Gok Wan recently hosted the launch of an unusual dining concept: a restaurant without tables or plates where meals are served straight from the floor.
This multi-course gourmet experience, drawing inspiration from contemporary Asian cuisine, abandons conventional plates and serves dishes on a spotless vinyl surface right next to the diners’ feet.
The innovative eatery, FLOORS, has welcomed food lovers in Angel, Islington, London, offering them the opportunity to try a new dining experience.
The restaurant, brought to life by Bosch, aims to challenge preconceptions about eating off the floor by making it a key part of the meal.
The dishes are presented in protective casings made from natural, occasionally edible materials, artistically positioned directly on the floor.
The tasting menu boasts lychee ceviche served in a chilled oyster shell, lotus leaf steamed meats with black bean-peppered beef, duck and oyster mushroom with black sesame mochi cake, fuyu sour cream, and an edible rice paper receipt.
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Bosch created the restaurant after polling 2,000 adults and found that three quarters would turn their noses up at food that had fallen on the floor in a restaurant, a quarter would consider dining somewhere where food was served off the floor if they were sure it was completely clean.
A spokesperson from Bosch said: “This dining experience is all about pushing boundaries and reimagining what’s possible.
“With the right tools, even the floor can become the star of the dining experience. We’re excited to challenge perceptions and bring a new level of cleanliness to unexpected places.”
Over one in 10 people confessed they wouldn’t mind eating food off the floor on a dinner date, as long as it had been on the floor for longer than five seconds. However, most people were totally against the idea of doing this when dining out.
Meanwhile, four in ten of those surveyed believe their home floors are clean enough to eat from, but a more honest third were sceptical.
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Gok Wan who ‘loved hosting’ the event added his thoughts: “I’d eat most things off the floor – in five seconds – if I knew how clean the floor was, unless it was soup.
“Many of us wouldn’t eat food if it’s fallen on the floor, especially in a restaurant – but personally, I’m not that fussy.”
For the intrigued, there’s an opportunity to book this unique dining experience for themselves, available for one night only on Friday, May 9th.