What's The Worst Restaurant Name You've Ever Heard?

Seersucker will be the name of the new Brian Malarkey (of Top Chef)restaurant in San Diego.

Stevuchan at 8:03PM on 03/01/10

Hands down, Krapils in Worth, IL is the worst. Pronounced "CRAP-ILLS". Pretty good steak though.

markmcguire at 8:04PM on 03/01/10

yes, well, Crapitto's Cucina Italiana is a family name, so it's hard to make fun. Or not.

Kitchenista at 8:11PM on 03/01/10

Once I saw a Chinese restaurant called "Nice Restaurant". I kind of like the straight forwardness of it.

LHSK12 at 8:16PM on 03/01/10

I find this Italian chain, "Pastagina," pretty inexplicable.

MaggieZ at 8:17PM on 03/01/10

"Jee's Pot" in Sacramento. My ex thought the name was hilarious.

mehitabel at 8:21PM on 03/01/10

Not the worst but one of the funniest I've seen was near Seattle called "What the Pho!"

edinat at 8:21PM on 03/01/10

Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. supposed to be a really good restaurant, but i find the name very awkward to pronounce.

asianpersuasian at 8:24PM on 03/01/10

BENCHWARMER'S (a sports bar for people that don't play?) It's so uninviting.

chefchick at 8:28PM on 03/01/10

Young Dong. Korean restaurant here in LA.

leebo at 8:39PM on 03/01/10

for me it's a tie between banana and caviar {just the thought of those two foods at the same time put me off my feed} and a chain in texas called furr's cafeteria.

cybercita at 8:42PM on 03/01/10

Thai Me Up makes me cringe every time I walk down 14th Street.

Caroline Russock at 8:46PM on 03/01/10

@cybercita - what about Fuddrucker's?

Christina at 8:46PM on 03/01/10

Hung Far Low in Portland

Janet L at 8:49PM on 03/01/10

A restaurant named, Thank You. It, thankfully, went away.

There's Mos Burger, but since that's in a foreign country geared toward that audience, I suppose it doesn't really count.

Cassaendra at 8:54PM on 03/01/10

The Gorbals in LA. Sounds like something out of the Third Reich.

ohmygod at 9:02PM on 03/01/10

Monkey Bridge here in Seattle. While the food is great, and the name has a cute story- I actually avoided going there for nearly a year, just because I found the name so obnoxious and weird for a restaurant.

Renai Marie at 9:03PM on 03/01/10

Home's -- a Roti chain in Trinidad. Not necessarily bad but confusing "Where do you want to go to eat?" "Home's" "No, I wanted to go to a restaurant, not go home!"

emanemonee at 9:12PM on 03/01/10

Not sure if it still exists, but I always heard of a restaurant called Hot N' Chunky in San Fran. Gross!!

Mikikoko at 9:25PM on 03/01/10

@edinat: There's one in Alexandria, VA called Pho King. Which totally sounds apocryphal, but it's on Yelp. They have a website and everything. It is awesome. (but apparently the family who owned it sold and the food sucks now. Which is sad.)

belinskaya at 9:28PM on 03/01/10

In San Francisco, there is a taqueria in the Tenderloin called "Chunky's". Always good for a laugh but they've been in business for a long time.

www.urbanstomach.com at 9:30PM on 03/01/10

Hung Fat, name alone keeps me from visiting

ballack86 at 9:31PM on 03/01/10

fork and icehole in austin, tx

pookie at 9:32PM on 03/01/10

Phat Phuc Noodle Bar in London.

http://www.phatphucnoodlebar.com/

Kam000 at 9:38PM on 03/01/10

"The Dead Fish" in Crocket CA.

jillwalsh at 9:43PM on 03/01/10

Hot and Crusty in Manhattan.

ginghampirate at 9:44PM on 03/01/10

Unfortunately I don't think it exists anymore but there used to be a restaurant in Vancouver (Canada not Washington) called Ph'o B'ch N'ga.

kirstinadhj at 9:45PM on 03/01/10

In Vancouver, BC: Pho Bich Nga (Vietnamese restaurant now closed)

KidPresentable at 9:52PM on 03/01/10

Pu Pu Hot Pot in Cambridge -- sounds like a toilet.

