What is it with oddly-themed restaurants nowadays? Continuing with this running trend of oddly-themed (and ill-advised) restaurants in Cairo, we bring you Garemt Akl (Food Crimes) — a prison-themed restaurant. With the venue decorated as a prison cell (including prisoner graffiti) and a cafeteria-style seating, restaurant owner Ahmed Hamad tells Al Monitor that he wanted something “new and interesting.”

After the organ-trafficking looking restaurant, we have to ask: Is it that market research demonstrated we want to eat meal in the most stressed out and creepy environments? Or is has the restaurant market been so saturated that these are only themes available? Freud would have a field day in either case, but our verdict is clear: The only crime here is the concept.

Tags: