Hash House A Go Go in San Diego

http://www.yelp.com/biz/hash-house-a-go-go-san-diego

Look at Sparky with his Do Bee hat on. B>)

Worst restaurant name ever: HItler's Cross in India http://tinyurl.com/lobmlh

One of my favorite restaurant names belongs to a Chinese restaurant in Hewlett, NY: Fu's Rush Inn.

I've also heard about, but not personally seen, a place in DC called Thai Tanic.

Hey Owlie, how can we forget 2 North George?

There's a restaurant in Boston's South End with an onomatopoetic name that makes my stomach turn...Blunch

There was also a restaurant in Charlotte NC called the Quaker Steak n Lube...I get that Charlotte is the home of NASCAR, but 'lube' in a restaurant name or on a menu...yuck. Maybe I just need to get my mind out of the gutter.

2 North George? Ha ha. That was such a stupid name.

Ribs 'n Bibs in Hyde Park Chicago. They have the best ribs I've ever had.

Polock Johnnys pretty much takes the cake in baltimore. I ate at a place in the west village a few years ago called "good" (they weren't lying... green chili mac and cheese is good). another bmore classic is "the horse you came in on." classy!

I dunno, I've always liked the name of the Admiral Fell Inn. And I like stupid punny Thai food restaurant names, like Thai One On, My Thai, Thai Me Up, etc.

Dick's Halfway Inn on Philadelphia Rd in Rosedale.

How about "The Bearded Clam" in ocean City: http://www.thebeardedclam.com/

;-)

Oh, and how about our own "Nacho Mamma's."

Owl Meat Godwin,

A restaurant named "Hitler's Cross". That is bad.

My fav breakfast joint was in Boulder CO - Magnolia's Thunderpussy. No kidding

How about the Grill from Ipanema in DC?

Also some great name combinations can be made with Thai cuisine: Thai Wun On, Beau Thai, Thai-tanic or Vietnamese: Pho King.

In Richmond, Va (long since closed) there was the Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe, it also had a unique decor
And in Indiiana on the road to Uof I Viking Chili.

Then there's the kosher Chinese restaurant in Burbank, California...Ghengis Cohen.

RayRay - You are kidding, right?

Trixie,
No, he's not. He beat to mentioning it. Its on the corner of Chesaco and Rt.7.

Their logo is that of a guy in a Hawaiian shirt with a cocktail in a hammock, with one leg out.

Ah, Thai Tanic. That reminds me of the nearby restaurant Thaiphoon - where I proposed to my wife the second time, sneaking the ring onto the fork and extending it across the table. She thought the fork had a bite of pad woon sen on it. Memories, memories...

I always liked Cluck-U chicken on Rt. 1 in College Park. I know of a bar in a small, southern college town called The Library. "Sorry I wasn't there to answer the phone last night mom. I was at The Library all night long."

Down here,
We have a new pizza place called "Butter Face" ("the smell is good, but the taste is even better" is their ad).

Also, there is Dirty Dick's Crab House, where they sell lots of T-shirts that read "I got my crabs at Dirty Dick's!" Sadly, they don't do steamed crabs. They have some blue crab dishes though, mostly with Cajun spices.

Closer to Baltimore, there is/was a bar on Belair Rd. called the Buzz On Inn.

I love Admiral Fell Inn, too. I just had dinner at a restaurant in NYC named Pho Sure, which was a little silly. (And it had bull's penis on the menu. Interesting.) It also had pho dishes named Pho Real and Pho Bulous ...

For years, the Boll Weevil restaurants dished up juicy hamburgers in San Diego, Cakifornia.

Aunt Chilada's in Phoenix, AZ

There's Crabby Dicks. There used to be one in Fells Point, and there's still one in Delaware, just north of Rehoboth.

Quaker Steak and Lube is a chain. Catchy name, though.

Magnolia's Thunderpussy? Attention grabbing, but it wouldn't be breakfast I'd be thinking I'd find at a place named Magnolia's Thunderpussy.

