http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/dining/26rest.html?8hpib
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http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01077.htm
CONFUSING the point of a restaurant with the mission of a "Saturday Night Live" skit, Ninja New York deposits you in a kooky, dreary subterranean labyrinth that seems better suited to coal mining than to supping. You are greeted there by servers in black costumes who ceaselessly bow, regularly yelp and ever so occasionally tumble, and you are asked to choose between two routes to your table.
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Alex Di Suvero for The New York Times
STEALTH SERVER At Ninja, the surroundings are dim, the dining nooks are cloistered and the help wears black.
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The first is described by a ninja escort as simple and direct. The second is "dark, dangerous and narrow," involving a long tunnel and a drawbridge that descends only when your escort intones a special command, which he later implores you to keep secret.
Unrelated (but also seen on E-Budo):
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01077.htm
