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dumb restaurant names [Moved from Ontario Board]
Every time I go by "Dazzling" on King West in the Entertainment District, I feel sick to my stomach. What a silly name for a restaurant!! It makes me not want to go in there, as does "Superior" on Yonge, though for all I know, it could be a great spot.
Are there any restaurants you won't go to, just because of their unfortunate name?
The food is actually pretty good, but combining "shawarma" and "falafel" into "Shawafel" just doesn't work for me. Sounds too much like "Sure awful."
Here's one that's a twist on this theme:
I had just finished a long swim workout in the morning near San Anselmo, CA, and I was absolutely starving for something savory. I passed this place on the side of the road that had a silly name but the last of the three items just sounded grand at the time - "Peace, Love & Grilled Cheeses."
Of course, I pulled over, only to be mightily disappointed to find out it was a freakin' hair salon!
Hang Fung in Monaghan, Ireland. Everyone makes fun of it. "Flung Dung" was vulgar, I'll admit, but it still makes me chuckle whenever I think of it. Hang Fung might mean something appetizing in whichever Asian language it is from, but one really must consider the people of the target country when a business goes international.
I don't know if I love or hate cutesy names based on location. On Bowdoin st. in Boston, right behind the State House, there's a bar called The 21st Amendment and a Greek deli-type place called The Fill-A-Buster. Both are pretty damn good, but I can't reach a verdict on the names.
Maybe it's just me, since I don't live in NYC, but when we were in Manhattan last month, our hotel was across the street from a bagel restaurant called "Hot and Crusty".
My New York friends don't seem to think there's anything wrong with that. However, to me it sounds like something you'd want your dermatologist to take a look at, or something you'd want to rub creme on. I know what they were going for, but not appetizing to me at all...
re: small h
We have a restaurant herein SF called Hot n' Hunky.
Another one was called Medicine. It's closed now, but the name never appealed to me, at all. They had very health conscious, gourmet, asian inspired food, which I just found bland, and dull. Also, despite the brouhaha, Red Medicine doesn't appeal to me because of it's name. I just don't want to think of my food as medicine. NO appeal to my senses.
re: cosmogrrl
Many years ago I used to eat at a little place in Sedona called Eat your Heart Out. They had kick-ass deli meats and cheeses, amazing sandwiches, homemade breads, chocolate chip cookies. But the imagery of that name bothered me and still does.
Eat your Heart Out. You're either bitter and acrimonious, or literally eating your own heart! Yuck!
We thought this Singaporean chef was joking, but no - the food was positively mediocre :-(
Restaurant in Montreal called Toque, very high level. However, they pronounce it ' toe-kaye' as opposed to toak. Always seemed silly, is there a reason for this oddity ?
re: buttertart
????Never seen tuque/toque spelled with an accent on the end, nor have I ever heard it pronounced as TOE- QWAY...ever... as in EVER.
re: freia
Not TOE-QWAY, but toe-KAYE.
Doesn't matter how the word is supposed to be pronounced or spelled, the restaurant *name* is Toqué!, pronounced toe-KAYE
Saw this heading today
talks about a place "Thai Tanic" and I thought of this thread. -
re: monkeyrotica
What restaurant? "Oui the Peep Hole"is a comedy act written by this guy five years ago: http://davidspiecher.com/id1.html
In SF's chinatown there's a restaurant called Chef Hung's. And a multitude of tapioca tea shops called Quickly.
Most pretentious name award goes to RN74.
There's a fairly new sushi restaurant in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho named "Raw Dead Fish." I love sushi, but yuck. Not clever.
re: gmm
I like the name too.
I once worked with a much older lady who was somewhat old fashioned. When she asked me what I had had for dinner on night's that I'd had fried chicken, I always told her that "I had an old dead bird for dinner." She'd screw up her face and say "Oh Jee-um!" (That's "Jim" with a southern accent). Always made us laugh.
There's a new place in Chicago that's named "The Money Shot".
The local food boards are having a blast making fun of the name.
Beefy Beef Noodles in Vancouver. The small print under the name says "Salty Peppery Chicken". I haven't been and wonder what they serve??
there used to be a place in one of the carolina's -- north, i believe -- called Sam and Ella's. Then there was Julia's Cheeser in my hometown for a while. just a cheese shop... but I thought that was pretty catchy.
re: lil magill
ok, that one I had to google......
wouldn't Sal-N-Ella at least have been closer?(for those as dense as me.... salmonella)
People do the strangest things when they are drunk.... I used to work for an architectural firm called Trans-Oceanic-Architectural-Design, one of the bosses used to love to answer the phone using the acronym.
re: KaimukiMan
ribbit! <hiccough> "may i help you?" http://barista.media2.org/wp-content/CANE-TOAD.jpg
and if ya drink too much, you might see like this one: http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee...
There was a fantastic little eclectic restaurant in Salem NH back in the late 90s with the unfortunate name of "Metastasis". The owners wanted to covey a "change of position, state, or form", but most people associate the word with the spread of a cancerous tumor. The chef still runs a bistro in Manchester, without that name.
I used to live near 78th and 1st by a place called East Side Bagel & Appetizing. Not necessarily dumb, just pretty funny.
re: MMRuth
Yes, pretty common once upon a time in NY. As in, "What's for breakfast Sunday?" "Appetizing, what else?" Or "I need to stop at the appetizing store. We're out of whitefish and schmaltz herring."
To me this speaks more of the demise of a hallowed institution than anything else.
re: MMRuth
Shmaltz herring doesn't actually have chicken fat in it although a non-kosher version of it may have at some point. It's a fine point of kosher laws but, although fish, being pareve, and meat may be served at the same meal, they cannot be on the table at the same time nor used in the same dish. I've never really understood it but that's how it is.
"Schmaltz herring is whole herring with insides intact but the head off. Heavily in salt, its brine also has brown sugar added to it. This can be used by people who want to make their own pickled herring or the salt can be soaked out and the fish cooked. Milker herring is basically the same but only the male fish are used, prized for their milk."
I once rode past a seafood restaurant in South Carolina called Toomer's Seafood. Pronounce it out loud.
