"Anil Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And...what does the restaurant name mean? I cannot imagine that they named >> it after a lump of coal....? > > There used to be (about 10 years ago) a restaurant called *Charcoal(s)* in > Prestige Meridien on MG Road in Bangalore that used to dish out decent > Sizzlers. > > I still find it hard with some of the pub and restaurant names in Delhi like > - Ego and Snobs.
For a while there was a restaurant here in NYC called Bright Food Shop (which was indeed as described.) In Japanese, adding "-ya" to a word makes it indicate "seller of" or "shop", as in a "hon-ya" is a bookseller or a bookstore. Thus, a "sobaya" is a soba restaurant, and a "panya" is a bakery. In the concentration of Japanese stores in New York's East Village, there is a Japanese style bakery that decided to name itself Panya, and a (pretty good) soba restaurant that calls itself, with equal creativity, Sobaya. There is also a sake bar that was (for a while, no longer) called "Sake Bar". A bar around here named "Ego" or "Snobs" would probably be a similarly welcome form of literalism. Even better would be a housewares store called "Expensive Cookware You'll Never Use"... Perry
