My favorite place to eat is Las Vegas is Battista’s Hole-In-The-Wall. Excellent food, but if you’ve never heard of it, the name doesn’t do it any favors.
My pet peeve is EAT. Like, what the hell else are we going to do in a restaurant? :dubious: 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.
The classic is “Eat Here and Get Gas!”
There used to be a John Holmes Meat Market in Des Moines, named after the owner. One of my HS classmates took a picture of the sign and sent it to Hustler magazine, and was sued as a result.
What was he sued for, and do you know the result? If you hang a sign outside your business, I’m not seeing how you can sue someone for taking a picture of it, but then what do I know?
There used to be a place in New London Connecticut called “The Hygienic Restaurant.” I never ate there. If they have to tell people it’s hygienic, it probably isn’t.
Yeah, none of that makes sense. I mean, sure, anyone can sue, but I don’t see what possibly merit there would be to the suit.
Park Slope, Brooklyn, once had the Economy Diner. And we still have the Purity Diner. I suppose we should have one dedicated to each of the Seven Virtues. So we could feel all holier-than-thou and shit when we were getting a cheeseburger.
OTOH, I would be delighted to grab a bowl of soup with saltines at the Gluttony Diner, the Lust Diner, or the Avarice Diner.
You have to subscribe to be able to actually read this. The picture at the top of the page is indeed my classmate.
13.8% was a bargain loan rate at the time, too.
IIRC, all Mr. Holmes wanted was an apology.
(Slight hijack)
My friend and I met the owner Battista Locatelli in Zion National Park. We met on the shuttle bus and hiked Angel’s Landing with him*. What A character!
*It was such a remarkable encounter, I wrote a blog post about it.
(end hijack)
OK, but none of that actually says he was actually sued or how the suit turned out. It’s a guy embarrassed and threatening to sue. I can’t see a legal leg he would have to stand on in an actual suit, unless Hustler did create some sort of ad that would hurt his reputation’s business and, even then, I don’t see why your friend would be involved in the suit if Hustler did something with the photo to impugn the butcher’s business or reputation.
In Honolulu, we have a place called the Itchy Butt. Desribed as a “no-nonsense take-out joint dishing up teriyaki chicken bowls, fries and other fast-food Asian grub.” Popular but we’ve not tried it yet.
There also used to be a place near me called “Best Tacos Period” with period spelled out.
The sheer arrogance of that title was tempered by the fact it lasted 6 months and closed.
According to my Aunt, one of the ugliest that she encountered is “Best Ugly” restaurant in Cape Town, South Africa. The last she heard about it is they have stopped its operation.
I have two to add:
Vietnamese fare: What the Phu
A hot dog joint: The Dog House
mmm
A Japanese restaurant near to where I work is having a refit and will apparently be changing it’s name to ‘Slurp at the Kirk’.
It backs onto a historic churchyard and church, hence the use of ‘Kirk’.
I once purchased a take-out pizza and on the box it said You’ve Tried The Rest, Now Try The Best! Well, you can imagine the eagerness I felt racing home to eat this superlative pie.
Now, don’t get me wrong, the pizza was good, but I’d had better sauce. But, whatever governing body had named this pizza “the best” was the final arbiter, so I was satisfied.
Last week I bought a pizza from a new place. On the box it said You’ve Tried The Rest, Now Try The Best! I assume there will be a big lawsuit coming up.
You ever have Larry and Carrols?