White tablecloths, fine silverware and intricately-plated dishes made (whenever possible) from locally-sourced ingredients....and its staffed by convicts?
Clink restaurant, which Wales Today reports will soon open in Cardiff, Wales, will be unlike almost any other restaurant in the world. The 100-seat restaurant will be located in a prison, and it will be staffed mostly by convicts.
Openning in the Category-B correctional facility HMP Cardiff, the restaurant will be the second outpost of the Clink concept. The first opened in 2009 at HMP High Down, a prison in Sutton, England and was the subject of a documentary ("The Prison Restaurant") on the BBC.
Both Clinks are headed by chef Al Crisci, who has been campaigning for better food in British prisons for years. The goal of Clink is to provide convicts with the skills they need to find jobs once they leave prison.
According to an early review of the Sutton branch in the Independent, the food, service and decor are all exemplary.
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