I was in Salzburg, Austria in 2000. While trying to find an Irish pub, I walked past a bar/club or whatever called HELL.

Not as hilarious but elegant in its simplicity is the lighted sign on a 50-foot pole posted at an exit on Westbound I-84 somewhere around Boise as I recall. It contains six letters only so is visible for upwards of a quarter mile:

E A T
G A S

Despite many trips on this Interstate, so far I've managed to resist the temptation to stop in. Any recommendations? :)

How about "Air Raid Shelter," a bar in Tokyo (maybe Ueno?)

Yesterday while driving on Hwy. 206 near Chester NJ, there was a roach-coach type vehicle parked near a VFW post called "The Wee Wee Wagon" (with a couple of dancing hotdogs painted on the side).

One with the same name in San Francisco, site of an FT get together about a year or so ago.

In Ueno, Tokyo there is a bar near the subway station called "The Church"

Near MIT
 

A Chinese eatery in Cambridge called Poo Poo Hot Pot. Somehow with that name, I did not go in.

Norman, Oklahoma has a bar named "The Library", right across the street from the OU campus.

There's a sandwich joint in OKC called "Someplace Else".

Neither is particularly suggestive of either cuisine or entertainment, but they do sorta spell out a student's choice, "Ya wanna go to the Library or Someplace Else?"

Legal Grounds, a store front law office and coffee bistro in east Dallas!

Not a restaurant, but there's a jazz club in DC called "HR 57" - named for House Concurrent Resolution 57 honoring jazz as "a rare and valuable national American treasure"

Chunky Monkey Newport, RI. Excellent food. In NYC Chat and Chew.

In Wash DC, there is a chain of coffee bars called 'Capitol Grounds' -- only in DC.

And one of my favorite coffee bars is "Jolt 'n' Bolt".

Good call. Pu Pu Hot Pot is hands down the worst Chinese restaurant in the Boston area, and it has a lot of competition for that title.

There's a bar in Fell's Point in Baltimore called "The Horse You Rode In On".
Mr. GradGirl used to call it "The Horse You Went Home With".

There's also a great place to stay in Fell's Point, "The Admiral Fell Inn"

Crabby Dick's in Key West

:eek:

I recently found a coffee-house operation in Arlington, TX called Atomic Grounds.

In Little Rock, AR (presumably near the court house) is Sufficient Grounds.

Aesop's Tables in Wellfleet (Cape Cod), Mass.

"Dick's Last Resort"; home of the Big A$$ Beer
http://www.dickslastresort.com/

"Like Like" - Honolulu, a small local spot we frequented near Ala Moana. I always laughed when hearing tourists call it the Like Like as in "I like that ..." vs. Licky Licky as in "quick quick".

"St. James Infirmary" (restaurant) - Mtn. View, CA, http://latc.com/1996/07/22/special_sect/mtnview2.html
atmosphere vs. food was the draw
Not to be confused with St James Infirmary, a comprehensive health & occupational injury clinic for sex workers up the road in San Francisco. http://www.stjamesinfirmary.org/


"Liquor and Redemption Center" Seen on June road trip in Maine (forgot town) sold liquor & redeemed empty souls or was it bottles & cans???

A bit of history: Princess Likelike (lee-keh-lee-keh) was a member of Hawaiian royalty, the younger sister of Princess Liliuokalani, and a leader of the music society scene in Hawaii.

You've probably also seen her namesake highway, just off the H1, between HNL and Waikiki.

BTW, it's wiki-wiki (wee-kee-wee-kee) that means "very quick."

This is probably more than you ever wanted to know about Likelike and wiki-wiki. ;)

latahz...

