Restaurants

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Places to eat and drink in the Warehouse district

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The Safehouse

 

The Safehouse is the third establishment in the chain from Milwaukee.  The Safehouse is buzzy spy-themed hideaway and features creative cocktails & casual fare in a quirky, dimly lit interior.  Visitors need a password to enter or pass a fun and imaginative clearance test to prove they aren’t double agents, "Control" will grant access.

 

The interesting thing about this restaurant and bar is that in the late 1980s, the site was embroiled in an espionage caper involving 6 superheroes, 5 supervillains and the KGB.  The exact nature of the incident is still under wraps but has only increased the popularity of the place.

 

See the original restaurant at http://www.safe-house.com/#

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The Smoke Shack

 

This hole in the wall has been gaining popularity lately.  It offers Texas style BBQ at reasonable prices and while not award winning cuisine, the food is tasty.  Beer selection tends to stay in common bottle brews (Coors, Budweiser, Sam Adams) with nothing on tap.  The place has been shutdown twice before due to health violations, mostly due to the owner, a man who used to go by the Nom De Guerre Firenado, not completely understanding the health codes in the city.  Since then, there has not been any other closures except during holidays.  Firenado was a supervillain out of the Dallas Fort Worth area but has since retired from a life of crime to Babylon City.  He has never explained where he got the seed money to start his own restaurant as no bank would lend him cash.  In reality, his Aunt Bonnie died and left him a small sum of money having him promise to try and go straight with it.  So far, he has been doing a good job at it with some help from an unknown superhero who has been acting like a guardian angel.