If you want to see chip-eating ballerinas and twerking puppets, Las Vegas has the restaurant for you (via EaterVegas)
The events of a recent meal at Spiegelworld’s hot new restaurant, Superfrico, included but were not limited to: a man in cut-off denim shorts playing the saxophone to Beyonce’s “Love on Top” while standing on a table; a ballerina pirouetting en pointe through the dining room as she munched from a bag of Lay’s; and a contortionist quietly twisting herself into a human pretzel while a nearby diner pulled slices from a wood-fired pizza, seeming not to notice.
Calcutt says that when she was approached about working on the project, the concept was pretty amorphous. To build the experience, which had been broadly defined to her as an “interactive experience that connected Opium and the restaurant, but definitely wasn’t dinner theater” Calcutt and about a dozen cast members from Opium hid out for two weeks in the summer of 2021 in a house they lovingly referred to as the clown house.
The connection and integration with the dining room is the difference between dinner theater and whatever Superfrico really is. Rather than the dining room reacting to the acts, the acts react to the dining room. The effect is an experience that seems to naturally ebb and flow the way a great party does.
The room is read, or at least led, by stage managers who also serve as hosts on the floor of the restaurant. On any given night, one or both of them is behind the scenes, on a headset, making sure that, say, if the robot is spending time with a rambunctious table at Superfrico, he won’t miss his cue to be back on stage at Opium. “With Opium, there’s a pretty specific show order,” Calcutt explains. “With Superfrico, it’s a little looser.
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