TriciaRoy at 10:04PM on 03/01/10

Lettuce Souprise You in ATL.

katkat at 10:15PM on 03/01/10

Phucket Thai Cuisine in Seattle, WA. Saw it when I visited and went to Dick's Burgers near the Space Needle.

PeteRepeat42 at 10:18PM on 03/01/10

Chinese restaurant in Lake City, Fla. - the Fu King.

Southern at 10:20PM on 03/01/10

In Las Vegas there is the Pink Taco at the Hard Rock Hotel, and Pho Kim Long in the Chinatown area.

Zachary at 10:25PM on 03/01/10

There's a new place on Rt. 46 in Parsippany NJ called "What's Your Beef?" The taglines are "A Rare Steakhouse, Well Done" and "Prime Dining."

Absolute worst name for a restaurant, ever. Enough with the schtick.

DanielJ at 10:29PM on 03/01/10

BJ's. 'Nuff said.

becca.chimis at 10:35PM on 03/01/10

I'm not sure if it's the worst or the best - but El Guero Canelo here in Tucson means 'the cinnamon white guy'.

missvenuz at 10:37PM on 03/01/10

Along the same lines as the photo, there used to be a place in Strasbourg, France called Flunch. Kind of what we felt like doing after we ate there. LA is full of Pho-puns too which irritate me- Pho Sho, Absolutely Phobulous, and 9021-Pho amoung others...

Vanillamanda at 10:38PM on 03/01/10

There is a cute cafe here called "Seven Ps". No idea what the 7 Ps are but I really don't want to know.

JoanieLSpeak at 10:41PM on 03/01/10

@Janet L beat me to it: I was going to post about Hung Far Low in Portland. It used to be at this great location in Chinatown but then it moved out to 82nd into a significantly less interesting building. Food wasn't bad, though the atmosphere was kinda depressing.

Intentionally punny names bug me. There's a coffee shop around here (might be a chain) called Brewed Awakenings. Every time I pass it, it sticks in my brain for a little while poking at me. As does the doggy day care center named Virginia Woof.

RegrettableFoodie at 10:54PM on 03/01/10

Always loved Big Wong on Mott Street in NYC. One of the best places for bbq pork but they no longer sell T shirts.

Punch at 10:57PM on 03/01/10

One of the nicer restaurants in La Crosse, Wisconsin is Piggy's. I feel the name made me much more inclined to order a salad there.

Also, two of the (mediocre) Mexican restaurants in Valparaiso, Indiana were El Salto and El Charro. My MIL thought we were joking about the food quality when we mentioned them...nope those are the names.

curlycook at 11:22PM on 03/01/10

@christina, fuddrucker's is pretty bad too. i keep thinking they're trying to get me to say something i shouldn't, like the joke about the cunning runts.

cybercita at 11:34PM on 03/01/10

Well, we have a restaurant called Kimo's here in the Tri-Cities of eastern Washington; I always thought that was pretty bad (pronounced just like "chemo").

We also have one called Phuket Thai; my sister was near-fatally embarrassed one day when a Catholic priest that she works with told her loudly in public about this great new Thai restaurant he'd been to--he kept saying the name and couldn't figure out why she was so red . . . .

stillSTH at 11:45PM on 03/01/10

A new joint in Chicago is called The Money Shot.

beano at 11:49PM on 03/01/10

There is a Chinese restaurant called Lung Fung in Portland, OR. I gag a little every time I drive by.

Blue Palate at 12:26AM on 03/02/10

I would have to say it's a tie between Golden Fountain (Chinese restaurant, sadly no longer in business), and Scaturro's (Probably a family name, but an unfortunate one...)

toad3000 at 12:26AM on 03/02/10

Damn, I forgot one. Redd Rocket's, one of the cafeterias in Disney World (Tomorrowland, I think)

toad3000 at 12:28AM on 03/02/10

can this count? on Top Chef this past season during restaurant wars, the Brothers Voltaggio team named their "restaurant" ReVolt. (!) I know they meant as in food revolution, but I always went to revolting.
Worst. Name. Ever.

StoneColdCrab at 12:54AM on 03/02/10

In Utah there's a chain of buffets called Chuck-A-Rama. The idea is to be chuck wagon themed, but I know I'm not the only one that is reminded of vomiting when they hear that name.

lady_sadie at 1:10AM on 03/02/10

On the "punny" side, in Calgary there used to be a Greek restaurant on 17th Ave. SW called A Taste of Greece and on 17 Ave. SE there is still an oriental food market called Shun Fat.

reflecto at 1:24AM on 03/02/10

I can't think of anything around here offhand that is the "worst" name for a restaurant. Pastabilities is way too punny for my taste, but it's a damn fine place to get some grub.

phenoderr at 1:26AM on 03/02/10

Pukk.

