There is a mystery tunnel in Edmonton, and if you can solve the mystery, there’s food in it for you!

Mike Bhatnagar, owner of the Hat, is offering a meal to the person who can tell him the history of the tunnel below Edmonton’s oldest restaurant. Photograph by: Nick Lees , Edmonton Journal

If you can tell Mike why there is a tunnel in his restaurant, he’ll feed four of you and give you wine!

Mike Bhatnagar owns the oldest restaurant in Edmonton, Hat Resto Pub at 10251 Jasper Ave. He has a tunnel under his restaurant that used to run under Jasper, but is currently sealed off. He guesses it’s from the Prohibition day, but that has yet to be confirmed.

The restaurant opened in 1912 as the Golden Spike and has 1 meter wide tunnel running under the restaurant that has a mystery purpose.

 

Now if you excuse me I’m going to grab my Great Dane, that just happened