I often dream of opening my own barbecue joint and calling it The Swine Flue.
re: Naco
I may have mentioned it earlier, but give the profusion of low end sushi bars around me, many of whome seem to get thier names by picking random Japanese words that will seem familar to Westerners (wther they have anything to do with food or not) I full expect, any day now to see a sushi place called "Hara Kiri", "Hari Kari", or "Seppuku"
re: porker
The scary thing is, a lot of people would proably LIKE a sushi bar called "Mr. Moto", they'd think it was nostalgic. I'd bring up the name "kamikaze" but I'm failry sure that I actually have seen a sushi bar named that (hopefully they were referring to the wind that blew Kublai Khans navy away from Japan) Soetimes I wonder if they are all mistakes or is some of the proprieters really do have something agaisnt their clientele. I keep having images of an old Chas Addams cartoon of a (western) lady in a Manhattan Chinese resturant (circa 1940's or 50's) speaing to the waiter the caption was "You wished to speak to the proprietor?". The joke is that the proprietor is in the cartoon as well, and its very obviosly Fu Manchu, in all his evil glory.
Oh and, as an aside, a friend of mine swears that, because he didn't understand the word (He though it meant something like "artistic") a freind of his named his Japanese resturant the Cafe Hentai.
the Midas Burger, in Arab AL. Their specialty is fried boneless chicken breasts, in buckets and on sandwiches. Arab got it's name as a result of a Postal Service typo.
re: CDjockey
Snack-It Jamaican Restaurant. I just noticed it on my way out of work today. Big neon "Snack-It" sign. What the hell kind of name is that for a restaurant?
http://www.menupix.com/hartford/resta...Sounds like whoever named it was close to "F*ck-It" in terms of creativity and settled on "Snack-It" instead.
Northside Lofts, Akron, OH 44308
There used to be a place in Tucson called "Cluck-U Chicken".
Because it's near the university, they said.
Never went there anyway. Cluck-U too. -
re: EWSflash
there are "cluck-u" chicken places in maryland, as well as other nearby states. http://www.cluckuchicken.com/location...
Right down the road from me is "Bob-a-rea's". Good place for a great pizza or breakfast, but the name conjures images of – well, you get the point.
Some of the old local pub/bars were: The Mystic Den, The Broken Spoke and the Elbow Room.
Back in the 70's there was "The Generation Gap".
re: BobB
oh, yeah the sandwitch place Also a while ago (five or so years) the was a Chinese place on 2nd and about 46 on the same block with the west side of Dag plaza (it's now a turkish place called alladins palace or something like that) called Hsin Yu, which already sounded a little suspicios to me (as if the place was a sort of culinary purgatory) This place closed before the I got into the habit of actually eating at Chinese places on my walking routes so I never actually tasted the food there (then again as it was closed by the health deparment so that may be a good thing) but I did have one of thier menu's once and rememembered two major typos one was "lobster and style" (which was just funny) but the other one really set alarm bells off; one of the Chefs Specials was called "Three Muskiest in Garlic sauce" with no further explination (I assume someone was trying to translate some Chinese term that meant "fragrant" or "aromatic" and really screwed it up.) To my mind my colgone and aftershave shoud be "musky" not my food (though I do understande in in the middle ages there were dishes cooked for kings that invoved things like musk, camphor, and ambergris)
Two obvious clunkers from the Toronto area:
- Marc Thuet's high-end restaurant was renamed "Bite Me!" for about a year before he apparently came down from his acid trip and renamed it again. Good call.
- There's a seafood restaurant in Mississauga called "The Funky Tuna". Dunno about you, but if my fish is funky I toss it out, I don't eat it.
Worst ever: "Something's Fishy" on Ventura Blvd in the San Fernando Valley.
"Chili My Soul" is also down there...what is that even supposed to mean? A pun that I don't get?And it took me forever to eat at "Thai-Rriffic" in San Luis Obispo because the name was so stupid, but once I ate there, I liked the food and went back repeatedly.
re: tatamagouche
Filet of Sole, maybe? It's all I can think of and agree it's a dumb name. Like my soul needs seasoning? I think not.
"Thai-Rriffic" is kinda funny--glad the food is tasty. We have "Typhoon" in my hometown--and borrowing from those Weight Watchers cards, "This snack not for me."
There's a coffee shop in Union Square in Somerville, MA that I refuse to go to because the owners thought it would be a good idea to call it "Bloc 11."
Um...you mean like the Bloc 11 that was the part of Auschwitz where all of the most horrific abuses of the prisoners took place? Because that's JUST the mental imagery I want while I'm enjoying my morning croissant!
Chez Fish, outside of Charleston SC on the way to Kiawah (although I've heard it is good)
Food 101, Atlanta -- sounds like a cooking school
Gyro & Teriyaki, Atlanta -- weird combo, decent take-out/delivery food
Abattoir, Atlanta -- French for slaughterhouse. I'm fine with it, but I know a lot of people that hate it. The recently-refurbished building was an Abbattoir decades ago.
Taco Mac, Atlanta -- sports bar that was in a old taco restaurant. Very confusing.
My Friend's Place -- I think it is a deli, based here in Atlanta, but the name is so uninspiring that I expect the food is -- so I've never been. -
New restaurant that just opened in Raleigh, NC. Gravy. That's it, just "Gravy." And even though I'm from Brooklyn, am I supposed to guess that a restaurant in the South named "Gravy" serves cutesy-poo so-called Italian-American style food rather than homestyle Southern cooking? Other than the fact that the name is fairly unappealing, I wonder how many customers will wander in and then stomp out after discovering that biscuits and sausage gravy are nowhere to be found on the menu?
someone upthread just mentioned this boston steakhouse "bokx 109"
you've gotta see their website -- esp. the photo collage in the intro.
suggestive (see the gal at the top lying on her back, mouth wide open, about to swallow a monster old-fashioned microphone)? hmmmmm.
http://www.bokx109.com/they actually call themselves "swanky." i kid you not!!! they even are proud of their self-proclaimed "swankitude."
no....i'm not kidding, i promise.
re: alkapal
I think that gal is attempting to "taste the energy and beauty" of that microphone..."where the best in style and substance come together to create a swanky, high-energy dining experience. We call it swankitude." What do YOU call it? If it's in Boston, why do they have a picture of the Chrysler building? I guess 'cause it's so swanky. UGH. I attempted to look at their menu and was blasted by "Ain't That a Kick in the Head"--ironic, huh?
