D&D General Dungeons & Dragons immersive fantasy restaurant, amusement experience proposed for Lake Geneva

[Oofta]

Theme restaurants in similar places have done well, this isn't a first. It's got potential.

My favorite is Casa Bonita in Denver. Super neat place.

If the team behind this manages to open the Griffin & Gargoyle, I just might make a trip to Lake Geneva to check it out!

First time I went to Casa Bonita it was with a group of Boy Scouts just coming back from backpacking trip. Endless Sopapias + hungry teenagers = waitress who deserved (and got) a big tip.

 

[jasper]

Lake Geneva is a pretty big vacation spot for people in Chicago and similar areas (that’s why they built a Playboy mansion there in the ‘60’s …

Dude you have to be in your 70s if you visited that Mansion in the 60s. But the bunnys were killer

 

[Scott Christian]

It's not nowhere. But a 350 seat themed restaurant is something for more of a Disneyworld scale tourist destination. I think they're getting carried away with wanting to incorporate all their cool design ideas and would be better off starting with a fraction the scale.

I should be stated that one of the nation's largest Renaissance Festivals (Bristol) is near there too. And that pulls in an enormous amount of people each year, despite it being in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Marc Radle]

Dude you have to be in your 70s if you visited that Mansion in the 60s. But the bunnys were killer

Ha, nope.

That location is now a very nice hotel / resort. I was there a few years back to attend GaryCon.

It’s a very cool place, with plenty of displays and such from when it was the Playboy Club!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Theme restaurants in similar places have done well, this isn't a first. It's got potential.

My favorite is Casa Bonita in Denver. Super neat place.

If the team behind this manages to open the Griffin & Gargoyle, I just might make a trip to Lake Geneva to check it out!

Midevil Times Dinner and Tournment is a great example. I'm surprised they haven't dipped into the D&D Fandom stuff more.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It's not nowhere. But a 350 seat themed restaurant is something for more of a Disneyworld scale tourist destination. I think they're getting carried away with wanting to incorporate all their cool design ideas and would be better off starting with a fraction the scale.

It really belongs in a place like Toronto.

 

[Dire Bare]

It really belongs in a place like Toronto.

Where it belongs is within walking distance of my house!

 

[Quickleaf]

Shive-Hattery has some really interesting projects in their portfolio! Very cool choice to collaborate with!

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[Plaguescarred]

We have a similar restaurant in Montreal called l'Auberge du Dragon Rouge (The Red Dragon Inn) and it's awesome! There is animation, bards playing music, a big dragon head above the entrance, some private rooms upstairs. You can eat boar and other wild meats and drink a variety of hydromel, beer, cider and other liquors. If you're offered dragon blood, a specialty of the resto, you have to drink it after swearing an oath while standing on your chair, it's a particularly hot shot made with whiskey, hot sauce etc...

 

[Mannahnin]

We have a similar restaurant in Montreal called l'Auberge du Dragon Rouge (The Red Dragon Inn) and it's awesome! There is animation, bards playing music, a big dragon head above the entrance, some private rooms upstairs. You can eat boar and other wild meats and drink a variety of hydromel, beer, cider and other liquors. If you're offered dragon blood, a specialty of the resto, you have to drink it after swearing an oath while standing on your chair, it's a particularly hot shot made with whiskey, hot sauce etc...

When did that open? I visited Montreal in January of 2020 and missed it!