Seattle chef to host strategy-based ‘Oregon Trail’ dinner playing off classic 1980s video game

The 100-mile eating regimen could also be a stylish concept for adventurous foodies wanting to solely eat stuff sourced from inside that radius. However let’s discuss a 2,170-mile dietary problem.

That’s the size of the famed Oregon Path, the setting for the classic video game based mostly on nineteenth century pioneer life, and it’s the main focus of a particular dinner being placed on by Seattle chef Eric Rivera.

Eater Seattle first reported on Rivera’s plans for a strategy-based dinner expertise after the Addo founder posted about his concept on Instagram. The restaurant in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood will play host to the occasion subsequent Feb. 2 at 6 p.m.

We are in the process of loading up experiences for 2020. My goal is to always have fun experiences happening within the restaurant and to challenge our team and the diner. For example, this experience will be a strategy game that will pit the diner against things like snakes, wheels falling off, and death by dysentery. Not an original concept considering it’s from the Oregon Trail game but when we add food and have certain diners that choose wrong and won’t make it to the end of the dinner it’s truly an @addoseattle experience.

A publish shared by Eric Rivera (@ericriveracooks) on Aug 23, 2019 at 12:42pm PDT

“The Oregon Path” video game was launched in 1985 for the Apple II. Gamers should cope with all method of calamity — together with how they are going to feed themselves — as they journey within the game from Missouri to Oregon through lined wagon. Time journal positioned the game ninth on its “50 Finest Video Video games of All Time” checklist in 2016. It’s accessible in the present day as a card/board game.

Rivera, who says he likes to have enjoyable and problem his group and diners together with his experiences, instructed Eater that the dinner could have seven programs, together with wild produce, and patrons should select sure playing cards throughout the expertise.

“Prior to every course, the visitor will draw a card which can seal their destiny, whether or not they die of dysentery or have to ration their very own meals or make the choice to cut up their meals with a participant that has died,” Rivera mentioned in Eater. “Some individuals may get additional parts for choosing the proper playing cards that we’ve got made, and a few individuals simply received’t make it to the tip of dinner, contemplating the dangers concerned.”