Edit: I think we've surpassed dumb restaurant names and moved on to dumb website concepts. New thread?
re: kattyeyes
Ugh. They even spell "Snacks" "Snakx."
That website is worse than Hitler.
Or, at least, Hitler's Restaurant.
re: alkapal
along the lines of perceived swankitude, this "new world specialty food company" must have been inspired by bokx 109's website: http://www.ranchogordo.com/
she must be "tasting the energy and the beauty" of mexican oregano!
Recently deceased (http://tinyurl.com/d6tvg8) Toronto place: Cluck, Grunt and Low.
"Tapas by Personal Touch" just didn't work for me. I was turned off by the name so I never tried the restaurant despite some good reviews. It ended up closing and sometimes I wonder if it's name had something to do with it's fate. The place looked absolutely presentable, white linen tablecloths, up and coming neighbourhood in Toronto but that sign, with "personal touch" in some swirly font just didn't appeal. Now in it's place a new restaurant has opened up called "Room Service" fine dining Caribbean cuisine. Maybe it's me but I'm thinking this name is going to bring down this restaurant as well!
A Toronto restaurant whose owners thought that an Italian name would be nice and picturesque.
So the named the place ":Fiasco".
I saw a sign for a new pizza/pasta restaurant today: Sauce.
I immediately thought of this thread.
re: beachmouse
We have one in CT, too. So it's very original as well as a dumb restaurant name!
Another one that loses points for cleverness quickly is not having a name. Several years ago in Hartford, we had the bar with no name. But "Bar With No Name" became the name. After all, how would you be listed in the phone book or promote your nameless restaurant otherwise. Just silly. And extra negative points for lack of originality as I know it was done elsewhere. Rant, rant, rant. On a positive note, we had lots of fun there during the Swing revival of the late 90s when we were into dancing.
Sauce Restaurant
124 Hebron Avenue, Glastonbury, CT 06033-
re: kattyeyes
hey, those "information" operators can't even get real names or numbers right! how hard is it, for example, to tell a caller the number for the "u.s. district court for the district of columbia" IN the district of columbia? apparently, it was very hard, 'cause they told me the wrong number.
Okay, so they're bars, but when talking about stupid names I think of these two in Omaha: I Don't Care Lounge, and 120 Blondes (located near 120th and Blondo).
Also, what's the deal with Applebees? There's no apples, and no bees! (Sorry, channeling Seinfeld here)
re: nimeye
>>>>Also, what's the deal with Applebees? There's no apples, and no bees! (Sorry, channeling Seinfeld here)<<<<
...or you're channeling linda richman http://oybay.files.wordpress.com/2006... , who would then add: "DISCUSS!"
Not dumb, but strange:
Pancho McGillucuddy's (Williams, AZ) - Irish - Mexican cuisine.DH still reminds me what a cop-out I was for not trying it.
re: jeni1002
Maybe because of the Irish inclusion in some of Mexican history, or maybe for the "shock factor," there are seveal similarly named restaurants. I have yet to find one that did good Mexican, whether Tex-Mex, Sororan or Bajan. Some migh actually have historical ties, but I'd guess that most do not.
Many, many years ago there used to be a Chinese resto on Queen St. E. In Toronto. Don't remember the real name.
They had a neon sign that said "Good Food", but a lot of the letters were burned out and all that was left was GOOF...Everybody I knew just called the place that.
Fond memories. -
There used to be a bar in my neighborhood called The Slick Duck. It's now gone, but the name lives on in the form of a Mummer's New Year's group (ya gotta be from Philly to unnerstand).
Western PA has a chain of restaurants, similar to Bob's Big Boy, called Eat 'n Park. I could never figure that one out since you really need to park before you eat.......
A bizarre name usually has no effect on whether I will eat at the place or not since I am an equal opportunity foodaholic. I'm not fond of places with names that do not roll easily off the tongue, however -- Ruth's Chris comes to mind.
re: PattiCakes
somehow, in my twisted little brain, i read "The Slick Duck" with another vowel instead....and it made me think of a can of "spotted dick" http://www.englishteastore.com/cak004.html i saw in the "english" foods section of publix supermarket the other day. ;-). i'm curious why we haven't seen any "spotted dick" restaurants..... on the other hand, who wants a spotted dick?
speaking of "ducks", there is the "mucky duck" on captiva in sw florida.
http://www.muckyduck.com/history.htm -- not known so much for the food......but the view is nice.....happy new year!
re: tatamagouche
Yes, that is an odd one. Mrs. Ruth purchased "Chris Steakhouse," in New Orleans, and then added her name to the restaurant, hence Ruth Chris Steakhouse (or Ruth's Chris Steakhouse). When Paul Fleming took it into franchise, the name went with it.
Even knowing the history, it still does not roll of my tongue.
recently reopened at a new location in my town is "scratch", as in "made from..."
i get it, but it's still not a good name (the website is even worse, scratchasheville.com - sounds like a link to cdc/health dept site).
place used to be called 28806 deli/bakery/catering. not imaginative, but at least you knew what it was. food was good, so the name alone won't make me shun it..
Puke Pub - New Zealand. (actually pronounced to rhyme with cookie).
They actually serve road kill and specialize in Possum (which were imported and are now taking over with no predators).The menu includes:
Roadkill of the day - You kill 'em we grill 'em
Guess that mess (possum straight from the highway to you)
Tourist Sandwich (all sorts of foreign filling)
Volved Venison (Tenderized Swedish style)
Headlight Delight (fresh from the roadside)
Sandfly steaks (human's revenge)
Gag 'n' Bag (the daily special - anything dead on bread)You can read more here.
http://www.pollyevans.com/articles/20...Yes it really exists and no, we didn't eat there.
Years ago (in the 70s) there was at least one "Squat and Gobble" in the Topeka, KS area. There was also a "Chet's Chat 'n Chew".
