This came up over at Ecgunge, and I'm surprised that this hasn't been talked about here.

https://www.facebook.com/UNILADgrub/videos/1000537126780634/

What's interesting is that the restaurant's own website etc doesn't mention this kind of thing! It talks about people renting the function room having access to the ball pond, but nothing about gunge!

Can't help wondering if they explain the facilities when people try to book, or only after it's too late?!

Dammit, can't persuade UMD to let me embed a link. Suffice to say that there's a video, dated 30th Dec, and the link in the original post ought to go to it.

Good quality gunge and coverage in their promo clips. They're not messing around.

The target audience would appear to be millennials, but it'll be booked up with wammers before you can say "Tiswas" and they'll have to pull it

Is it only me being driven pedantically mad by their nonsensical mix and matching of "dunk" and "gunge" in that video?

A possible venue for a splunch...?

The interior modelled after that of a helicopter cockpit; the location: the Telecom Tower.

"And now", announced Edmonds, in an unnecessarily grave manner, "to a restaurant............ of a very different kind"...

I can't quite work that one out. If you google the restaurant itself - or go to its website - there is no mention at all of this scratchcard or any gunge. Not sure I want to book a visit there on the off-chance only to find it doesn't exist?

(At any rate, I give it about 3 weeks until it closes because they realise it's a fetish for some people...)

They must be aware - if nothing else it could be quite hard to find a supplier of gunge materials without coming across anything online about the fetish element. Even the fairly vanilla looking website of Messy Supplies puts quite a lot of emphasis on "discreet packaging", which would be enough of a hint for most people.

looking at it's website and trip advisors the video is misleading it's not quite as simple as turn up eat a steak and get gunged it says something about a gameshow and a host in one of the rooms. I maybe wrong but when something sounds to good to be true it is. food looks damn good though

There has to be some Clue to tell if this is the real thing or not

It's in Hipster Shoreditch. Say no more. Restaurants open and close like flowers.

Probably a theme night they made a promo for that never quite got off the ground.

The pictures on the event space page clearly hint at what was shown in the video, since there's a group wearing rain capes and somebody else who's clearly played Pie Face.

There's also a cryptic passage on the Bottomless brunch page which reads: "Games include the Wheel of Certain Misfortune, the giant card game higher or lower, and misbehavers will end up publicly shamed in the stocks." Does any of this include a gunging?

Another site has a review which includes: "It also boasts the world's first waterproof dining room...so if you're planning a party and have a feeling it might get a bit wet and wild, then Rascals is certainly the place for you."

That's about the only evidence of WAM I could find related to the place. The food does look good, but my hunch is that you would need to make a private booking to get a hope of being anywhere near gunge here.

We could totally book the function room and play some games... you know, they could probably get most people messy if we asked nicely.

Anyone got a spare £60?

Booking a party room makes sense.. they're obviously open to the idea!!

No, so far as I can see the Bottomless Brunch is a different thing; the stocks appear to be set up for custard pies.

The restaurant's Facebook page now contains videos for the function-room-with-gunge and the Bottomless-Brunch-with-pies:

https://www.facebook.com/londonrascals/

Genuinely tempted to go...

same thing here

Review in the papers yesterday. Doesn't sound like the food's any good, although the critic hadn't opted for any interesting add-ons....

Seems the resturant has updated their page with a section on the messy stuff. Seems like you have to book a private room to get the mess. Website also has a couple of pics of the aftermath.

We should get a pool going on how long it takes for some perv to put an end to that.

Well, seeing as a charity dinner couldn't function without the extreme harassment and groping of waiting staff recently, my guess is not long.

The quantity of gunge appears somewhat...economical.

Well, the first messy internetty people have turned up at this place -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO6Egn-VVvI

This is what Rascals have to say about their Gunge Element

We have a special waterproof room in which all gunging and messiness takes place. If you have a group interested the room can be booked out for dinner and rascality. We do scratchcards have lots of fun prizes, you can win free shots, free drinks, free tickets to ballie ballerson next door. You can also get the gunge tank, pie face and water guns! It is all dependant on what you are looking for If you want to book out the waterproof room I would recommend change of clothes and a bag to take them out in. We do have cleaning sinks for you to use on site as well.

In our main dining room we offer the scratch cards as well but with less messiness

So, without wanting to seem ultra-cynical about this, I don't really see anything offered here, other than a whole room worth of space, that couldn't be done more cheaply and discreetly at home. Maybe they will clean up afterwards but that's about it. I personally would only book this if there was something there that I couldn't get at a private meetup, such as a proper gunge tank or a pie slide or something. Plus, likely little to no control over the consistency and amount of the gunge either. And then you might have to factor in that any staff might have a sketchy knowledge of WAM and are just going to assume that somebody getting a smudge of foam on the face is job done. I hope I'm wrong, but if I was going to put up money for a messy time I would book a private session with a proper provider like Jessie or Kacie.

probably you can hire their waterproof room up to 20 seated or 40 standing guests....

its in the event brochure ive just been looking

I love how the website calls it a "gunge chair" and it's basically just a plant pot of gunge getting tipped on someone's shoulder.

Wondering who this is even supposed to be aimed at. Obviously not us people, but even the regular folk commenting on the FB page are saying they wouldn't want to get messy on a night out.

Shoreditch though, so it'll probably close down and be replaced by a restaurant where diners rear their own cow over 18 months before getting it cut into a steak that the student chef overcooks.

I walked past this place yesterday - From the large windows along the street, you can see inside - there was a gunge tank set up - this being a kind of cross over between a dunk tank, where you hit a target to drop gunge onto someone's head. They appeared to be setting up and getting ready for a gunging, there was about 20 people eating and drinking nearby, presumably it was them who had hired the gunge tank. Looks like a crazy place to eat and drink!

Sounds fun