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Visitors can cover their tracks and simultaneously

enjoy the espionage-

themed scenery at the Milwaukee

Safehouse.

The doorman aT Safe houSe doesn’t care if you’re Jason Bourne or James Bond. If you don’t know the password you’re not getting in—that or you’ll be subjected to perform an embarrassing task for all to see. But if by some stroke of luck you figure out the password (hint: tell them you’re looking for a safe house), you’ll still need to find the door to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin bar and restaurant (check on North Front St. across from the Milwaukee River, but you didn’t hear that from me). After completing these tasks, a fake wall will move aside and you’ll walk into what could double as a Mission Impossible movie set. Food is named clever things like the “Soviet Defector.” Booze flows through airtight tubes latched to the ceiling and lands directly in your glass, an innovation that “Q” must have dreamed up in the lab. There are even some gadgets from Bond’s greatest enemies. Sure, Safe House isn’t anonymous enough to keep a true sleuth from tracking you down. But if they find you, at least you can enjoy one last martini—shaken, not stirred.

If you would like to visit Safe House CLICK here. Their address is 779 North Street, Milwaukee, WI

written by: andi summers

photography by: jessica gadzalinski

I Spy A Safe houseevery spy needs a hideout for when he’s on the lam. milwaukee’s got the perfect place to lie low.

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