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Depeche Mode Bar in Tallinn included in Lonely Planet's Top 10 bizarre cateries

Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 10.09.2010.Print version
Tallinn-based bar named in honor of the British electronic group Depeche Mode was recognized as one of the world's most weird bars and restaurants by the Lonely Planet – the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world.

"The most bizarre aspect of this tribute bar is the band it chose to honor. This dark corner of Estonia is filled with black-clad, rake-thin Depeche Mode fans sipping on Master & Servant or Personal Jesus cocktails while listening to the band's cold melancholia.

 

Autographed photos, DM artwork and tour memorabilia line the walls, while video screens play continuous Mode videos. A bleak hell for some; sweet heaven for others," as BBC report describes the peculiar place.

 

The Depeche Mode bar ranked fifth in the Lonely Planet list of most unusual places to have a snack or drink just behind the Hobbit House in Manila, Philippines, the Tolkien-themed bar with live music where tall people are forced to bend their back to get inside; The Red Sea Star restaurant in Ellat, Israel, located five meters beneath the Red Sea decorated with fantasy fishy elements; Le Refuge Des Fondues in Paris, France, remarkable with two long tables in a graffity-covered room serving only fondue with visitors sitting shoulder-to-shoulder to each other; and, just behind the strange Estonian bar, comes Giger bar, Chur & Chateau St Germain in Switzerland named for a famous graffity artist HR Giger, writes LETA.

 

According to Wikipedia, Depeche Mode is an electronic music band which formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The band has had forty-eight songs in the UK Singles Chart and number one albums in UK, US and throughout Europe. According to EMI, Depeche Mode have sold over 100 million albums and singles worldwide.






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