Diners Broughty Ferry will attempt to eat a four-course meal while blindfolded next week, all in the name of charity.
Gracie’s in Brook Street is hosting a special Dinner in the Dark to help raise vital funds for the Guide Dogs Association.
Owner Phil Donaldson has teamed up with Brian Cunningham from the charity’s Dundee fundraising branch and agreed to cook up a surprise Christmas tapas menu on Tuesday night.
While the blindfold experience is meant to be fun and is guaranteed to get messy, Brian said there is a serious side to the night.
“We take eating as a normal activity but if you’re blind it can be quite a challenge,” he said.
“Diners are eating the meal blindfolded and they will be quizzed after about what they think they just ate.”
The evening will kick off with Sparky the magician, whose wife is blind, performing table magic for diners before they don their blindfolds and try to decipher just what they are eating.
“Then there’s a raffle with donations from the traders in Broughty Ferry,” Brian said.“The final event of the evening is a slave auction.
“People have kindly donated their services so the magician is offering to be booked for a dinner party, there’s a handyman, an IT specialist, I’m a car valeter and there’s a dog boarder as well.”
Phil’s staff are keen to get in on the action too.
He said: “Aaron, our head chef, is putting himself up to hire a chef for the evening and one of our evening guys is putting himself up for a butler in the buff.
“This is our first event like this, though we have done a few charity nights. With the Guide Dogs being just down the road, it’s good for us to support them.”
Brian added: “Guide Dogs is a huge organisation. There’s something like 1,000 staff but 10,000 volunteers who raise funds to keep the whole thing going.”
The event starts at 7pm and tickets are priced £25.