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Underground Naked Sushi Comes To London For A Season

August 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM | by | Comments (0)

With this week's news that Britain is on the cusp of economic recovery, it's inevitable that luxury dining will again emerge as part of the London dining landscape. Indeed two British entrepreneurs have opened up Flash Sushi, a dining experience where for 250 GBP per person ($410), tables of 12-24 diners enjoy the highest of high-end sushi.

The additional catch: Flash Sushi serves meals in the style of a traditional Japanese Nyotaimori restaurant, where the sushi is presented on and eaten off a naked woman.

Consider this another in our ongoing series of naked sushi columns, wherein we try to suppress the incessant pull of hygiene long enough to understand why people would drop incredible amounts of cash to eat raw fish off a human being.

Nyotaimori actually means "female body presentation." It's a venerated Japanese practice and the owners emphasize the authenticity of Flash Sushi's traditional presentation, incredible sushi, and mind-bending prices. The dinners don't even take place in a set restaurant. Instead the ultra-secret location is rotated for every event, changing from mansions to warehouses and back. The whole thing will close up shop in March 2010.

The owners insist that "there's equal opportunity" and that they don't discriminate against any type of girl. The only requirement is that she "have good skin" and, umm, be "basically beautiful." They also admit that the the dining experience won't be for everybody, but rather only for "high net worth individuals." High net worth individuals like Brad Pitt and George Clooney, both of whom have apparently indulged in a growing "underground" US-based Nyotaimori movement.

Think they'll approve our application to dine? You know how much we love underground food movements.

[Photo: Kerry Smith / Wiki Commons]

Related Stories:
· Londoners offered chance to eat sushi off naked models [Telegraph.co.uk]
· London Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

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