The tiny town of Shirley, AR had "The Last Supper Cafe", where the owner would get up and preach during your meal. We didn't even make it to a "first supper." -
I just stumbled on this one as well.
Mine are more general:
- Anything with exclamation marks like MSP's yum! and snap! and enjoy! and relax! I say vomit!
- Along those lines, things like yummy (also in MSP) and good (NYC)
- I am highly suspicious of any restaurant with "Grill" in the name. "Bar and Grill" is even worse. Anything with "Grille" is almost certainly a crummy restaurant. There are a few exceptions, but it's about 98%.
- Anything with an "x" or "xx" at the end, or in the middle. Taxxi, Marxx, Marx. And we have a place in MSP called Restaurant Max. That just sounds like a cheap hotel restaurant. It's totally unfair, but I just can't get enthusiastic about trying a place called Restaurant Max. Max, to me, instantly evokes Max Klinger from M*A*S*H* or Valley Girl slang from the 80s "...to the max!" Same with Marx Wine Bar. Have I mentioned, Wine Bar is generally attached to a lame place too?
- Like "Grill", anything with "Bistro" oozes "we lack creativity".-
re: MSPD
in Seattle there used to be a place that went awry of your 'Bar and Grill' observation. It was called King St. Bar and *Oven*. it sounds like they *tried* to avert the B&G cliche, but made it worse by picking an awkward sounding name.
oh, and come to think about it, the name was a FAIL on more than one front as it also employs the unoriginal name-of-street restaurant naming scheme.
IIRC the only reason it survived as long as it did was that it was located in front of the Kingdome and could pretty much guarantee solid patronage on game days.-
re: pushslice
Oh, yeah, I always flip out when I see stuff like that. Here in Denver there's a "Jordan's Bistro & Pub." I once did a blogpost railing on the name.
As for "xx," in Boston there's a steakhouse called BOKX 109. Ridiculous.
re: MSPD
There was a Yummy Chow Chinese buffet in Houston about 20 years ago, it was not, btw.
You struck a nerve with the mention of Grille with an E on the end. Its like look at us, we are so fancy. I always thought that was stupid.
Likeways, anything with the word company in it sound pretentious as hell, especially the myriad of blahblah Land and Cattle companies out there. Look I don't want to buy Land or Cattle. I want a steak, jeez.
I just stumbled across this entertaining thread yesterday.
After reading through, I thought I'd add montreal's Mysore (apparently coney trumped me in Detroit). OK, perhaps a once regal, far-east city, but I always think the chef is talking about HIS sore, open and oozing a yellowish liquid...
But the wife maintains I have the pronounciation all wrong, its actually 'misery'.Another montreal resto, Hwang Kum. OK, in korean, this might sound good, but in street gutter english, I find it...ahhhh...nevermind. There's also a Chez Hwang (from the french, 'At Hwang's')...see above.
Along the pho lines; Good Pho Me!
A swish steak house, La Queue de Cheval sounds pretty suave in french...you can translate it to 'At the Horse's a$$'
There is a cheapo chinese near my place called Sun-K. They re-did their sign awhile back and the dash isn't quite visible, its now "Sunk"
and a pun in Vermont, The Pour House.My folks went to a wedding just south of Cornwall Ontario years ago. There was a simple ceremony followed by a reception at an establishment owned by one Mr. Shovett. It was a resto/hotel called, what else, The Shovett Inn.
Duckworth's Cheessteakery and Quaker Steak and Lube in Charlotte and next door to each other. Thai One On in Towson, MD to add to the list of puns. There are a couple bars/restos in baltimore about 2-3 blocks from each other- owned by friends- named Don't Know and No Idea. I also remember a No Idea in NYC.
Here in Sydney we have ThaiTanic, Thai Me Up and Thairiffic. Also Pink Peppercorn (Laotian resto in the gay club district), the inventively named PAD THAI FIVE DOLLAR (guess what they sell?) and the usual assortments of Wok On Ins, Wok and Rolls etc. My personal favourite though is the sushi place at the Sydney Uni food court: Miso Honi. I'm not joking, and I feel deep sympathy for whichever staff member has to answer the phones!
Two more from Toronto:
Lick'n Chicken (the joke is its vegan, and has a rubber chicken hanging by the neck with a sign saying "Sorry, no chicken").
And there's a Chinese place in the Beaches which has a sign out front that's supposed to say "Good Food". However, half the letters burned out, and they have not been replaced in over 20 years. It is universally known as "The GooF".
any of the stoooopid Thai puns.....Beau Thai, appe-thai-zing, Thai-phoon......cringe inducing.
also, mash ups of food items. Gumbolaya, Pota-to-go(a baked potato food cart. good spuds, ridiculous name, but it is a cart....they almost get a pass!)
I LOVE the name of a restaurant in Edmonton Alberta Canada (my home town) that had the best vietnamese food. It was called Le Charles Mansion. A very, very wierd (surreal?) place with mismatched plates and glasses...one sometimes two employees/owners. You went in, told the chef/washer/everything person what spic elevel you wanted and she brought food until you told her to stop. The food was all fabulous and cheap cheap cheap.
Don't know if they're still around, but there was a small chain off stromboli shops in NJ called Stuff Yer Face. I didn't see a problem with the name in college, but now...
Some will know this as the place Mario Batalli worked in college. He was in the North Brunswick location while I frequented the location in South Orange, thankyouverymuch.
ETA: Still around: http://www.stuffyerface.com/
re: Divamac
There was a soup/sandwich shop in Berkeley, CA, called the Stuffed Inn.
Bakeries called Toots Sweets and Just Desserts.
Toots Sweets supplied the desserts served at the Edible Complex. That's been closed for many years; now in that location is an outpost of a local mini-chain, Crepevine.
Restaurants love those punny names.
My Hall of Shame for Greater Boston includes these clunkers:
INQ, a bad restaurant with a stupid name, though not as bad or as stupid as its successor, Luigi and Roscoe's @ INQ (now mercifully closed, too, though supplanted by the almost-as-stupid Cafeteria)
Apocrypha (now expunged from the canon of still-operating restaurants)
Prose (don't expect lyricism on the plate)
Blunch (was that breakfast or lunch that I just heaved?)
