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March 17, 2008

L'Esguard

L_esguard_restaurant Chez Pim writes: “The usual caveats apply and all that, but, in my opinion, I might have finally eaten at what was quite possibly the worst restaurant in the world”… at L'Esguard in Barcelona.

A much more positive review at eGullet

Other sets of Spanish restaurants by the same photographer

Chez Pim’s sets on flickr, including this of a female farmer in Lesotho

The chef table inside the kitchen of Philippe Rochat, Switzerland best restaurant - 360° panoramic view! (From the Four Hour Lunch post at FX)

96 St. Marks Place – The Led Zeppelin Donut

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March 01, 2008

Anthony Bourdain @ Google

Anthony Bourdain Is Interviewed By Google Executive Chef Nate Keller At Google's Mountain View, CA Headquarters. November 20, 2007

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February 14, 2008

Snake charmers & chained Barbary apes

Snake_charmer The huge Djemaa el Fna square in central Marrakesh turns into the largest open air restaurant in the world as soon as the sun sets. An mouth-watering photo reportage from FX Cuisine.

From wikipedia: The square was featured in the Hitchcock movie The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was in the Dar Essalam Restaurant, where James Stewart and Doris Day get chatting to the couple who will kidnap their son

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February 09, 2008

Cones! The hat! Zeppelin Launch!

Tooth_mouth The Kibbé and Queso? Please help name a Lebanese-Mexican restaurant

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Alex Talbot and Aki Kamozawa cooked a New Years Eve meal for Steve Plotnicki at his home. The menu:

*Diamond Creek Oyster, mastic, passion fruit bubbles

*White Chocolate Ice Cream wild arctic char roe, blis elixir, coconut

*Crabmeat marbles butternut squash, sheet, cylinder, yogurt

*Mussel Soup crispy cuttlefish, hazelnuts, chartreuse

*Lacquered carrots garam masala, date-yuzu, Benton’s ham

*Mozzarella Tagliatelle mushroom Bolognese

*Kona Kampachi beets, pecorino foglio noche, eel sauce

*Sea scallop, persimmon relish, vanilla bean, pistachio brittle

*Nantucket Bay Scallops persimmon relish, vanilla bean, pistachio brittle

*Maple Vinegar Glazed Sweetbreads pear dijonaise, pixkled peanuts

*Lamb white miso gnocchi, stewed rhubarb

*Cheese

*Chocolate Torchon olive pop rocks, Buddha’s hand

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Prime Cut Meat Market Restaurant Proudly Presents!

Bizarre Eat Shops Built to Lure Trade (Modern Mechanix Magazine, April, 1934)

7 Outrageously Bizarre "Political Ideology and War" Themed Restaurants That You Should Go Before They are Controversially Closed (most have been featured here before)

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January 13, 2008

The Iran-Contra Resaturant

Iran_contra_oliver There's nothing like drinking overpriced liquor in the remnants of the Iran-Contra Cargo Plane, now a restaurant and bar. (From Neatorama)

We are a small group of people who do a lot of other things in New York, like decorate subways and throw parties in the streets. At Grub we're just offering dinner. Whether you are active in other collectives, your neighborhood, your backyard garden, or just new to town, we invite you to our table. Grub: A cheap, simple dinner for strangers and co-conspirators

The Wiener Circle is a popular restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 2622 N. Clark St... (YT)

A man smokes through a "Smoking Point" in a restaurant wall in Goslar, Germany

Indian restaurant built over a cemetery

Mesa, another new ”secret” restaurant in Costa Mesa

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November 17, 2007

$10,000 a table

Thanksgiving_dinner NY city's most expensive Thanksgiving Day meal, which includes caviar and truffles, is served at a private chef's table in the kitchen alcove of Café Gray, a pricey restaurant in the Time Warner building. The cost of the table, which seats 12, is $10,000. That averages out to $833 a person. If you want to save a few bucks, the restaurant's regular dining room, which seats 130, goes for just $500 a person (both children and adults). (From Unknown Highway)

With traditional Ukrainian dishes at Divo, Jay Rayner tried the food of his forefathers. He was just grateful they'd emigrated. Review of an Ukrainian restaurant in London

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October 29, 2007

An urban art oasis in Riverside

Martin_sanchez Guess the Restaurant (Chicago area only. I like this one)

