My Fake Restaurant

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Oobah Butler is a professional prankster. In 2017, he managed to convince the London restaurant scene that he was the owner of the coolest, most popular place in town. A place that didn’t exist. Despite having never served a single customer, this is how The Shed at Dulwich became the No. 1 rated restaurant in London on TripAdvisor. A Somethin’ Else & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's 2017, you're in London, one of the busiest cities in the world with some of the most popular restaurants.
0:15.0	It's almost a weekend and you want to book a table for you and your friends.
0:19.0	But you're looking for something different.
0:22.0	Somewhere you or no one you know has ever been before.
0:26.0	You go online, start scrolling and then you find it.
0:32.0	The Shed at Dullich is a high-brow up market eater in South East London.
0:38.0	That is an appointment only restaurant.
0:42.0	That's Uber Butler. He's the owner of the Shed at Dullich.
0:46.0	You have to apply to be seated there.
0:50.0	The tagline for it is all you're allowed to know about London the best kept secret.
0:55.0	And I just pretended like we've been open for a long time.
0:59.0	And like that so that it existed and people you might just hear about it.
1:04.0	As well as being super exclusive, the Shed take on cuisine is very different from your usual high-end restaurant.
1:11.0	It is a place that serves moods instead of meals.
1:18.0	So you can order contemplation or comfort which was soup served in an Egyptian cotton bowl.
1:30.0	That's right, contemplation.
1:33.0	I don't even know what that tastes like.
1:35.0	And soup served in a bowl made from Egyptian cotton.
1:40.0	Yeah, this place was out there.
1:42.0	The where there it is often the more people go for it.
1:46.0	And at that time there was nowhere more popular in London than the Shed.
1:50.0	It's the number one rated restaurant or has been a number one rated restaurant in London on TripAdvisor.
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