Clothing Optional Dinners

[café au lait]

Will New Orleanians follow the trend of New Yorkers? Well, we certainly have the heat and humidity for it...

Humid summers have encouraged a nudity trend that is stretching to restaurants, yoga classes and even a stand-up comedy club.

About 50 diners, whose motto is "no hot soup", regularly attend monthly naked meals held at a handful of restaurants in the city.

They are served by regular restaurant staff who, under city regulations, must be wearing clothes.

"We're just more comfortable nude," said John Ordover, a keen urban nudist and founder of Clothing Optional Dinners.

He told the New York Post: "We're not out to shock or put on a public spectacle. We want only to do things that other people do in the way that we are most comfortable doing them. That, for us, is without clothes."

[Turbodog]

That is absurd. Those are people desperately looking for attention.

I no longer work out and have put on a few pounds, but even when I was in great shape, I would not have felt comfortable eating dinner in a restaurant, while nude. And I have no inhibitions about being nude and never have.

I say the spokeman for the group is full of it.

[NoNoNanette]

Sounds fun to me. My husband wouldn't dream of it, but nevermind. :rolleyes:

(This from the broad who created a "Topless Deck" on two of Holland America's conservative ships) ;)

[Hadacol]

Nope, it's for real. Ed Levine told me about it a few months ago in NY, and I thought that he was full of it. But, The New York Post, home of "Some News Not Fit to Print" has the full story here (http://www.nypost.com/seven/07212008/news/regionalnews/the_naked_city_120845.htm)

[Pelican Six]

Like I want someone rubbing their naked ass and junkpile all over my upholstery. Nothing says fine dining like skidmarks on your chair seat.

[NoNoNanette]

Like I want someone rubbing their naked ass and junkpile all over my upholstery. Nothing says fine dining like skidmarks on your chair seat.

Nude cruise etiquette insists that those participating sit on a towel in public seating areas. :)

[justagirl]

OMG Pelican Six...you never cease to crack me up!

I guess when we dine by the pool at the Country Club it's considered nude dining....

[JudiB]

ROFL.. this thread is hilarious. I have a neighbor who is into nudism. He goes someplace in Slidell where there is a large area of secluded, fenced in .. well 'club' of some sort. I was really surprised to find out that it existed so close! (lol, I don't get out much) :)

[BTG]

That would be a strange dinner indeed.
I have visited a clothing optional bar in Key West and it did not bother me at all. Of course the site of me and five friends running around in our underwear probably bothered others.

Kind of odd when you are getting beers from a topless woman and such, but I would never complain about it.

[café au lait]

Like I want someone rubbing their naked ass and junkpile all over my upholstery. Nothing says fine dining like skidmarks on your chair seat.

And who says we don't have scintillating topics here? :whip:

[Admin]

(This from the broad who created a "Topless Deck" on two of Holland America's conservative ships) ;)
:covri:

(Testing new smilie.)

[foodieCon]

I'd eat at a nudie restaurant. but I doubt if were eating nude anyone else would.

Well, maybe JAG would.

[NoNoNanette]

:covri:

(Testing new smilie.)

Didn't come across as very nice. :(

**but, edited to say, I'm a 48 year old broad!** ;)

[Admin]

Didn't come across as very nice. :(

Look closer, the right hand is peeking. Boom-chick-a-wow-wow. ;)

[justagirl]

Before the thing, Marisol was contemplating a Nude Dinner. I signed up!

[Oyster]

I'll bet there was some nude dining at the Swinger's Convention last weekend in the Quarter!

Whenever I come across this subject, I always think back to the greatest moment in NOLA Fine Dining... NUDE LUNCH!

Yes, in the mid 70's, there was a lunch spot, Tranchina's, where the owners retired and shut down. Opening soon afterward in the location, was the aforementioned Nude Lunch. Wow! Now, the patrons were not nude. but the young ladies serving the wonderfully delectable items were. The city ordinance is no nudity in an outlet serving alcoholic beverages. Nude Lunch served no alcohol, hence all the nudity you could handle.

Wow. That 70's show!

[Schuarta]

Here's where the "old guys" get some input. Working in Hollywood on the 1960's, it was was the topless era. Topless restaurants, topless bars, topless shoe shine stands, topless barber shops, topless news stands, and more. :laughup:

[JonSmith]

.... naked ass and junkpile ...Nothing says fine dining like skidmarks on your chair seat.

Now there's a sentence you don't need to read at 0704 hours as you drink coffee and check on the message board.

[jeff h]

setting: Snake&Jake's.

on a whim, one of the bartenders said if girls sit topless at the bar, they'll
drink free.

the premise starts snowballing out of control to the point where 8 tulane frat guys walk in completely naked, with a lone female bartender (shocked). she tells them that offer is over and please go home & get dressed.

they all oblige, and leave peacefully.....

only to come back 2 minutes later b/c they locked their keys in the car.


feeling sorry for them, she gives them all a few drinks....then a credit card
'appears'...they end up drinking for several hours, and eventually throw a brick
through their car window and go home.

[PNG]

You can do things like this when you live in a real food city. I could make some funny comments about doing this in New Orleans, but I would be run out of town amidst the laughter.

[sbu22]

Nanette - I have a gf that's like your husband. Want to go to dinner and wig'em out?

[NoNoNanette]

Nanette - I have a gf that's like your husband. Want to go to dinner and wig'em out?

What a fun thought. Sounds tempting! :)

[cstoehr]

If only you have segregated rooms! (I am talking in terms of physical fitness) Not race, sex,etc. LOL. I am sorry but if I am going to eat nekkid, it is in bed with my man. Who wants to look at all that and then try to eat a nice dinner.

[PNG]

That is why the Deity invented alchohol.