MedicalToys.com Spring 2009 Newsletter

Medical Fetish Theme Restaurants

So... you thought you were all alone with your medical fetish? Or maybe you found us, here at Medical Toys and thought, "Okay, I guess I'm not alone... but..." so you believed you discovered a few more like-souls. But wait! Take a look here at how far and wide our medical fetish influence has traveled... around the world and directly into gastronomy!

Hospitalis - Latvia

If Latvia is not on your Medical Fetish radar screen... dial it in now! In the beautiful capital city of Riga, now offers a restaurant and bar featuring a decor of sparkling chrome, glass and red & white named “Hospitalis“.

The name says it all... this place is a medical fetishist's dream come true! The wait staff are "nurses" dressed in crisp white cotton uniforms, donning their caps and red wigs (gee, I wonder why they like red haired nurses? <blush>) and horn-rimmed glasses. The bartenders are "Doctors" serving up whatever ails you cure alls, in the form of a cocktail (yes, they even have "Sex on the Beach, and we know what that's good for curing!) or beer or a wine and champagne list to envy the Napa Valleyites.

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The creation of this unique, highly stylized, yet gourmet quality dining fantasy, involved a number of their local hospitals and the Latvian National History Museum. Much of the interior is donated from authentic, mostly Soviet-institutional furnishings and medical devices carefully restored. attributes of various treatments, which experienced a proper restoration. Calling in some new blood Latvian artisans, Zane Tetere and Guntars Gravina, helped finish the high-end look and feel. Everyone involved in the project managed to pull off the fine balance between "physician's self-ironic dark humor" and a top-class restaurant from the interior design to the menu. The entire establishment is owned by local doctors. Actually, the president of Latvia is also a doctor, but he, unfortunately, declined to appear at the grand opening, when he discovered how "unusual" this place actually is.

The drinks and food are served in flasks, beakers and operating-room trays as dishes. The prices are equivalent to the haute-cuisine served at $LAT 7.00 (approx. $US15.00 per meal), and it truly is worth every LAT to be able to experience this! http://www.hospitalis.lv/eng/edienkarte.php

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The Clinic -Singapore

The Clinic in Singapore is another Medical Fetishist's wet dream! It is fine dining, bar and nightclub with a medical chic design mixed by the master of elegant eccentricity architect and artist Damien Hirst, with his attention to details such as syringes, drips, test tubes and other medical paraphernalia in the decor and eating and drinking accouterments.

Spanning over 15,000 sq. ft. of space, The Clinic resembles an organized maze with pill shaped rooms interlocking into one another for easy access. The Clinic has two floors. On the first floor, there are a number of bars, a dance club, and a merchandise store. They have a drink called "Sex on the Drip"

Upstairs, The Clinic offers a dining experience like no other. Dine from kidney shaped surgical pans, and drink through test tubes. The haute-cuisine, avant garde menu is second to none and very well suited to the surroundings.

Shibuya Medical Prison - Alcatraz ER - Japan

Shibuya, Japan is one of Tokyo's "wards" (appropriate name for it, now!) which harbors the fashion and night-life scene for Tokyo. What a better location for this truly bizarre medical theme restaurant, “Alcatraz ER” also known as the “Shibuya Medical Prison.”

It's a mix of a prison hospital (Alcatraz) meets Middle Ages dungeon and yes, it is a restaurant! According to a blog from actual attendees, upon arrival, you have to state your blood-type to enter, which is recorded and then you are handcuffed by nurse-outfitted cuties who lead you to your “cell”- a dingy room resembling a medieval dungeon, for your dining room.

Cocktails (there's one that resembles a cock in a beaker!) with names like “Influenza” and "Acute Mental Stabilizer” are served in test tubes, or you can even drink from a hospital I.V. drip or a beer in a plastic urinal. Meals are delivered in metal operating trays.

Dinners are occasionally interrupted to an "escaped lunatic" in a Jason mask, who runs around the place, terrorizing customers.

Birthdays are a big deal and unsuspecting celebrants receive "treatments"... and the treatment can depend on the mood of the "doctor" or "nurse" administering it. An over-the-knee fake injection with a giant fake syringe, or being laid out on a operating table being force fed...

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