Recently, the Slog told us about a neighbor who called the police on the Neighbours nightclub more than 500 times in a two-year period. Neighbours, it turns out, isn’t the only Capitol Hill institution with a neighbor angry about the noise.

Recently at an East Precinct community meeting, a representative for a local citizens agency described an issue some residents were having with loud music and parties happening in a loft somewhere on Capitol Hill. In the meeting, Kay Godefroy of the Seattle Neighborhood Group was vague about the location of the noise complaints and wouldn’t identify the businesses involved. But when asked for more information after the meeting, she said the residents told her the noise came from an unlicensed restaurant operating in Pike/Pine.

The description and timing of the complaints matches events created by Cafe Vita owner and, now, Seattle restaurateur Michael Hebberoy. His One Pot dinners are one part culinary adventure and two parts super secret spy club with a big dash of hipster to taste. Meanwhile, regular parties held at the Vita loft, Hebberoy says, are “not promoted to the public, not advertised, and are not seeking to bring in more people. No banners, no cards.” Instead, he says, gaining entry depends on “who you know.”

Hebberoy says that his events make “normal, city noise” but that he isn’t aware of any formal complaints about his dinners or his parties. “In the case of the Vita Loft, it is an event space. There’s some cranky neighbors that have called police about noise.” And, he added, One Pot can’t be shut down for being an unlicensed restaurant because it’s not a restaurant:

“There’s nothing they can do to shut us down,” Hebberoy said. “I never sell booze. It’s always bring your own wine and I always have a banquet permit. All the food is made in professional kitchens.”

As for the other events that happen at the Vita Loft, Hebberoy says the mystery spot about one block from Cafe Vita can be used at the discretion of Vita’s managers and that the loft isn’t the only loud spot on the block.

“There’s multiple people in that building that have had raucous parties,” he said.

So, will formal complaints be made or is this just neighbors taking the opportunity to bitch about something different, and, maybe, loud? Godefroy declined comment when contacted and the East Precinct won’t comment on citizen complaints of this nature. Who knows what’s next at the ‘who you know’ Vita Loft parties — we’re not invited. But more One Pot events are being planned — as soon as Hebberoy returns from Sumatra.