by Duncan Forgan
Eating out should always be an experience. Yet while the food is generally the star attraction at most decent restaurants, other venues are more memorable for factors other than their bill of fare.
Some might deem them gimmicky. We prefer to use the term "theatrical."
1. Hobbit House: Manila, Philippines
They're not big, but it is clever.
Is it really OK to refer to a dwarf as a Hobbit? Well, it was certainly more acceptable to do so in the early 1970s when Jim Turner, a former college professor and Peace Corps volunteer, not to mention a complete Tolkein geek, opened this long-standing Manila favorite.
Staffed entirely by Filipino dwarfs, the restaurant proudly proclaims it employs "the smallest waiters in the world."
Diners of a sensitive bent might balk at the political incorrectness of it all, but the waiters are of an indisputably sunny disposition. Meanwhile, Turner?s masterful brainwave has had global implications with a similar restaurant -- Dwarves of the East (without the Middle Earth overtones) having opened in Cairo, Egypt.
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