London To Open First Batman-Themed Restaurant

Fully immersive experiences have become increasingly more popular throughout the entertainment industry, from the advent of “mystery dinner theater” to the explosion of team-oriented escape rooms, to more extensive creations like The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios, as well as next year’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser resort.

Now, specialty food and beverage operator Wonderland Restaurants is looking to break into that market by “creating experiential concepts that leverage off the back off global family entertainment [intellectual properties].” The company’s inaugural project, set to debut later this year in the Soho area of Westminster in the West End of London, will be “a huge, multi-faceted restaurant inspired by” both the DC universe and Batman that will fill the basement of an art deco building that was once occupied by a Titanic-themed restaurant run by seminal celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.

Named Park Row, the 18,000 square-foot location is set to feature five restaurants, including: British eatery Pennyworth’s, named after the family of the Wayne’s butler; international cuisine and live entertainment venue of The Penguin’s Iceberg Lounge; the “villainous speakeasy” Old Gotham City; an omakase restaurant in which diners give full control of their culinary journey to their chef, themed after Harley Quinn; and the upscale establishment The Monarch Theatre, which will utilize “projection mapping technology said to explore the psychology of heroism through food.”

 

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