History of 'greasy spoons' in the UK

Bill O'Reilly’s Restaurant Reviews

Restaurants with singing waiters. Among a long list of the most unusual restaurants in the world

The Banana Restaurant, condom themed restaurant In Taiwan

Everyone wants to open a bar. Financially it is one of the worst investments you could ever make, but the cool factor is off the charts. If you really want to make money in the saloon industry I suggest the "money on the wall" theme

Union Oyster House, the oldest restaurant in continuous service in the U.S. (Since 1826. From Sippican)

By the way, my favorite local restaurant, Mariscos El Tío's, which serves wonderful authentic Mexican food, had been discovered on the internet! In the last 6 months I invited many guests & friends to visit its unusual & artistic grounds, and among them was Seattle Realtor-blogger Marlow Harris and her family. Marlow posted recently a detailed photo story about the owner Martin Sanchez’s Folk Art shrine and within a few days her story spread around the intertubes, including mentions on 2Boings, Neatorama and many other blogs. I only hope that the lines at Tio’s Tacos won’t get too long now…

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September 22, 2007

Now Serving

A slideshow of New Yorker covers that celebrate food and dining, from the twenties to today. (From Nag on the Lake)

Now Serving: Menu pages of 6257 NYC restaurants

Possible the first restaurant review to appear in the NY Times

Rice To Riches Racketeering Ring

Plane crashes into restaurant; one dead

The Crooked Pub must be one of the most unusual pubs in the world

Breaking news: Robot Theatre's "Don't Tase Me, Bro”

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August 30, 2007

Dinner in the Metro

Dinner_car Dinner in a Russian Metro in memory of a recently deceased Russian cult writer Prigov. The train ran along the circle line and new passengers were invited to have a shot of vodka in his honor. After the full circle the table and disposable dishes were abandoned

St. Louis is full of dead bars. Some have been reborn as, well, bars. Others as some other type of commerce. Many are abandoned and no small number have simply vanished. Here are a few

World's First Automated Restaurant Opens In Germany

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July 28, 2007

“Table scalpers” for top restaurants

Fabulous_italians “I went to Subway for dinner tonight, and when I finished my transaction, I was handed this vague and uninformative receipt

The Absent Minded Waiter, a Steve Martin short (With Buck Henry & Teri Garr. Watch until the end)

Breaking, sad news: Grant Achatz has cancer

Zimmy’s Restaurant, 531 East Howard Street, Hibbing, MN…

Hitler-Themed Bars & Restaurants found in Asia. (From Cynical-C). A letter from the original owner of Hitler Bar in Pusan, Korea

Re-post: How to make reservations at The French Laundry and other tips at the WSJ’s How to Get the Ungettable Table

You can get a free download of Steve Plotnicki’s 50 Most Recommended Restaurants in North America and Europe. Steve Plotnicki write the mouth-watering Opinionated About Dining blog

Taos Las vegas, the highest grossing independent restaurant in the US

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July 05, 2007

How do you say McKroc in Russian?

Baby_ronald The Froo Froo Restaurant Menu Generator

The tell-tales for a bad restaurant vs. a good one at “Waiter Rant”

Carniceria store paintings - So bad it’s good

Pi-nuts bar in Gent, Belgium

McDonalds Plant Near Moscow. (From New Shelton)

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June 13, 2007

World's largest wholesale market

Pressed_duck Rungis, just outside Paris, is a cult place for gourmets. It is the world's largest wholesale market for fresh produce. Fish, meat, fruits, vegetables, cheese and even fresh flowers are sold here every day in quantities so large an entire train station and highway exit has been built to serve it

Also there, le canard à la presse as it is served at La Tour d'Argent

From “Soup jockey” to “Put a hat on it” - The exact origins of Diner slang have not been clearly identified. There appears to be some common usage by black waiters in the 1870s and 1880s. Diner slang was popular in diners, lunch rooms and luncheonettes from the 1920s until the 1970s. Although many of the terms were created for fun and to lighten up the stress of the restaurant environment, having distinct names for menu items helped the short order cooks

Five fake names I like to give at restaurants

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April 11, 2007

The Fresh-a-Pepper

Pepper_grind Too Much Information (An old joke with perfect delivery)

Every McDonald's is unique in it's own way

Street Food Videos from the far east

Five ideas I’ve had for family theme restaurants, including B.F. Skinner’s Original Stuffers

Red-Guard Themed Restaurant opened in China

David Byrne was wondering what’s with the Pepper grinding ritual that invaded U.S. restaurants a decade or 2 ago

(Also: Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down)

"Never go out to eat on a Monday" and 9 other Things Your Restaurant Will Not Tell You

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April 06, 2007

A taste of Sonora in Riverside

What a surprise! We’ve discovered the most delightful restaurant right in downtown Riverside, California. We were lusting for some original Ensenada-style street Ceviche, and Google sent us to Mariscos El Tío's. Only a block from the old Fox theater and the much fancier Mission Inn, it’s a different world all together.

