Ninjas in New York

If you are looking for a fun, different restaurant in the New York area, look no further than New York Ninja. Just like what is inside, the restaurant seems to be hidden in plain site. We walked pass the restaurant before seeing the only sign, this lantern outside.

When you enter, you are in a small room about the size of a closet. There is a podium and an elevator. Once your name is called you step into a elevator down to a maze.

Now I don't want to give away everything but the dinning room is set as a mountainside Japanese Ninja village. Each table is in a private room with a shoji, a room divider made up of translucent paper in a wood frame.  

Of course what is a Ninjas restaurant without Ninjas. With the use of swords, throwing stars, or nun chucks, your waiter is dressed from head to toe as a Ninjas. These Ninjas have a habit for jumping into your frame of view and screaming. Specialty plates come with fire or a trick worth watching. The food was good. Nothing special.

At the end of the meal, a magician stopped by our table to do some  very intriguing close-up magic. He was quite skilled leaving my very impressed. I could not discern how he performed some of his tricks. There were two tricks that stood out to me. One trick was having a potatoes appear inside a empty cup. The other involved me and another dinner mate holding our hand flat on against each other. I have no idea how it happened but a stack of cards appear between our hands without us knowing. It was amazing!

Though it is a loud environment and the food isn't amazing, it is a unique restaurant I would highly recommend.