December 07, 2003
Is this cool or what?
Lurking in the San Francisco Bay area is a 'speakeasy' Italian restaurant in a bus.
Posted by Magpie at December 7, 2003 01:27 PM | TrackBackPart diner, part speakeasy, Joe's "Bustaurant" is an underground boite the Sicilian chef has operated inside a converted 1947 Metro bus for the last six years. You have to know somebody who knows somebody to get in.
Joe serves traditional Italian food under the cover of darkness, on Monday nights during winter, to elude busybodies, food snobs and health inspectors. [...]
Joe couldn't operate legally if he wanted to -- there's no fire or health department around that would allow a chef to cook inside a bus on a gas range with people crammed around five tables. He's checked into it.
"The ceiling is too low, the exits are too narrow. The walls are too thin, " Joe said. "I'd have to rip it apart and turn it into something it's not. It would no longer be an antique bus."
Regulations aside, he must be doing something right, because no one has complained, and the lines are getting longer and longer for a seat on the bus.
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