Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Instagram pictures of elegantly plated dinners, long farmstyle tables, and well-to-do people laughing in what looks like a loft apartment are followed by commenters asking, “Where is this?” This is the world of underground dining. Aspiring and established chefs invite strangers into their homes (or their friends’ stores after hours, or the empty warehouse at the edge of town, or the nearest farm) for a night of food and revelry in exchange for cash. Although decidedly antiestablishment, these secret suppers and pop-up restaurants are popular—there are websites to help people locate them, and many respected publications have penned stories about their rise.1 While some municipalities have been proactive in regulating these events, in other locales these dinners remain completely illegal, violating health, zoning, employment, and business-licensing regulations.
Publication Title
The University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue
Volume
82
Article Number
1059
First Page
16
Suggested Bluebook Citation
Sarah B. Schindler,
Regulating the Underground: Secret Supper Clubs, Pop-Up Restaurants and the Role o f Law,
82
U. Chi. L. Rev. Dialogue
16
(2015).
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