My friends and I snickered and make really immature jokes when we passed by it (we were in high school at the time). We ended up eating there that night, and my ex's napkin caught on fire. Maybe that was Karma's way of telling us not to make fun of restaurant names

forsheezy at 1:54AM on 03/02/10

The Whet Spot.

Really. In Tacoma, WA. Now closed, go figure.

interpol at 2:45AM on 03/02/10

There is a restaurant in Burns Oregon called "The Meat Hook"

hippity_dippity at 4:08AM on 03/02/10

Chinese Takee Outee in Jacksonville, FL

beyondthepalace at 5:52AM on 03/02/10

Lo Phat Chow...Chinese Place...Flemington NJ

Johnny Cash Forever at 7:09AM on 03/02/10

Cucaracha in Toledo Ohio. Mexican.

Cantaloupe Alone at 7:56AM on 03/02/10

'Rats' in south Jersey. Wonderful reputation, awful name, haven't been there partially because of it.

blenny at 8:15AM on 03/02/10

Chew Man Chew in Philadelphia.

veganhata at 8:23AM on 03/02/10

The aforementioned Pho Bich Nga in Vancouver, now closed. Even though the sign isn't there now, we still crack up each time we pass through the intersection.

Here in Philly, a local chain called Nudy's Cafe.

avaryne at 8:30AM on 03/02/10

The Stinking Rose in San Fran (referenc to garlic, but still...

nessy at 8:33AM on 03/02/10

"Hotties" -- bar and grille (not a strip club) in Auburn, NY.

veebee at 8:37AM on 03/02/10

I wish I had something witty to add, but all my suggestions are lame. However, I think this is one of the BEST POSTS EVER, as I'm sitting here cracking up. Thanks for the laughs!

SunshineACH at 8:37AM on 03/02/10

Crabs, We Got 'Em... Pensacola Beach, Florida

funkopolis at 8:44AM on 03/02/10

Cafe Tu Tu Tango and Ya Ya's Chicken - won't go to either of them due to the name.

Hilfy at 8:55AM on 03/02/10

The Feed Mill, in Rudyard, MI.

redfive at 9:13AM on 03/02/10

The Bearhouse Cafe on I-70 near Russell, Kansas.

MissBrownEyes at 9:29AM on 03/02/10

Hooters.

I'll say no more.

Brownie at 9:37AM on 03/02/10

The Rusty Scupper used to be a restaurant in Welfleet on Cape Cod.

wesselj at 9:40AM on 03/02/10

Now how about a discussion of worst (best?) named restaurant dishes? My favorite was at a diner in Norman, OK. Denco's. Their signature dish was spaghetti with meat sauce, ordered with (any number) looking at you. That would be eggs cracked on top and the heat would soft cook the egg, and an iceberg salad with green goddess dressing would be dumped on that. Anyhow, they dish was call a Denco Darling. There were bumper stickers and t-shirts all over Oklahoma that read, "I ate my darling at Denco's."

edritch at 9:44AM on 03/02/10

There was an Indian place called the Mysore Cafe here in Minneapolis. It didn't last long.

katerrific at 9:45AM on 03/02/10

Lickin' Chicken in Barbados

leighana at 9:50AM on 03/02/10

I'll second Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for a bad name. Also, i simply hate the name Buca de Beppe.

mr guy at 10:06AM on 03/02/10

Skinny Dick's Halfway Inn, between Denali and Fairbanks, AK

semarr at 10:15AM on 03/02/10

We had a place called T. Martooni's, closed now. Three Three Three on Broad (guess the address) and Yummy Thai. To me, if you have to say how good your food is in your name, it may not be very good.

DCraver at 10:23AM on 03/02/10

There's a Chinese place near my mom's house in a suburb of San Antnoio, TX named "A Dong." Even though the name scares me away, it is always (surprisingly) packed.

