Onoir: $64 for a Three-Course Dine-in-the-Dark Experience for Two ($79.90 Value)

LivingSocial Toronto Daily Deal of the Day: Onoir: $64 for a Three-Course Dine-in-the-Dark Experience for Two ($79.90 Value)

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Value $79.90
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What You’ll Get

This is a limited 3-day only sale that will expire at midnight on Saturday, July 22, 2017.

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The Company
Onoir
http://www.onoir.com/
The Village 620 Church St., Toronto, ON M4Y 2E4 (1.1 miles)
+14169226647

The Experience

You step into the windowless waiting area, a preserved classic lounge. You order your dishes, and find your server—who you soon discover is blind. He’ll ask you to place your hand on his shoulder, and you follow him into the dimming light until everything goes black.

O.Noir is perhaps one of the only restaurants where you wouldn’t notice a power failure. The dining space is kept in total darkness so that diners ignore the appearance of their food and instead grow attuned to its subtle tastes and textures. And yet this dining experience also serves another purpose—to help you get a taste of what it’s like to live without sight.

The Highlights

Service staff, all of whom are blind, guide diners through the experience
Diners are encouraged to eat however they choose—whether with hands or utensils
To maintain total darkness, cellphones and lighters are prohibited in the dining room
Who They Are

When blind pastor Jorge Spielmann invited guests to dinner at his Zurich home, he would blindfold them—letting them share his dining experience and introducing them to his sightless world. In 1999, he turned this unique custom into a full-scale experiment with Blind Cow, a combination restaurant and social-justice project that provides jobs to the blind and teaches others about the world of the visually impaired. Over the next decade, his idea sparked a new culinary trend on an international scale.

Moe Alameddine brought the sightless dining concept to Canada when he opened the first O.Noir in 2006 in Montreal and then a second one in Toronto in 2009. In 2011, the restaurant was transferred to a new owner, chemical-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Dr. J. R. Feng, who further transformed the rooms of a dark basement and former retro bar into a sensory dining venue. O.Noir Toronto has since partnered with Canadian National Institute for the Blind and other community organizations to provide the visually impaired with mainstream job skills.

Fine Print
Promotional value expires Nov 30, 2017. Amount paid never expires. Limit 3 per person. Limit 3 per table. Must use entire value in 1 visit. 24-hr cancellation or re-scheduling notice applies. Valid for Dinner services Monday – Thursday; no exceptions. Please contact merchant ahead of time (preferably 10 days before expiry) to get a reservation before expiration and the benefit of the promotional value. Guests will pay the difference between promotional value and full value if visiting on days other than Monday to Thursday or after expiration. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.

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