Wierd restaurant names

[tjwmason]

Sitting here at work (would be utterly bored as hell apart from D.U.), I've just come across a restaurant called 'Sweeney and Todd' - I'm intruiged as to whether they sell pies.

Anybody else know of questionable restaurant names?

[motely36]

1. Is that Friar on the fire?

I love that show!

[underpants]

2. Fu-Kim

Oriental place in downtown Richmond

[Red State Rebel]

38. FuYu

In our little town

[artv28]

102. FU King

Chinese restaurant in Lake City, Fl

[AverageJoe]

3. Not a restaurant

but the funniest business name I've ever seen belonged to a liquor store in (I think) Massachusetts:

Bunghole Liquor.

I kid you not....

[immoderate]

63. A bunghole is the hole in a liquor barrel

--IMM

[AverageJoe]

68. Yes, I know

But the phonetics of this name are, well, funny.

[yewberry]

67. I was at Bunghole Liquors last week

and bought a nice Tempranillo Reserve.

They even sell t-shirts!

www.thebunghole.com

[Goldeneye]

4. I always thought Bojangles was just an awesome name

[RaleighNCDem]

48. Now you're just making me hungry...

Mmm... Bojangles.

[Chef]

5. Alfred Packer

Either the U.S. Dept of Agriculture cafeteria in D.C. or the University of Kansas cafeteria is named after the infamous Colorado cannibal.

[Richardo]

9. The CU Boulder cafeteria also

The Alferd Packer Grill.

PS: Note that it's Alferd not Alfred.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. Roc's Black Front.

It's the name of our favorite restaurant, so named for it's black, glazed tile facade.

[Cuban_Liberal]

21. PS-- Strange name, GREAT food, if you're ever in Charleston, IL.

The best steaks and chops in central Illinois (that's saying something), and THE best baby back ribs you have EVER had!

[Richardo]

7. There was a bar in Santa Monica in the 70s called the Oar House...

Technically a restaurant - I think they served food there.

[fudge stripe cookays]

85. There's one of those in Rockwall.

The name sounds casual and lakeside, but they service fancy Italian.

Go figure.
FSC

[mojavekid]

112. Oar House was there until about 10 Years ago!

Was damn rowdy at the end, though always did have the reputation. I almost got beat up in there - minding my own business, it seems to piss some people off...! The last good bar left in Venice is the Roosterfish on Abbot Kinney.

[On the Road]

8. I Got My Hair Cut at a Place Called Sweeny Todd

Seriously. The owner was a friend of mine.

I saw some good restaurant names in China and Japan. "Holiland" is the one that sticks out at the moment.

[huskerlaw]

10. Ruth's Chris

seriously, that's how it's spelled, which I find entirely annoying. WTF is Ruth's Chris? http://www.ruthschris.com/home.asp .

[bobbobbins]

36. Ruths Chris is great...expensive but great

Dinner for two will run you about 150 dollars

[huskerlaw]

39. Yeah, I've been there

but the name drives me insane. It's a grammatical disaster and almost painful to pronounce correctly.

[funkybutt]

42. strange, i thought that was a local chain

for some reason i was under the impression that Ruth's Chris was a New Orleans joint.

[huskerlaw]

53. It's all over

They're in like 30ish states and a few overseas. http://www.ruthschris.com/comeVisit_locationFinder.asp

[BrotherBuzz]

105. WTF Ruth's Chris advertises on Rush Limbaugh

can you say boycott?

[Oddly Stevenson]

110. Tokyo Shapiro's in Winston-Salem, NC

[webjamn]

116. Hannity too

He whores himself for this place all the time on his radio show.That's enough to keep me from ever stepping inside that place.

[StopTheMorans]

11. yes, I've seen this one around a few times, and I'm concerned about false

advertising. The place is called "McDonald's", but they don't even serve Irish breakfast!

[Bertha Venation]

16. Damn their eyes.

BTW what is Irish breakfast?

[RagingInMiami]

32. Irish breakfast, artery clogging, but delicious

Comes with Irish bacon and "pudding", which is blood sausage, not the kind Bill Cosby used to hawk.

