Sol y Sombra Tapas Bar & Restaurant in association with Torres Wines & Findlaters will host a fun ‘Dine in the Dark’ evening on Wednesday 29 April at 7.30pm. Diners will be shown to their dimly-lit table, blindfolded and presented with a 4-course tapas tasting meal, along with accompanying wines.
Did you know that we gain 55% of all the information we process by what we see? The rest of the senses account for 45% of that knowledge: hearing 18%, smell 12%, touch 10%, while the flavour left behind by something, the aftertaste, accounts for just 5% of that information. The Torres Blind Dinner aims to emphasise and reactivate those senses that normally remain locked in the background of our experiences.
The absence of vision principally opens our sense of taste (concentrated mainly around the balance of flavours), sound (the silence, or conversely the creak of the table, or pepper being grinded) and touch (the structure of the food itself, and the way it is presented). All this combined creates a fountain of new sensations, while the wine, and its relation to gastronomy acquires a whole new significance and importance.
Head Chef Jose Barrera says, “While we regularly hold blind wine events in the restaurant it will be our first blind food event and so we are very excited by the culinary challenge but also the fun side of the event. Without giving the game away we have carefully designed a 4 course tapas menu that focuses on texture, taste and smell."
The accompanying wines are an important part of the experience – Torres have carefully selected a wine match to each course. Wine, in particular, takes on a new dimension without the use of sight, as we rely so much on our eyes: would we confidently distinguish between a red and a white wine blindfolded? Even the best sommeliers has been tricked into believing red is white and vice-versa.
Tickets for this event are €45 per person, which includes dinner with wine. The evening starts at 7.30pm. 50% of the proceeds on the night go towards Sightsavers Ireland. Space is limited. Booking essential.
Please contact 066 9762347 or email info@solysombra.ie
