Abigail’s dinners in the dark is an unique dining experience where diners eat a multi course meal while blindfolded.

What to know before you go

You have to book your table in advance and the entire experience is about 2 1/2 hours. Starting from putting the blindfold on until after dinner when the blindfolds are removed. When you arrive to the restaurant you will notice that there are two restaurant names on the window. They are Betty and Abigail’s Kitchen. The restaurant you will enter is Betty and then Abigail’s Kitchen is downstairs.

Before being led downstairs, everyone participating in the dinners in the dark will be given a blindfold, a thick blindfold. At this time, you will try it on and adjust it to fit your head comfortably. This avoids having to fix it while in the restaurant and possibly ruining the dinner in the dark experience.

While being led downstairs, blindfolds will be off. At the bottom of the stairs is a curtain that leads into the restaurant. When I was next to enter the restaurant, that’s when I had to put the blindfold on.

Remember this is a new experience (if you’ve never done it), so go into it relaxed, with an open mind, have fun and take your senses (besides vision) to a new level.

Dining in the dark

I learned a lot about myself during this experience. For instance, I thought I would mostly eat with my hands instead of the utensils. I thought it would be hard to eat in the dark with utensils, because I would either have a problem picking the food up and/or getting the food into my mouth. But I did pretty good. Sometimes I thought I was done eating because everytime I tried to pickup something with the utensil, I wouldn’t get anything. So I would use my index finger to tap along the plate to see if I felt anything, and a couple of times I did.

My sister asked our waiter to take photos of us with every meal, which was awesome because we ended up with great photos of our experience. I tried taking photos and videos of my sister, and for me to be blindfolded, I did a pretty good job. I was able to navigate her phone as well as get some photos and a video of her eating. So I learned, I’m pretty techy even blindfolded.

After we took our blind folds off, I realized our table was practically clean. I’m normally a neat eater. I don’t like my hands, face, clothes or table space dirty. But I wasn’t expecting me to be that neat while blindfolded.

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