Goats on the roof, ninjas in castles and more.
In Pictures:
America’s Most Bizarre
Restaurants
Wise restaurants can put a smile on your face or get you excited as
soon as you walk in the door, and well before you take your first
bite. As the percentage of independent restaurants in the United
States grows smaller and corporate chains modeled after just a
handful of concepts explode, offbeat and non-traditional concepts
tend to stand out even more.
At San Francisco ’s Supper Club
you are treated to a multi-sensory dining experience that extends
far beyond your taste buds. Anything can happen here and every
night the entertainment is different. You dine in your private bed
in an all-white industrial space, while in between courses you
might get a massage or see an aqua ballet or a fashion show.
Dark dining, either blindfolded or in pitch-black
rooms, is a concept that arose in Germany and Switzerland in the
late '90s and has begun to appear in various parts of the
States to much applause, including at Opaque in
Los Angeles . The multi-course menus are served by blind waiters
and selected in the light, thus diners see nothing for several
hours. Diners frequently call the experience “mind opening” and “an
awakening of the senses.”
In rural Wisconsin , a Scandinavian restaurant
with live goats munching on a grass-covered roof is obviously going
to be the talk of town. While menu items at Al Johnson’s
Swedish Restaurant like Swedish pancakes with
lingonberries or pickled herring are exotic, few will argue that
the goats and grass roof outside have not had an equal hand in
keeping the restaurant in business for six decades.
An element of secrecy, commonplace in bars and
clubs in New York and L.A. , gives guests a sense of pride when
they enter. You feel privileged to be there. This is the case at
what seems to be a run-of-the-mill Milwaukee warehouse where you
must give the covert password to the doorman. The Safe
House's location is hard to find and the food is
typical American pub grub, yet since the 1960’s the place has been
the city’s go-to place to bring visitors. If you don’t know the
password, don’t worry—you can hop on one leg (or whatever the
doorman asks you to do), with everyone at the bar watching on TV
screens.
In Pictures:
America’s Most Bizarre
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