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Post by bazfaz on Aug 30, 2009 8:38:12 GMT
It is Sunday morning so I have been doing a little research into resturant names. Some good ones I came across:
Agrakebabra - Edinburgh
Balti Towers - Leamington
The Haw House - Edinburgh
And apparently yher is a Thai restaurant in London named Phat Phuk.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 11:36:33 GMT
We have a restaurant that opened here in the last year,a BBQ joint,named SQUEAL.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 30, 2009 13:26:58 GMT
That is from the old saying, every part of the pig is used, except the squeal.
I did find Restaurant Gandhi here was a strange choice - naming a restaurant for someone famous for hunger strikes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 13:55:05 GMT
Ah,thank you for that tidbit about squeal,I will definitely use that.  Yes,Gandhi,what a strange name for an eatery. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2009 15:13:06 GMT
Baz's first one is great! ;D
For years there was a restaurant here named "Quickly", I suppose because the food was already cooked and ready to be ordered. The food had no taste whatsoever. Someone who worked there said it was all kept in the fridge too long. The location now houses the downtown Burger King.
There is a lovely buffet restaurant here and whenever I go there I look for the sign of the more humble eatery that is its neighbor: "Doris Dey".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 15:16:30 GMT
I have never recovered from the name that a Pakistani colleague reported from a trip to the petroleum capital of the United States, Houston Texas.
He said that there was a gay bar there called "The Oily Hole".
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2009 15:22:51 GMT
I could have gone the rest of my life without reading that!
There are very few buildings made out of wood here, but on the outskirts of town there is a building faced with deliberately rusticated boards. Its name is "La Cabaña del Tio Tom".
While visiting a friend in the hospital, I met the daughter-in-law of The Cabin's owner, who said he named it that because he liked the book so much.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 15:27:23 GMT
I remember a restaurant in Osoyoos, B.C. - it was called 'The Chinese laundry' restaurant. I always wondered why they called it that.
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Post by livaco on Aug 30, 2009 15:35:26 GMT
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 30, 2009 17:59:43 GMT
I've surely posted these before; either here, or on Get Stuffed:
The Last Supper
Chet's Chat 'n Chew
Squat 'n Gobble
All are real restaurant names, and were/are in business at one time or another.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2009 21:55:21 GMT
"Squat 'n Gobble"
;D ;D ;D
If that doesn't give you an appetite, I don't know what would!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2009 23:56:37 GMT
I remember a restaurant in Osoyoos, B.C. - it was called 'The Chinese laundry' restaurant. I always wondered why they called it that. Many of the Chinese restaurants in NYC were at one time Chinese laundries as this was the first enterprise they were skilled at. After awhile ,when Chinese food became more acceptable and popular with American taste buds the laundries slowly went away and were replaced with restaurants. At one point there were at least a dozen "Chinese Laundry" restaurants in Chinatown,NYC. It's probably a carry over from that .It may have indeed been a laundry at one time. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2009 0:04:22 GMT
And speaking of Chinese restaurants .......
"Five Happiness" restaurant in New Orleans.
It already has two esses -- we're not adding any more!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2009 0:08:32 GMT
The best was one on Oak Street, Chineses's.
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Post by nic on Aug 31, 2009 6:09:24 GMT
He said that there was a gay bar there called "The Oily Hole". That's almost as amusing as "Rawhide," a gay bar in New Orleans. "Napoleon's Itch" is another good one, but my favourite has to be "Cafe Lafitte's in Exile." Nothing particularly tongue-in-cheek about it, but I like the way it sounds. In Berkeley:  But what I really, really hate about restaurant names is when they hit you over the head with things like "a bistro," "a steakhouse," "an Italian restaurant." Are we somehow confused? |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2009 12:56:27 GMT
Isn't there also a brand of women's shoes called "Chinese Laundry"?
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 2, 2009 19:05:13 GMT
Thre is a chinese take-away here, which name always makes me smile: "Wong House"
How do they answer the phone? I will have to ring them once to hear it! ;D
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Post by Hedonisttraveller on Sept 15, 2009 21:22:49 GMT
There used to be a Chinese restaurant in Lisbon called Dong Hung and another called Ah Fok
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Post by imec on Sept 15, 2009 21:30:48 GMT
Used to be a place in Amsterdam called "Fook Hing" - people must have called it that Fook Hing place.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 15, 2009 21:44:24 GMT
Paris has Moon Star Love on Rue de Belleville and Wang Style fashions in the garment district NE of Bastille.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Sept 15, 2009 23:07:47 GMT
I don't know how I overlooked Man Fug Lou, in Puebla, Mexico  We didn't eat there, so I have no opinion as to its food and service. We instead ate at Tacos Árabes Las Ranas close by. |
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2009 8:49:43 GMT
I am sure I contributed to this thread a while ago, with "House Wong" take away. Guess they can't call it Wong House or there would be no customers!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2009 9:45:47 GMT
I am sure I contributed to this thread a while ago, with "House Wong" take away. Guess they can't call it Wong House or there would be no customers! In any case, when you call them, you get a wong number. |
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Post by tillystar on Sept 20, 2009 10:54:08 GMT
There is Wong Kei in London and a chain of pubs in the Greek Islands called The Sunburnt Arms.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2009 15:57:21 GMT
hahaha at the Sunburnt Arms in Greece! Trades mainly to Northern Europeans, I guess? ;D
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Post by tillystar on Sept 21, 2009 9:08:34 GMT
Good guess Annie!
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