Austinist | June 27, 2007
Food: Austinist Interviews Supper Underground Founder Hannah Calvert
Last fall, a friend referred us to a mysterious new website. The page at Supper Underground promised a multi-course meal at a secret location with a small group of guests. Intrigued, we signed up for the next dinner, and received a cryptic email with an address and time several days later. The September event was held at a tony Westlake Hills estate with a lovely back patio garden. Candles flickered on the porch, quiet indie-rock played in the background, about 25 rather outgoing and gregarious people arrived, and the clandestine dinner party went famously. Read entire article here.

tribeza | May 2007
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The din around the table bubbles with lively chatter, clinking glasses, and satisfied "mmm"s. It could be any group of tight-knit friends or an especially close family, but the twenty people at this particular dinner party don't know each other at all. They just met tonight, an hour before gathering around the white-clothed table in the front yard of a north Austin home and sitting down to heirloom tomato salad, smoked salmon tartar, and herbed gnocchi. Yet conversation is flowing as freely as the wine. Read entire article here.

Bon Appetit | April 2007
The Secrets of Underground Dining
HOT TOPIC: You used to have two basic dining choices: eat in (at home) or eat out (at a restaurant). Now you have a third: underground dining, an emerging way of eating in which people (mostly strangers) get together in a relaxed, almost impro-visational setting. Read entire article here.

Wall Street Journal | November 17, 2006
Kitchen Not So Confidential
Restaurants are so over. But so is the thrill of sneaking off to eat somewhere more hush-hush. From private supper clubs in cramped apartments to alfresco dinners on organic farms, underground restaurants have become the culinary world's worst-kept secret. Read entire article here.

L.A. Times | November 8, 2006
Rogues, nomads, dissident chefs
THE room is abuzz with 30 chattering diners who sip bring-your- own wine and dip plantain chips into creamy layers of pureed sweet potato, Peruvian Aji peppers and Dungeness crab. Between courses, local blues singer-songwriter J.L. Stiles strums a guitar and sings about love, life -- and food. Read entire article here.