Molly23 at 10:25AM on 03/02/10

Noodle Pudding. Its actually a very good Italian place in Brooklyn Heights.

bobbob at 10:26AM on 03/02/10

We have New Big Wong in DC's Chinatown.

colleen7583 at 10:34AM on 03/02/10

Wow. Two people have called out Ruth's Chris. It's a weird name that completely makes sense. There used to be a restaurant called the Chris Steakhouse. That restaurant was offered for sale and Ruth Fertel (a fairly close relative of mine, coincidentally) bought it.

She kept the name (wanted to take advantage of the built up goodwill in the name) until a fire forced her to change locations. A contractual provision of the purchase agreement prevented her from using the Chris Steakhouse name anywhere except the original location, so she simply changed the name to reflect the new ownership while still letting people know it was the same place.

So yeah. It's a bit awkward. And even I am tempted to say it wrong from time to time. But at least the name makes good sense.

dbrackst at 10:35AM on 03/02/10

The Leaning Tower of Pizza. Minneapolis. Or, Cluck You Chicken, Mid-Atlantic

MNKateO at 10:38AM on 03/02/10

joe's crab shack. only because of the disgusting t-shirts that all of the girls at my high school would wear. i mean, how gross is that, to let your 15-year-old daughter wear a top proclaiming that she "got crabs from joe"??

Wayward Daughter at 10:48AM on 03/02/10

The Pita Wrap-Bit in (I think) Kamloops, BC. Somewhere along that highway, anyhow. Oh, and Chin Kee in Edmonton always cracks me up.

jordanu at 10:54AM on 03/02/10

Crabby Dick's in Key West. Pho King in California. With the seafood places I know they're just trying to be funny, I wonder about the chinese and vietnamese places...

WhatsCookin at 11:14AM on 03/02/10

There used to be a horrible Chinese restaurant in Kaunakakai, Molokai, Hawaii called the "Wok Inn". It was such a scary restaurant, the locals called it the Wok In, Crawl Out.

mntwmyn at 11:15AM on 03/02/10

There's a Pakistani restaurant called "Indian Food" in St. Louis.

hmw0029 at 11:19AM on 03/02/10

There's a pub chain up here called Philthy McNasty's.

I hate that phrase (it's not even funny), and naming a restaurant after it is a terrible idea.

bearsarefree at 11:32AM on 03/02/10

Hot and Crusty on 14th and 1st in New York. yuck.

wburg913 at 11:37AM on 03/02/10

I thought for sure there would be more Hooters--but I second that one. As a Tucsonan, I vote for El Guero Canelo as strange/awesome.

desertgal at 11:38AM on 03/02/10

Cluck-U Chicken...I think it's a chain that pops up in University towns.

Libertina at 11:41AM on 03/02/10

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Pink Taco. The Daily Show even did a story on it, where the owner claimed it didn't mean what everyone clearly thinks it means.

oscarb at 11:42AM on 03/02/10

Nacho Mamma's in St. Louis
There was quite a bit of controversy over the name.
The city fathers allowed it to stay.

Marla at 12:00PM on 03/02/10

Though I dearly love the Midwestern-and-Rockies chain of Mongolian grills, Hu Hot is pretty bad. When I first moved to CO and heard it talked about, I thought people were saying... well, not something related to food.

chickadeescout at 12:09PM on 03/02/10

I've seen "A Dong" Vietnamese restaurants in a couple of cities.

There's a restaurant in Alamogordo, NM, named "Jimmie's Quality Food." OK, but what is it?

Endymion at 12:33PM on 03/02/10

I can't think of too many here in CT...in Storrs, CT we used to have C.O.Jones...put it together.
Also, East Granby, CT - Wok on the Wild Side. So corny.

lollie at 12:42PM on 03/02/10

In Monrovia, Liberia, I found a restaurant named "Sweet Finger," which sounded pretty disgusting to me...

ansfield at 12:43PM on 03/02/10

I'm adding my vote to the Ruth's Chris' complaint. Along the same vein, there's a place that opened up in Center City, Philadelphia called "Square 1682" which doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Maybe I'm just being picky.

GreenBee at 1:00PM on 03/02/10

Lil Peckers in Washington, DC (fried chicken).

And a drive-through fast-food chain in coastal North Carolina called Scat-Thru.

emilydev at 1:09PM on 03/02/10

This is not an eatery but in Salem, Mass. "Bunghole Liquors." It's slightly terrifying.

