Japan’s new naked restaurant

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A‘naked’ restaurant is opening up in Japan next month, hot on the heels of similar venture in London and Melbourne.

Unlike its English and Australian equivalents, the Amarita in Tokyo won’t permit diners to be completely uncovered – instead they’ll be provided with paper underpants, while staff will wear g-strings.

It also has a strict door police.RocketNews24 reports that diners will only be allowed in if they’re aged between 18 and 60, and if they're free of tattoos.

Its website states that anyone more than 15 kilograms over 'average body weight' will be prohibited from entering.
The Amarita website (via Google Translate)


For its opening event the Amarita is advertising an “Adam and Eve” style banquet. RocketNews24 says: “Along with the delights of an organic menu, diners will be able to feast their eyes on a ‘Men’s Show’ dance performance on stage featuring only the best of the best American and European male models.”

Tickets for the dinner and show event, priced between 12,000 and 80,000 yen (£78 and £520), are sold out, with dinner-only reservations still available at between 14,000 yen and 28,000 yen (£90 and £180).

The venue opens its doors on 29 July – but it’s currently unclear whether it’ll be a short-term pop-up affair or a regular feature of the Tokyo dining scene.

London’s naked restaurant, the Bunyadi, opens this month and has a waiting list in excess of 45,000.
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Diners there will be encouraged to disrobe and “experience true liberation” while tucking into a tasting menu. On arrival, customers will be escorted to a changing room, asked to place their clothes and belongings in lockers and given a light gown.

"Minimally clothed" serving staff will wait on tables, offering a menu which will include grilled meats as well as vegan options, all cooked on a wood fire and served on handmade clay crockery.

According to the masterminds behind the restaurant, the “Pangaea-like” enterprise seeks to free guests from the “trappings of the industrialised-world”. Mobile phones and photographs will be banned.

The Bunyadi - a Hindi term meaning 'fundamental', 'base' or 'natural' - is the latest creation from Lollipop, the company behind Shoreditch's Breaking Bad cocktail bar, ABQ London.


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