The San Fransisco Blind Cafe is a mind bending / heart opening experience where the audience will participate in a Q & A with their blind wait staff, indulge in a 'Sensory Tasting Experience' and enjoy a concert of original music by Rosh & One Eye Glass Broken...all in the pitch dark!

A delicious vegetarian 'Sensory Tasting' will be prepared with love to delight your senses by our lovely volunteers.

Your heart and mind will be opened as you celebrate and explore spatial awareness & darkness with your blind waitstaff, while indulging in 'unencumbered music listening' without the distraction of visual conditioning, social etiquette & your cell phones!

This is NOT just a another dinner in the dark...it’s a community experience where people connect, learn and grow from working together to participate in something greater than themselves. The Santa Cruz Blind Cafe is designed to help you feel more alive, awake, present and connected to your world.

With the love and laughter of those at your table you will build friendship and community on a night you will never forget or SEE! A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to help the blind community in San Francisco.

"My husband, Aaron and I made a date night out of The Blind Cafe and it actually made a pretty big impact on our marriage...I realized (again) how important it is to just enjoy the life that I've been given, so since then I've been cutting back on things that to me are superfluous, and been focusing on what's really important."
- Elizabeth Lehr / Blind Cafe Guest


"It dawned on me that I most likely hadn’t listened to music in the dark like this since I was a young teenager. It was so liberating to allow my mind and ears to focus on instrumentation with no visual input. I couldn’t tell if Rosh was on some shockingly coveted Martin guitar, or some $200 Korean-made junker. It must have been something of decent caliber, as it sounded wonderful, but was that because I was only listening that it sounded that good?"

- Brian Johnson | The Marquee Music Magazine

"All of us left fired-up and inspired. If your goal was to engender a heightened awareness and a renewed sense of compassion for everyone around us, blind and sighted alike, then you've overachieved. We left feeling as if we'd been given a gift, indeed we had, and agreed we'd do our best to pass it on. I hope to visit the blind café again in the future and will be sure to recommend it to anyone who will listen. Thank you for the phenomenal work."

- Jon | Blind Cafe Guest

"It dawned on me that I most likely hadn’t listened to music in the dark like this since I was a young teenager. It was so liberating to allow my mind and ears to focus on instrumentation with no visual input. I couldn’t tell if Rosh was on some shockingly coveted Martin guitar, or some $200 Korean-made junker. It must have been something of decent caliber, as it sounded wonderful, but was that because I was only listening that it sounded that good?"

- Brian Johnson | The Marquee Music Magazine



"We had a truly enlightening experience last night at the The Blind Cafe in Austin! Dinner and concert in complete darkness- what a perspective-altering 2 hours- and for an amazing cause!"
- Sarah Evans, Guest