Opacity

Can't say enough about the 10/7 dining experience.  My first time and will definately come back.

by the way, when is the next one?

I was initially very excited to try this but ended up being very disappointed.  Dining in the dark is a cool idea but in this case it was poorly executed.  The room was very noisy, and they were understaffed for the amount of people there (maybe because we all had Groupons). The servers are supposed to pour your wine but we ended up taking off our blindfolds to pour or own most of the time.

Our friends sitting across from us received each course at least 10 minutes before us and were finished before our food arrived.  Each course was cold by the time it arrived, and some were not appropriate to be eaten with your hands (cold slimy scallops?)

I hope they improve it with better service and smaller seatings because it could be a really cool experience.

There's a lot going on here, but the fact of the matter is that it is a restaurant, so after you get past all the bells and whistles, you have to focus on the food, and the food just wasn't very good. They served five dishes; one was okay, the rest were below average if not borderline inedible (not necessarily because of the taste, but the texture and combinations just weren't right). My husband and I have eaten at very good restaurants in the city, but we aren't foodies or restaurant brats by a long shot, and we both agreed that things were put together that just shouldn't be put together. We speculated that, because you're blindfolded, you actually have a heightened sense of taste and can more acutely taste the flavors (or be more critical), but whether or not that is the case is beside the point, because the food is bad either way.

As for the rest of it, there just isn't really a theme to the night. You see where you're eating before you're blindfolded, and it really is a barren, white-walled living room. There is classical music playing and a violinist, which is nice, but doesn't really make sense. It's also loud, again, possibly because people are nervous and/or overcompensating for the fact that they can't see.

The good news is that your bill for dinner goes, at least partially, to a charity for retinal research. That's the silver lining. Otherwise, we won't go back, and we felt like the $55 (per person) we paid for the meal was too much.