Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
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Geothermal Restaurant

First, find a volcano.
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There are no half measures at the Geothermal Restaurant. A chain of restaurants, high on mountaintops encircling the Pacific, GR offers diners an extraordinary experience.

Choose your food and it is sealed inside a Tungsten egg, then lowered into the hotter parts of the volcano, for a predetermined time. Just 40 seconds for a steak, medium rare then it is hauled out, blackened and smoking, with lava cooling to basalt on the surface, and cracked open for your delectation.

Washing up is a cinch: Just load the dishes into the catapult mounted on your table and fire them into a cauldron of molten rock.

UnaBubba, Jun 12 2006

Onsen tamago http://phototravel....travel_archive.html
scroll down or search for "making of onsen tamago". Your steak might smell kinda sulphurous... [proplrhed, Jun 14 2006]

here's a Volcano Stove! http://www.permapak.net/volcano.htm
[xandram, Jun 14 2006]

Mt Tambora http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Mount_Tambora
The Year Without A Summer. [UnaBubba, Jun 19 2006]

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       a bun for the washing-up idea
pertinax, Jun 12 2006
  

       there should be cauldrons of varying difficulty for those who desire a challenge.
tcarson, Jun 13 2006
  

       good for making tiger soup - First, catch your tiger..... +
xenzag, Jun 13 2006
  

       + I'll go for the view and maybe the mixed drinks can be served in ceramic volcanoes with beach umbrellas. (for the volcanic showers)
xandram, Jun 13 2006
  

       We need to find a way to introduce fondue into this idea somehow.
ed, Jun 13 2006
  

       True, but we'd have to call it fondon't, I think.
UnaBubba, Jun 13 2006
  

       // .. First, find a volcano   

       Why do I sense someone has this in the oven?
reensure, Jun 13 2006
  

       And your crockery will be fresh baked.
neelandan, Jun 14 2006
  

       this idea is ... hot.
benfrost, Jun 14 2006
  

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       "Poor Golem, it was just and onion ring." "Now let's go sell this thing on e-bay"   

       I hope this would be a no smoking restaurant UB. +
ConsulFlaminicus, Jun 14 2006
  

       2 Fries - That had me explode in the middle of a crowded office room.   

       Thanks
energy guy, Jun 14 2006
  

       Yep, no smoking, [CF]. Of course, there is that little problem of the deadly clouds of Hydrogen Sulphide and Sulphuric acid.
UnaBubba, Jun 14 2006
  

       Couldn't you just not serve Mexican food?
baconbrain, Jun 14 2006
  

       That's going to be difficult, especially at our outlets at Colima, El Chichón , Paricutin and Popocatépetl, I fear.
UnaBubba, Jun 14 2006
  

       Paricutin - roasted corn is our specialty.
baconbrain, Jun 14 2006
  

       You're welcome. It's what I live for.   

       could the plates be plate-sized pieces of obsidian chipped away in a single piece?   

       fire the plates back into the lava. dust unto dust.   

       this resturant would be ruler of all others. +
lolzcakes, Jun 14 2006
  

       That corn is getting stale, [bb]. It was 1942? 1943?, after all
UnaBubba, Jun 14 2006
  

       "Why does everything taste like rotten eggs?"
RayfordSteele, Jun 16 2006
  

       //That corn is getting stale, [bb]. It was 1942? 1943?, after all.// 1942 was a good year.   

       Hmm, if you set up a still using the volcano's heat, you could make corn whiskey, brandy from grapes grown on the volcano's slopes, or some mighty fiery tequila. Even do fire-brewed beer. And bottle it in volcano glass.   

       //"Why does everything taste like rotten eggs?"// Because it is hot cuisine.
baconbrain, Jun 17 2006
  

       [+] 40 seconds for a steak eh? How much for a whole cow?
kuupuuluu, Jun 18 2006
  

       Depends upon the type of piranha you use.
UnaBubba, Jun 18 2006
  

       Cows stuffed with piranha? Or the other way around?   

       Sounds like a good dish.
neelandan, Jun 18 2006
  

       Now that's a tandoor!
Fini, Jun 19 2006
  

       That would be Tambour (Tambora)? [link]
UnaBubba, Jun 19 2006
  
      
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