weird restaurants

Located at the Conrad Maldives, Rangali Island Resort is a gorgeous and intimate underwater restaurant (seating capacity is 14 people) that is more than sixteen feet below sea level. Opened in 2005, the all-glass restaurant has a menu consisting of fresh seafood, beef rib eye, veal, and other gourmet dishes. Encased in a transparent acrylic roof, the restaurant offers its diners a 270-degree panoramic view of sea creatures swimming in the Maldives crystal clear waters. While a zinc paint coating protects Ithaas steel structure from corrosion, the saltwater and marine growths adhering to the paint will eventually break it down. Make a reservation while you still can.

This Midwestern U.S. restaurant has a rather nondescript exterior, but that seems to be the precisely the point. Everything related to the spy-themed restaurant is based on the CIA definition of a safe house, which is meant to be a seemingly innocent premise where an intelligence organization would conduct its covert operations in relative security. Nowhere will you find a sign advertising Safe House, and you even need to know the password to enter the establishment. If you ever find yourself in Milwaukee, this top-secret restaurant is worth seeking out; though remember, you didnt hear it from us.

Less weird than amazing: Imagine a restaurant where the menu selections are prepared using the freshest possible ingredients, and by freshest, we mean harvested in the field at sunrise of the same day you are dining there. Welcome to De Kas, an old greenhouse in Amsterdam that was due to be demolished in 2001, but was saved by an ambitious Michelin star chef, Gert Jan Hageman, who converted the unique twenty six foot high glass building into a restaurant and nursery. Mediterranean vegetables, herbs and edible flowers are grown and harvested at the greenhouse and garden near the restaurant, and Hageman can be found in De Kas nursery daily, working the soil, planting, weeding and harvesting herbs and vegetables.

Opened in 1979, this eclectic restaurant decorated with classic toys from the 1930s and 1940s started as a small one-room eatery, and today has grown into a multi-themed restaurant occupying all three stories of the house it originated in. Staff are known as bubble scouts, each wearing a different crazy hat. Moving trains are on all three floors and photographs of old-time movie scenes and stars adorn every available wall space. Its always Christmas at the Bubble Room is a theme made evident by the presence of the many Father Christmases, the Elf Room, and year-round Christmas lights. Music from the 1920s to 1940s serves as the restaurants soundtrack, and the bright and cheerful pastel colors of the venue make it a near-hallucinatory experience. Favorites on the current menu are original items offered since the restaurants early days such as Socra cheese (a cheese served flamed tableside), Bubble Bread, and many of the colossal-sized desserts.

Dining in the dark has been around for quite some time abroad, but the concept was only first introduced in Canada in 2006, with the opening of O.NOIR in Montreal and then a second location in Toronto in 2009. O.NOIRs philosophy is that a diners enjoyment is amplified when his sight is eliminated as the other senses become heightened. Flashlights, cellphones, and luminous watches are prohibited from the dark dining establishment. The evening starts in a lit bar where guests place their orders; then they are led by a server into an unlit dining room, where a two-hour seated dinner service begins with servers explaining where everything is placed on the table. This novel experience certainly puts a new spin on the term blind date.

The name Guo Li Zhuang translates to strength within the pot. This restaurant in China specializes in serving food made from the penile parts of animals such as horse, snake, dog, donkey, deer, etc. The food is prepared with secret medicinal recipes of the Guo family. The names of the food items are also interesting-Look for the Treasure in the Desert Sand, Dragon in the Flame of Desire, etc. The young crowd of under 15 years of age is not allowed in the restaurant as the kind of food served here may leave an impact on their hormones.

If you are a real foodie, then you would feel blessed by visiting the Heart Attack Grill in Dallas, TX, that encourages life-threatening fast food. Cholesterol-rich food accompanied with cigarettes and beer is served by waitresses dressed up in sexually provocative nurses uniforms. The nurses tie tags showing orders on the wrists of the guests while the doctors recommend burgers Single, Double, Triple, Quadruple Bypass. The Butter shake served at the Heart Attack Grill is claimed to have the worlds highest butterfat content. The guests who eat the biggest burger on the menu are helped by the nurses to reach their car in a wheelchair. We all love ourselves, thus we understand the importance of staying on a healthy diet. Sometimes, it is fine to treat yourself with food that may cause a heart attack.

If you are good at catching things, then you would enjoy the catch game at Lamberts Cafe in US. This restaurant has its own tradition of serving guests by throwing breads at them. Guests can eat as many as they can catch. Lamberts Cafe takes pride in its chain of three restaurants located in Sikeston, Foley, and Ozark for its exclusive services. They even offer some free dishes including beans, potatoes, etc.

The Far Easts love of all things cute and fluffy is well known; whether its actual, real-life cuteness in the shape of Tokyos cat cafes, where pet-less Tokyoites go to stroke and play with cats and kittens, or the Hello Kitty phenomenon in Seoul. So the only surprise about Taipeis Barbie restaurant is that it took so long for someone to come up with the idea. It is staffed by waitresses in bright pink tops, tutus and tiaras, while the chairs are dressed in tutus and theres enough pink food to sink a Barbie cruise ship.

If you think Britains biggest restaurant, serving 2,000 diners a day, is massive, think again. Bangkoks Royal Dragon is monumental. The colossal seafood place sprawls across 8.35 acres, has 1,000 staff, and requires 540 costumed waiters on roller skates to serve some 5,000 customers. And while it boasts the largest collection of live seafood tanks and 1,000 pan-Asian dishes, diners dont come for the food. Its all about the spectacle: traditional Thai and Chinese music, dance and martial arts shows, and waiters walking on water and flying through the air on zip-wires. Watch what you order if you choose live seafood (it is priced by weight and can be expensive), so there are no surprises other than the waiters falling from the sky, that is. The dim sum buffet and set menus are the best value. Service can be slow despite the wheels and wires, making the experience best done with a group of (well-lubricated) friends.