Donut412 at 1:12PM on 03/02/10

chow a dong (as seen by mister bisbee)

bisbee at 2:37PM on 03/02/10

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Dirty Dick's Crab House" in the Outer Banks and Panama City. That name is just wrong, on so many levels.

There's a BBQ joint around the corner from my house called "Speedy Pig" -- which is really a misnomer, because if you're eatin' him, then he really wasn't so speedy, now, was he? Though my husband claims it's named that because of how quickly it exits the system...

juliebugsmama at 2:39PM on 03/02/10

When I lived in LA back in the 1960's we would go to Yee Hung Guey's
in Chinatown. Food was fine, but the name always bothered me.

Here in Raleigh we have Dickey's BBQ, Big Cheese Pizza, Hard Wok Cafe, Wiener Works, tons and tons of Wang's. Yawsir and my favorite: Ali Baba Cafe & Hookah Bar!

queenbleu at 2:44PM on 03/02/10

A pub in the Camden Town area of London is called "Spread Eagle" which makes me laugh every. single. time.

sfuller84 at 2:46PM on 03/02/10

When I lived in Indianapolis, there was a restaurant on Indiana Avenue called the "Squat and Gobble Cafe." I think it belongs in your pantheon.

thetomato at 3:19PM on 03/02/10

Cincinnati has so many strange restaurant names....Chalk Food+Wine, Chi-natti Pizza, & then there is Putz's Creamy Whip, & there used to be a place called Pusser's Landing....never could even try that one.

blanchesarong at 4:02PM on 03/02/10

Earwax Cafe, in Chicago

MeiMei at 4:33PM on 03/02/10

There was a souther bbq place up here in Toronto that called themselves Cluck, Grunt and Low. Never was able to bring myself to try it.

Smugdee at 4:51PM on 03/02/10

Plan B in Chicago. Maybe my head is in the wrong place, but it always makes me think of the morning-after pill.

aubs984 at 5:35PM on 03/02/10

Dooky Chase in New Orleans. Great food, terrible name.

tizz0dd at 5:56PM on 03/02/10

There was a short-lived Irish Pub/Hooter's knockoff type restaurant here in Tampa, FL called O'Boobigan's. I actually went there once, and surprisingly their drinks, food, service, and prices were above average... but that hardly matters with a name like "O'Boobigans."

mleca at 6:01PM on 03/02/10

Chew Man Chu is a bad name but the food is decent. The Golden Donut is a donut shop near us. I looked the name up on urban dictionary and it's not pretty.

gingercookiewithlime at 6:13PM on 03/02/10

Damn, @urbanstomach nailed my choice. Chunkys always put me off. Lol

Tony jaguar at 7:18PM on 03/02/10

Oh my gosh, this is hysterical!

I was just in Vegas and cringed at a restaurant in the crappy hotel Excalibur called, "Lance-a-Lotta-Pasta." Are you serious, people?

And I know it's German, but anytime I pass a place called Der Rathskellar, I think, "the rat cellar?"

TheKitchenWitch at 8:08PM on 03/02/10

Profit Restaurant in NYC.....at least they're honest

Shikey at 8:45PM on 03/02/10

I remember a few years back there was a (chinese?) restaurant in Tujunga, CA named Poo-Ping Palace. Makes we wonder why it didn't survive..

shaunt at 10:30PM on 03/02/10

One more, a taco place called Juan Toomany's in Missouri City, TX

Kitchenista at 10:33PM on 03/02/10

Which wich. UGH.

ameliamelia at 10:39PM on 03/02/10

@belinskaya -- we used to have a Pho King in L.A. -- it has since closed down, but it did exist!

Engrish abounds in L.A.... There's also Yung Ho, and as someone mentioned earlier, Pho Sho (which is probably intentional English...)

ArkyTrojan at 2:19PM on 03/03/10

There's a place in suburban Pittsburgh called The Saucy Noodle (with a horrible Comic Sans sign).

sethmad at 4:36PM on 03/03/10

either "Pho Kim Long" (say it out loud), which actually has really good food, or "The White Chocolate Grill" which I will never eat it because the name is so unappetizing.

Traci7822 at 4:08AM on 03/04/10

"Ooze Charm Cafe" in Tokyo near the hotel sunroute

la_fleur at 1:02PM on 03/04/10

Yougot Chinese Food. I just want to call and ask "you got chinese food?"

jessypower at 9:57PM on 03/04/10

My wife remembers an Asian place north of Columbus that was called "Dog-Gone Good".

