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Mar. 13th, 2009 09:45 amTheme restaurants plagued New York not that long ago. Some, like the Motown Cafe, folded, while others, like the Hard Rock Cafe, go on.
One such restaurant, the Jekyll & Hyde Club, is at the top of the stairs leading out of the subway station I use every morning. There's nothing interesting to say about it: Wikipedia characterizes the theme as "spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes", and that's at least as accurate as anything I'd say about it. I went there once, more than 10 years ago, and I recall the menu—and the food, for that matter—to be about what you'd see at, say, TGI Friday's.
This morning, though, it occurred to me to wonder about a Lovecraftian or Cthulhu-themed restaurant. I'm not really thinking of oblique reference, such as Terry Pratchett's Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar, but rather how one might actually do it, with some wit, but no self-awareness. The menu might lean slightly towards seafood, of course, with specialty cocktails such as the"Margarita from the Mountains of Madness" and the "R'lyeh Rum Runner (A couple of these, and your angles may go from acute to obtuse)". Suggestions for the name of the restaurant itself are solicited from the readership.
Just watch out for the calamari. I'm just sayin'.
ETA: Unsurprisingly, it seems that I'm not the first to think of this.
One such restaurant, the Jekyll & Hyde Club, is at the top of the stairs leading out of the subway station I use every morning. There's nothing interesting to say about it: Wikipedia characterizes the theme as "spooky horror with an emphasis on English Gothic themes", and that's at least as accurate as anything I'd say about it. I went there once, more than 10 years ago, and I recall the menu—and the food, for that matter—to be about what you'd see at, say, TGI Friday's.
This morning, though, it occurred to me to wonder about a Lovecraftian or Cthulhu-themed restaurant. I'm not really thinking of oblique reference, such as Terry Pratchett's Three Jolly Luck Takeaway Fish Bar, but rather how one might actually do it, with some wit, but no self-awareness. The menu might lean slightly towards seafood, of course, with specialty cocktails such as the"Margarita from the Mountains of Madness" and the "R'lyeh Rum Runner (A couple of these, and your angles may go from acute to obtuse)". Suggestions for the name of the restaurant itself are solicited from the readership.
Just watch out for the calamari. I'm just sayin'.
ETA: Unsurprisingly, it seems that I'm not the first to think of this.
