The website offers to combine traditional Brazilian cuisine with that of the Wari culture, an indigenous South American people who practiced mortuary cannibalism as a form of utmost respect to those who have passed.
The restaurant website lists dishes such as “Variety of meat traditionally with black beans and rice” and “potato dumplings with meat filling”. The website is non-specific as to the nature of the meat. The winelist is also absent from the website, so it's unknown if they serve a good Chianti.
However, visitors to the site are also invited to become “members” of Flimé. To become a member, it is necessary to fill out a medical questionnaire that ends with the small print: “Members of the FLIMÉ agree to donate an arbitrary part of their body to the FLIMÉ. The exact bodypart is chosen by the member. FLIMÉ only takes over the costs for hospitalization. The member has no claim for payment, beyond than that. The designated use of the donated bodypart, is free to FLIMÉ .”
The German language section of the website also says there is a position open for a “aufgeschlossenen Chirurg” or “open-minded Surgeon”
Vice-Chairman of Berlin's Christian Democrat Party, Michael Braun, said he received several complaints about the restaurant, but was so far unable to get to find out who was behind what he described as "a stunt".
"I'm working on the assumption that this is some sort of a warped joke," Braun said.
You can see the Flimé restaurant, and decide if you want to become a member, here.
Edited by Ian Armitage
The restaurant website lists dishes such as “Variety of meat traditionally with black beans and rice” and “potato dumplings with meat filling”. The website is non-specific as to the nature of the meat. The winelist is also absent from the website, so it's unknown if they serve a good Chianti.
However, visitors to the site are also invited to become “members” of Flimé. To become a member, it is necessary to fill out a medical questionnaire that ends with the small print: “Members of the FLIMÉ agree to donate an arbitrary part of their body to the FLIMÉ. The exact bodypart is chosen by the member. FLIMÉ only takes over the costs for hospitalization. The member has no claim for payment, beyond than that. The designated use of the donated bodypart, is free to FLIMÉ .”
The German language section of the website also says there is a position open for a “aufgeschlossenen Chirurg” or “open-minded Surgeon”
Vice-Chairman of Berlin's Christian Democrat Party, Michael Braun, said he received several complaints about the restaurant, but was so far unable to get to find out who was behind what he described as "a stunt".
"I'm working on the assumption that this is some sort of a warped joke," Braun said.
You can see the Flimé restaurant, and decide if you want to become a member, here.
Edited by Ian Armitage