Quick Rant: Worst Name for a Restaurant in Dallas

Posted on June 27th, 2011 2:02pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Procrastination is part of the creative process, Rants

So I’m reading through a zillion press releases and I come across an older one from the new restaurant in Renaissance Hotel, the building near the Dallas Market Center that, to me, resembles an aerosol air freshner. It’s swanky looking place, and its “farm to fire” cuisine may be the best farm to fire cuisine ever trucked from a farm to a fire, the name of the place does not make me hungry.

Asador.

I know, now, it’s Spanish for grill but still, come on. Really? Anybody else unhappy with the name of a restaurant?

29 comments

  1. Gosh, where to start? Rusty Taco and Fuzzy’s both bring to mind rather unpleasant hygiene or sanitation. Hunky’s is a little too colorful a name…

    @ 2:13 pm on June 27, 2011

  2. The Grease Monkey is set open up in Arlington.

    @ 2:14 pm on June 27, 2011

  3. Everything tastes like Asador.

    @ 2:20 pm on June 27, 2011

  4. I agree that Fuzzy, Rusty, and Velvet Tacos are far worse. I wasn’t a fan of “Dimples” either.

    @ 2:24 pm on June 27, 2011

  5. Fuzzy’s came to mind immediately. I don’t even like the name Blimpie’s. Why not just call the place Big Fat Pig’s?

    @ 2:29 pm on June 27, 2011

  6. It is the combination of a** and humidor that makes me feel somewhat claustrophobic.

    @ 3:02 pm on June 27, 2011

  7. Wasn’t Asador the name of the houseboy in The Birdcage?

    @ 3:22 pm on June 27, 2011

  8. cant wait to try asador, honestly. it looks stellar

    @ 3:28 pm on June 27, 2011

  9. Yeah, somone didn’t really think that one through

    @ 4:03 pm on June 27, 2011

  10. That was Agador

    @ 4:06 pm on June 27, 2011

  11. I’m imagining Servers is assless chaps.

    @ 4:36 pm on June 27, 2011

  12. …and Matador outfits.

    @ 4:37 pm on June 27, 2011

  13. I cringed a little when I read about it. Sounds like something you’d call someone you were not terribly fond of to me.

    @ 5:03 pm on June 27, 2011

  14. Sake Balm in the Quadrangle. I wince every time I walk by. “Was it the balmy heat or the thought of eating Chapstick that drove their customers away?”

    @ 5:04 pm on June 27, 2011

  15. I’m sure that it’s fantastic, but every time I hear the name Whiskey Cake, I think of those disks at the bottom of urinals.

    @ 5:59 pm on June 27, 2011

  16. NOSH

    @ 6:06 pm on June 27, 2011

  17. In-n-Out.

    @ 6:21 pm on June 27, 2011

  18. Cheval or whatever that place is in the Intercontinental. Do I WANT to eat horse??

    @ 7:19 pm on June 27, 2011

  19. Hello My Name Is Eat

    @ 9:34 pm on June 27, 2011

  20. Anyone remember Doody’s Roadhouse on McKinney (where Old Monk is now)?

    @ 9:38 pm on June 27, 2011

  21. So whats wrong if we change it to english The Grill? Does anyone have the same taste in your moths? Another that comes to mind si Mi Cocina? any bad thoughts?

    @ 9:44 pm on June 27, 2011

  22. This IS Dallas. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it Breastador?

    @ 9:51 pm on June 27, 2011

  23. I know it is already closed, but ConFusion on Davis st was definitely my favorite ill advised restaurant name.

    @ 9:51 pm on June 27, 2011

  24. Fat Daddy’s
    Fat Burger

    @ 8:39 am on June 28, 2011

  25. What about the restaurant formerly in the uptown Sambuca location – Salve? You could pronounce is Sal-Vay till the cows came home, it just looked like salve (as in Vick’s salve) to me.

    @ 9:18 am on June 28, 2011

  26. @Cheval …you would be surprised how much you would enjoy horse meat. Provided it was a horse bred for eating not for racing (little stringy I would imagine). I ate some horse meat sashimi (yes, raw) in Japan that would give Kobe beef a run for it’s money.

    I don’t have an agenda here, I just find it odd how there is such an aversion to horse meat when it’s so incredibly similar to cow meat…all because we’ve romanticized one animal and not the other.

    Read this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1587279,00.html

    [sorry to be off topic, but I was just having this discussion the other day and I'm still intrigued by the topic]

    @ 11:01 am on June 28, 2011

  27. Potbelly. I know it’s named after a stove. But still. Will I get one by eating there?

    @ 11:35 am on June 28, 2011

  28. Does anyone remember “Wei Wei” on Central Expressway? They changed their name because they were tired of it being mispronounced.

    @ 1:27 pm on June 29, 2011

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    @ 2:02 pm on July 8, 2011