[Bertha Venation]

37. I love bacon. You can have the pudding, Raging.

I'm looking for steel-cut irish oatmeal. I've heard it's grand and I want to try it.

What's the sausage in that photo -- the black hunk in the foreground? And is that beans, potatoes, and tomatoes?

[EstimatedProphet]

51. Giant Food in NoVA has McCain's steel cut oatmeal

Try there. Breakfast aisle, comes in tin cans. Yummy!

[RagingInMiami]

90. The black hunk is the pudding

It's blood sausage. And yes, they fry up tomatoes and potatoes as part of their breakfast. And the bacon, what they call rashers, is much better than the bacon we get out here.

[StopTheMorans]

40. that's the stuff!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

70. It's the best

http://www.mccanns.ie /

You'll never go near that nasty microwave crap again. This stuff is sublime.

[Bertha Venation]

12. not a name, but a sign on the roof

Back home, in Newport Beach, there's a restaurant called The Crab Cooker.

On the roof is a huge red plywood fish. On it is painted the message "DON'T LOOK UP HERE"

[Richardo]

18. I LOVE the Crab Cooker!

My favorite restaurant in SoCal. Went there often while I lived there.

Grilled scallops on a skewer, rice pilaf and cold beer = heaven.

Thanks for the memory, Bertha, you're a pal!!

[KurtNYC]

22. Big bowls of Manhattan clam chowder

and all the oyster crackers you can handle.

And their grilled scallops ARE unusually good.

[Richardo]

25. PS: Is the Balboa Saloon still there in Newport?

Another favorite haunt o' mine way back when..

[Bertha Venation]

35. I don't know.

I don't actually know Newport/Balboa that well. Chances are it's there, though, if it was popular.

Of course, the Golden Bear in HB was popular, too . . . fucking developers.

[webjamn]

115. Yes it is

I lived a few blocks from there until April of last year. Shot many games of pool there.

[Bertha Venation]

33. you bet

I'm going to have to try to get there when I get home next month.

[tonekat]

20. I Saw That!

LOL, back in December, I remember noticing that the intersection there is very tricky, and you don't need the distraction of said fish!

[Bertha Venation]

34. I've seen it nearly all my life, I know it's there, I know the

intersection is bad, but I still have to look at it. And it still cracks me up every time.

[Richardo]

46. Here's a painting....sign in the upper left...

Image

[meegbear]

13. MacWngs - Home of the Big Pac

Big Pac - Chinese appetizers in a pita pocket.

[tonekat]

14. The Frog & The Redneck

It's out in Virginia somewhere N. of Charlottesville I think. Drove by it some years back.

This reminds me of the Steve Martin movie, "L.A. Story" that had a fictional restaurant called "L'Idiot"....I think of that every time I go to some place that tries to be more pompous than the food/service deserves.

[Squatch]

15. Chix

Virginia Beach

Or the "Duck Inn"

[myrna minx]

17. I was on road trip, traveling down Hwy 61 from Minneapolis

en route to New Orleans, when I spotted the creepiest restaurant in Wisconsin. It was called The Silent Woman. The sign depicted the profile of a headless woman, dressed in pilgrim style clothing, holding a serving platter. It was quite disturbing. Yikes.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

73. Hey, looks interesting

Bet you wish you'd stopped and gone it, eh?

http://www.silentwoman.com/

[myrna minx]

78. Oh my goodness!

I can't believe you found a website for this place. Thank you!! As my friends and I passed the restaurant in the middle of the night, we thought Fennimore Wisconsin was not a bastion of feminism. My gawd, it looks like a charming little B&B. You are right, we should have stopped into the pub. Thanks.

[KurtNYC]

19. Rally's now serves the "Colts burger" (NFL team)

That's Colts as in football, not colts as in horse meat.

[China_cat]

23. San Francisco, back in the day

had an ice cream parlor named Magnolia Thunderpussy. (x rated sundaes and banana splits)

[Dukkha]

56. we have a record store here with the same name

http://www.shortnorth.com/Thunderpussy.html

[terrya]

24. Wilde Oscar's

A gay restaurant in Toronto. Eh. I've been there...no biggie.

