Dinner in a Show: L.A.’s The Gallery Offers Haute Cuisine With Interactive Tabletop Animation

The opening course at The Gallery’s Elementa is accompanied by digital flowers that bloom according to guests’ movements

Daren Ulmer, the former head of music for Disneyland, likes to point out that the iconic Enchanted Tiki Room attraction was first conceived as a Polynesian-themed restaurant. “That was Walt’s original vision,” he says, noting logistical challenges meant that it evolved into merely an audio-animatronics revue. “He was onto something!”

Ulmer — who now heads independent multimedia production house Mousetrappe, where clients include Disney as well as Universal Studios — is…