We Tried a Weird But Fun AI Fine Dining Experience for $120

• I paid $120 to experience Venhue’s 90-minute tasting menu.
• The five-course meal, which was narrated by AI-generated videos, had plenty of surprises.
• I’m not sure I understood the point of the flashing video screens, but the food and drinks were great.

Since my dining experiences in New York usually revolve around whoever has the best happy-hour deals, fine dining is not my experience.

But I was intrigued by Venhue. The Manhattan restaurant, which opened in October, is billed as a 90-minute shared dinner with an unpretentious $109 tasting menu.

When I learned that the dining room was surrounded on all sides by screens with text-to-photo and text-to-video content generated by artificial intelligence, I was skeptical about how unpretentious it would be. It seemed pretty tech-bro to me.