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The world's tiniest IHOP restaurant was cloistered in a secret Los Angeles location.
- IHOP recently hosted an exclusive dinner series at its tiny house restaurant in a secret Los Angeles location.
- IHOP's head of culinary, Scott Randolph, was the chef in charge of the tiny house dinner. He curated a fine dining-inspired menu with ingredients from IHOP's regular menu and test kitchen.
- Chef Randolph and six guests - including me - were crammed into the world's tiniest IHOP, which has a working commercial kitchen inside it.
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IHOP is a massive chain of large restaurants that serve enormous meals.
But last week, IHOP hosted an exclusive tiny dinner series in the world's tiniest IHOP, a tiny house built by A&E's "Tiny House Nation" hosts John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin. The IHOP was cloistered in a clandestine location in downtown Los Angeles, and functioned as a working restaurant for four nights, serving three seatings per night.
For each seating, six diners squeezed into the tiny IHOP for a four-course meal inspired by IHOP classics and served personally by IHOP's head of culinary, Scott Randolph. The meal was made only using ingredients from IHOP's regular menu and test kitchen.
"About the tiny house - we were looking for something unique and fun to do," said Stephanie Peterson, head of communications at IHOP. "We were doing a partnership with A&E and then after we did it, we said the most amazing thing we could do would be to actually open it up and let people enjoy chef Scott's food."
In order to see if IHOP could fit a grand experience into a petite space, I flew cross-country to Los Angeles to put lots of tiny pancakes into my mouth. Here's what it was like: