Casa SaltShaker
Closed Door Restaurant / Salon for Food and Conversation
Restaurant a Puertas Cerradas / Salón de Comida y Conversación

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chef: Dan Perlman
Host: Henry Tapia

Castellano/Spanish

English/Inglés

Closed-door eateries lure adventurous diners
(Reuters Life!) - Imagine a dinner party with complete strangers.

by Kristina Cooke
August 24, 2010

That is the concept behind closed-door restaurants, luring adventurous diners from Buenos Aires to Berlin and New York.

Diners at the unofficial eateries have to ask where the venue is when they call to reserve a table for dinner, which is usually served at the chef's home.

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Many chefs like Dan Perlman, who cooks at Casa SaltShaker in Buenos Aires, got fed up of the restaurant industry's 12-14 hour days. Casa SaltShaker's menu changes every week, and ranges from tequila soup to seaweed caviar.

The closed-door eateries, which have been popular in Argentina for years, are also a way for entrepreneurial chefs to make money cooking without the commitment or start-up costs of running a restaurant.

"The whole London and New York scenes are burgeoning and were near non-existent just two to three years ago," Perlman said.’

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