Black Friday is approaching fast, but this year you don’t have wait through a frigid Massachusetts morning to do your holiday shopping! Our doorbuster is online!

Starting at 6AM on Friday, November 27th, Mystery Cafe gift certificates* for two-ticket packages will be half-off ($49.95)!
Here’s the catch: Every five minutes, the price goes up $5! So you’ve got to act fast.
Log on to our box office on Friday morning before tickets are back to full price and you’ll land a bargain gift for the holidays…while still in your P.J.’s!

*Gift certificates redeemable after Christmas 2009.

Buy tickets first by visiting the show’s homepage or calling the box office at 781-784-7469, then show up in costume to get the rebate.

Mystery Cafe is offering half-priced tickets for the dress rehearsal of Hell of a Kitchen. The rehearsal will be held at The Elephant & Castle (161 Devonshire St, Boston) on October 15th at 7:30pm.

This bargain won’t last long, so act now! Call the box office at 781-784-7469 and reference the promo code: HELLOFAPROMO.

The Elephant & Castle will feature a new dessert for our upcoming dinner shows: Apple Berry Crumble. How can you resist this delicious blend of apples, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and raspberries with a sweet crumple topping? Oh, did we mention it’s served with big dollop of vanilla ice cream?

It wasn’t always that way as our cruises used to start in mid-May when our optimism was sunnier than the weather outside.  Summer cruises on Boston Harbor are always the highlight of our summer and the secret that most people don’t know is that cruising in September is actually best of all as the water is still warm making the nights a real joy.

This summer we have some special cruises planned including one on Saturday, July 4th that we hope will have fireworks in the background and Saturday, July 11th where we will pass the world class tall ships that will be in Boston Harbor.

The biggest news of all is what we are doing after our mystery cruise.  We are introducing the Boston Ghost Cruise.  This 90 minute cruise sails Saturday nights at 10:30PM and tell the Best Ghost stories in Boston set right where most of them took place, on Boston Harbor.

So there you have it, Summer starts on June 13th.

Most of the people that came over to the table were excited about it. “Wow, what a great idea!” “Is it new?” “Perfect, I’m going to do it this weekend” “You do this on a Boston Harbor Cruise?” I was amazed and inspired. What was old to me was new to 90% of the people in that room and those people were the movers and shakers in the tourist industry and they didn’t know about something that I have been doing most of my professional life, the industry that I started.

Everyone we talked to was excited about it as if they found Boston’s Best Kept Secret. That is something I can get excited about it. People have loved Mystery Café and the dozens of shows that we have done for tens thousands of people over 22 years. I think what I saw last night was an inspiration to me and to those that work for Mystery Café. It is new to many people and our job is to continue to entertain and do what we do best and you, the reader and the guest will talk about it, share with your friends and tell more people about it. Sure, the All New, Mystery Café!

It’s a great story as to how I started it and as this blog goes along I will share various stories of the trials and tribulations of running a dinner theater, expanding it to 22 cities around the country and my favorite event, performing for Hef and the Girls Next Store at the Playboy Mansion (twice).

Just yesterday I was discussing our secret to long term success as compared to one of my inspirations, Shear Madness.  We have taken the interactive mystery and we do it as a dinner theater, a dinner cruise, a mansion murder mystery and we change shows and situations so our repeat clients can experience a different theme or a twist in how we get you involved.   I am excited to share with you weekly stories from the past, present and future of America’s Original Murder Mystery Dinner Theater.