What's Your City's Best Kept Secret Places? (theater, restaurant)

[Queen Palm]

We are approaching the travelling season. What is your city's best kept secret. Whether it's some hole-in-the-wall restaurant or some little shop or plaza even, to an amusement-oriented place that not even the locals are hip to. Share.

[jtur88]

There's a hole in the wall restaurant in Victoria known as the Pinto Bean. Local people in the know love it, but you have to phone a business across the street and ask them to look out the window and see if they're open, because the department of health keeps shutting them down.

[ckhthankgod]

Perhaps this restaurant that was a church that once harbored runaway slave on the Underground Railroad: The Mission Restaurant

Wesleyan Chapel
Wesleyan Methodist Church - Syracuse, NY

Brew and View at the Palace Theatre is another thing: Palace Theater on James | Syracuse, NY

Perhaps this too: Westcott Street Cultural Fair

and this: Westcott Community Center

[Queen Palm]

Originally Posted by jtur88

There's a hole in the wall restaurant in Victoria known as the Pinto Bean. Local people in the know love it, but you have to phone a business across the street and ask them to look out the window and see if they're open, because the department of health keeps shutting them down.

Ummm......ok....so..... what makes this place good? What draws people there?

[Queen Palm]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Perhaps this restaurant that was a church that once harbored runaway slave on the Underground Railroad: The Mission Restaurant

Wesleyan Chapel
Wesleyan Methodist Church - Syracuse, NY

Brew and View at the Palace Theatre is another thing: Palace Theater on James | Syracuse, NY

Perhaps this too: Westcott Street Cultural Fair

and this: Westcott Community Center

I clicked the link(s). Interesting......

[lrfox]

Bodega in Boston is NOT my style. However, the concept is very cool. It's a high end shoe and accessory store hidden within a Bodega style convenience store. It's not marked and you have to enter through a vending maching in the back of the store.

Here's an article on it.

I think Piers Park in East Boston is one of the greatest spots in the city. It's one stop on the blue line and a 5 minute walk away from downtown and offers arguably one of the best views of the city anywhere (though Audobon Cemetery is tough to beat too). Here's a shot of downtown from Piers Park.

[kidphilly]

To me one of the more interesting under the radar things in Philly is touring the cemeteries and the ghost tours

Also Sarcones bread - yum

[motormaker]

Lake Powell Annies Canyon Echoes - YouTube

[user8]

[FaceInTheCrowd]

That mother load of gold that buried in the....