First nude restaurant opens in Australia

Helen Belyea, who is 30 weeks pregnant enjoys the restaurant with her partner Ryan Wilshire / Courtesy of PR Images

Alison Zarafa, who is in remission from a very rare form of cancer, enjoys a drink with a man at the nude restaurant / Courtesy of PR Images

By Lee Han-soo

Australia’s first nude restaurant opened in Melbourne on May 26, according to the Daily Mail, a British tabloid.

The brainchild of radio stars Jo Stanley and Anthony Lehmann, “Jo & Lehmo’s Nude Food” was inspired by “The Bunyadi,” which is set to open as the first nude restaurant in the U.K. in June.

The Melbourne restaurant has been a sensation with more than 30,000 people signing up to dine there.

The restaurant is focused on celebrating a healthy body in a positive manner. Although nudity is allowed, people who feel uncomfortable about being nude can wear a gown.

Some customers who visited the restaurant commended its intention.

“I fought an extremely long and hard battle for a year and these days I look at life extremely different, and I’m blessed every single day of my life,” said former cancer patient Alison Zarafa.

“I have amazing family, friends, a partner and a gorgeous son. And I want to look back when I’m old and I want to laugh about the things I’ve done, and this is one of them.”