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July 22, 2009

The worst restaurant name ever

This is my nomination for the Worst Restaurant Name Ever Award. My brother who lives in Atlanta sent me a link to a review of the new Abattoir.
Posted by Elizabeth Large at 12:20 PM | | Comments (17)
        

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That's bad, but not even close to the Bombay pizza place called Hitler's Cross.

Abbatoir – It's one of those names that's beautiful but doesn't match the meaning.

Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | July 22, 2009 12:28 PM

Abbatoir Cinq.

Posted by: Camille Quelquejeu | July 22, 2009 12:37 PM

Cut out the middle man, I always say.

Posted by: Bucky | July 22, 2009 12:41 PM

What if you're sitting at the middle of that long table and have to use the bathroom? Emergency eject seat?

Posted by: Heather | July 22, 2009 12:47 PM

cinghale. can't even spell it, much less pronounce it. and the food is mediocre.

Posted by: doug | July 22, 2009 1:05 PM

Wow Camille, that's was clever. It took a few minutes to get it.

Posted by: Owl Meat Gravy | July 22, 2009 1:12 PM

Abbatoir Cinq ... chef, sous-chef, two line cooks and a prep?

Posted by: Canon | July 22, 2009 1:40 PM

Abbatoir Cinq is more euphonious than Schlachthaus Fünf

Posted by: ceramic kitty | July 22, 2009 2:26 PM

Point to Camille!

Posted by: Dahlink | July 22, 2009 2:47 PM

The correct spelling is "abattoir" (one b and two t's).

Sorry about that. If I'm going to complain about it, I ought to at least spell it correctly. EL

Posted by: Hal Laurent | July 22, 2009 3:09 PM

The correct spelling is "abattoir" (one b and two t's).

So it goes.

Posted by: hmpstd | July 22, 2009 3:16 PM

Point to hmpstd.

Posted by: Camille Quelquejeu | July 22, 2009 3:39 PM

And game, set, and match (and maybe even CotW) to Camille.

Posted by: hmpstd | July 22, 2009 3:46 PM

Thank you Camille-I had forgotten about Valerie Perrine!

Posted by: mdlrvrmuncher | July 22, 2009 6:12 PM

I prefer L'Idiot!

Posted by: Baltimoregal | July 22, 2009 6:20 PM

Don't know if many will remember this, but Sam's Bagels used to be called Sam & Noah's (after the two cousins who opened the first one in Roland Park). I've heard they changed it to Sam's because they were worried that Sam & Noah's sounded too much like "salmonella."

Posted by: Linda | July 22, 2009 7:55 PM

Back in the 90's there was a bar and restaurant on Boston Street in Canton Called "Harry's Last Resort".
As it turned out, it TRULY must have been since it didn't last too terribly long. But then nothing in that location seems to last

Posted by: MDtopdad | July 23, 2009 7:17 AM

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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