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A restaurant in TLV called "CoffeeBar", which is actually a 5* amazing restaurant.
one of my friends told me he wanted us to go there, and I was like... "coffeebar?" I was very glad we went. |
Originally Posted by Jamarynn1
There was one in Detroit called "Nacho Daddy". Also a favorite hangout for personnel at the hospital I used to work at was called "The Recovery Room".
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Richmond, Virginia has "Comfort", a wonderful restaurant that serves great southern comfort food.... chicken, meat loaf, greens. Love to go there when I'm in town.
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We were in Panama, NY (near the NY/PA border in Chautauqua County - Jamestown area) and ate at a place called the Slurp and Burp because it was the only thing open.
Food was not memorable, but the place name was. |
Half Fast Subs in Boulder, CO. (Say it out loud if you don't get it)
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Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7520/4.0.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Browser/5.0.3.3 UP.Link/5.1.2.16)
Is Derek Jeter's Taco Hole still open? |
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Dirty Dick's Crabhouse...
I waitressed there for 1 summer and if I did not say "Welcome to Dirty Dick's Crabhouse"... hence leaving out the word 'Crabhouse' I would have been fired because the word 'crabhouse' made it a family restaurant :confused: ... |
Originally Posted by Watchful
I did a double take when I saw the sign for this Chinese place in Honolulu (not far from the U of Hawaii)...
Fook Yuen |
One of my favorite Hong Kong style cafes in the Los Angeles region is the Tasty House in the City of Industry.
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I was passing through Tracy, CA about 15 years ago and passed a place called Paco's Chop Suey - Mexican/Chinese food. I did not stop. I'm in Brentwood, just 15 minutes from Tracy and I visit there often, I'm gonna check into it and see if its still there...LOL |
Originally Posted by BamaVol
I lived in Tracy for a couple years, left 6 years ago, and remember no such restaurant name. I'm sure it deservedly ceased operations. I did have the worst pizza in my life in Tracy in a pizzeria that adjoined an Indian restaurant with a common kitchen.
I also remember seeing a restaurant on Haight Street in San Francisco named Squat and Gobble. |
Cheeky Monkey. Located in Newport, RI.
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Mo' Pho Vietnamese
--Fort Lee NJ. |
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Cockyporters, it's a hamburger stand in Miamisburg Oh, small round (not square) burgers deep fried in a wok type device with pickles a thick slice of onion and mustard, Too Die For!!! It's in the center of the city in the round-a-bout, don't worry there's only one, and the locals probably don't know what a round-a-bout is, better stick to cirle in the town center. Couldn't get Wurst! :)
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Pink Taco -- Scottsdale, AZ
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Chester Drawers -- Costa Mesa CA.
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When technically registered as the politically correct name, Al's Place, the restaurant is more commonly known as "Al The Wop's".
Total dive, in a 1890's migrant workers village on the California Delta. http://www.locketown.com/als.htm http://splendidtable.publicradio.org...tern_wops.html |
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Originally Posted by DaDOKin DC
Have you have eaten at or come across a restaurant with an unusual or funny name? Lots of time the name is more intriguing than the menu, and it is usually the thing you remember long after?
Buzzard Billy's Armadillo Bar & Grillo and long ago, no resturant but performance venue of note... The Armadillo World Headquarters and once across the sea... Nefer's Titty |
Originally Posted by Craig6z
When technically registered as the politically correct name, Al's Place, the restaurant is more commonly known as "Al The Wop's".
Total dive, in a 1890's migrant workers village on the California Delta. http://www.locketown.com/als.htm http://splendidtable.publicradio.org...tern_wops.html Sounds like a former iDine joint here in Seattle: Two Dagos From Texas. I haven't seen any mention of "Gandhiji Bar & Grill" in NYC. That one has thrown my South Asian pals for a loop. |
There were two restaurants in Gainesville, FL that I used to love the name of:
Chinee Takee Outee (chinese food, duh) and Cluck U! (chicken place) |
Road Kill Cafe in Bartlett, NH
McKim's Pub in Seoul and Tail o' the Pup (a rib joint) in Ray Brook, NY (west of Lake Placid on SR 86) Pickles Place (home of the Atomic Burger) in Arco, ID |
Any motor sports fans will be familiar with Quaker State oil products. 30 years ago during the oil crunch some guys shut down a gas station and opened Quaker Steak and Lube. Visited one of them a few years ago and it was great. Careful of the Atomic Wings. You'll have to sign a release form to order them. ;)
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Originally Posted by greggwiggins
There's a local chain in Richmond, Virginia named "Nacho Mama's". And, in Detroit, there's an Irish pub named "O'Blivion's".
Nacho Mama's has really good margaritas but yes it is a weird name! |
In Mass:
Bunghole Liquors, Peabody, Ma right next to a church Clam Shaven, The sign orginally read Clam Haven, but somebody climbed up on the sign and painted an 'S' and painted a beard on one of the clams/ They used to have liks on http://www.marshfieldsbest.com but that was years ago |
Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville, Kentucky
A very funky, groovy place :) |
Dinosaur BBQ in Sycracuse, New York.
One would think it would be a cutesy place from the name, but far from it. Very cool, hoppin' place :) |
Originally Posted by ExtrAAordinaire
Pink Taco -- Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dining/...2pinktaco.html |
In PDX: Bettie Ford Lounge , doing a big business in cocktails, with a 70s/hospital theme.
In Torrance, CA: Rice Queen Restaurant . I stopped and took a picture of it In Bellevue, WA: What the Pho? This year's birthday cake came from Yummy House, which isn't affiliated with Yummie Bites (which recently changed its name from UDublicious), near Seattle's UW. |
Originally Posted by Luca T.
Already mentioned the FUK MI sushi in New Zeland? I wonder how they would answer the phone....
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I'm not traveling there myself, but while making an itinerary for supervisor's trip to Guelph, Ontario, discovered there's a Chinese restaurant on the campus she's visiting called Wok-a-thon.
I've been LOLing all day and everyone believes I'm crazy (they're probably right :D ). What do y'all think? Funny? Not? |
On a recent trip in Normandy, we came across "Auberge a la grace de Dieu" --
the "by-the-grace-of-God inn." In Seattle, we have "Thai One On." |
Originally Posted by laine
"Ho Lee Chow" chain of Chinese food in Canada
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Dicks in Myrtle Beach, SC.
---- I haven't been since a young young child, I recall it being funny but kinda gross. My family never went back to that beach or restaurant.... |
GLUTTONS was by my old neighborhood near Vancouver, GRUEL in Taiwan
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Pittsburgh's Strip District was once the home of the "My Dung" chinese restaurant which closed many years ago.
Following up on the liquor store names, one of my favorites is the "Godloves Discount Liquors" in Hagerstown, MD. In Barcelona the Omm Hotel house restaurant is Moo. Rooms are designed for style not usability, but the restaurant was nice. Cheers, Jeff |
There is a district of Solihull (just south of Birmingham, UK) called Shirley and one of the local chinese restaurants is called The Shirley Temple.
In Aberdeen there is a bar in a basement beneath an auctioneers called Under The Hammer. |
Some friends of mine went to the "Javan Restaurant" in Los Angeles a couple of years ago. Not ureasonably they were hoping to experience some Javan cuisine for the first time.
Turned out that Javan = Home in Farsi. My friends enjoyed a lovely meal and it turned out that the owners had never thought that the name of the restaurant might be misleading! |
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