5 ms·
In London this has been a pretty common thing in the form of supper clubs for at least the last five years, and I don't think anyone is worrying about the resta
by jon-wood 11y ago
In London this has been a pretty common thing in the form of supper clubs for at least the last five years, and I don't think anyone is worrying about the restaurant industry collapsing just yet. They tend to be small scale, infrequently run, events in someone's home, with a large one seating maybe ten or twelve people.
- ghaff 11y agoPop-up restaurants seems to be the more common term in the US but they range from this sort of thing to relatively small-scale but even regulated (a la food trucks) temporary restaurants.
- tedmiston 11y agoI see pop-up shops, mostly retail, regularly, but never restaurants. The closest I've seen are food trucks, at least in Ohio.
- jon-wood 11y agoBe thankful, you can barely move in London for pop-up restaurants with "wacky" concepts and overpriced food. Some of them are pretty good, but a lot seem to be pop ups because they wouldn't survive building up a reputation.
- tedmiston 11y agoInteresting. We also are starting to have something here sort of like a popup where a guest chef will host in a place like a coffee shop and cook a fancy full course dinner say one night per month. Is that common over there?
- jon-wood 11y agoI've not seen a lot of that, much more common is someone renting an empty shop front for a few weeks, doing a full service every night during that time, and then shutting it down again.