Dionaea's

Dionaea's is, in most respects, a normal restaurant. It serves dishes from the American South, especially from North and South Carolina. However, Dionaea's has a spacious greenhouse in its back. There, medium sized-pots of Venus Flytraps are grown. Each pot contains a large colony of the carnivorous plants; anywhere from seven to twelve Flytraps may be found in one container. At any one time, some of the pots of plants will be digesting. The other ones, though, await their nourishment.

When a group of customers are sat at a table, the staff of Dionaea’s carefully brings out a pot of Venus Flytraps and lowers it into the pot-shaped depression on the table. As the customers munch on their fried chicken, they are stared in the face by a group of hungry plants. Finally, at the end of the meal, every eater has the option of offering a scrap of their food to a Venus Flytrap before their plates are bussed.

As it takes ten days for a Flytrap to digest, plants are rotated in and out of the greenhouse, and are allowed to digest their food at a leisurely rate. At any time, Dionaea’s should have enough hungry plants to stock each and every table.