BOKX 109 (I know, honey, let's go to that "Vegas-style steakhouse" named after a slaughterhouse term for a carcass container)
Chung King Rick's Cafe (of all the canned-Chinese-food joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine)
No Name Restaurant (the retirees on cut-rate package tours dining here by the busload probably don't appreciate the paradox)
T.J. Scallywaggle's (winner, Cognitive Dissonance Division: sounds like a casual-dining chain that serves Steak Quesadilla Towers and Shrimp Poppers, is actually a vegan pizzeria)
I know this isn't as clever as the other posts. But there is a breakfast place in my town that has really good, creative breakfast offerings. They start each breakfast with a complimentary crepe with lingonberry jam. I avoided going to it for years because it's called "Eggs n things". I figured if they didn't know what else they were serving, I wanted no part of it.
re: LA Buckeye Fan
an Eggs N Things has been a late night/early morning favorite in Honolulu since the mid '70's. Rumor is they are finally closing their doors at the end of August, but its not the first talk of their demise, so we shall see. They are known for their 3 egg omelette (portugese sausage, maui onion, and cheese my fav) and for their pancakes. I never found anything too unusual about the name, thats what they served... eggs n things.
Alexandria, Va has a restaurant called Vaso's Kitchen -- not a bad name, but under the name on the sign out front it says "A little piece of Greece."
And it's additionally burdened (by the local historical society) by having to keep a '50s neon sign of a dancing pig in a chef's toque & apron that says Dixie Bar-B-Q on top of the building.
It's supposed to be good, but I can't quite bring myself to actually go in.
Supermodel Pizza in Toronto. Underneath the restaurant's name, it says something like "Our crust is as thin as supermodels".
re: Firegoat
It makes me smile, too. I've never seen a customer inside the place so I wonder how they have managed to stay in business.
The other funny thing about Supermodel Pizza is that there's a picture of an infant's head on the sign- sort of reminds me of the dancing babies on Allie McBeal.
A new ice cream shop just opened up in Chicago. The idea is that you pick your base, sweetener, flavorings and add-ins, then the staff uses liquid nitrogen to flash-freeze the ice cream in a mixer a la Richard Blaise on Top Chef. The shop is called iCream.
On the way into Rehoboth, DE on Route 1:
Crabby Dick's.
Minimalist, overly-simple names really annoy me because of their pretentious sound. "Daniel" comes to mind.
re: monkeyrotica
"matchbox" may be pretentious in dc--in msp, it's a completely appropriately named weensy coffee-shop in northeast-- very "power to the workers." i think the place is maybe 120 sq feet total, seating for 8. also locally, i do like "snap" and "pop"-- for names-- not food, owned by the same folks. i don't hear that "crackle" is forthcoming, though. :)
I was told there used to be a french restaurant in NYC called Chez Stadium. I hate bad puns!
You cant beat the chinese for deadpan flat ridiculous names. There was a place here in NYC called 'Good Taste'. I also remember a place years ago called 'Kings food'. These are not funny, but they typify a coomon approach.
re: kattyeyes
no hos on the bottle. looks very ho-made though with the font used on the bottle. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocoabeachjoe/2915511353/
i see pat's made it into the flickr group "unfortunate names" http://www.flickr.com/groups/993003@N21/
Captain Cock in Bodrum, Turkey (I am hoping that it was an honest mispelling):
Attached is the picture of their sign
re: emerilcantcook
I'd assume they served chicken. Outside North America, the penile use of "cock" has not made rooster displace it as a term for a male fowl.
One that always gets me here is "Restaurant Gandhi" (Indian, obviously). Still, strange to name a restaurant after a person famed for such non-violent resistance tactics as prolonged hunger strikes.
re: lagatta
This is a non-English speaking country we are talking about, so I doubt that it referred to the fowl. My guess was that someone who doesn't speak the language misspelled Captain Cook (there are a million examples of Turkinglish signage masterpieces). The menu, if I remember correctly, was traditional Turkish fast-fare: soups, flatbreads, grills, salads; chicken might have been present, but wasn't the centerpiece.
re: lynnlato
i laughed at big peckers, so i looked it up. somehow, the big chicken surprised me ;-)
re: alkapal
Ha! Wow, alkapal, thanks for the trip down memory lane. This was a popular place back when I was in my early 20's. Everyone had the t-shirt. Which, i notice, has not changed in 15 years. Yea, another popular watering hole in OC MD was The Brass Balls Saloon. Yea, it was more of a drinking place (i.e. rum runners) than a resto back then (and probably still).
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My sista alkapal, aren't you somewhere in the vicinity of Crabby Dick's? I thank you for directing me here to have fun (however late) with you all. A friend bought me some souvenir from Crabby Dick's and, ya know, I just didn't feel like keeping it around!!!
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re: mnosyne
Oakland, CA here. We've got a couple winners just within a few blocks of home.
"pick and bite" chinese buffet; sounds like what to do with a nasty scab!!
"King Dong" sounds like an asian porn flick.
"Hot and Chunky" burgers...used to be called Hot & Hunky bcuz they were in The Castro, but must've been sued over the name so they changed it to Hot and Chunky. Yecch; sounds like a descriptor for puke!!!
"Four Star Pizza, Tacos and Chinese-American Food" 4 Star, indeed, according to whom? Loving this thread....
Yuki Sushi in Owings Mills, MD. One of my friends refuses to go to somewhere named "Yucky", but it has my favorite chirashi sushi.
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There's also Pho King. I don't WANT to know what they've done to the food.
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Our favorite server at Pho Mai in Middletown, CT shared with us there's a What the Pho restaurant in Georgia. Gotta say it's darned clever. And it's certainly helpful in getting across the correct pronunciation of "pho!"
What the Pho Restaurant
2442 Pleasant Hill Rd, Duluth, GA 30096
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That website is no longer showing the article on Hitler's Cross restaurant, here's another one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5275866.stm
I was thinking of Roadkill Cafe....
Some of my friends from South Cakalaki thought it was better than the Ritz. Of course I've nevah been. -
There used to be a restaurant in Canaan, Me., named The Outhouse! No kiddin'. One entered the building through a wooden outhouse, complete w/ crescent moon on the door. I never went and not surprisingly, it didn't last long. I wonder if the food was shi**y?
