Bob Blumer hosts World's Weirdest Pop-Up Restaurant in Vancouver

A Vancouver restaurant/club is about to get a little weirder. On Monday (June 3), Bob Blumer, host of Food Network Canada’s World’s Weirdest Restaurants, is presenting a pop-up restaurant at Electric Owl (926 Main Street). Dubbed the World’s Weirdest Pop-Up, the one-night-only restaurant will dish up some of the strangest food Blumer has eaten in his travels.

Blumer was born in Montreal and has worked as an artist, a chef, an author, and a TV show host.

His series Glutton for Punishment, which featured Blumer taking part in a variety of food-related challenges around the world, helped him break the Guinness World Record for flipping the most pancakes in an hour in 2008—559, although his record has since been beaten.

Blumer has broken a total of seven Guinness World Records, including making the most pizzas in one hour and peeling 50 pounds of onions in the fastest time.

In 2012, Blumer launched a new reality show, World’s Weirdest Restaurants, which had camera crews follow him around the world. During the first season, “weird” restaurants included Taiwan’s Modern Toilet, where customers eat curry from miniature toilet bowls, and an izakaya in Japan where monkeys help serve beer.

To help kick off the second season of World’s Weirdest Restaurants—which premieres on June 17 at 6 p.m. on Food Network Canada—Blumer will be re-creating some of these bizarre dishes with the help of chef Jeremy Teahan in Vancouver.

Diners can choose between two seatings: 6 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. Each $40 ticket, which can be purchased online, includes a four-course meal.