Catch Your Own Fish At This Chelsea Restaurant

CHELSEA, NY — A new restaurant is coming to Chelsea, and its bringing with it a pond full of fish.

At Zauo, a new Japanese restaurant looking to open in Chelsea, diners get the freshest fish possible, meaning that they literally are handed a fishing rod and asked to catch their meal themselves before it is prepared at the restaurant.

The new restaurant is looking to open in Chelsea at a space at 152 W. 24th St., DNAinfo was first to report. Plans for the new restaurant show that, like its predecessors, the eating space will feature a sizable pound where your very fresh dinner will be stocked, according to renderings filed with Community Board 4. (For more news from Chelsea and the rest of NYC, subscribe here for free, breaking news alerts and updates from Patch.)

Here's how it works, according to Zauo's website: Diners enter the restaurant and get a fish pole, and some bait. After fishing for their dinner, they can select how they'd like their fish prepared from the menu. Even if you're a novice, Zauo promises that you're sure to catch a fish. (It's also cheaper if you catch it yourself.)

Zauo is planning to open early next year, according to DNAinfo.

Lead image courtesy of Thierry Draus on Flickr; second image courtesy of Community Board 4.