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He's back! Just got from thwe North Atlantic Blues Festival. Great stuff That Texs Lady of Gospel & Blues, Ruthy fosater was our fave. Elvin Bishop wasn't shabby either.
How about Uno Pizza? It ain't Uno w/ me!
If well endowed women work at Hooters, where do one legged ones work?
Los Angeles is Land of the Bad Restaurants with Stupid Names:
Cut (actually good food)
Krust (nice touch with the spelling, jerk!)
Piknic (do we see a one word trend?)
Flying Leap Cafe
Main Course
Out To Lunch
Oinkster (also good)
Eat Well
Earth Wind & Flour
Spin Rotisserie
Wacky Wok
Lettuce Wok & Roll
Rok The Wok
Wok & Roll
Wok On The Run
Wok'n Sushi
Wok This Way (the Woks should have it's own thread)
Giggles 'N' Hugs
The Munch Box
It's a Wrap
Souper Salad
Pickup Stix
Pomona Valley Mining Co.
Steer N' Stein (Palmdale)
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Johnny, what a list! Very funny! I have to admit I laughed out loud at Earth Wind & Flour. I believe I'd go there if I lived nearby, just to reward their cleverness.
We have a place in Austin called Nutty Brown Cafe. The food is actually good there, but the name conjures a nasty mental picture for me.
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Our local Asian market in West Hartford, CT is A Dong. I took two of my friends there a couple of months back and one took a picture of the sign he was so amused.
Not a restaurant, but in the same vein, the Perfection Screw company on of all places Route 69 (!) in CT. We always giggled about that driving by in high school. YEEEHAAAAAA!
A Dong Grocery
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re: moh
Not to deflate the joke, but are you sure you don't mean New Big WONG. I dont know of any New Big Wanf in NYC (though I suppose it could have closed since you were there).
Speaking of NBW, given how many branches of the original Wing Wong have opened in NYC's Chinatown (NBW, New Wing Wong, Fu Wong, New Wong King, Hong wong, Hoy Wong, Tan Wong, Wing Wong Inc.) I've often though they should all be given new location on a street of their own and that street could be called Wong Way.
Oh and I'm not sure if it was meant to be a joke but there's a Chinese takeout in Yonkers called The Lion King.
to finish up I could of sworn when I was on the bus last week in NYC I saw a places called "Hu's on First" (maybe they sell baseball cards)
re: moh
Oh, how could I have been so STUPID, I was THERE back when I was New Big Wang (I reconized it the monet I went online and saw the street sign), I even Still have old MENUS with the name somewhere in my room (as an effort to reduce waste/spending, when a resturaunt I have gone too chages ownership/name/menu, any old obsolte paper takeout menus I have get put in a big bag and, when needed get used as wrapping paper when I need to send a package) . Guess my mind went straight to the new name (plus when I was looking it up I went to menupages, which never listed EITHER place) My apologies.
Ronnie's sushi - (actually good sushi)
But - I don't associate the name Ronnie with Sushi , Not like, Luigi's pizza......makes sense - the name is trying to tell you an Italian owns the place ......who is Ronnie and why does he make sushi?
I'd still eat there because I know it has a good rep - But I sure wouldn't pick it if I didn't know -
Well, I have yet to eat at Almighty Lord's (which offers fare like King David's Chicken Nuggets, or something like that). Frankly, though, I may have to drop in sometime!
While I don't really like stupid names, they won't keep me from a restaurant, unlike the words "All You Can Eat" and "Buffet".
There's a new bistro in my neighborhood that JUST opened, and for the life of me I cannot read the name of the place on the outside sign. Here's what I know: the name may have 4 letters, or maybe 5. The first letter might be an "F", or it might be an "E". The second letter is definitely an "L". The third letter... I don't know. There's something where the third letter should be that looks like a flame, but maybe it's supposed to be a letter. The fourth letter is a "G". The last letter is an "A". Elga? Flga? Fl_ga? El_ga? None of it makes any sense to me.
In a stripmall in Princeton, NJ, a Chinese restaurant opened up during the winter, and the name on their sign was "Wild Oily". My theory at the time was that the name was SUPPOSED to be Wild Lily, but the name on the sign kept me from wanting to patronize the place or even to inquire about the name.
Well, guess what? After many months, the sign was finally changed to "Wild Lily", but I just can't get the image of overly oily food out of my mind, and as a result, I still don't want to try their food.
re: Ted in Central NJ
Update on "Wild Oily/Wild Lily", located in a Princeton, NJ strip mall:
Now, it is named "Tiger Noodles".
Yes, I know that the Princeton football team is called The Tigers, hence the new choice of name. However, I think that the name sounds like something that an ill tiger would excrete on the floor of its cage.
re: Catskillgirl
maybe the signmakers are also language-challenged.
and with weird names all the time, who's to say "wild oily" is not the name?
maybe that's paula deen's new resto! '=)


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Relevance. It is the key to success for email marketing, but still it continues to be a sore spot. Two separate but synchronous email studies shed new light on relevance, and the lack of it, in email marketing. One addresses the desires of the hyperconnected 18-24 year old generation. The other recognizes said relevance problem and identifies some solutions for online retailers.
The Gen Y study comes from the Participatory Marketing Network and Pace University's Interactive and Direct Marketing Lab. It shows that the majority of Gen Y consumers welcome direct brand interactions through email, but they want more ability to control, organize and manage the interactions. Only 28 percent of those surveyed believe the email they get from companies is relevant. But they are eager to see "innovative services" that increase that relevance. Specifically, 62 percent would communicate directly with retailers about their favorite products in exchange for getting preferential pricing. 44 percent would subscribe to an email service that collected and summarized multiple offers of interest to them. And in direct opposition to the Nielsen social media report issued on Tuesday, which painted a bleak picture for advertising within social networks, 32 percent would share promotional email offers with members inside a social network.
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Customer engagement has been re-introduced into the internet marketing discussion, this time via an excellent report from Forrester Research.