You may have passed by this corner hundreds of times, and never noticed the place. Once inside, you are transported to a funkier, simpler sensibility. The food there is delicious, none of the servers speaks English, and the home-made art naïf décor is full of surprises. See for yourself.

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Mariscos El Tío's - 3948 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside. 951-788-0230

Update: Apparently, the photographs of this post act up in Safari. WHat can be done about it?

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March 01, 2007

Cooking the books

Fast_food_joint A Politically Incorrect Restaurant in Manila - Flavors of Negros

A collection of eccentric Chinese Restaurant matchbooks

Arkiva Tropika is a collection of mostly pre-1970 menus, postcards, matchbooks, and paper ephemera souvenir items, mainly from Polynesian and other Exotic theme restaurants, hotels, and the like

Ziddy: A girl wearing a paper mask has lunch at the cafeterias of major Japanese companies (? From Exploding Aardvark)

Cooking the books: Anyone can cook from any cookbook out there, but it takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook at Home

The Sysco monopoly. How Sysco's 400,000-plus item catalog supplies nearly 400,000 American eating establishments, from Wendy's to Gitmo

World's First Wendy's Restaurant in Columbus, OH is closing. (From Gadling)

The Dome restaurant is located on the 63rd floor of Bangkok’s second tallest building

Linger Lodge in Florida, with their “On the road grill menu”, and other unusual restaurants from around the world

By the way, I am leaving on a weekend cruise to Mexico. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment

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January 12, 2007

Free meals at Hooters – For Life!

Outback_onion On Friday October 20, 2006 Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were presented with Hooters VIP Cards at a Hooters Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. The Cards entitle the gentlemen to free food at any of the chains 435 locations in 46 states and 20 countries exclusive of tip and alcohol

Vintage and Modern Diner Postcards

Waiters who are nauseated by food

How the Outback Steakhouse chain turned a 40-cent onion into a 5-dollar menu item: The Secret Onion Bloomer. Only £14.99

Dining in the dark at Dans le Noir

After almost seven years of working at the “Bistro”, ”Waiter” quit his job. Now we are waiting for his book, which will surely rock

This is a copy of the official rules of the Serial Diners, a group founded in 1989 and dedicated to dining at every restaurant listed in the Toronto Yellow Pages (in alphabetical order), at the rate of one per week

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December 17, 2006

That will be $55, please

Mac_and_cheese The $55 Mac And Cheese order at The Waverly Inn. (Photo from Somewhat Frank)

The Domino Pizza effect

The Donauturm. From Wikipedia’s list of revolving restaurants around the world

Mister Softee and the other top ten Creepiest Fast Food Mascots

Sammy's Rumanian restaurant, a promotional video presentation that is developed & sold for as low as $300

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December 04, 2006

Golden restaurant

French_maids For a nice dish of Polonium-210, visit The Polonium Restaurant (or buy it online for as little as $69)

In front of the local Taco Bell in Anchorage, Alaska

Dolce & Gabbana opens a gold restaurant in Milan

Nurses at the Heart Attack Grill are not really nurses. None of the women pictured on our website actually have any medical training, nor do they attempt to provide any real medical services. Maids at the iMade Cafe are not really Japanese maids either

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October 24, 2006

McConnell's Pork Barrel

Wine_list At Mantra, hyped as the world's first ayurvedic restaurant, you don't order. The waiter looks you over and tells you what you're having

McCain, Feingold Co-Sponsor Chain Of Integrity-Themed Eateries

Waiters at a new Chinese Noodle house must wear noodle style hair

“The most dangerous species of owner is the one who gets into the business for love.” The economics behind an independt coffee shop

La Coupole, 102 boulevard Montparnasse

All patrons of the Hypnosis Restaurant would agree to be hypnotized before dining. Obviously this would make the food taste better and the service would appear spectacular. The hypnosis would all be above board and voluntary. And for liability reasons the restaurant would record everything that happens with security cameras and get signed releases

Re-post: 300 love letters

God bless you for the beautiful radio I won

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September 27, 2006

"Donkey - Good for the skin..."

