Restaurants & Bars

This Underground Restaurant Is PA's 'Most Unusual' Dining Experience, Ranking Says

Guests descend 43 feet into the stone-lined vaults and enjoy a historic tour of the cellars before being shown to their table

Dinner and a show? How about dinner and a sideshow? You’ll find it in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, according to a ranking of the country’s most unusual restaurant experiences.

The food and travel website Lovefood ranked restaurant experiences in all 50 states from the weirdest to the least weird, but they’re all places where the setting may be as memorable as the food.

Catacombs at Bube’s Brewery is Pennsylvania's most unique dining experience, the ranking says. Lovefood actually ranks the Keystone State eatery among the top five most unique dining experiences in the country.

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Here's what the outlet says about Catacombs at Bube's:

A romantic setting where you can dine among old wine barrels, the Catacombs at Bube’s Brewery lies deep underground inside aging wine cellars. Guests descend 43 feet into the stone-lined vaults and enjoy a historic tour of the cellars before being shown to their table. Dishes such as crab-stuffed Portobello mushrooms, filet mignon, seafood pasta, and roast chicken are always big hits.

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The other eateries that were ranked in the top five in the ranking include:

The Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar in San Francisco, a tiki-themed restaurant in San Francisco with a huge central lagoon and floating stage where simulated tropical storms roll through between courses.

The Yurt at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah, where guests have to snowshoe through a moonlight forest to the yurt, where a chef will prepare a meal at their table(this spot is open only seasonally, from December through April).

The Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs, which is housed in a Boeing KC-97 tanker built in 1953. The plane flew all over the world before being decommissioned in 2002.

Enoteca Maria, a Staten Island eatery that doesn’t have a regular chef but hires “Nonnas of the World” — grandmothers from around the globe — to cook their best dishes for a menu that changes daily. The cuisine is so good it has earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand label.

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