“CAFE: Ke'ilu (“Cafe Make
* Believe” opened in a trendy
section of Tel Aviv last month
with rbles, chairs, plates, sil-
“verware, menus and servers,
but no food or drink.
‘Explained. manager. Nir
Caspi. “who calls”. the experi-
“ence: “conceptual dining”),
-people come to be scen and
to. meet people bur nor for
‘the actual food. :
<The menu, designed by
Op-rated : chef (and: owner)
‘Phillipe: Kaufman, ‘lets diners
order. some:-of the world’s

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‘ates, if in'season), “served” on
‘elegant (but empty) Platters.

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pursuc 2 pair of leather gloves
he had recently seen the
woman wear.

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The Guardian newspaper
reported recently on the
enormous television audi-
ences in Brazil watching the
nightly, Jerry Springer-like
show “Ratinho’ Livre”

(roughly, “The
Unleashed”).
Among recent interviewees
were patients with horrible
medical conditions begging
for otherwisc-unaffordable
treatment (e.g., cight-year-old
boy with 21 tamors in his
mouth); a woman whose eves
were skewered and cars
lopped off in a domestic fight

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but whose husband was still
on the Jam; and an equally
unpopular husband and wife,

‘whom the audicace urged to

assauit one another.
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In Tokyo, the trendy

Alcatraz BC _ restaurant,
themed after the California

Spring

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heck your appetite at cafe’s too!

prison, in) which diners are
handcuffed, cat in cells, and
must beg permission from the
guards to be allowed out to
visit the restroom. -

And in London, a pill-

themed restaurant called ‘The .-

Pharmacy (designed: by edgy
artist Damien Hirst), with pre-
scription containers every-
where, barstool seats resem-

bling aspirins, and stat? dressed
as surgeons. (“The challenge,” ;
said co-owner® © Joasthan
Kennedy, “was how far you
cat ZO before it becomes too
much.”) And in’ Singapore, °
the House of Mao, an other-
sise-upscale.. Chinese - restau-
rant but with green-t “uniformed S
staff and_ pictures gaiore “of
Mao Tse-tung. :