A pop-up restaurant in London is serving gourmet fish from gorgeous tins in designer surroundings. Are you a fan of the can and would you pay someone to open it for you?
Weve had the silent restaurant, the restaurant for one and the cat cafe. Now a new restaurant has opened with no chef and no kitchen. It doesnt need either because it only sells tinned fish. Thats right, the stuff that Grandad ate with two slices of white bread and stewed tea. Or is it?
The perception of tinned food in the UK is different from how it is in other parts of the world, says Maximiliano Arrocet, one of the team behind Tincan. In his home country of Spain, for example, you can get gourmet food in a tin, and its not frowned upon. With the pop-up restaurant, which opened in Soho, London, this week, he aims to elevate the tin to an object of desire in the UK. The restaurants window displays beautiful cans from around the world; the kind you might buy on holiday as a souvenir and never open. These are collectible items, says Arrocet.
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