Restaurants or bars named after other cities

[cabasse]

Originally Posted by pdxtex

I love seeing obscure references to other cities when I travel. Had a drink in place called Detroit Bar in London once. Thats weird. Does your city have any places like that? Portlands pretty tame. We have the usual NY and Chicago pizza references. We do have a bar called the Florida Room tho. In the actual Florida, they call those lanais.

i actually took a pic of this place 10 years ago, lol:


(Detroit bar) by Mark, on Flickr

and on the same trip, a pic of this: (not a restaurant, but i digress)

Hotel Atlanta, Amsterdam by Mark, on Flickr

[DetroitSky]

There's a small local chain in Detroit called Bucharest Grill. It's known for its amazing chicken shawarma and oddly doesn't serve Romanian food. If you're ever in the area definitely give it a try, though.

[ehartkc]

Max’s Kansas City in NYC

[mrnyc]

there is the ohio pub in santiago, chile in the hopping bellavista neighborhood.

[mrnyc]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Detroit has the Bronx Bar. And NYC had a place called the Motor City Bar but it closed a few years back.

don’t forget that fake detroit pizza trend, its still hanging around:

https://pin.it/3a5k0sP

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by cabasse

i actually took a pic of this place 10 years ago, lol:


(Detroit bar) by Mark, on Flickr

and on the same trip, a pic of this: (not a restaurant, but i digress)

Hotel Atlanta, Amsterdam by Mark, on Flickr

Hey that's the place! I remember those round little windows on the door. Good job!

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by DetroitSky

There's a small local chain in Detroit called Bucharest Grill. It's known for its amazing chicken shawarma and oddly doesn't serve Romanian food. If you're ever in the area definitely give it a try, though.

Ooh that looks good. Ill be out in Chelsea/Ann Arbor in July. Dunno if ill make it downtown tho. I want to tho.

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

don’t forget that fake detroit pizza trend, its still hanging around:

https://pin.it/3a5k0sP

Portland is all about the Detroit Pizza right now. Some of its pretty good. I still have a soft spot for little sleazers. The deep deep is actually really good. If you like that kind of stuff.

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by DetroitSky

There's a small local chain in Detroit called Bucharest Grill. It's known for its amazing chicken shawarma and oddly doesn't serve Romanian food. If you're ever in the area definitely give it a try, though.

To be fair, Shawarma ("Şaorma") is a common street food in Bucharest. Not sure how related to the chain, as I've never been to it, but I was born in Bucharest...

[Innsertnamehere]

The Canadian restaurant chain called Boston Pizza.. think Applebys but worse.

[benp]

Can't forget Buffalo Wild Wings and the many similar Buffalo-named restaurants worldwide (though many probably don't even realize that Buffalo is a city the flavor style was named after).

[montréaliste]

A Montreal based restaurant chain: Bâton Rouge.


Note that in France, they don’t usually add accents on Capitals in text or on signage. The circumflex accent was added on the a of Baton, which is more of a Quebec thing.

[mousquet]

Originally Posted by montréaliste

Note that in France, they don’t usually add accents on Capitals in text or on signage.

We've been used to leave diacritics out on capital letters for very long because historically, they were no available printable characters.
Take the keyboard of an ancient typewriter for instance.


https://www.citymapia.com/pa-hatboro...ewriter--24533

There was no way to produce anything like Ê or À to those things. That's why the French ended up omitting accents on capitals, or so I was told several times.

It is nonetheless incorrect written French. Diacritics should always be used when required by spelling, whether in upper or lowercase.

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

The Canadian restaurant chain called Boston Pizza.. think Applebys but worse.

Oooh Bar sportif! Sounds classier than Applebee's.

[Innsertnamehere]

The image is clearly a Quebec location

Boston Pizza is sort of like a vaguely Italian place with a sports bar and family friendly focus. Dishes include American food and pizza. Prices are affordable but the food feels like it’s been warmed up in a microwave. Popular in suburban locations almost exclusively. Generally terrible for everything but price - sort of like Applebees.

The chain is fully Canadian and has absolutely no relation to Boston.

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

The image is clearly a Quebec location

Boston Pizza is sort of like a vaguely Italian place with a sports bar and family friendly focus. Dishes include American food and pizza. Prices are affordable but the food feels like it’s been warmed up in a microwave. Popular in suburban locations almost exclusively. Generally terrible for everything but price - sort of like Applebees.

The chain is fully Canadian and has absolutely no relation to Boston.

If they're aiming for mediocrity, this makes perfect sense because Boston is ranked as the 437th best pizza city in the world.

[Boisebro]

just off the top of my head in Boise:

Tupelo Honey
Chicago Connection
Amsterdam Bar

I'm sure there's a dozen others.

But no Supper Clubs. Maybe I should open one called the Oconomowoc Supper Club and confuse the hell out of everyone in Boise.

[Razor]

St. Louis Bar and Grill

Another Canadian beer and wing chain.

https://www.stlouiswings.com/

[pdxtex]

Originally Posted by Boisebro

just off the top of my head in Boise:

Tupelo Honey
Chicago Connection
Amsterdam Bar

I'm sure there's a dozen others.

But no Supper Clubs. Maybe I should open one called the Oconomowoc Supper Club and confuse the hell out of everyone in Boise.

Id never heard of a supper club until my coworker from Southern Oregon explained it to me. His wife is from Wisconsin.

[mrnyc]

there is barcelona bar in midtown manhattan for woo woo shots.

downtown we had the complete dive ipanema bar nearby for years.

there is an ipanema restaurant too in midtown.

oh — and we lived above istanbul grill.