Paris has welcomed its first naked restaurant

Thank goodness for napkins.

Paris restaurant O'Naturel invites diners to eat in the nude.

Paris restaurant O'naturel invites diners to eat in the nude. Source: Facebook/O'naturel

There's a new restaurant opened in Paris offering a no-frills dining experience. Well, not just no-frills, but also no shirts, no skirts, no trousers and no underwear.

O'naturel is Paris's first naturist restaurant, and is designed to appeal to existing naturist communities, as well as those who want to try eating and socialising naked.

Diners leave their clothes and belongings in a cloakroom but are given a napkin if they want to protect their modesty.

Once inside, only the restaurant staff are clothed. 

A heavy blackout curtain prevents passers-by from gazing in at diners in their birthday suits.
The restaurant, located in the "naturist centre of Paris in the 12th arrondissement", seats just 40 customers and serves a three-course meal from €49  (AUD $76).

On the restaurant's website, customer reviews praise its "respectful naturism" and "relaxed atmosphere". 

"A must for anyone who loves naturism and its values," writes Patrick M.

And the neighbours don't seem to mind the new addition to the arrondissement. 

"When we learned what was going to happen here, obviously it made us laugh. Especially since there is a nursery next door," Mehdi, who lives in an apartment above the restaurant, told Le Parisien.

"But it does not bother me at all, or my neighbours. We do not see anything from the street. We know what's happening. It's not a massage parlour."

It follows London's pop-up naked restaurant, The Bunyadi, which attracted thousands of diners in 2016.

The Bunyadi is currently seeking investors to make it a permanent fixture in the British capital.


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