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In the present day food and wine culture of the world, creativity plays a really important role. Restaurateurs keep coming up with really innovative and unusual ideas to provide an awesome dining experience to the customers. Let’s have a look at some of the most unusual and bizarre restaurants around the world that you should visit atleast once in your lifetime:

1. ‘Modern Toilet Restaurant’ – for a not-so “crappy” experience

Location: Taiwan

• Bathroom themed restaurant chain in Taiwan and some parts of Asia
• Here food is served in bowls that resemble toilets and bathtubs
• The seating is also made of toilets

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2. Safe house, “the hippest place on the planet”

Location: Milwaukee, USA

• Spy theme based restaurant
• Patrons need a “password” to gain entry into this place
• Wired magazine described this place as “The hippest place on the planet”

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3. Villa Escudero Waterfalls Restaurant, be ready get you feet wet

Location: Phillipines

• Located beneath the famous Labasin waterfall
• Guests can enjoy local cuisine on bamboo made tables while water from the falls run over their feet

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4. Ninja theme Restaurant, New York

Location: New York

• Ninja themed restaurant famous for its theatrics
• Magic tricks and Ninja performances are regular happenings here.

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5. D.S. Music Restaurant, weirdest hospital theme restaurant you might have seen

Location: Taipei

• Hospital themed restaurant where the waitresses are dressed as nurses and beer is served in an I.V.

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6. Restaurant in the Sky (BELGIUM)

Location: Belgium

• Diners can enjoy their meals 150 feet up in the air
• Listed in Forbes’ list of most unusual restaurants
• Similar restaurant have now been started in many other cities

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7. Blindekuh (Switzerland)

Location: Switzerland

• World’s first dark themed restaurant
• Was started as an effort to provide employment to visually impaired and blind people and to give people an experience of living without light
• No light sources are allowed inside the restaurant
• All the waiters are blind or visually impaired

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8. New Lucky Restaurant Ahmedabad

Location: Ahmedabad, India

• The place was actually a graveyard on which the restaurant is built
• The owner decided to keep the graves and build the restaurant around them
• People can enjoy their food with the graves around them

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9. ‘Ithaa’, the undersea restaurant Maldives

Location: Maldives

• First of its kind undersea restaurant in the world located 5 metres below sea level at conrad maldives rangali island in the Republic of Maldives
• People can enjoy an amazing 270 degree view of the Indian ocean while eating

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10. Eat, the silent restaurant in Brooklyn

Location: Brooklyn, USA

Famous for:

• Its ‘silent’ dinners, which are held once in a week
• The founder of the restaurant took the inspiration from a Buddhist monastery in India
• The idea behind ‘silent’ meals is to make people enjoy the essence of food in complete harmony
• During a ‘silent’ meal, nobody is allowed to talk after they place the order
• People have to eat the 4 course meal in complete silence

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Add them to your bucket list people. I already did!

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