I had a huge, awful sandwich at the ubiquitous Carnegie Deli (Broadway Danny Rose, Letterman).
DC Space, a nightclub in DC in the 80s, was featured prominently in the Mr. E comic book. The artist and I were both regulars.
I’ve been to The Abbey (a bar in West Hollywood). It’s been on The Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency, several stand up comedy specials and a few LOGO series.
Love the Abbey – didn’t realize it had been on the Janice Dickinson Trainwreck Show.
I’ve been to Cicada, where a scene from Pretty Woman was filmed, and the restaurant at the Standard downtown, where a scene from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was filmed. Cicada is truly beautiful inside, and they’ve got great food; the Standard is very, um, yellow, and the food is only average.
I’ve never had a pastrami sandwich that I didn’t like. The Carnegie Deli has an enormous one, and perhaps that is its signature quality. I thought it was pretty good, and if I do recall correctly, they had all the delicious dill pickles that you could eat.
Aww, man, I’ve been trying to remember the name of that place for AGES.
For what it’s worth, I was stationed in Brunswick before the commercials came out (and let me tell ya, it was a treat to to tell the people around me I’VE BEEN THERE!!!1111one when I first saw the commercial) and I thought it was a great little local family place. Perhaps I was suckered in by the fact that instead of a loading dock (a la Red Lobster) it had a DOCK - y’know, where the lobstermen pulled up to unload their catch - and the clams were dug by people living along the river. At that time they offered a three course meal for a set price (I forget how much now; maybe $12-15?) which included clams for starters, lobster for mains, and …something else. Chowder, perhaps?
Anyhow. Not fine dining; more of the sort of “supper club”, paper napkin kind of place that came into existence at about the same time lobster made the transition from poor people’s food to Park Avenue, and where the waitresses start vacuuming around your table at 8:59 on a Tuesday night so they can go home already please thank you we have kids, y’know.
Best clams I’ve ever had.
Other than that, Tony Bourdain once sampled the food at the “State Fair Food” kiosk at the Mall of America but I’ve always walked by it. I mean, really - fair food is only worth eating outdoors and one day - maybe two days - a year at the end of summer; anything else is wishful thinking.
I think I’m remembering her… I was pretty freshly arrived in Germany, and she was running the place with an iron hand, I was afraid she’d find me insufficiently Deutch and refuse to give me any sausage.
And this was long before Seinfeld had a TV show.
I owned one, until the city kept our street tore up for 3 years in a row…
We were featured on the why guy show, in a movie or two, and the building was in an episode of COPS…
Our name was also in the closing credits to a few movies that we weren’t in, as such.
I’ve been to Casa Bonita in Denver. Which was very exciting for me, as I’d seen the South Park episode many times but had no idea it was a real place.
Here’s a stretch - I regularly go to the Pasty Shop at Waterloo station where Jason Bourne nearly got shot in The Bourne Ultimatum. 
(Watching that movie was quite bizarre as it had a long scene in exactly the part of Waterloo that I cross every single day. I was quite impressed that they got the geography right, as films usually don’t, which spoils it if you know the area in question!)
I forgot about The Rooftop Bar at The Standard (where another scene from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was filmed). Great views, strange furniture, overpriced and watery drinks.
Stranger
Katz’s here, too.
Also Rod’s Steak & Seafood Grille at the Madison Hotel in Morristown NJ. This was where Christopher & Tony ate after (before?) hijacking the wine truck in an episode of “The Sopranos”.
VCNJ~
Mitch’s Tavern where the fight scene in Bull Durham was filmed.
Hackney’s
Uno
Gino’s East
Don Roth’s Blackhawk
Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Co.
The Berghoff
ETA - it’s not like they were IN movies or anything - they’ve been on shows like Check, Please!, DD&D, and other shows like Rachel Ray’s one, and stuff like that there.
Twin Anchors Restaurant in Chicago. It was featured in Bonnie Hunt’s movie Return to Me, although it became an Italian restaurant for the movie.
I know I’ve been to some of the bars used to film About Last Night, but honestly can’t remember which ones. Things like that used to happen often on Division Street.
It probably fell off someones flair. 
I went to Fitz’s in St. Louis becasue we saw it on a Rachel Ray travel show. Best Root Beer I have had in a long time. They also have a number of other homebrewed soda types available. I can recommend the Root Beer, Cream Soda and Orange Soda. We did not have a chance to try the rest. The food was good too, but the homemade pops are the draw.
Forgot White Fence Farm and The Country House. Check Please and some ghost show.
Just thought of another one.
I’ve been in the Pizza Pizza from Half Baked. You know…the one where the horse was.
Sadly, the Vale Rio is no more, at least at the old location. The owners intend to reopen but it depends on zoning negotiations with the town. And while I know lots of people in the area who think it was the Vale in The Blob, it was actually the Downingtown Diner (which I have also been to, though it has moved to a different location.) See here.
On the subject of diner type places in the Phoenixville area, I have been to one which is in M. Night’s new movie, The Happening. The G-Lodge on Route 23 was renamed the Filbert Restaurant for purposes of the movie; here are some pictures.
Many movies set in Philly (such as Fallen) have scenes set at Cheesesteak Central (i.e., the corner of Passyunk where Pat’s and Geno’s are located), so anybody who ever made their grease pilgramage meets the OP’s criteria.
Speaking of which, those characters were married at the Edinburgh Castle, which is where I hung out last Friday night.
I’ve also eaten at Mystic Pizza, once. It was awful.
PizzaWorks down the street was much better. They had brick-oven pizza back in the early 90’s before many other places did.
Guess which one went out of business? :rolleyes:
At least PizzaWorks was a spinoff from The Recovery Room a few towns over in New London, and that place is still going strong.