Would you want to go to a restaurant that doesn’t allow you to talk when having your food? Well, there seems to be plenty of people who wouldn’t mind doing that, if it means they get to dine at Eat, which is at moment said to be Brooklyn’s swankiest restaurant. Reportedly, the idea behind this whole exercise of not talking while eating was an inspiration derived from Buddhist monks in India, who follow such a path. “It’s just an opportunity to enjoy food in a way you might not have otherwise” the chef of Eat was quoted as saying, while describing the whole experience.
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There seems to be some amount of logic in the whole thing because when you aren’t conversing while eating, your complete concentration is on the food. In other words, if the food you are having is really great you would take notice of it, which is something you might not have done had you been preoccupied in a conversation. Also, this is another gimmick or a selling point if you will to stand apart from all the competition (in this case all the other restaurants).
There are many such restaurants that offer a unique dining experience. One that comes to mind is a restaurant in Chicago, where you dine in the dark, so you only get to smell and taste what you are eating, but not see it. This is again something that does make some amount of sense. When the power of sight is taken away from you, your other senses are automatically on high alert, so you get the opportunity to really smell and taste your food more closely than you otherwise would have.
The only issue with such concept restaurants is the fact that families that barely find time to go out together or bond because of a hectic schedule might really not want to eat in silence or in the dark. After all, the once or twice that they go out in a month might be the only time they get to have a heart-to-heart. This doesn’t mean that these restaurants don’t have takers. In fact, Eat is really popular and people are queuing up for the unique dining experience that this restaurant offers. The owner of the restaurant aptly surmised the whole experience, saying “It’s kind of like a meditation. The silence speaks for itself.”
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