^ "Buddha-Bar - GEORGE V EATERTAINMENT".^ "Buddha Bar London- The Parisians are Coming".^ Hugo Montanaro, "Buddha Bar", The Best of Bars & Restaurants (1998), p.^ Bethan Ryder, Bar and Club Design ( 2006), p.^ a b c d Anthony D'Andrea, Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa (2007), p.It has been noted that record stores in Dubai "black out the image of the Buddha" on Buddha Bar CDs to avoid idolatry, but that the owners of the Buddha Bar restaurant in Dubai were permitted to build a two-story Buddha within their establishment. The Jakarta location was co-owned by the daughter of Indonesian politician and former governor of the region Sutiyoso, and was closed by court order later that year. In 2010, Buddhists in Jakarta protested the operating of a Buddha Bar in that city, asserting that "the use of their religious symbols in a venue serving alcohol was an affront to their religion". The use of the Buddha as a popular icon has been noted to be offensive to some conservative Buddhists. This release included a DVD of nature and ocean footage directed by Allain Bougrain-Dubourg. Buddha Bar has also released some original music for its albums, specifically the songs "Buddha Bar Nature" and "Buddha-Bar Ocean", composed and produced by Arno Elias, the composer of "Amor Amor" from Buddha Bar 2, and Amanaska. In 2001, a Billboard Magazine critic placed the compilation in his "top ten" musical events of the year, noting the relationship between the restaurant franchise and the music produced by it with the assertion that "Buddha Bar is not only a good restaurant in France but also one of the best music experiments to come out of France in the past few years". Main article: Buddha Bar compilation albumsīuddha Bar compilation albums have been issued since 1999. location closed after two years of operations, having "struggled after a poor critical reception" while a New York City location was forced to change its name before closing down and subsequently re-opening in another location under new ownership.
īuddha Bar venues have been opened in various other locations, including Marrakesh, Beirut, Belgrade, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London, Manila, Mauritius, Baku, Tbilisi, Kyiv, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Caracas, Mexico City, Monte Carlo, Prague, Mykonos and Santorini.
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The theme was inspired by the discovery of the space to be used, an antique basement archive with a mezzanine, "which suggested to the architects the idea of an oriental temple and its Buddha". The original restaurant is a Buddha-themed "upscale bar-restaurant with an orientalist 'lounge' ambience" serving Asian cuisine, with a two-story dining area dominated by a large statue of Buddha, and an upstairs bar in the form of a large, ornate dragon.
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