Strange_restaurant The ultimate poseur's paradise - A restaurant that serves Nothing

Obikà, a mozzarella bar in Rome

Strange Restaurant. By Shel Silverstein

The owner of a restaurant named after Adolf Hitler said he will change its name because it angered so many people

Beijing's penis emporium

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August 04, 2006

Pub on a bike

Cute_waitress Dinner in the sky

Push One To Proceed in English. Bill Balsamico, owner of Casa D'Ice in North Versailles, PA, expresses his very opinionated political ideas on the sign in front of his restaurant

The Grand Lake Theater in Berkeley Oakland does too

Pay from the heart. Seva Café is a restaurant at which you aren't allowed to pay your bill but can agree to pay the bill of a party seated in the future. And your bill was paid for by someone who ate there before you arrived

A Czech restaurant where the waitresses are naked. WARNING: Nakedness inside!

Mobil Pubs in Holland. (From Neatorama)

Tantra Restaurant, Miami Beach

Catch Your Own Dinner Themed Japanese Restaurant

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July 01, 2006

Box Lunch

Cocktails_bar Ed Helm investigates the controversy behind the new Mexican restaurant in Scottsdale: “So you have a problem with Mexicans?”…

The Brown Fog at the Restaurant. Art by Erik Wayne Patterson

Uzbeki café dedicated to Britney Spears

Hooker's Restaurant in Lexington, Mississippi, the best food in Holmes County

The Wal-Mart of Burritos: Why restaurant stocks are thriving

Protest in China closes cat meat restaurant. Also, Lucky Cheng's, a Chinese restaurant in NYC, where all the "waitresses" are men in drag (Warning: Loud disco-type music!)

Letting customers skip the line (Only in NYC so far)

Some other waiter blogs: Red Lobster Hates their employees and stories of an Insane Waiter

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June 10, 2006

1:30 WORK Stick of gum
3:15 Glass of water
4:05 Glass of water
4:35 4 Hershey’s Kisses
4:37 Stick of gum…

Ny_diet I am completely fascinated by this article about the New York Diet. Five “regular” New Yorkers record everything they eat for one week. It’s as exciting to read as poetry. And they (especially The Bachelor & The Rabbinical Student) drink so much water! (Found on Kottke)

Same location, The Taste of The New York Subway: A directory of NYC restaurants organized by subway stop. Not very interesting, except of the concept, really. (From Presurfer. Hi, Gerard, how is it going? hoe gaat 't met je?)

Buck's restaurant in Woodside, California, where Silicon Valley honchos meet for deals over breakfast. It is owned by Jamis MacNivan. So now they are looking for "Buck's Restaurant VC Spotter"

Wherever you go, your stomach goes too, and we bet it's got some stories to tell. MealMe is place to share those stories

Gilgamesh Restaurant Lounge

(Update: This picture of the gal drinking water makes me thirsty!)

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April 25, 2006

I love cafes

Ihop 22 Belgian chefs became the first people ever to eat a whole gastronomic meal 50 metres above the ground, dangling from a crane

A short Glossary of Indian Restaurant Curries. From Balti to Vindaloo

Project: Denny’s. To visit every Denny's restaurant in the world (or at least as many as possible), getting lots of free stuff along the way. "And so it was written that at each Denny's restaurant there shall be a worker whose image resembles that of Saint Al of Yankovic"

Photos from The First and Last Chance Bar in Oakland, an old hangout of Jack London

Steve Plotnicki reviews a meal at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, from Nitro-Green Tea Lime Mousse all the way to the carrot and orange tuile with beetroot jelly, mango, and Douglas Fir puree

Jerry Kindall’s Seattle Pancake Page. A Sculpture of a Pancake Stack

Russell Davies’s Breakfasts in America

Food Magellan. To “visit” as many of the countries of the world in a year and sample their cuisines. Due to financial and other constraints, this will be accomplished by making excursions around Los Angeles, occasionally using a liberal definition of “around.”

