Adventures in travelling - 1. Secret Restaurants

Have you ever been to a secret/underground restaurant? These are not regular restaurants but more apartments that have invitation only events for five or six.

No? well next time you're going to Berlin you should try one. Go to theshychef.wordpress.com/ to make a reservation and find out more. There's also a great NYTimes article about this at travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/travel/14h...

There's a Srilankan restaurant on the 31'st floor of a Hell's Kitchen complex in NY, which you enter through a porn shop downstairs. While this doesn't qualify as a secret restaurant in that it is not unlicensed, unregulated, unadvertised, it does have the cachet of being a restaurant for only those in the know ...

In some cases, these hidden restaurants offer entertainment along with the food. One of the oldest “secret” spots still running, the eight-year-old Mamasan’s Bistro pays homage to its founder, a DJ/vocalist from Guam, by playing hip-hop beats during its dinner programs—located in the upstairs apartment of a woman known only as Lynette, somewhere in San Francisco’s Mission District ... but don't lynch me if you can't manage to find it. Remember a fight club is a fight club only as long as the hordes don't find out it exists ... ditto with supper clubs and underground restaurants :)