Is that the entrée or are you just happy to see me? Nude barbecue in Oregon
Sub Rosa describes itself as a virtual restaurant & secret bar located in Dundee, Oregon. By day, it's a lunch room for the distillery office and stealth drop in bistro with thundering tunes, WiFi Internet connections and a limited lunch menu. By night, when we are open, it’s an underground fine dining restaurant and spirits bar.
Today, Sub Rosa posted on its web site that,
It will come to no surprise to many that Sub Rosa has a clothing optional policy.
This 'tradition' started with our wait staff. It was late July - the week of the annual International Pinot Noir Celebration and it was quite hot outside. We had to chill our Pinot Noir before serving because of the heat.
One wardrobe malfunction led to another that evening and soon the entire wait staff was topless. Being a huge wine tasting weekend, Sub Rosa was filled out-of-towners including some French guests. There is something about being on vacation that releases the inhibitions. It wasn't long until half the female guests had doffed their tops as well. You would have thought you were at some French Rivera private party, but no - just another magical weekend night at Sub Rosa in Dundee.
We've been known to cook topless with only the benefit of a kitchen apron separating us from the raw flame. Nude barbecue, while not the rule can happen on hot summer evening at Sub Rosa.
Sub Rosa's feeling is that both men and women deserve to go topless. Get over it already. You're starting to accept screw caps as alternatives to cork in wine bottles. You might as well get used to both sexes running around topless.
Nothing says classy like, Show me your hooters – with a $100 bottle of wine rather than Miller LIte.
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Not a very safe way to cook. It's bad enough when something splatters on my hand but on other parts? Ouch!
I don't know about you, but I know I don't want some dude's (or dudette's) chest or arm pit hair in my meal. Eeww.
While I'm all for being in touch with ones self and not being a prude, I don't think I'll be eating there, ever.
It's the bottomless that would worry me. Interest me too, but not in connection with food prep.
Sheila, not to worry. With that attitude you won't be invited to Sub Rosa any time soon. If you drilled down to the web site or surfed around, you'd see that this is a virtual restaurant and that the nude barbecue is just a juvenile ruse on the part of the owners of this web site. But the food and music totally rock. You should actually visit the web site and check it out. They actually don't cook for guests nude and our wait staff is rarely topless. But it can happen and when it does, it's contagious. But bottomless... I frickin' wish, but that is after hours and what's for desert anyway.