The Paupered Chef

By the way, if you read this, please name below your most favorite local restaurant

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March 20, 2006

On the menu today -

Vintage_corkscrew - Horse penis and testicles with a chilli dip, at China's first speciality penis restaurant

Butter many privates, French Crips, Rurality salad and many other Engrish atrocities from May I take your order?

Twins Restaurant is owned by identical twin sisters Lisa Ganz, twin sister Debbie Ganz, and actor Tom Berenger. We are the only restaurant of its kind, staffed entirely by 37 sets of identical twins who work the same shift, in the same station, in the same uniform

Ever wanted all the communion wafers you could eat? Then come on down to The Host barn. By Scott Gairdner. NSFW if you work in a Catholic Church

Route 40 Diners. (From John’s blog)

Elvis American Diner is the only officially-sanctioned Elvis attraction in the world outside of Graceland. It sells Elvis wine made from Israeli grapes

Bahooka Ribs and Grog in Rosemead

Special corkscrew above from David Lee. Many More Unusual Bars and Restaurants Here

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February 09, 2006

Heaven & Hell

Escher_heavens Jennifer Sharpe’s Photo Walls series. Found on the Metafilter’s thread “What's up with those framed autographed headshots that decorate so many restaurants, bars, and laundromats?” These headshots encompass the whole range from A-list superstars and B-list character actors down to Z-list nobodies and has-beens… The photos of SharpeWorld (And an excellent excuse to repost another link to radio anarchists Coyle and Sharpe)

Tokyo bar matchboxes. (From ”Bifurcated Rivets”). In Tokyo today, popular Maid Cafes in Akihabara district

Bad Joke of the Day: If Big Breasted Women Work At Hooters, Where Do One Legged Women Work?

The Encounter Restaurant at Los Angeles Airport (LAX)

The F Word Restaurant - The F does not stand for what you think

Competing to see how much faster can you deliver junk food

Another very nice tale from “Waiter Rant”, Heaven & Hell. I predict that 2006 will be the year for this anonymous waiter-writer to get his million dollar book deal. If anybody deserves fame & fortune… Read all 267 wonderful previous stories in the archives… (Colorized image of Escher’s Heaven & Hell above, from Worth 1000’s Escher Blowout 2)

Horny Toad, the best Fried Chicken Restaurant in Arizona. (According to Smiles & Groans)

Saveur magazine's eighth annual list of favorite restaurants, food, drink, people, places and things

I ordered my ticket today for a surprise November trip to China! What to expect there? Restaurants in China...

(Typepad’s Stat Counter seems to be broken today; It shows 44,941 visitors on this blog between midnight & 10PM. Mmmmm?..). Many More Unusual Bars and Restaurants Here

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December 16, 2005

London’s Pubs

Little_chef “The 61,000 pubs in Britain have over 25 million loyal customers. Over three-quarters of the adult population go to pubs, and over a third are ‘regulars’, visiting the pub at least once a week”. London's traditional and historic pubs. A guide to British pub etiquette

An intimate look into the employee make-up of about 95% of the restaurants you're eating at, by Alex Blagg. Next time you sit down and order that Chilean Sea Bass, remember - these are the people who are preparing it for you. (From ”Waiter rant”)

Little Chef - "The food is bad, the service is terrible, the prices are overpriced and they haven't kept up with the times in terms of menu, style or cleanliness"

"During our world-record North Pole trek in 2005, we lived off ever-depleting rations. Matters became worse when the dogs ate much of our supplies. When we arrived at the Pole there was just enough left for a celebratory bowl of spaghetti Bolognese. Food never tasted so good." From 50 Ultimate Food Moments. Also there: "I have a friend called Stefan who constantly tries to introduce me to eating odd things like herring sperm, or elk. I prefer my food to be normal, but last time I visited him I thoroughly enjoyed some donkey sausage. The only other things on offer that evening were testicular, so I can only hope that this wasn't a theme night, and that the donkey meat came from somewhere a little higher up"…

Mama's - The Best Sandwich in all of New York

Brûlée: the Dessert Experience, a dessert-only restaurant. (From ”Damn Interesting”)

Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert are Waiters who are nauseated by food

Bald patrons eat free at Gary's Uptown Restaurant (Wednesday only. From Ed Rants)

Habib's, Brazil's biggest home-grown fast-food chain specialising in Middle Eastern cuisine

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