World's Weirdest Restaurants

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World's Weirdest Restaurants
Genre Food reality television
Starring Bob Blumer
ComposerDaniel Ross
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes28
Production
Executive producersDavid Paperny
Cal Shumiatcher
Audrey Mehler
CinematographySimon Schneider
Running time30 minutes
Production company Paperny Entertainment
Original release
Network Food Network Canada
ReleaseApril 4, 2012 (2012-04-04)

World's Weirdest Restaurants is a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment that airs on Food Network Canada. The series follows host Bob Blumer as he travels the world searching for weird and unusual restaurants. Several of the Japan episodes featured TV host and arranger La Carmina, who wrote a book about bizarre Tokyo theme restaurants. [1] [2] [3] Among the restaurants featured include a nudist restaurant in New York, a Japanese restaurant with monkey waiters, and Taiwanese restaurant which serves curry from miniature toilets. [4] The series, which premiered April 4, 2012, has filmed in a number of cities around the world, including Tokyo, New York, Taipei, London and Vancouver.[ citation needed ]

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