Exactly what "engagement" means has been a murky proposition since it was introduced into the internet marketing lexicon in 2005. But Forrester has put forth a clear and concise take on it. It says: "customer engagement is the level of involvement, interaction, intimacy, and influence that an individual has with a brand over time."
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Even search engines get the blues. In a report that has not been officially released yet, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, (SEMPO), says North American search marketing spending will increase only 9 percent to $14.7 billion in 2009 from $13.5 billion a year ago. Estimates made in early 2008 projected that the industry would grow at more than twice that rate this year, from $15.7 billion in 2008 to $18.8 billion in 2009. The new SEMPO forecasts call for the industry to reach $19.8 billion in 2011, down from a previous estimate of $25.2 billion for that year.
What happened? The simple answer is the economy, which Google CEO Eric Schmidt called "pretty dire" last week. But the report raises some very important issues that cannot be explained away by a simple economic downturn. Among them:
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The Bacon Explosion. Besides the two pounds of bacon surrounding two pounds of sausage and the addition of whatever seasoning you want to add, there were more ingredients than met the grill for this recent viral media success story. However, using it as a mold to replicate other one-off events will not work.
The story behind The Bacon Explosion is more intriguing than its pork fat phenomenon. It has intrigued marketing automation firm Marketbright enough to recuit the co-founder of BBQ Addicts, the ecommerce company behind it, to star in a webinar about social media creation and tracking. The, um, sandwich recipe and associated video have been a blogging and You Tube phenomenon since late January. YouTube logged more than 500,000 page views of the Explosion being cooked and consumed. The company that is responsible for its creation is BBQ Addicts, which has measured 1.5 million page views. But appearing in a teaching role begs the question, how much more detail than excessive amounts of pork fat and frat boy bravado could there have been?
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The television marketplace known as "The Upfront" will start heating up by the end of March, and although internet inventory isn't on the table, expect it to be in the back room.
Far from the celeb and buffet-filled galas they used to be, the upfront is expected to be a pressure-packed process this year. Internet media companies have to be concerned that as they are trying to hold the line on CPMs, a media conglomerate trying to sell its slate of 30 second spots just might throw that pricing under the bus. The internet divisions are trying to establish new rates for online video and hold the line on display, but their TV divisions are facing a year in which rate increases will be impossible. Rate cuts for TV are on the table.
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Against all odds, and against all business logic, the early signs look like Ford Motors might be turning around. Unlike GM and Chrysler it has turned away government bailout money, seeking instead to get its house in order through more efficient operations. And unlike GM and Chrysler it internet effort is meshing with its product line and positioning.
The auto maker has taken at least some market share gains every month for the past year. And although it is prone to the same disastrous numbers that have led to those trips to Capitol Hill and concessions from its unions, some of its numbers are looking up. Ad Age reports that in the first two months of the year, the number of qualified buyers who planned to buy a Ford jumped 16% from 2008. Qualified buyers who intended to buy GM fell 12% and Chrysler 33%.
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This social networking thing is gonna be big, man. Really big. Bigger than email.
A confirmation of the absolute "big bang" expansion theory of social networks came from Nielsen Online today. Its "Global Faces and Networked Places" report shows that by the end of 2008, 66.8 percent of internet users across the globe accessed "member communities" last year, compared to 65.1 percent for email.
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It would be easy to feel a bit sorry for Barnes & Noble. It is the biggest brick and mortar bookseller in North America, fighting the good fight for literacy against a tide of economic disaster. It has been laid waste by the internet and in particular, Amazon, one of the most innovative companies ever. Competing against Amazon in the 90s was kind of like playing Michael Jordan in his rookie season. You just didn't know how good he was until you lost to him. Then, after the B&N business model was hit hard, the printed page is being attacked by eBooks.
But this here is business, young man, and it's no time for the faint of heart. No longer is B&N employing the the "if you can't beat 'em don't join 'em" strategy. It has finally, and admirably, made a move that doesn't involve closing stores. Late last week it purchased Fictionwise, an eBook retailer that is rumored to be developing a Kindle-competitor, hand-held eBook reader.
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Digital marketing will get a few disruptions in the near future, according to this version of Razorfish's Digital Outlook Report.
While most of the press attention has gone to the agency's bullish outlook on social media (surprise, surprise), the warm fuzzies stopped there. Consider the following predictions from Razorfish analysts and executives:
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The monthly ritual that encapsulates the failing retail results of everyone but WalMart were released yesterday. Retailers from Abercrombie & Fitch to Zumiez got whacked in February, which is no surprise. But one thing is sorely missing from many retail reports: the importance of online sales.
The metric known as same-store sales defines success or failure in the retail industry. They're measured year-over-year and are subject to random events and economic conditions more than they are attributable to good leadership or good strategy. But online sales rarely, if ever, take the lead in the conversation. Ecommerce for many retailers is just as indicative of their overall performance as same store sales.
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Frazier's novel is carefully crafted in language, character, and style, with an almost palpable sense of place. Starting with the use of Cold Mountain (elevation 6,030 feet), a real place, Frazier creates an uncanny sense of time and place through close attention to physical details and a rich, archaic sense of authentic language and dialect, with many regional turns and phrases of speech. Himself a native of the North Carolina mountains, Frazier has a sense of geography and place that is unfailingly accurate, creating a sense of being in the physical world of nineteenth century America. Indeed, the novel evokes an almost an elegiac sense of loss of traditional American culture and regional distinctions. Cold Mountain gains additional authenticity from local history and family stories passed on by Frazier's great-great-grandfather. The novel also is interlaced with white and Cherokee mountain folklore and traditional folk music motifs, which create a regional sensibility. Frazier acknowledges the influence of Appalachian "Jack Tales" on his narrative style.
