Most of our customers never take the time to really case the joint when they decide to dine at La Sirena Clandestina, but we hope you take a thorough look at our Morgan Street exterior during your next visit, because one of our favorite pieces of art (that one up above) lives on a garage door at the side of our building.
We were really into the the graffiti/street art we found on the garage when we moved in. “Sally sells crack cocaine by the sea shore” was scrawled in black spray paint across the battered metal door. It was a sentence that we felt really encapsulates what La Sirena Clandestina is about—minus, you know, the crack cocaine. The unexpected, the slightly weird, and (we hope) a touch of genius; that graffiti says it all. Instead of trying to paint over it, like another tenant might have done, we tried to get the building’s owner to let us bring it into the restaurant.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t going to happen, but we still took pride in our defaced door. Until the inevitable happened: we got tagged and the new graffiti covered up what Sally was really up to. As far as we know, Sally is no longer selling crack cocaine by the sea shore.
Michelle Marrocco, a talented artist and one of our servers, was inspired to paint over the tag in a way that once more spoke to what we’re about. Next time you visit us, take a detour around the corner for a dose of the unexpected.
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