Hidden Inside This Restaurant Is A Spam Speakeasy
On one of our recent food adventures, fellow Foodbeast Reach and I were scoping out this bar that served 11 different flavors of bacon. Cool, right? You’ll hear more about from him soon.
Located inside Saint Marc in Huntington Beach, CA, the bar served actually served a bacon-heavy menu. It was beautiful. As my managing editor and I were munching down on apple pie-flavored bacon, yes apple-pie bacon, a man approached our table.
The CEO of Saint Marc, Mac Gregory, asked us if we wanted to see the speakeasy.
He quietly added:
The menu’s entirely Spam.
Our eyes immediately lit up.
Speakeasies were growing more and more in popularity these days, but this is the only one we’d ever heard of that served a Spam menu. We were intrigued.
We were led to a book shelf at the corner of the restaurant. Mac swung the door open and we walked into the speakeasy known as The Blind Pig.
While the speakeasy itself wasn’t open during the hours of our visit, he gave us a rundown of how to get your foot in the door.
Guests first have to go to the Saint Marc website under the #LFTP (Let’s Find The Pig) tab and make a reservation. They then are given coordinates to the speakeasy.
Each party gets only 1 hour to enjoy the Blind Pig. However, if you choose to buy a bottle, your time will be extended. Unfinished bottles of liquor from regular customers are stored in the speakeasy walls, where they can return to at another date to finish.
As the staff rolled out the spam menu, we asked them to crack a window for some decent photos. Completely the opposite ambience of a speakeasy, but great for food porn.
Here’s what we were working with:
Spam Fries
Spam & Orange Lettuce Wraps
Spam Mousse
Corn and Spam Fritters
As we finished the food and said our goodbyes, our hearts felt a little lighter knowing a place like this existed somewhere in Orange County. Definitely going to come back when during speakeasy hours. Because we’d love to have a couple drinks and a mouthful of Spam.
