“We wanted to create something more elevated than the usual bar experience in Himmarshee, but also something that’s approachable,” Falsetto says. It has no outside sign, but it has a website ( apothecar圓30.com) and Instagram account ( Coin-holders still receive perks such as invitations to high-end whiskey tastings. (A restaurant within a restaurant - this is where my head starts to explode).Ī “hidden” speakeasy bar lives inside the Brass Tap gastropub in Fort Lauderdale. Chef Brad Kilgore recently opened Kaido restaurant in Miami with a separate-menu, reservations-only dining room dubbed Ama. Monkitail restaurant at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood has a somewhat hidden karaoke lounge that unsuspecting diners might miss. My frustration also applies to secret hideouts and insider dens. Call me old-fashioned, or just old and grumpy, but I really like when an establishment informs me of all its offerings with a menu, blackboard or human being who recites specials. When I dined at Loch Bar in Boca Raton earlier this year, I forgot to ask about “the legend of the hoof,” which supposedly would have brought a surprise. Major chains such as Wawa and Starbucks routinely offer secret menu items, although I don’t know how one is supposed to learn of them. When I first dined at upscale JWB Prime Steak and Seafood in the Margaritaville Resort in Hollywood, sushi wasn’t on the menu and I had no idea it was offered until I saw some pretty platters waltz past. Secret menu items and other gimmicks have been irksome in the course of my restaurant travels.

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