Bob UU, there is a restaurant in Williamsburg called "The Library," as I recall.

The name that cracks me up is "Colonial Pizza" in Williamstown, speaking of college joints.

In Buffalo there's a great Jamaican spot, "Rastarant".

Cafe This Way in Bar Harbor Maine

Along the same line as The Library, there's a pub in Ridgewood, NJ called The Office. "Honestly Dear, I'm working late at The Office...."

A bar in East Moline, IL, The Dew Drop Inn.

Hoosier's Buddy in Indiana.

Madam's Organ in Adams Morgan, DC a Blues Bar & Soulfood restaraunt

Dahlink, I once ran into a guy who was wearing a t-shirt from a strip club in Las Vegas named "The Library."

I want that t-shirt.

I used to go to a bar called the Relief Pitcher. I thought that was a good name for a bar.

Use to be an ice cream place in Chelsea NYC called
MOTHER BUCCA'S

There's a restaurant back home called Porkopolis.

There is a coffe shop in westmister which is part of Hahns meat packing plant, which smokes hams, they roast there own beans, it's called pork and beans. being a bartender my favorite brew was a hard cider named after charles dickens, nothin better than a dickens cider.

Here is a funny commercial about Dickens Cider..
Worth a watch...

When I was growing up in New York, my parents liked to dine at the Tip Toe Inn at 86th Street and Broadway. But us kids preferred Schlombom's Soda Parlor a few blocks further north on Broadway.

One would think that Quaker Steak and Lube would be a drive-through where you could get both your hunger and car serviced at the same time.

Michael A. Gray,

I would love to hear more about your experiences growing up and working in New York. Perhaps you could do an entry for EL's Beach Food week?

Bucky, your idea for Little Duece Scoop sounds like my husband's idea for retirement. He wants to open an artisan bakery called Vincent Van Dough.

Last night, my wife and I were returning home after dinner and we drove past a BBQ truck that is set up in front of a snowball stand on Reisterstown Rd. The Sububrban for the BBQ enterprise had this slogan emblazoned on the back of the evhicle, "His meat tastes good in your mouth". I did a double take and I swear I thought my wife would never stop laughing after seeing that.

What other memorable slogans have you seen?

When in the Dena (Pasadena), I try and stop by Beefalo Bob's for a pit beef sandwich.

Fantastic breakfast in Chattanooga, TN at Aretha Frankenstein's

Laura Lee, when I was growing up in Manhattan (and the depression was winding down) going to the beach meant catching the BMT subway to Coney Island. Among the lures was Nathan's original hot dog stand directly under the rickety old Cyclone roller coaster. Nathan's dogs were never as good anywhere else. Some folk claimed it was the sparks that shot off the cars clattering overhead that gave them that unique tang. Who knows? But I've never had better hot dogs for a nickel.

MAG - my mom was from the foreign country of Brooklyn. She swore that Coney Island Nathan's were the s**t! Not that mom would talk that way, but I do...

She also loved Chock-full-o'nuts. Which for people who don't know was a bunch of coffee shops owned by ... guess who? and they had cool sandwiches like cream cheese and chopped nuts on toasted raisin bread.

My only real memory of New York food was Mama Leones when it was on it's way out and the Automat which I thought was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen!

You might want to reconsider the name Little Deuce Scoop:
1) The Beach Boys reference is dated
2) The unfortunate nature of the slang term "deuce" particularly when combined with "scoop". It sounds like something you would take to a dog park.

Hahns meat packing plant, which smokes hams

Does anyone in Baltimore sell hams from Hahn's? One of the best hams I've ever had was from Hahn's. This was several decades ago in those ancient times when large companies would give their employees hams or turkeys at Christmas time.

When in the Dena (Pasadena), I try and stop by Beefalo Bob's for a pit beef sandwich.

RoCK,
Beefalo Bob does do a great pit beef sandwich for sure. They also do the food for the annual Council of Ravens Roosts Convention in Ocean City, which is going on this weekend. Amongst their other offerings, they have a pulled beef BBQ which is excellent.

