There are many weird and quirky restaurants worldwide. But imagine that one day you are invited to dinner and you enter a medical prison, in the most psychiatric style. Or that you are sitting ready to make your order and they ask you what do you want your last meal to be? It can even be unpleasant. Nevertheless, these prison restaurant exist and they are very crowded spaces. Well, many turn to them to calm their curiosity about what the experience of spending your last night in jail would be like. Don't you believe us? We tell you more.
Alcatraz prison restaurant
In Shibuya Japantown Suburbs, en Tokyo, we can move to the famous Alcatraz prison. This is possible thanks to a themed restaurant that simulates a medical prison. That is to say, a place where criminals go who allude to suffering from a psychiatric disorder or illness. The social networks of this place They promise the feeling of being just another prisoner. For this reason, you are received by some waitresses, characterized as nurses, who handcuff you. To later ask you your blood group and guide you to your assigned medieval cell.
There they lock you up in a small space decorated with graffiti and painted with phrases like “help” or “oh my god”. Where you have to hit the bars of the cell with a metal pipe to call the waiters. They will give you a long menu listing everything this prison restaurant has to offer. in it you can enjoy a wide variety of meals ranging from pizzas and meats to salads and multitude of spicy varieties. Although, the most relevant, without any sweat, are the cocktails.
Traditional drinks that give a prison twist with names that leave no one indifferent, such as “Flu”, “Morphine” or “Mental Stabilizer”. Another thing that draws the attention of customers and differentiates it from other restaurants is that these distillates are They are accompanied by sex toys. Even if you don't have many illusions, the waitress removes it when serving you the glass. In addition, throughout the evening you will see actors and extras dressed as monsters or sick people. Factor that will keep you alert all dinner!
your last supper
A characteristic thing that does not go unnoticed related to prison it's the last supper. This is the last meal granted to those on death row. These are allowed to choose their favorite dish. As you are going to be able to do, if you go to the London restaurant The Penitentiary, Death Row Dinners. Also dubbed "London's Least Tasty" restaurant. And it is that, in this bar you will be able to taste a menu made up of the last five dinners of five penitentiaries. Although, the chefs will add their special touch to each recipe.
Not only that, but the restaurant wraps you in the theme of this last supper. According to what they say on their website, their visitors will have to "prepare to be charged, sentenced, registered for his night with 80 other inmates, behind the bars.” This restaurant, since its opening, has been surrounded by controversy. Well, many people see it as “inhumane”. Since they denounce this place of taking advantage and commercializing the death, pain and suffering of other people.
Adding more fuel to the matter, along with the offer of these last suppers, the image of who requested it appears and why of his conviction. To which the restaurant has responded by swearing that the objective idea is “to make the viewer identify with the prisoner through his request for food. I wanted the viewer to think of them as a person for a moment instead of them being anonymous.”
What do you think?
It is true that before seeking economic benefit, you have to think about people. However, it is clear that it would never have succeeded without the support and visits of the large number of people who come to live this experience. But to what extent does satisfying the curiosity of the public serve to excuse the lack of tact of this restaurant? That is why we like themed restaurants more like, for example, that of the medical prison. Well, in them all its participants are actors o fictional characters. If you had to choose a food… what would it be?
