World’s Weirdest Restaurants

Special for Food Network

Bob Blumer is the creator and host of award winning shows “Glutton for Punishment” and “Surreal Gourmet”. In his new show the “World’s Weirdest Restaurants” Bob circles the globe in his quest to find the weird and wackiest off-the-wall eateries, crazy characters and extreme cuisine. Every episode is a collage of 4 different restaurants from different parts of the world so you get a taste of completely different styles of weird restaurants from all over the place in one episode, it’s pretty fast paced and rockem sockem.

Eating out used to be all about the food on offer, but as diners get more demanding it isn’t enough for restaurants just to create tasty menus. Competing for customers today means offering a whole eating experience including eye-catching entertainment, one-off cocktails and OTT themes — meaning and wacky restaurant trends are becoming the norm. Want your chicken flambéed, hurled through the air on a catapult, then skewered mid-flight by a unicycle-riding server? Or your sushi served to you by a dancing robot? Would you like to eat the bust of a Ukrainian soldier, sculpted from a pound of pure pig fat? Bob Blumer experiences all this and more as he returns to host this crowd-pleasing series in which each episode showcases four of the world’s most jaw-dropping, show-stopping, taste-topping restaurants.

A pub where monkeys serve you? A place where ninja waiters threaten to pounce on you at any moment? On World’s Weirdest Restaurants, that’s just another night out! There are all different kinds of ‘weird’ and Bob is on a mission to explore the full range, whether it is an eclectic environment, an eccentric food focus, or a unique, high-concept theme restaurant. Bob has spent a lifetime exploring the outer limits of the food world, but — as you’ll discover — there are still surprises out there.

“I’ve definitely eaten at some crazy places in my life, but nothing compares to what viewers are going to see in this new series”, — says Bob. World’s Weirdest Restaurants he has tracked down some of the craziest dining destinations eating his way through a selection of eccentric and extraordinary dishes.