Hal,

Hahn's was good but Kunzler's hams are some of the best I've ever had. The boneless varieties are available in MD, but sadly, not down here.

1) The Beach Boys reference is dated
2) The unfortunate nature of the slang term "deuce" particularly when combined with "scoop". It sounds like something you would take to a dog park.

1) I'm a little dated.

2) LOL...I've never known that particular slang term. I guess it would make a chocolate cone somewhat less appetizing.

But, as I said, it probably wasn't ever going to happen anyway.

Hal, there's a Hahn's in Westminster but I don't know if they have hams. I think it's just sausages there. You could always call and ask though.

Bucky, I'm a little dated too. :)

There used to be a restaurant just north of Phoenix, up on the slopes of Camelback Mountain, named Mother Tucker's. Had carved-to-order Prime Rib and a very nice salad bar. You could sit out on the patio or by the windows inside and watch the sun set and the lights of Phoenix come on below you.

You can get a Hahn's ham at the Pork and Beans store in Westminster.

Another restaurant name that i'm surprised didn't come up is "Big Pecker's" in Ocean City. I've never been there, but when I was in middle school I thought it was the greatest name ever for a bar.

Westminster also has Baugher's--a Shangri-La of good, old-fashioned, homemade, comfort food.
We have friends who swear it's pronounced "Booger's," which somehow never fails to take a little bit of the shine off. Anyone else heard that pronunciation?

it is pronounced Ball-grrrrrr's

RoCK--thanks for the explanation--I've always wondered about that.

Bucky and Joyce W., I had an annual doctor's exam last week. My doctor came into the examining room and said "You're [age deleted]! You look great!" But I knew what she meant was "You look great considering how old you are!"

A. W. Shucks in Charleston SC

"You're [age deleted]! You look great!" But I knew what she meant was "You look great considering how old you are!"

Dahlink
That's better then..
You're (age deleted) but its an old (age deleted)..

No argument, Hue.

Luckily, Dahlink, I feel a lot better than I look.

LOL, Bucky! On days that I wake up and everything hurts, it's a good thing that isn't true of me!

Dahlink, I'd be happy to hear my doctor tell me that no matter what it "really" means! :)

Great article Lizzie - LL

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I'm just googling this old restaurant name, and found Laura Lee mentioning it here from May 29, 2009 : Magnolia Thunderpussy in Boulder. It was my favorite breakfast place too, Laura! Although I was just a hippie passing through. After my morning panhandling, I'd go there for those 50 CENT HUMONGOUS PANCAKES!!!

Nice to know everything isn't forgotten. If anyone ever heard of another place I can't find any Google results for let me know : the Antlers Hotel in Denver. I'm not a druggie but many who lived there were, before I think it got burned up. It was just off Colfax.

You can reach me on my blog above.

The first business plan that I ever created was for a pizza place that delivered pizza and a movie and it was when I lived on Maui, the name, Hawaii-Pie-O (for us older folk)

jason, *groan*!!

dan thomas - never heard of an Antler's Hotel in Denver (there is an Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs--a very nice hotel, however, not a flophouse.) Might you be thinking of the Colburn? Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassady hung out there.

Lissa- no like? the slogan was "I got a piece last night..." specialty pizza was the Danno- macademian nut pesto sauce with ham and pineapple and we were going to deliver movies. one of these days...

Just appreciating a bad pun, Jason. I'd try to respond in kind, but that danged theme song is driving everything else out of my skull. It is like being waterboarded.

Lissa, glad I am not the only one! Misery loves company.

RE: Memorable slogans and signs
Willie's Wienie Wagon in Markham, Illinois had a sign at the order window that was a self-caricature drawn by a college friend of mine who put himself through school by working there. The sign showed a leering Randy in his short-order cook garb, holding a Chicago-style hotdog extended toward the viewer, with the slogan "We relish your buns!"