The Jaffa building was leased from the Armenian Church for a 10-year period, and renovations began in December 2006. The idea grew to encompass not only a home for the troupe, but also a restaurant staffed by blind waiters and a café employing deaf waiters. The theater company had been performing in Israel and around the world for several years when the group felt it needed a home for its activities. The center was founded by the non-profit organization Na Lagaat, and opened in early December 2007, focusing on the Na Lagaat Theater Company, a 12-member troupe of actors and actresses who are all both deaf and blind. The visitors are seated, and dine in complete darkness. The blind waiters and waitresses then greet the visitors in the dimly-lit restaurant vestibule, and lead them into the pitch-dark restaurant. The hostess takes patrons' food orders in the lighted bar area outside the restaurant, and transmits the orders to the kitchen. The restaurant is kosher, serves dairy food and fish, and operates in complete darkness. It is part of the new Na Lagaat ("Please Do Touch") center located in the old Jaffa port.
Ofri, the hostess at Jaffa's Blackout Restaurantīlackout is the only restaurant in Israel in which the waiters are blind or sight-impaired. If you want salt or pepper, or a soft drink or wine, or feel scared, or need to use the toilet, please ask your waiter or waitress." We ask you not to get up, not to walk around, so as not to interrupt the waiters' work. The waiter or waitress who will join you shortly will accompany you throughout the meal.
This includes cellular phones, watches that light in the dark, etc. Please leave anything that might create any sort of light outside the restaurant, in our specially provided lockers. In this darkness, you cannot see a thing. "You are about to enter a different type of darkness, complete darkness. NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m)
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