Dans le Noir ? London Restaurant

Located in a quiet street in Farringdon, dining in the dark is an excellent experience provided by Dans Le Noir! My friend and I visited and chose the three course meat / fish surprise menu and the vegan menu; both of them utterly delicious. It’s certainly a very serene and relaxing atmosphere despite the voices of other diners, but it was not too busy for a Saturday afternoon. Our waiter, Ghow, was very courteous, friendly and made our experience even better with his excellent service. After we ate the three courses, we were guided out of the pitch black dining room, and shown photos of what we ate – impeccable presentation on top of the exquisite tastes. I shall visit again and I highly recommend this dining experience to others!

We had the vegan surprise menu, food was great , better than I expected especially the dessert was really delicious. Portions were a good size! Really good service from highly skilled servers. I was scared at first but once you are seated in the totally pitch black dark room, you start feeling comfortable and you can tell where which items are and the servers guide you very well! Overall a very unique great experience ! Thanks to the team.

This place is an interesting concept. You get to dine in the dark. And when I mean dark, it’s pitch dark. You can’t even see your hand. Menu is a surprise menu. All u need to tell them is what you can and cannot eat and then they will serve you. You can select 2 or 3 course. Also any drinks. As you like.

Now my problem –

As much they market that since it’s dark, your other senses are fully on alert, I didn’t like it. The inability to see my friends and food was a problem

Ever heard the phrase “silence is deafening”. This was a place where darkness was blinding.

The inability to see your food meant that half the time was spend in identifying which area of the place the food was on and trying to pick it up.

Also sorry but I am a picky eater. Cannot eat many things. Like cannot have cured meat but can have cooked meat. So I was all the time apprehensive of what I am eating.

Good place to get an experience. But the place is more hyped than what it’s worth.

We were 4 people and not one said that they were going to return.

I will classify the food as average. Not bad but not too good either.

Also not worth the price.

The experience is unique for sure and a lot of fun. It’s a shame that the wait to table was quite long and we weren’t given a chance to get drinks while waiting really either.

Our waiter in the dark was fantastic. Super attentive and friendly. Big up to Gal!

The food was mostly very tasty. Had the vegan ‘surprise’ menu. The pasta was unfortunately raw in parts though and when we mentioned this to staff at the end they didn’t seem to care.

I’d recommend it if you are looking for a different night out, but the overall experience could use some refining. It’s a bit $$$$!!!

Our waiter Ghow, who is blind, made the experience very pleasant. How he could navigate around the venue was incredible to us. It was definitely a memorable experience and we cherish our sight for even more now. Ghow got the room to sing happy birthday- another experience – being sung to in the pitch black by a load of strangers! 😍
The food was very tasty. We would highly recommend 👌