America's Most Bizarre Restaurants

Forbes.com ^ | 11/20/10 | Nicholas Gill

[DemforBush]

Sometimes, food alone cannot make a meal. Your overall enjoyment in a restaurant can be radically enhanced by the right atmosphere and setting. For example, many believe that fish and seafood taste better in view of water. It's not that the composition of the food is actually any different, but rather that when your brain is stimulated your reception to seafood is altered...

[DemforBush]

IMHO, a couple of the concepts are not so much "bizarre" as "irritating". Grapefruit-cutting Ninjas? I'll pass.

I will say there are some clever choices on the list, though. The Fort in Colorado sounds like a keeper (anyplace that serves bison is a keeper), and I have to try Tony Packo's now that I know Klinger wasn't just making it up. (grin)

Here's a slideshow to all the places, btw:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/11/bizarre-strange-weird-restaurants-eateries-lifestyle-travel-food_slide.html

[DemforBush]

http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/11/bizarre-strange-weird-restaurants-eateries-lifestyle-travel-food_slide.html

There’s the slideshow in clickable form.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

World most bizarre restaurant. Ed Devebic’s in Beverly Hills.

[Cyber Liberty]

If that’s “Debevic’s,” we had one in Phoenix....

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Used to hang out there or bring dates.I was there closing night. Absolutely bizarre place.

[truth_seeker]

Chandler AZ

Lookat dem big b-b-b-burgers !!

[Cyber Liberty]

I was there closing night.

That must have been something....I think they knocked it down for something else?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I do not know why it was closed. It was packed every night.

[Cyber Liberty]

I didn’t click the slide-show...was that The Heart Attack Grill?

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

No. The building is still there on La Cienega Blvd.

[Viking2002]

We got a place back home - Curtis' Original Coney Island Wieners - that is our version of Tony Packo's. Sweat dogs to die for. Been around over a century and still drawing out-of-towners like a bear's butt draws flies. Some say it's the Coney sauce; some say it's the dog itself; most can't put a finger on it. But you get 'em wrapped in wax paper and buy 'em buy the bag, then put 'em in front of a crowd, and they disappear like bugs under a spotlight. They call them 'sweat dogs' because back in the day, they'd line them up their arm by the dozen while they prepped the buns to throw them on.

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[pops88]

“I have to try Tony Packo’s now”

Tony Packo’s is great. I like their chili. Growing up in Ohio, our local grocery store carried their yummy pickles. Tony Packo’s is definitely worth a visit.

[Cyber Liberty]

We must be talking about Debevic’s in different cities. We don’t have a La Cienega Blvd. in Phoenix that I know of...

[truth_seeker]

“I didn’t click the slide-show...was that The Heart Attack Grill?”

Kinda difficult to get my humor, without the visuals from the slide show.

Yes, Heart Attack Grill.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I am talking about the one in Beverly Hills

[Cacique]

btt

[Cyber Liberty]

I sussed it pretty quickly. I know of the place. Breaks my heart all the times I have to drive past it and not stop. The waitresses do, in fact, look like that. A stethoscope is a nice accessory.

[Lancey Howard]

Every time I drive past this place in Willow Grove, I can't help but laugh:

[bgill]

I’ve raised goats. They are eating and pooping machines. It’s a constant non-stop what goes in one end comes out the other 24/7. I’ll pass on eating with goats.

[Charles Henrickson]

Being of Swedish ancestry and vacationing in Door County, Wisconsin, many times throughout my life, I've been to Al Johnson's in Sister Bay a lot. Good Swedish food, pleasant atmosphere, and a nice Scandinavian gift shop. The goats are only on the roof. ;^)