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Underground Restaurants

Ever since Mark went to MsMarmitelover’s Underground Restaurant in Kilburn we’ve been really into underground restaurants. They seem to be popping up left right and centre at the moment and we love it. It seems to have emerged as a proper, little trend. Between us we’ve had vegetarian sushi at Horton Jupiter’s Secret Ingredient in a council estate in Hackney and Thomasina is having her wedding catered by The Moveable Restaurant who are putting on some really fun evenings such as the recent Elizabeth David dinner.

We’ve also stumbled across and are keen to visit:

• A series of secret dinners hosted by Salad Club
• The Pale Blue Door which is housed in a weird doll’s house and culminates in a Tina Turner drag act
• And a Times food writer giving it a go herself

The worse the credit crunch gets, the more creative everyone seems to get. The underground restaurant movement is quite a big thing abroad. In the US Ghetto Gourmet is massive, in Cuba palidares are the best places to eat and in Paris Jim Haynes is well ahead of the curve. We’re convinced there are plenty of Mexican underground restaurants and going to do some digging. If anyone knows of an underground restaurant in Mexico, can you let us know please.