LunaPierCook at 9:36AM on 03/06/10

Anything's Pastable in Burlington, Vermont. AND it's a sandwich shop!

risenshine at 10:48AM on 03/06/10

In Sacramento we have Pho King which is pretty straightforward. In Ghana they have a habit of naming places with bibilical phrases and there was a place called "get the behind me drink stand" that I thought was pretty hilarious.

xRyanx at 12:05PM on 03/06/10

Beef O'Brady's - sounds like an Irish porn star!

Used to be a place in Aurora IL (don't know if it's still there) called the Spaghetti Warehouse. Apparently it was pretty good, but the name always turned me off.

I still can't believe there's actually a chain of restaurants called Pink Taco.

squid pro quo at 1:48PM on 03/06/10

New Big Wong, in Washington DC Chinatown

dexdog at 3:22PM on 03/06/10

Also, there used to be a sandwich place in Lincoln, Nebraska called Nooner's, Quickie in a Bag

dexdog at 3:24PM on 03/06/10

Little Fat Sheep in Monterey Park, CA. No, wait, that's the *best* restaurant name.

lyricanjl at 4:36PM on 03/06/10

How about "The Frying Dutchman" from the Simpsons?

Neoveggieman at 5:34PM on 03/06/10

there's a Phuket Thai in Honolulu. Same mall as Fook Yuen. Fook Yuen actually has excellent, authentic Chinese Cuisine.

cellophane at 10:23PM on 03/06/10

There's a restaurant called Thai Porn in Orange County, CA.
Apparently some people wander in looking for something other than food...

tech9803 at 1:52AM on 03/07/10

I grew up near a diner named the "Flim Flam." So many people have gotten food poisoning from there, we simply refer to it as the ptomaine palace. It astounds me that it's still in business after all these years. There's also a family style restaurant in Sullivan, MO right off I-44 that I occasionally stop at when traveling, called the Dew Kum Inn. I thought it would be some sort of Asian place when I first stopped there, but it's just a play on words-- Do Come In. Really strange. Food's not bad, though.

Rinsewind at 7:51AM on 03/07/10

Has any one ate at A Dong's in Des Moines?
I have.
I had stuffed squid.
Guess what it looked like?

jfitz at 5:55AM on 03/08/10

In Naples,Fl there is " The Real McCaw" Tropical Restaurant

That ain't a real wierd name.

Then there's the house band " The Well Hungarians".

Hungarian music in a Carrabian restaurant ,now that's wierd!

jfitz at 6:43AM on 03/08/10

There's a sandwich shop in the Hudson Valley, NY called "Sub Primo" -- I guess it''s just a little less than good?

lilachollow at 9:19AM on 03/08/10

"Sam & Ellas" in Tahlequah, OK. Wouldn't order the chicken.

DC Pastry at 9:26AM on 03/08/10

It has to be a toss up between Fuddruckers (just what is a Fuddrucker and how does it apply to food?) & Dick's (yes I said Dick's--Dick's Last Resort I belive is the full name). Here in Myrtle Beach we've got tons. How about the Thirsty Whale? Another great one!

Boudeccea at 9:29AM on 03/08/10

In Phoenix, the best Chinese in town could be found at Big Wongs II. Family owned for years, they retired and sold the store. Eating ther once a week for over 20 years, I was sad to see them close. Good for us, her sister has her own restaurant also known as Big Wongs jsut a bit across town.

You can also find a restaurant called Long Wongs but contrary to thought they aren't a Chinese restaurant but are known for thier pizza and hot wings. There are several of them around town and they make your wings as hot as you can stand them if their hottest is still to mild for you, my mouth was beyond numb and I hadn't hit the suicide level yet; my brother likes his wings really hot and spicy and this is the first place that was able to make 'hot' too hot for him. Worth the effort to find them as they are little hole in the wall places with little to no sit down. .

myrajane at 9:39AM on 03/08/10

Verginas in Naples, Florida. Really?

mliang76 at 9:43AM on 03/08/10

There is a new chain for chicken wings in Texas called Pluckers! Isn't it bad enough they serve the tortured birds from factory farms but to remind us of the procedure of removing feathers from chickens in the name makes my skin crawl. No worries, they serve plenty of alcohol to make you forget what you are eating.

cmoss at 9:44AM on 03/08/10

Although not the worst, Flamers is actually pretty funny too. When the sign first went up, we weren't sure what it was going to be!