T

[myrna minx]

82. Hey, we have Wilde Roast Cafe

in Minneapolis. "I have nothing to declare but my genius."
http://www.wilderoastcafe.com /

[kskiska]

26. PooPing Palace

A Chinese restaurant, Tujunga, CA, north of L.A.

Also, here in Spartanburg, SC, there's a Chinese restaurant named Uncle Poon's. In Beaufort, I saw another named Tang's. If they were placed side by side…

[Lavender Brown]

27. "A Salt and Battery"

Fish & chips shops in NYC.

[Rabrrrrrr]

95. Mmmmm.....I love that place

[noshenanigans]

28. This place in Van Nuys called "OK Chinese".

How is it? Eh.

[fishwax]

71. We have "Wonderful Chinese Restaurant" here

I'm sure it's much better than that joint you've got

[Debbi801]

29. Beef Shake...

It is a new "diner" style restaurant that opened around here. Who would want to eat/drink a beef shake anyway?

Debbi

[kskiska]

30. Out near Hoover Dam

there was a place that advertised "Best Burgers by a Dam Site!"

[Richardo]

31. Khan Toke Thai House in San Francisco

Great food, but we couldn't help but call it "Kentucky Thai House" just 'cause it cracked us up.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

41. Ho Lee Chow

was in Pittsburgh. They changed the name to How Lee shortly thereafter.

DBDB

[funkybutt]

43. Dookie Chase and Funkybutt

both in New Orleans

[funkybutt]

44. Chinese's Chinese Restaurant

they recently changed their name to "Noodle" something

[slackmaster]

45. Versailles in Los Angeles, CA

It's a Cuban restaurant.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

47. Two from my East Coast days and one from Portland

I haven't been back to the East Coast for twenty years, so I don't know if these still exist, but there was a Turkish restaurant in Manhattan called Genghis Khan's Bicycle, as well as a Chinese Jewish Delicatessen in New Haven.

In Portland, there's an old-style Chinese restaurant and cocktail lounge called Hung Far Low.

[CatBoreal]

49. Went to a pub recently called ....

The Spotted Dick.

[regularguy]

50. "Wurst House", west Philly...

I heard they recently changed to "Best House". Seriously.

[txaslftist]

52. "The Bong Recreation Area"

Okay, its not a restaurant, but it's on I94 between Chicago and Milwaukee, and every time I drive by I laugh.

[MrMonk]

54. Tandoori Bites

No longer in business.

[msgadget]

55. Fudrucker's n/t

[Phentex]

59. as well as Fuddpucker's

[Dukkha]

57. Bangkok Inn II Thai

say it by hyphenating Bangkok and pronounce Thai "Thigh"

[Left Is Write]

58. I just mentioned this in another thread. Crescent No Lawyers Bar & Grill.

Boise, ID.

[KitchenWitch]

60. Carlos O'Kelly's Mexican Restaurant

A mexican restaurant with Irish theming in Rochester MN

[scarlet_owl]

66. We had one here, but it closed. I really liked their food, too.

[njdemocrat106]

108. Carlos O'Connor's in Red Bank, NJ

Others: Big Peckers in Ocean City, MD (sports bar & grill), Dirty Dick's Crab House (numerous locations on North Carolina's Outer Banks) and Awful Arthur's (Outer Banks as well). I've seen "Wok 'n' Roll" Chinese Restaurants, also.

[SKKY]

61. Tequila Mockingbird...Tucson, Arizona

[NewJeffCT]

88. that is a good one

I'm drawing a blank on any i've seen though.

[Phentex]

62. The Jewish Mother

[immoderate]

64. In Kingston, NY, near the train station, the ominous "Terminal Deli"

--IMM

[thatgemguy]

65. Mi Dung n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

69. We have a place called Fezziwigs near us...

it was named after a character in the Christmas Carol

[stranger_with_candy]

72. Jonathan Poon

chinese restaurant in philly

[Drifter]

74. We have the "House of Poon"

in Rochester, NY. Good chinese food.

Cheers
Drifter

[no name no slogan]

86. There's a Poon's in London, UK too

It's actually a very upscale Chinese place-- look to spend a few hundred £s if you go (I never got to, I was always too broke).

