from the balloon itself. Dinner in “the world’s only hot air balloon restaurant” begins with an aperitif and canapés on the ground, before the whole dinner party is swept into the sky for sunset views and a gourmet meal with wine pairings.
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