A restaurant where jailers take food order, prisoners serve the food

While, all of us would have experience typical jail life virtually in movies or TV shows, but there is still a part of it that we could experience in real life. Well, at least the food bit.

At a restaurant in Chennai, diners willing to have taste of prison food are given a warm welcome and due hospitality by the wait staff who are none other than the ‘jailers’!
We are referring to Kaidi Kitchen, a jail-themed restaurant at Mylapore in Chennai that offers the ambiance of a jail where food is served. This restaurant was started by three enterprising friends in the year 2012 to tap on the fine-dining-loving market. Unlike most Chennai-based restos, Kaidi Kitchen took a break from the usual Idli-Sambar-Vada-Dosa stuff, and focused instead on serving Mexican, Italian, North Indian and Mongolian cuisine – all vegetarian fare.

The entrance of the restaurant is a large jail gate, and the interiors comprise eight air-conditioned prison cells outfitted with dining tables and chairs! Objects like handcuffs, huge locks on the doors of the prison cells, red lights and the works are fixed at due places to give an authentic look to this ‘jail’.
An amusing aspect of this restaurant is the neatly-dressed jailers who speak politely and take up the orders from the customers. Later, the food is served by the genteel prisoners who are actually the in-house service staff.
If the décor and the staff are interesting enough, the food doesn’t fail either. Already, the food has become a hit among the locals who thrive on the traditional Tamilian fare in day to day life.

What else, the food is in all likelihood is not cooked in aluminium utensils which is a huge plus!

Going by the positive response this restaurant has received from the public, the owners have already opened another brand in Kolkata. And, there are more branches coming up soon in other Indian cities.