[AngryAmish]

75. "This Will Make You Puke"

or TWMYP

[likesmountains 52]

76. The Warm Flow..

Served soup and homemade bread.

[Amaya]

77. Cum Lees

Good food, tho

[name not needed]

79. Just as long as Lee's cum wasn't in it.

[Amaya]

83. Yuck!

Thanks for the visual

[no name no slogan]

80. Used to be a chain called "Sambo's" in the 70s.

It was like Denny's or something like that. Their mascot (?) was a little jungle boy of the non-caucasian variety, IIRC.

Talk about racist!

[mojavekid]

113. The Origional Sambo's is still standing in Santa Barbara, Ca.

Or so it was a couple years ago, and it was called Little Black Sambo's when I was a kid...

[meganmonkey]

81. Nacho Mama

( say it outloud if you don't get the punny) Mexican restaurant in Ohio, on US-23 between Columbus and Delaware. It was there when I went to school (early to mid-90's) in Ohio but I think it's gone now.

[no name no slogan]

84. fuk mi sushi

[musette_sf]

89. Would "Jai Ya" work?

(for Curb Your Enthusiasm addicts)

[catzies]

87. Fuddruckers. A now-defunct burger house chain.

Used to call them Ruddfuckers.

[yellowdogintexas]

96. not defunct...still going strong in North Texas

[musette_sf]

100. and the East Bay (SF area)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

103. NJ has them

[Taxloss]

91. "About Thyme", just round the corner from me.

Not weird, but the lousy pun irritates the hell out of me.

[Zenlitened]

92. On Cape Cod... Eastham, I think... "Gutsy Bender's"

And on the Jersey Shore, a place that gave us endless giggles as kids... "The Beef and Scoop." Plenty of gross-out variations available for that name!

[Kat45]

93. The Barking Crab, a seafood place in Boston

I always get a kick out of that name.

[achtung_circus]

94. The Lick A Chick

Don't believe me?

<http://www.lick-a-chick.com/ >

[flamingyouth]

97. What the Pho in Bellevue, Washington

[no name no slogan]

99. Must be a Vietnamese place, I assume?

MMMmmmmmmmmmmmm, hot Pho..................

[LeftCoast]

98. Squat & Gobble

I avoided the restaraunt for years because of the name, but when I finally gave it a chance I was pleasantly surprised.

http://www.squatandgobble.com/

[yvr girl]

101. Klinker, Dagger, Becker, Staff and Pitts

It sounds like a law firm, but it's a restaurant in Spokane, WA

[AwakeAtLast]

104. The Slippery Noodle in Indy

Not a restaurant, it is a bar that I think also sells food. Been too long since I've been there.

[Tweed]

106. If they are spelled correctly, they aren't weird in my mind

Anything that is spelled right, is find by me. I love great spelling.

[maveric]

107. A Dong.

A Vietnamese restaurant in East San Diego. A Vietnamese restaurant in East San Diego.
Its actually a great place to eat.

[ariesgem]

109. Mighty Meaty Burgers in Los Angeles, CA

[nytemare]

111. "The Wiggle Inn"

I think it was a lounge type restaurant just east of Orlando. They closed a few years back, but the name always tickled me.

[mojavekid]

114. Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles

There are three in L.A. and it tastes better than it sounds, especially with the gravy - to a left Coaster anyway. I was propositioned by the waitress there once, the restroom was vacant..

[Pert_UK]

117. "The Gaylord" Indian restaurant.....

Used to be one in Birmingham (UK) and as far as I know there still is one at the end of the Kao San road in Bangkok.

[Pert_UK]

118. "Hannibal's" in Stirling, Scotland....themed on Hannibal Lecter....

and YES, it does serve liver (albeit calf's liver) and nice Chianti....not sure about the fava beans.

[Theres-a]

119. Jeannie's weenies

hamtramck,michigan

[B Calm]

120. Out Back and Cracker Barrel

[SPQR]

121. There was a Chinese place on Atlantic Avenue

in Brooklyn called "Fu King Restaurant."

And I saw a sign outside Temple, Texas years ago that read "Temple Diner: We Serve Food." Never went in to verify, though.