10 Extraordinary Restaurants Where Eating Isn't the Main Attraction

In most restaurants around the world, the food is the main attraction. After all, that's what you go there for.

Aha, if you think that eating out only involves food then you have clearly never been to one of these weird restaurants, where earthquakes, toilet bowls, and cats are among the top attractions.

10. Ithaa Underwater Restaurant - The Maldives

If you have never tried eating underwater then, hey, maybe it´s time to do so. Randali Island Resort in The Maldives offers you the chance to eat fish while surrounded by fish. It looks spectacular and has seating for 14 diners.

9. Dinner in the Sky - Various Locations

The chance of mixing dining pleasure with a severe case of vertigo is something you may currently be lacking in your life. If so, you want to head over to Dinner in the Sky. A crane hoists the lucky diners 160 feet into the air while they enjoy a spectacular meal. The craze started in Europe and has now become popular in other parts of the world too.

8. The Calico Cat Cafe - Japan

If you love cats and you love drinking coffee then you want to get your butt over to Tokyo. The Calico Cat Cafe is a feline-filled place where diners are met with a darkened atmosphere and, well, cats. Lots of cats. No, we don´t know why either.

7. Modern Toilet - Thailand

The idea of sitting in a public toilet and getting served food on toilet-related objects is pretty exciting, isn´t it? What do you mean, no? The chocolate ice/cream comes especially recommended for those people who want to live life on the edge. You might even start eating your meals in the smallest room in the house after experiencing this strange restaurant.

6. Devil Island Prison Restaurant - China

Handcuffs and prison bars aren´t normally things we think of when considering going out for a pleasant meal. However, Devil Island Prison Restaurant in China gives you the chance to sample life behind bars while eating your dinner. Will you dig a tunnel out to avoid paying your bill, in a cheap skate version of The Shawshank Redemption? We hope not.

5. Heart Attack Grill - USA

If you are going to suffer a heart attack because you munched on one giant burger too many it might as well be in a weird restaurant in Las Vegas, we suppose. Heart Attack Grill has a hospital theme and waitresses dressed as nurses serve giant burgers that will raise your cholesterol just by looking at them.

4. Twin Stars Diner - Russia

You´ll be seeing double if you ever go to this restaurant in Moscow. Everyone who works here has an identical twin who dresses the same and also works in the place, even the chefs. It is a hip, 24-hour eating joint, and the only problem has apparently been the difficulty faced in finding enough pairs of twins to fully staff it.

3. Disaster Cafe - Spain

The idea of having a nice Spanish meal just wouldn't be the same without a simulated natural disaster, would it? Disaster Cafe in Lloret de Mar gives you good food with added earthquakes. It also promises an underground thunderstorm and strange beings if that wasn´t enough to get you interested. For those of a seismological persuasion, it is a 7.8 earthquake that will slop your soup around in this wacky restaurant.

2. Refuge Des Fondus - France

If you want fondue in Paris then this is the joint to head to. Hang on though; what´s so strange about that? Well, the weird stuff starts when you order your wine. You see, they serve it in baby´s bottles here. Apparently, it has more to do with avoiding glass taxes than with strange fetishes, although you might find that you get a taste for drinking like a baby.

1. A380 In-Flight Kitchen - Taiwan

Do you love eating food on flights? In fact, would you say that you love it so much that you are tempted to fly around the world to enjoy the sensation of opening those little boxes and trying to avoid knocking over your tray during bouts of turbulence? in that case, the A380 In-Flight Kitchen could be perfect for you. Here you will eat as though you were flying high in the sky with flight attendants and other passengers.