Not the one on the table in the locker. This is the one he keeps in his apron pocket. Newest entries first.
In short: The Butcher’s Other Diary is a comic, fictional journal by the Northbridge Butcher, villain of Cannibal at Escape This Northbridge and Sydney CBD. It is safe for work and safe to read before you play: it never describes the diary players read in the room.
The Northbridge Butcher is the villain of Cannibal, a strictly 18+ horror escape room designed, built and run by Escape This at Escape This Northbridge and Escape This Sydney CBD. Players wake in his meat locker on the night of his dinner party and have 60 minutes to get out while he is out buying the last ingredients.
In the room, reading the Butcher’s diary is part of escaping. This website diary is a different one, written by Escape This as comic fiction: it never quotes or describes the in-room diary, gives away no puzzle and describes no real person, crime or place as a crime scene.
Over at theundertaker.com.au, the Undertaker’s own comic diary counts the Northbridge Butcher among his several disguises, which is why “U.” keeps turning up in these pages. Each diary nods to the other without borrowing its words. Facts beside each entry, such as group sizes and the 18+ rule, come from Escape This’s booking records and are kept current.
It’s a comic, fictional journal that Escape This writes in the voice of the Northbridge Butcher, Cannibal’s villain: his menus, seating plans, recipes and sulks about being called a copycat. It is safe for work to read, even though Cannibal itself is strictly 18+, and each entry sits beside the real room facts.
No. Inside the meat locker, reading the Butcher’s diary is part of escaping, and that one stays in the room. The website diary is a separate, private one he keeps for himself. It never quotes or describes the in-room diary, so reading it online tells you nothing you’ll need on the night.
It won’t. The Butcher writes about food, guests and grievances, and never sets down a code, a hiding place or the order of anything in the room. Read every entry before your booking and Cannibal will be exactly as hard as its 8 out of 10 rating promises.
The Undertaker, villain of Buried Alive. In the Undertaker’s own comic diary, the Northbridge Butcher is one of his alter egos, and he grumbles that the Butcher writes recipes in his margins. The two diaries mention each other but are written separately, and Cannibal’s story stands entirely on its own.
Two of them do. Cannibal opened at Escape This Northbridge on 23 May 2020 and at Escape This Sydney CBD on 9 August 2024, according to Escape This’s booking records, and the Butcher’s opening-night entries carry those dates. Every other date is chosen for the story.
About once a month through 2027. Each new entry appears on the Cannibal site on the date written at its top, so there’s usually a fresh menu or complaint waiting when you come back.
Book Cannibal at Northbridge or Sydney CBD. Adults only, one hour, one very hungry host.
