Unusual Dining Settings

[imec]

What are some unusual setting in which you have dined?
Thursday night I dined in a former bank vault...

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No pictures, but in Alsace once I dined in a former barn. It was all extremely rustic although 'proper' insulation had been installed, with tables all around the former stalls and small corrals, with a big grilling center with 3 or 4 cooks in the central area. You would take the piece of meat that you had selected (after the hors d'oeuvres buffet) to the cooks, and they would grill it for you while you waited. It wasn't fine cuisine, but it was fun with equal numbers of French and German customers who later in the evening had a contest on who could sing the loudest drinking songs.

[lola]

Cut to scene at Rick's where Victor Laszlo leads "La Marseillaise."

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The bank vault is cool.
Kerouac yours sounds like quite the experience.
I know I can think of some other unusual settings but the one that comes to mind is a wonderful old former church here in New Orleans.
The name of the restaurant is Christian's and I recall their bouillabaisse fondly.
The church was formerly Grace Lutheran Church.

[bixaorellana]

Did you order horse?

Imec, that room didn't make you claustrophobic? There are buildings built right into the rock in Guanajuato. My sister and I were led all the way through a restaurant into one such room, which I could not even enter, making a mad dash for the exit and air instead.

I've eaten at a restaurant in the arch of the aqueduct in Segovia, and ditto here in Oaxaca. I've dined in many galleys of tugboats.

[imec]

Yes it was cool - no it wasn't claustrophopic - it was a good sized dining room, well lit, and the door was kept open. They had two of these private dining rooms each in a vault. (Ruth's Chris, Edmonton).

[lagatta]

I do want to go to that Alsatian place. We could add some other languages.

I'm a bit claustrophobic too - my Parisian friends never could convince me to join them for a party down in les Catacombes - but the bank vault and the lovely old technology is fascinating.

[gertie]

I once had dinner in an old schoolhouse. It was an old, one-room schoolhouse in a tiny town named Maydell, and the place was rustic but amazing. Everyone was seated at picnic tables, you entered, placed your order, and sat at the tables, covered with red gingham oil cloth. Neighbors and friends and strangers mixed at the long tables to varying degrees. They served the chicken fried steak dinner on a huge serving platter, the thing was as big as a dinner plate and oh so good! I used to share one with my sister.

[spindrift]

I've had many formal dinners (such as Livery Company dinners in London) in various rooms in art galleries that the general public don't have access to. Also on the warship Victory...things like that.

[Don Cuevas]

I've eaten in at least one gas station (petrol) converted to a cafe. The ambitious menu exceeded the skills of the staff.