Appliance manufacturer Bosch has announced what is surely one of the most bizarre restaurant pop-ups in recent memory with FLOORS - a concept restaurant where guests will eat an entire meal off the floor.
Open for one night only on Friday 9 May, FLOORS will dish up a pretty elaborate tasting menu, with not a single plate, bowl or chair to be seen. You will sit on the floor and eat from the floor. If that wasn’t odd enough, the pop-up is being run by none other than TV stylist Gok Wan, who presumably will be patrolling the room making sure no-one has snuck in a bowl into this mid-noughties fever dream.
But why, you may ask? Well, according to Bosch’s own research, 43% of Brits follow the ‘five second rule’ when it comes to dropping food on the floor. Bosch is using that to show that its latest cutting edge cleaning tech leaves floors so spotless, you can literally eat off them. Guests will even get to clean up after themselves by spinning around with one of Bosch’s brand new hoovers after the meal.
Example dishes include lychee ceviche in a chilled oyster shell, miso salt-baked vegetables served with charcoal flatbread and a trio of compound butters, lotus leaf steamed meats with oyster mushrooms, and a black sesame mochi cake with fuyu sour cream.
Talking more about the pop-up, Gok Wan says: ‘Our survey shows that dropped food doesn’t have to mean wasted food, but it all depends on where it lands and how clean your floor is. We’ve all had that moment where something delicious slips through our fingers, and sometimes, it’s just too good to let go. With Bosch’s Unlimited 10 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner, you could stop relying on the five-second rule, knowing your floors are spotless.’
Fancy giving it a try? FLOORS is only running for one evening on 9 May, and tickets will cost you just £10, with all the money going to charity.
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