New York City Weird Restaurants

Strange Taste Cuisine

• Many Chinese restaurants take names that describe the type of food served there, like “Yummy Noodle” or “Good Good Taste”. Strange Taste Cuisine is located in the heart of Chinatown, and the food is rather conventional by Chinese restaurant standards and not at all strange tasting. They serve up noodles, dumplings, sesame pancakes and other traditional northern-Chinese dishes from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. seven days a week.

  A traditional “strange taste” Szechuan food preparation produces dishes that are a combination of salty, sweet, hot, numbing and sour. Unfortunately, Strange Taste Cuisine doesn’t have any Szechuan dishes on their menu. Strange indeed.

  Strange Taste Cuisine
  20 Henry Street
  New York, New York 10002
  (212) 227-6810

Peep

• Owners Kitti Pirtpanaruk and Lenny Limleartvate hired designer Stefan Boublil to come up with a design for their new restaurant. The only direction he was given was to make it “sexy”. The idea of voyeurism came to him immediately, and the concept for Peep was born. The dining room’s mirrored ceiling and polished aluminum floor are described by designer Boublil as a “peekaboo design element”. The bathrooms are fitted with one-way mirrors allowing its occupant to look out into the restaurant as they take care of business, while the bathroom video screens play the movie “Sex, Lies and Videotape”. As if that isn’t enough, the bar and undersides of the long banquettes in the restaurant are lighted by pink neon lights. The design goal was to achieve the feeling of a peep show without throwing it in your face. Peep has succeeded in its goal.

  Peep
  177 Prince Street
  New York, New York 10012
  (212) 254-PEEP
  Peepsoho.net

The Slaughtered Lamb Pub

• This theme restaurant is modeled after the original Slaughtered Lamb Pub just north of London that was said to be “cursed with the bloodline of the werewolf”. The pub received its name because residents of the town would kill a lamb and smear the blood on the doors to ward off the werewolf’s spirit.

  Drink and dine in the Pub Room, relax by the fire in the Werewolf Lounge or play darts in the Dungeon’s game room. Rest assured that no werewolves will crash the party.

  The Slaughtered Lamb Pub
  182 West 4th Street
  New York, New York
  (212) 627-LAMB
  slaughteredlambpub.com