No stars

The pancakes which accompanied the starter were cold and so floury I thought that I was chewing raw dough. My friend's fish-plate starter of fishcakes was still repeating on her at 2.00am in the morning. The main courses were no better. For £29 for two courses you do expect something vaguely edible. Service was awful, we were told by our Waiter that he 'had to help out in the kitchen so was unable to be around'. A complete waste of money, if you want the experience re-create it at home with a couple of blindfolds.

A nice concept and fun evening out, but let down by really average bordering unacceptable canteen food. At almost £40 per head for 3 courses, not good enough. The meat was amongst the chewiest I have ever eaten.

A great concept and an amazing experience - our guide (waiter) Shane was both helpful and funny, making the experience even more fun. The food was average but the whole experience of eating in the dark; finding your wine glass, giving up and eating with your fingers as food slides off the fork and trying to filter out the multiple conversations to focus on those actually next to you....was one that we all really enjoyed.
Sadly the organisation in the restaurant left a lot to be desired... we waited 40 minutes before being led to our table, and at a 9pm seating we were all starving! The service was speedy and when we left the dark room at 10.30, we had to wait in a queue for another 30 mins before we could pay. Considering that we had pre ordered the food and the wine before entering the dark room, surely generating the bills would have been an easy task.... at £55 a head, an interesting experience that is sadly let down by its service.

This place sounds like fun; you dine in complete darkness eating glorious French cuisine and you’re waited on by blind staff. This birthday surprise really sounded like the makings of a special night out.

Unfortunately, and in reality, the food was stupidly overpriced and ridiculously under portioned. I may have been in the dark but I can tell when someone hands me a starter sized plate of roast beef (main course). Fine ok, I *did* order the ‘meat’ menu. Wait a sec though, my girlfriend ordered the ‘any of the above’ menu and got the same thing. And hang about, speaking to everyone else on our bench (yes, it was a bench) they all got exactly the same thing too.

Just to top it all off my girlfriend was taken to the toilet only to return 15 minutes later after the waiter forgot to bring her back! I was truly expecting the lights to come on and see Jeremy Beadle dressed as a copper sporting a hidden microphone.

What makes it really bad is that because they’re using blind waiters, it makes it almost impossible for you to complain. Well, at least they couldn’t see me flicking them the V’s on the way out.

I love it! I felt like I had been transported into a different world. An excellent experience! Food was soooooo delicious and Cyril was very nice. I will come back soon and bring some more friends next time. Thank you!

Amazing experience! It makes you approach food from a whole new perspective. My birthday spent in darkness eating more than I can in the light, using my hands and forgetting all conventions...I loved it! A must do! Totally unique.

I have never felt more cheated by a meal! I've never written a review before but my experience here was so abysmal, I couldn't not write about it.



I had the vegetarian menu and the food was a joke. If you could have seen your plate, you wouldn't have paid for it. £30 for a boiled egg, cous cous and a chickpea salad. The dessert was tiny and hadn't set properly resulting in a chocolate mousse that was really runny on top with a layer of tasteless jelly on the bottom.



Had things have ended there I might have been able to accept the price for the experience, but we were then overcharged by 2 bottles of wine - £22 each and that was the house wine. Surely you just tell them and they take it off the bill right? No...can't do that. After much arguing back and forth, the manager said he would transfer the money from the bill to the waiter's tip. Except we had already left a tip. He said we hadn't left much, some people leave 25%. He basically refused to refund us and said if we wanted the money back he would take it out of the waiter's tip cash box. Nice.



A shocking attitude and awful food is served under the guise of making a difference for the disabled community. The best I can hope for is that the manager did actually transfer the money to the tip as our waiter was great, but I doubt he bothered. What a disappointment.

What is a more amazing experience that to have been to Dans Le Noir? I was a little scared about the concept but the staff were very reassuring and friendly. Plus the food was brilliant, and there are no more words to be said about Dans Le Noir.