Dining in The Dark ..

Opaque, dining in the dark, is located near the Civic Center in San Francisco. This dining experience was very unique and it took me by surprise. I was stoked to see what dining in complete darkness was going to be like, for I couldn't imagine how it worked. First, as we walked in we were greeted by a host at the top of some stairs. She checked us in, took our dinner orders and then brought us down the stairs to sit in a small seating area as we waited for our server to take us to our table. She explained to us that the servers at Opaque are legally blind and they would be leading us to our tables and serving us. I was quite impressed by that because I'm sure it takes a lot of skill in order to serve being blind! Right when the server came out to seat us, he had me put my hand on his right shoulder and my friend had his hand on mine, as a train we went through long heavy drapes that kept the light out. As we were seated it was explained to us that we needed to feel everything out and that we had to use our forks as a rakes so that we don't harm anyone. The server then explained to us that since our eye sights are taken from us, we are supposed to have a heightened sense of taste. I, however, did not think that the food was that good even though the concept of dining in the dark was to have a better sense of taste.

The experience in itself was great! But I felt as if the food was low quality for what they charged. It was about $100 a person for this dining experience which I thought was a little too pricey for what the food was like. The experience of being served by a highly trained legally blind server was definitely worth the money, but I would have enjoyed it more if the food was as good as the service.