Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants

Think you've seen it all when it comes to restaurants? Do foie gras, lobster and truffles strike you as humdrum fancy foods served in predictable settings? Looking for totally unique and bizarre restaurants?

Then Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants is the book for you! Check out Taipeis toilet-themed joint, where the most popular dish is chocolate soft-serve ice cream served in toilet-shaped bowls. How about the Jesus-themed Christon Cafe in Japan, so popular that it has locations in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka?

You can sit in a confessional booth, order a God-hand-made humburger doria off the crucifix-shaped menu and take in the organ music and stain glass. La Carmina, the mistress of the hugely popular Gothic Lolita website (which gets 1-million hits per month), has traveled all over Asia, Canada and the United States to document these insanely themed restaurants, from vampires to Alice in Wonderland.

With stories as quirky and singular as the restaurants she visits, illustrated with photographs of the food, menus, interiors and waiters, La Carmina reveals this astonishing and utterly fascinating niche of restaurants.