Underground restaurants

[Gups]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/31/saltoun-supper-club-brixton

Anyone been to an underground restauraunt. I know the trend/fad started in NYC and spread to London but wondered how widespread it was.

I'm going to this one tonight (been there before). So much better than a normal restauraunt - the food is about 50% of the price you'd pay for similar quality, you have to bring your own wine so you can get a £20 bottle and not pay £50, there's a smoking room and it's all very chilled out.

[MadImmortalMan]

No but it sounds cool. I think the practice started as a way for chefs to serve things that posed...regulatory issues.

[Malthus]

Sounds great - but no, never heard of such a thing here.

[Oexmelin]

Some exist in Montréal. I've never been to one. They sometimes double as art galleries.

In Paris, you get confidential restaurants: no publicity, no outside signs, no reservations, yet everything legal. I have been to one, very good, somewhat cheaper, amazing wine carte - but I do think the thrill of the shared secret is mostly what, for some, adds to the experience.

[Josquius]

Sounds cool, never heard of them.

[Caliga]

Wasn't Mono telling us that these things are all over Hong Kong in some earlier thread?

I once heard of an underground restaurant in Milwaukee, and Princesca and I were going to visit it when we went to Milwaukee in 2000, but we never got around to it.

[The Brain]

Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?

[Camerus]

Yes, Pete, it is.  In fact, it's pronounced "mill-eee-wah-kay" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

[The Brain]

What about Socialist mayors?

[Caliga]

Yes, Pete, it is.  In fact, it's pronounced "mill-eee-wah-kay" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

I also wanted to visit Jeffrey Dahmer's house, but didn't have time for that either.  Cal = BUSY GUY.

[Jacob]

We got a few in Vancouver; an acquaintance of mine runs one in fact.

I've read about them in Hong Kong and Tokyo as well.

Never gone to one though.

[Malthus]

Yes, Pete, it is.  In fact, it's pronounced "mill-eee-wah-kay" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

I also wanted to visit Jeffrey Dahmer's house, but didn't have time for that either.  Cal = BUSY GUY.

If there was a "secret restaurant" in Jeffrey Dahmer's house ... 

[Caliga]

If there was a "secret restaurant" in Jeffrey Dahmer's house ... 

[Norgy]

I once heard of an underground restaurant in Milwaukee, and Princesca and I were going to visit it when we went to Milwaukee in 2000, but we never got around to it.

Milwaukee had gas stations?

[Caliga]

and how!