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As in the shuttle between the main and inter-island termnals at HNL? I'm at odds with myself about whether or not the name fits ... I s'pose sometimes yes, sometimes no. (We need an emoticon for "Hang loose!") ;)

Yelp, wiki-wiki is really the correct phrase for very quick. ^

Using LikeLike for "quickie quickie" is a 'personal thing' hubby & I started years ago when visiting Honolulu every few months. We always headed to Like Like for a huge bowl of saimin & food at good prices vs. paying "fine dining" prices. We spent our fine dining $$ at the La Ronde, which I understand, is now named Top of Waikiki. It was a pleasant surprise when google revealed both were still in business. I haven't visited either on more recent trips. :(

FWIW, La Ronde was the world's 1st revolving restaurant (1961). The designer/builder opened another atop the Seattle Space Needle the following year. History must begin somewhere. :)

The "Gobble 'n Go" on the Royal Mile in EDI. Looked like a dive -- did not try it!

RTA

Speaking of Prohibition...
There's a bar/restaurant in NYC (Columbus and 84th iirc) called Prohibition. I met the owner at a tradeshow and went by the restaurant on my next trip to the city. Live music every night. We had a blast.

There was the Dew Drop Inn t Greenwich and Perry in the Village in NYC. I used to go there when a student in the 1980s...used to be known for having bottled beer from just about everywhere in the world...

There used to be a number of "Road Kill Cafe's" in rural Maine. The hyperlink is the menu from the one in Greenville Junction. I ate at one in Rangeley Lakes a while back.


http://www.frivolity.com/teatime/Mis..._cafe_menu.txt

Hung Far Low restaurant in Portland's Chinatown...

How about what should be FT's favorite fast food chain in Amsterdam: FEBO! Proof it doesn't really matter where you sit... :D

There were some nice ones in Asia:

"Yu Khee Seafood" in Singapore.
"Ah Choo Noodle House" in Hong Kong.
"Mr. Thong from Bangkok" in Yokohama.

And a bar called "Wasted Time" in Tokyo's Shibuya District.

Plus, in northern New Jersey, a trophy shop run by a guy called Mr. Apo. It was called Apo's Trophies.

Pho King Giant - Vietnamese Restaurant, Warren, Michigan

:rolleyes:

The Rock and Sole Plaice, a fish and chips shop in Covent Garden London.

Already mentioned the FUK MI sushi in New Zeland? I wonder how they would answer the phone....

Great Place called "Seoul Food" in Porter Square in Cambridge, MA.

W

"Ho Lee Chow" chain of Chinese food in Canada

More Vermont names
 

Glad to see my state represented, but I must add:

Wok-n-Roll in Morrisville, VT

and for the Dems:

The Howard Bean Cafe in Montpelier, VT. It's a scream!

:)

There used to be a restaurant on the highway just outside
Whitefish, Montana on the way north to Canada called
"La Dump". We actually ate there one time on the way back from Skiing at Big Mountain. It was pretty good!
Don't know if its still there or not-it was on the corner of the sideroad to the dump, I think. On the sign under the name it said "nip & nibble" and had a picture of a couple of crows picking on a pile of something!!

:p

We like "Hippopotame" or Hippopotamus en anglais. Actually this is a chain of French restaurants. We've also noticed at French cafes, there is a brand of coffee called "Choky." :D

At least when I was a kid (may no longer exist), at the northeast corner of IN-39 and US-20 north of LaPorte, IN (where I grew up), perhaps not unusual or funny, but efficiently concise:
Eat

A restaurant/gas station on US-31 just north of Kokomo, IN:
Eat Here
and
Get Gas

"Sacred Chow", in Greenwich Village is a vegan deli and bakery. Heavenly sticky buns.

Singapore, Sentosa Island
 

About 8 years ago on Sentosa Island, Singapore there was a small chinese restaurant / cafe called

Golden Showers

I think everythingelse I've ever seen comes a poor 2nd to that one, this restaurant name is No.1 ! :D

'Puffy Taco' just south of MCI. Never eaten there, but the name makes me giggle.

Hu Dat in Rockport, TX. Family restaurant owned by Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Dat Nguyen.