They’re every describing the Atmos Immersive Dining, a brand new eating idea thought of by its founders to be the world’s first — and solely — totally immersive restaurant.
For the previous ten months, the reservation-only restaurant has grown by phrase of mouth by way of social media, with varied cameos on TikTook and 15,000 Instagram followers since its January debut.
An night with Atmos begins on the restaurant’s secret entrance inside Fort Lauderdale’s Sistrunk Marketplace. Before the personal night begins, a welcome host affords company a glass of bubbly and an amuse-bouche. From there, company are dropped at a personal eating room and seated at a communal eating desk, the partitions and even the desk itself doubling as an immersive theater display.
The expertise involves life due to the usage of 360-degree projection mapping know-how, Atmos’ proprietary audio-visual narration, and a chef-driven, prix fixe pairing menu aimed toward providing diners a feast for all of the senses.
Atmos cofounders Tommy Catolico Pires (left) and Adrian Vargas (proper) and hospitality veteran/associate Michelle Soudry (heart) seated at their Fort Lauderdale pop-up eating room.
Photo courtesy of Atmos Immersive Dining
According to the Atmos group — South Florida audio/visible knowledgeable Adrian Vargas, chef/hospitality veteran Tommy Catolico Pires, and hospitality publicist and associate Michelle Soudry — Atmos is the primary restaurant within the U.S. to supply such a uniquely immersive expertise.
Today, the trio says their purpose is to pioneer a brand new class for eating leisure.
In January, they launched the primary South Florida Atmos location as a pop-up inside Sistrunk Marketplace.
Steve D’Apuzzo tells New Times Atmos was the proper match for his meals corridor imaginative and prescient.
“We noticed a chance to take the area beforehand constructed for the Collective and create one thing, particularly for Atmos,” says D’Apuzzo. “They actually are forward of the curve. It’s thrilling to see one thing like Atmos get its begin in South Florida. For us, it is yet one more success story for an incubator idea.”
The 800-square-foot area features a lobby-style ready space and 14-seat eating room the place company can expertise Atmos’ “Passport to Europe,” a six-course pairing dinner meant to move company to a few of Europe’s most basic locations by way of a two-hour visible and auditory voyage.
As diners expertise the rolling hills of Italy or fly over the waterside surroundings of Greece, the journey is ready to the tunes of varied native songs and academic narration as movies stream throughout the partitions and eating tables. All the whereas, servers current diners with dishes and wine representing every nation.
“We need folks to overlook the place they’re for 90 minutes,” says Vargas.
For now, the theme features a seafood-heavy menu consultant of Europe’s coastal cities, however on November 10, Atmos will launch “Passport to South America,” with dishes that provide a culinary exploration of nations like Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Venezuela. Early subsequent 12 months, a “Passport East Asia” will current an identical expertise for international locations like Japan, China, and Korea.
Guests could make reservations for a two-hour dinner or go for the newly launched weekend brunch, a modified “Passport to Europe” menu with breakfast and lunch-themed dishes paired with bottomless mimosas.
Atmos diners can also contact the group to customise the audio-visual journey for personal dinners to have fun birthdays, anniversaries, and different particular occasions. To date, Soudry lists rappers CeeLo and Ace Hood, TV present host Nick Cannon, and Miami Dolphins’ John Jenkins to have hosted personal dinners within the area.
Currently, Boca Raton-based Atmos is in growth mode and is trying to open a number of pop-ups and brick-and-mortar areas. Plans are to develop throughout South Florida, in addition to main cities throughout the U.S. and globally, with pop-ups in luxurious inns and revolutionary venue areas.
“In South Florida, we thrive on eating and going out as a part of our tradition,” sums up Soudry. “We’re redefining your night time out expertise, taking you on an audio-visual culinary journey in an intimate communal eating area that is way more revolutionary and memorable than a standard, one-dimensional restaurant.”
Atmos Immersive Dining. 115 NW Sixth St., Fort Lauderdale; atmosdining.com. Wednesday by Friday 5 to 11 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 11:45 a.m.