PARIS, France (AP) -- They tasted like tomatoes, but in the pitch black it was hard to tell. A couple at the next table was obviously struggling with eating blind, too.

"I don't know what it is," came a man's voice in the darkness.

"Oh! That's not good," his lady friend responded.

This is dining in the dark, the concept of a new restaurant in the City of Light that wants diners to know what it's like to be blind.

At "Dans le Noir" -- In the Dark -- it's not just that the lights are off and curtains closed. Diners sit in a room of inky blackness that the eyes never adjust to.

And that's the idea.

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