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In midtown Manhattan lurks a club for nerds - the Mars 2112, where you can drink at a bar that looks like a biological spaceship - or hang out on "Cyberstreet." More »
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The best place in the United States to sit and feel the ghostly presence of early 20th century science fiction is probably Clifton's Cafeteria in Los Angeles, which was the epicentre of 1930s pulp scifi. More »
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A science-fiction-themed restaurant, full of memorabilia and costumed wait-staff, would be awesome enough. But two managers, who could be transporter duplicates of Jean-Luc Picard and Benjamin Sisko? That's a whole extra layer. Let's hope San Jose's Captains Table actually opens. More »
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The Clinic, a new restaurant in Singapore, is the mad scientist rendition of a fetish restaurant. Created as a tribute to pop artist Damien Hirst, it features waiters dressed in white coats and scrubs serving colorful pills and syringes of cocktails with names like "Nitro-Sangria" and "Sex on a Drip" to wheel-chair ridden customers. The rooms are shaped like pills, and the plates are surgical pans shaped like kidneys. And if you're still hungry at the end of the meal but tired of chewing, you can probably ask the waiter/nurse to put you on an IV and feed you dessert. The Clinic [Designboom] More »
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