Restaurant Names

[sparrowgrass]

Buck Snort Cafe, I think in Montana somewhere. sounded like deer boogers.

[hjshorter]

I recall a Chinese restaurant in DC named the Big Wong.  Not sure what that was in reference to.

Hey, I've eaten at Big Wong! Good dim sum.

Back in the 80's it was our destination after a night at the 9:30 club, because it stayed open until 5am on the weekends. Alas, no memories of the food. I was usually in such a state that I couldn't tell you what I was consuming.

[ideefixe]

But aren't there any number of "Father's Office" "The Library", Your Sister's Place joints? So you can truthfully say you were at the Library, when you get home late.

And there's an Oarhouse in Bozeman. Montana, too.

[KatieLoeb]

There's a Thai restaurant in the Northern suburbs of Philadelphia called White Elephant. Sounds like you're purchasing used food/stuff no one else wanted!

[birder53]

Hog's Breath Inn - Clint Eastwood's place in CA.

I saw a local ad for Fantasy Pizza. Sounds bad to me

[wingding]

I recall a Chinese restaurant in DC named the Big Wong.  Not sure what that was in reference to.

We have a Big Wong in N.Y. too,on Mott Street.And a barber shop,named Mei Dick,is right down the block.

[NeroW]

Buck Snort Cafe, I think in Montana somewhere. sounded like deer boogers.

Got to love the Buck Snort Restaurant Bar and Casino. It's in Evaro, MT, on Hwy 93. Actually I think there's one in Colorado too, but not sure if they're affiliated.

[g.johnson]

La Cucaracha, a restaurant in Soho, London.

Downtown Beirut, a bar in the East Village in the late 80s ealy 90s.

[NeroW]

Downtown Beirut, a bar in the East Village in the late 80s ealy 90s.

Oh no! That's bad!

Edited:

La Cucaracha, a restaurant in Soho, London.

Holy crap, are you kidding me? That's worse!

Edited March 6, 2003 by NeroW (log)

[Hopleaf]

In Chicago, there's the Terminal Cafe, which happens to be at the end of a busline, but still makes you think twice about going in.

Also, up in Edgebrook: Thong Thai. Shoes or underwear, I'm not eating there.

And in Lincoln Square: Roseded (another Thai place, which is in fact quite good)

[cherrypi]

There's a popular Toronto pub that used to be called the Betty Ford, until legal threats resulted in a name change to Betty's. I no longer take out-of-town visitors there.....

[Bond Girl]

In New York, there is the Blue invasion;

Blue Ribbon

Blue Hill

Blue Fin

Blue Water Grill

As Boy Toy commented recently, everyone is blue these days.

[SobaAddict70]

You know you're in the Twilight Zone when the restaurant has a SYMBOL for its name.

Maybe that's the next trend?

Town, Craft, WD-50, 66, Zola -- move over!!!! How about " " for a name? Any takers? (j/k)

Soba

[tissue]

Pho King

[tedwin]

"Madam's Organ" in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of DC.

[ChocoKitty]

"Bangkok Hung," a Thai place in metro Detroit. I dunno, it just sounds like a name for a male porn star.

"The Moose Preserve" is another name I don't care for.

[afoodnut]

Buck Snort Cafe, I think in Montana somewhere. sounded like deer boogers.

Got to love the Buck Snort Restaurant Bar and Casino. It's in Evaro, MT, on Hwy 93. Actually I think there's one in Colorado too, but not sure if they're affiliated.

The Buck Snort Saloon in Pine, Colorado (about 30 miles west of Denver). Very popular, old time local mountain bar/dive, entertainment on weekends. Not affiliated with anyplace else.

[heyjude]

For many years, Portland, OR had a couple drive up burger places named Yaws. Yaws is a contagious, tropical disease with lovely symptoms like a crusty rash.

[mikey]

Doe's Eat Place

Mama's Big Burgers

Pizza D'Action

Your Mama's Good Food

And barbeque joints:

White Pig

Whole Hog Cafe

Cross-eyed Pig

(As long as were talking diseases, there was a club volleyball team in New Orleans called pellagra)

[plax]

Hog's Breath is also the name of a bar in Key West-- you see a lot of their t-shirts around South Florida, with the slogan "Hog's Breath is better than no breath at all."

When I lived in Albany NY working on a construction site, the guys used to hang out after work at a bar called Your Place. "Hey, where you going after work?" "Your Place."

[Wild Pegasus]

Just outside of Ottawa is a restaurant named "The Garden of Eat'n".

[aliwaks]

there's a restaurant in New haven called Vulna, and it's logo is a rather umm shall we say suggestive V design, I wonder what thier special is?

[hjshorter]

there's a restaurant in New haven called Vulna, and it's logo is a rather umm shall we say suggestive V design,  I wonder what thier special is?

I'm reminded of a certain Seinfeld episode.

[Blue Heron]

Functional Fuel Bar & Restaurant in Seattle. According to their menu it "pleases the palate nurtures the body".

www.functionalfuel.com

[Suzanne F]

Has anyone yet mentioned Ship of Fools, a bar on the Upper East Side of NYC? Or The Village Idiot, another bar on 14th Street and Ninth Avenue?

BTW: Nation's Restaurant News has a weekly feature listing "funny" names that readers send in, from all over the country. A recent one was Rhythm & Brews, in Boynton Beach, FL.

And the venerable Phoebe's in the East Village is now called Fuel. Ugh. Maybe because it's just a block away from B-Bar, which was originally a Gulf gas station.