Dining In The Dark Experience - Houston — Local services in Houston

This experience is absolutely not worth the price! Our first dining in the dark experience was at Blackout in Vegas, which was absolutely incredible, so we came in with high hopes! I booked it without reading (my mistake) because I thought they were the same company. I was super bummed to realize we were going to be using blindfolds. I hate the feeling of blindfolds, so it was irritating, and it kind of makes the experience pointless. You could literally just put a blindfold on at any restaurant. Don't come with an empty stomach because they don't serve the food until a while after you're seated. My boyfriend and I both got the green menu, the appetizer was fine, we both hated the main course and only ate a few bites. The desert wasn't great, and I was unable to eat it because I couldn't break it up (it wasn't supposed to be like this. I just got unlucky). Either the eye mask or the napkin had the smell of when you leave something in the washing machine for too long, which was really unpleasant. The drinks were also very expensive and very bitter. Apart from the food being disappointed it was very plain, I feel like part of the fun of these restaurants is guessing the food but using a food in it's normal form makes it much less fun and takes away from relying...

You’re definitely paying for the experience, not the food. Although the main entrées were excellent, the starter and the dessert were meh (at the price point, I would’ve avoided these two items). I also expected the food to be a little bit adventurous. If I were to do this again, I would want to go to a place that offered a more exciting menu, so that the experience of the food was as fun as the blindfolded experience. As far as the blind folded experience, it was fun, but I left a bit underwhelmed. There was very little hype involved, besides the expectation to keep your blindfold on or be called out. Honestly, the experience would be nearly the same if you went to any restaurant and wore a blindfold with the other people at your table. Price-wise, it was on the expensive side. The cheapest glass of wine was $12, with very limited options at this price point. The food would likely cost less than half the price at a comparable, non-blindfolded venue. Overall, if you’ve never done this before, you likely won’t have any buyer’s remorse, but I wouldn’t recommend going more than once to this particular venue. I’m pleased we went, but I likely...

This was really disappointing. All in, we paid about $240 for two adults eating dinner and having one drink each and found the food to be mediocre at best (we enjoyed our appetizer, dessert was just okay) and awful at worst (the main course was like chewing on a tire... 0/10).

The thoroughly underwhelming food could have been forgiven if the experience had made up for it, but you could really replicate this experience by just going to any restaurant and wearing a blindfold. You're seated with the lights on, then you put a blindfold on and they bring all 3 courses out in pretty quick succession. At the end, they tell you what you ate. There's not really any presentation at all before or between courses.

Overall, I found this a wildly overpriced, totally underwhelming experience. If you're wondering why reviews are so good, it's because they talk about competing with another Dining in the Dark event in a different city and put some pressure on you to leave a positive review to help them "win." I found that...