Like the stories of Odysseus and Penelope in Homer's The Odyssey, Frazier's stories of Inman and Ada are related in parallel, alternating chapters that gradually converge with Inman's homecoming at the end of the novel. Theirs are stories of adaptation and survival: Both must use their wits to survive in a harsh, unforgiving world of cultural change. Ada has grown up in the comfortable, sheltered world of antebellum Charleston society, shielded from economic realities by her father's tobacco, rice, and indigo investments. Her mother died in childbirth, and Ada was raised as an only child. On his doctor's advice, Monroe, a well-to-do Charleston minister, seeks the higher, drier climate of western North Carolina for his tuberculosis and settles in the Cold Mountain community as a minister. Despite their cultural differences, Monroe and Ada gradually are accepted by the local community. With her father's sudden death, Ada inherits investments made worthless by the economic ravages of the war years and is left alone to manage a two-hundred-acre mountain farm. Her cultured, indolent lifestyle has not prepared her for the realities of subsistence farming. Ruby Thewes, a poor but resourceful local mountain girl, moves in with Ada and becomes her teacher in all the practical, manual skills and chores of running a farm. Ada gradually changes from a haughty, aloof Charleston-born belle to a rural Appalachian farm mistress. She overcomes her class consciousness and prejudice against the local mountain culture and learns to cope with the rigors of rural self-sufficiency and a barter economy. Ruby gradually teaches Ada the discipline of earning one's own living, Ada having previously lived rather thoughtlessly on the labor of others and having taken that work for granted.
Inman, too, has become hardened and transformed, nearly to despair, by the savagery and brutality of the Civil War. Feeling that he has had enough of war, he suddenly decides to leave his Raleigh hospital rather than be sent back to the front. He sets out to walk home, wandering through a hostile Piedmont landscape of Home Guards, armed vigilantes and gangs who patrol the roads and highways looking for Confederate deserters, outliers, and escaped Yankee prisoners. Weakened by his wounds and having to forage off the land, Inman repeatedly is ambushed and waylaid, bushwhacked, shot at, tricked, and captured by the local posses. His episodic adventures force him to survive, like Odysseus, by his resourcefulness and wits, but without the protection of the goddess Athene. Nature, too, is his adversary, as Inman is forced to...
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The Civil War and the Battle of Petersburg
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Cold Mountain is a historical novel, an adventure narrative, a naturalist essay, a love story, and a tragedy.
Since the...
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Dear Friends,
Summer in Nevada is the perfect time to enjoy the outdoors with family and friends. There are many exciting places across the state to visit, and the Lake Tahoe area has long been one of my favorites. The beautiful and breathtaking world-famous lake and its surrounds have something for the whole family, whether you're looking for fun in the sun, a place to kick back and relax, or something in between.
The marinas that dot the shoreline offer many ways to get out on the water, including parasailing, jet skiing, and sport fishing. Of course, relaxing on the beach and enjoying the sun, sand, and waves are enjoyable activities as well. Lake Tahoe has marvelous beaches—including Nevada Beach, Round Hill Pines, and Zephyr Cove Resort on its southeast shore—that are perfect family spots where you can bring your own picnic or use one of the public barbecues. Farther north, you can attend the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (July 13-August 26) after spending the day at the beach at Sand Harbor.
If being on the water sounds like fun, you can catch a ride on the historic M.S. Dixie II paddle wheeler, one of the best cruises on Lake Tahoe. You can enjoy brunch, dinner, and dancing as you navigate Lake Tahoe and circle Emerald Bay, or be your own captain and take a kayak or canoe out and explore the many coves closer to shore.
"Land lubbers" will enjoy the many hiking and biking trails that surround the lake. Backpacking on the Tahoe Rim Trail, camping at Nevada Beach, exploring the tunnels at Thunderbird Lodge, or taking a guided horseback trail ride are just some of the adventures that await. You'll enjoy marvelous views of Lake Tahoe while exploring the majestic Sierra Nevada.
Finally, be sure to take a stroll down to the casino corridor in Stateline. There are activities here to keep you entertained all day, including outdoor concerts that feature some of the hottest tickets in town. End your day at one of casino row's many top-rated restaurants that offer some of the best views of the lake.
These are just a few of the reasons my family treasures Lake Tahoe. I encourage all of you to discover Nevada and find your favorite spot.
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First American full face transplant patient is smiling
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Ten months after becoming the first person to get a full face transplant in the United States, a Fort Worth man marvels at recovering the ability of expression.
The progress of 25-year-old Dallas Wiens and the handful of other patients that have undergone the procedure is helping to make the case that it should be more widely available.
"The ability to smile and to show emotion on my face, even unintentionally, is such a natural thing," Wiens told the Dallas Morning News. "Having a new face has changed me dramatically."
Wiens' face was burned off in 2008 when his head touched a high-voltage power line while he was standing in an elevated cherry picker. He was also left blind and has not recovered his sight.
He underwent more than two dozen surgeries, but they left him with a featureless face. The transplant changed that.
"I don't look much different than anybody else," he said.
Wiens case, and those of two others, were the subject of a study published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine. The procedure can correct "severe deformities in a single operation" rather than years of reconstructive surgery, the study said.
The Department of Defense funded the transplants though a $3.4 million grant with the hope of offering the procedures to wounded soldiers.
Wiens was the only patient of the first three surgeries done in the U.S. who did not suffer an acute rejection of the transplant within the first six months, though all suffered infections.
The first full face transplant was performed in France in 2005. Since then, 18 patients have shown "promising results," the study said.
The study also weighed in on early concerns that the donor's facial identity would be transferred to the recipient.
"It is our subjective opinion, as well as that of two of the donor families, that the patients do not look like their donors," the study concluded. (The third donor family chose to remain anonymous and did not participate in the study.)
Wiens, through physical therapy, can once again do things such as control his lips to drink from a glass. And he regained his sense of smell.
He has had to return to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston a couple times for adjustments to make the face fit more snugly.
"To undergo a face transplant and regain normalcy allows me to do whatever I want to do," he said. "It's a journey that I've just started."
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Halalisa Singers: A Branch of May
Presented by Halalisa Singers at First Parish in Lexington
April 30, 2010
The Boston area's premier world music chorus celebrates the season with a program of spring-inspired international music. "A Branch of May: Songs, Chants and Dances from Around the World" will be presented on Friday, April 30, 8 p.m. at First Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Rd. on the Battle Green, Lexington and on Sunday, May 2, 3 p.m. at the First Unitarian Society of Newton, 1326 Washington St., West Newton. Mary...
7 Harrington Road on the Battlegreen
Lexington, MA 02420
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$15, $12 students and seniors
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Phone: 781-862-6353
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