THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Lights out, now go to sleep… we mean eat

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By Zac in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 23 March 2013

The city of London is a pretty exciting place visually, so it seems almost counterproductive to dine in the dark. But that’s exactly what you’ll do at Dans le Noir? London, where you can experience the world in pitch black while blind waiters serve you your organic meal. It’s supposed to help sharpen your other senses in the meantime, so we can’t think of a better place to start training for super-sensory powers than dining in the dark. Unfortunately, the restrooms are fully lit for safety reasons, so you can’t practise there.

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Way to get really high on the world’s tallest building

Zac Contributor

By Zac in Architecture on Saturday 23 March 2013

If you’re looking to get high on alcohol and altitudes alike, the 122th-storey high restaurant-bar At.mosphere in Burj Khalifa, Dubai is your best bet. Naturally, they also serve high tea (but of course).

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Beam what you eat onto your plates

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By Zac in New Food and Packaging on Friday 22 March 2013

Finally, a menu that helps us make up our minds about what to eat. Before you even make an order at pan-Asian fusion restaurant inamo St James in London, you can poke around at its interactive menu to beam prospective eats onto your plate.

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Pittsburgh restaurant takes US foreign policy to task

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By Francis Andrews in Cool Travel on Thursday 21 March 2013

This Pittsburgh-based takeout, Conflict Kitchen, switches cuisines every six months. For a while, it may be serving Cuban food; later it’ll be Afghan. Then Iranian. Why? Because all the countries it themes its food on have been on the receiving end of some sort of US punishment, whether armed invasion or sanctions. It’s a brilliant [...]

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Sleek Mexican Taqueria at San Pedro, just outside Monterrey

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By The Urban Grocer in Cool Travel on Thursday 21 March 2013

Step into most Mexican taquerías and sophisticated is not the first word that comes to mind. Delicious? More often than not. But taquerías are indoor/ outdoor spaces where the smell of pork roasting on a spit and plastic cups of hotter-than-thou salsas count as ambience. Taquería Canalla in San Pedro, just outside Monterrey, is looking [...]

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THE HELLO TOMORROW SERIES: Dine Mile High comes to London

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Thursday 21 March 2013

Wow, imagine flying off for a short decadent getaway away without actually leaving the country. That’s the premise of Dine Mile High, which — lucky for all Londoners — touches down in mid-March to take away all the logistical pains of making it to the airport on time with your passport and boarding pass. This content series brought to you by Emirates - HELLO TOMORROW

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Grotta Palazzese: an Italian restaurant located inside of a cave

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By Rebekah Rhoden in Cool Travel on Tuesday 5 March 2013

Grotta Palazzese is an incredible Italian restaurant situated inside of a cave overlooking the Adriatic Sea. This beautiful and secluded location is the perfect spot for a luxurious and romantic restaurant getaway. The only question is, how do you actually get there?

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The Breslin: a gastro-pub in New York

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By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 12 January 2013

If swine makes you swoon and carnivore is your middle name, this nose-to-tail, gastro-pub is calling. At The Breslin, the interior is dark, the ceilings high, and the tables covered with butcher paper. Start your meal with the Scotch Egg – a whole egg wrapped in sausage, breaded, and fried.

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Dine here in Bangkok and get a free vasectomy

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Wednesday 2 January 2013

Grab a dinner and get a free vasectomy at the same place? In Bangkok, you can do just that. Dedicated to birth control, Cabbages and Condoms is founded by Thailand’s former Minster of Health Mechai Viravaidya, who also makes sure that post-meal condoms are handed out to restaurant patrons. Wow.

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Former chapel of psychiatric hospital made into restaurant

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Travel on Tuesday 6 November 2012

A 14th century chapel of a psychiatric hospital, converted into a modern-day restaurant. That’s Thuys at the Het Dolhuys, a museum about, well, psychiatry. I am in love with its huge overhead windows and the box-like cloud chandelier crafted out of felt-covered metal boxes. The venue was redesigned by Dutch Studio Overtreders W, and the custom-designed furniture, produced by clients of a psychiatric institution. Nice to see this all come together beautifully.

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Punk chef Carl Clarke opens the Disco Bistro in St. Paul’s

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By Alex Randall in Cool Travel on Monday 29 October 2012

A few weeks ago, I was introduced to the infamous punk chef, Carl Clarke, aka God Save the Clam and RockLobsta. Now he is back with a six month residency in the heart of London’s St Paul’s district. Clarke will be converting the traditional pub, The Rising Sun, into an original Disco Bistro dining experience [...]

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Chipotle’s Lorem Ipsum bags

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Design on Tuesday 11 September 2012

In my humble opinion, Chipotle is the most design-savvy restaurant chain out there. Seeing this bag reinforced that opinion. I’ve always loved Chipotle’s handwritten typography on its cups, basket-lining paper, and bags, but the text is usually pertaining to…burritos. This bag is a little different. On this bag, Lorem Ipsum, or ‘dummy text’, is printed in the same handwritten style as on the normal bags. It’s pretty clever, and definitely intentional. 

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How to dangle 50m in air and eat dinner at the same time

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Saturday 8 September 2012

There is dinner, and then there is dinner in the sky. Dinner in the Sky originated from Belgium and it has since infiltrated close to 40 other countries. The basic idea is to get a massive crane from which a restaurant platform suspends perilessly in mid-air, 50m above ground, while guests strapped into their seats clink glasses and have their noms in the sky. 

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Finally, a pop-down, not pop-up restaurant

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 1 September 2012

Here’s one pop-up experience that’s a little different from the rest: it pops down underground. Located in the Tytyri limestone mine in Finland, Helsinki bistro Muru will run the pop-down restaurant for just a fortnight in September. The experience includes donning mine helmets and traveling down a test laboratory lift to emerge at the venue 80 metres underground for a four-course meal at the active excavation site.

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Zombie apocalypse is coming, eat up these brains

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Friday 31 August 2012

This talk of a zombie apocalypse is really getting to everyone’s heads. So much so that mobile food company Street Kitchen recently made its rounds in London last week offering brain burgers and the such prepared with ‘responsibly sourced British ingredients’, presumably to get Londoners used to gourmet zombie delicacies. Yes, real (calf) brains, real offal. This was staged to celebrate the season 2 DVD launch of TV series The Walking Dead.

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