Boudeccea at 9:55AM on 03/08/10

The Chubby Weiner in Chicago. So wrong.

mella2750 at 10:07AM on 03/08/10

In terms of digestive processes, the well known "In and Out" is fairly nasty, but not as bad as the old Santa Rosa (CA) burger joint "Eat and Run." I had a slogan for them: "Over 50,000 served; over a hundred and fifty digested."

the other larry at 10:36AM on 03/08/10

One I never ventured to try in Down Town Los Angeles was the 'Itchy Foot Cafe'. I have absolutely no idea what the cuisine was, didn't really want to know.

Dion Morse at 10:40AM on 03/08/10

At the Westfield mall (southcenter) Seattle, there is a sushi kiosk called "Sushi It To Go." They spell it all as one word, so you read: Sushiittogo.
Sushi sh*t to go always gets a laugh from me!!

Nelle Bruce at 11:19AM on 03/08/10

'Pho Bich Nga' in Vancouver. It's no longer in business...

foodieonthe49th at 12:45PM on 03/08/10

This is hilarious. Thanks for posting this. I love the names involving 'Pho Pas's and 'Fu Pas's. One of my favorites was the 'Nuttin Fancy' diner I once saw while traveling a back road in upstate New York. The diner was tiny and very far from the road but the sign was gigantic. Really funny.

PacoH at 12:51PM on 03/08/10

The Phuket references apply to the name of the island in Thailand that was so damaged by a tsunami just a few years ago.

Someone already mentioned Cucaracha as an "interesting" name for a restaurant. There was a La Cucaracha in my neighborhood in Seattle, but I could never bring myself to go there. My son and DIL like the food at a same-named place in St Paul, but I would still be hesitant to visit a restaurant called "The Cockroach." I'm sure (maybe) that it refers to the dance, but still ... .

David in San Antonio at 1:39PM on 03/08/10

The Fuzzy Taco in Fort Worth, TX. That's just wrong on so many levels.

KimberlyDi at 2:07PM on 03/08/10

Tata's Pizza in NJ

Tigheger26 at 2:21PM on 03/08/10

El Happy Burro...???

skyeyes at 4:31PM on 03/08/10

At Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. there was a restaurant halfway across the lake named The Halfway Inn. It was sold to a large man named Richard, who changed the name to "Big Dick's Halfway Inn". And yes, they sell a ton of t-shirts!

catshigh at 4:51PM on 03/08/10

We had a Vietnamese restaurant in Montreal which I can't remember the whole name of it but it had the word Dung in it. It has since closed...gee, I wonder why, lol.

KitchenVixxen at 10:10PM on 03/08/10

Hung Far Low in Portland OR

mrsm2 at 2:21AM on 03/09/10

How about a seafood restaurant in Tallahassee, Florida called
"Stinky's Fish Camp"...doesn't that just take the (crab) cake!!

gofish at 1:55PM on 03/09/10

In a small town Buhl, Idaho - is a great BBQ place. But the name "That 1 Place" makes it impossible to tell someone where to meet them for lunch..as in:
" meet you at That 1 Place".
" yeah, what's the name of it?"
" That 1 place!"
"But What's the name?"
etc..l..

Grannycook at 2:08PM on 03/09/10

Brown Trout in Chicago. Doesn't sound too bad you say - think again...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown%20trout

dennisdz at 9:49PM on 03/09/10

"Miso Happy" in Portland, OR (it seems to have closed though.) It wouldn't have been such a bad name (though not a good one) if it had been a Japanese restaurant but it was one of those "pan-Asian" places (leaning towards Thai.)

kawachi at 8:33AM on 03/11/10

either Tex Wasabi's or Johhny Garlic's. never been there, but hey both sound mediocore and douche-y, a rare combo.

lenbob at 9:13AM on 03/11/10

@Southern took mine: Fu King in Lake City, FL
Cute name: Wok-n-Roll in Tallahassee, FL

DAFOXFL at 9:34PM on 03/12/10

The worst restaurant name that immediately came to mind is Cabbage and Condoms in Bangkok Thailand. Good food, good purpose but a bit different.

PATJT at 6:59PM on 03/13/10

Sconehendge in Berkeley, CA

greasetrap at 5:57PM on 04/21/10