People are excluded at this restaurant

We think it’s perfectly normal that you can’t enter every restaurant wearing sweatpants and flip-flops. But this restaurant takes things a big step further.

Too long, blonde hair, small feet: at the new Amsterdam restaurant Buitensluiting, they determine whether or not you will be served based on your appearance. Yes, really! Every day, a spinning wheel is used to randomly determine which guests are and aren’t allowed to dine.

Disability

The discriminatory restaurant is an initiative of the Liliane Fonds and marketing agency Tosti Creative. They want people to experience what it is like to be excluded. For more than 30 million children around the world, this is a daily reality: because of their disability, they cannot or are not allowed to go to school.

Water and bread

Has the spinning wheel determined that you’re the unlucky one that day? You may join your friends at the table, but you won’t be served and will receive only water and bread. Everyone else tucks into a Dutch/African three-course menu put together by Miljuschka Witzenhausen, full of ‘forgotten vegetables’ and ‘misfits’.

Pay what you want

The pop-up restaurant is located in the NewWerktheater at Oostenburgergracht 75 and is open on 7, 8 and 9 February from 19:00 to 23:00. A ‘pay-what-you-want’ principle applies. At the end of the evening, guests can decide for themselves how much they want to pay. Reservations can be made via www.restaurantbuitensluiting.nl.