The Top 7 Most Unusual Restaurants in the World

Extraordinary dishes are now served in almost every restaurant. But when it comes to restaurant concepts, modern gourmet temples outdo each other with extravagant ideas and unusual designs.

Dishes served in miniature toilet bowls, robot waiters, or dining underwater: The creativity seems to know no bounds. We present seven of the most unusual restaurants in the world to inspire your next gourmet trip.

The Maldives are not only one of the most popular travel destinations, but they also attract visitors with increasingly creative hotel and restaurant ideas. Among them is the Itaah, where guests can dine underwater.

A Plexiglass roof provides a 180-degree panoramic view. Only 12.5 centimeters separate restaurant guests from underwater creatures, including corals, mackerels, and soldierfish, which create the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable evening at the underwater restaurant.

The menu at the Itaah at Conrad Maldives Rangali features four- and five-course menus. Fusion cuisine is part of the culinary offering, as well as a selection of wines.

Although traditional hospital food is not known for its culinary highlights, more and more restaurants are embracing this theme to create unusual dining experiences. One such place is the Hospitalis restaurant in the Latvian capital, Riga.

Instead of forks and knives, guests find scalpels and other surgical instruments on the tables in this restaurant designed to resemble an operating room. It only makes sense that the dishes, which do not resemble hospital food, are served in operation bowls.

The idea behind it all: The owners of Hospitalis are doctors themselves. A similar concept is found at The Clinic in Singapore, where molecular dishes are also served on operating room-style dishware and drinks come from IV bags.

At least for this culinary experience, you don't have to travel far. Dark restaurants are now found in every major city. Even in Germany, blind dinners offer special menus and unique experiences.

In Berlin, the unsicht-Bar is one of the most popular dark restaurants, where guests can fully concentrate on their taste buds.

In fact, the senses are heightened when the eyes no longer eat. The special thing is that guests are accompanied by blind or visually impaired waiters who are well-acquainted with the dark environment. It's truly a sensuous culinary experience.

In Asia, different rules seem to apply when it comes to design and trends. This becomes clear when you visit one of the Modern Toilet restaurants, of which there are around twelve in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Japan.

The trend has not yet reached Europe. Whether the concept of a culinary experience in the bathroom would work here remains to be seen. However, visiting the 'modern toilet' is certainly unique. Guests sit on toilet seats and eat from miniature toilet bowls. Toilet paper serves as napkins, and the dessert is appropriately chocolate ice cream shaped like feces.

Another unusual restaurant concept has made its way into Japanese and Chinese dining: robot restaurants. Near Shanghai, rolling robots in the Robot Restaurant have long replaced chefs and waiters.

In Japan, the trend takes on even more bizarre forms. In Tokyo's red-light district, robots and dancers provide an impressive entertainment program during dinner. The special show costs significantly more than a regular restaurant visit.

Dining with a view of the ocean: At The Rock Restaurant, visitors could not be closer to the turquoise sea. The restaurant is actually built on a rock that extends directly into the crystal-clear waters of the Indian Ocean.

Fresh seafood and fish specialties are served here. Visitors enjoy surrounding views of the water. By the way, the restaurant can only be reached on foot during low tide; at high tide, boats take restaurant guests to the rock.

The building was formerly a fisherman's hut. Even today, the design of the restaurant recalls that time, but modern furniture has been incorporated to use it as a special gourmet temple.

Restaurants at dizzying heights with airy views are plentiful as well. Special mention goes to Dinner in The Sky, from the Belgian company Fun Group, which collaborates with a communications agency to make the dream of a flying dining table come true.

By now, the crane-suspended restaurants can be found in nearly all major cities around the world. In addition to Brussels, you can dine in Dubai, Africa, Japan, India, and Brazil in these flying dining halls. The motto is: Sky is no longer the limit.

To ensure guest safety, there are mandatory seat belts and safety measures that must be observed before the one-hour dinner. This guarantees nothing will stand in the way of an unforgettable meal.

Tip: You can find suitable hotels for an entirely unique vacation at the Most Spectacular Hotel Openings, and we present you with the most spectacular observation decks in this article: The Most Spectacular Observation Decks in the World..

Extraordinary restaurant concepts can be found all over the world and enjoy great popularity. Dining becomes a special event. Especially Asian countries, particularly Japan, come up with some absurd ideas. However, some special restaurants are also emerging in Europe that you should definitely visit.