Linguistic Restaurant

This probably doesn’t apply so much to the Americans, Australians and the other nationalities represented here, but we British at least, are food leeches. We assimilate foods from other nationalities into our diet without a second thought. Chinese food, Indian food, Italian food, Mexican food and all the others are evident by walking down the average high street. But do we really know much about the cultures that give us these foods?

This is a restaurant where after being seated and placing your (considerably overpriced) meal, a person comes to your table. They will then spend the time until your food arrives, teaching you the language of the country whose food you are to consume. You learn at your own pace or at the pace of the slowest participant at your table. There is no requirement to participate, and if nobody feels like learning, you can politely ask the teacher to stop. Of course, this wouldn’t make much sense as you would have already been charged the extra prices to factor in the teacher’s wages. With a few repeat trips, soon you will be ordering food in its native tongue with no difficulty.

I envision this as being a series of themed restaurants; however it could be amalgamated into one big “World Restaurant” (linked).