From SF Weekly's Meredith Brody: Bar food is designed to keep you thirsty as you toss 'em back. Fatty, often crunchy, and above all salty, bar food is so popular there's even a new L.A. gastropub simply called Bar Food. We've culled the nine best from across the country, from classics (nachos and buffalo wings, so common they're now in lowercase) to trendy takes on Brit pub grub (devils on horseback, Scotch eggs).
9. Dirty Dick's Crab House
This
spot in Outer Banks, North Carolina, has a name that makes us want to
simultaneously shudder and take a peek inside. A restaurant with the
cojones to call itself Dirty Dick's is probably confident about its
food, right? Actually, most reviews rate the food mediocre. At the very least, it's worth a trip to get a Dirty Dick's t-shirt.
8. Fingers Wings and Other Things
Those
other things referred to in the name? Looks like it's standard fare --
sandwiches, fries, beer, etc. But at least FTOT is, according to its
Web site, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania's favorite restaurant!
7. Flavors of Negros
Believe it or not, there's a reasonable explanation for the name of
this mall food court eatery in the Philippines. Negros is a province in
the country's Visayas region, and, presumably, Flavors of
Negros specializes in food from the area. But surely someone must have
told the owners that the name might not go over too well?
6. Fu King Chinese Restaurant
A classic
example of Chinese translated into goofy English. But seriously, this
Lake City, Florida, joint is just another Fu King Chinese Restaurant.
Nothing to see here.
5. Cabbages and Condoms
No,
the owners of this Bangkok restaurant aren't guilty of a
mistranslation. Cabbages and Condoms is, well, a condom-themed
restaurant managed by the Population and Community Development
Association of Thailand, which funds AIDS awareness, population
control, and rural development programs. As you might expect, Cabbages
and Condoms hands out free condoms to all who enter.
4. Cock and Camel
Sure, you could take the name of
this pub and hotel in Oxford, England, literally, but that's no fun.
Rest assured that you'll probably get some dirty looks from hip British
pubgoers if you make a snarky comment about the Cock and Camel while
inside.
3. Git-Yo Chicken Fish and Burgers
Really, the name says it
all. Apparently, not enough people wanted to get their chicken, fish,
and burgers from this Kansas City spot. It is now closed.
2. One Phunky Burrito Joint
This
now-closed Montclair, New Jersey, restaurant stayed open late and had
couches and a TV in the back room for weary stoners. And the burritos?
Good, but hardly up to San Francisco standards. Perhaps that's why the
Joint closed down.
1. Hitler's Cross
The owner of this Mumbai cafe was forced
to change the name to the Cross Cafe due to (surprise, surprise) public
outcry. Knowledge about the Holocaust is fairly limited in India, and
Cross Cafe owner Punit Sablok apparently "didn't expect that [the name]
would snowball into major controversy."
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