Menu Typos I Have Known and Loved

From the Olive Mountain restaurant in Evanston:

17. Lamb skank baked with eggplant, carrots, yellow and green zucchini and onion in our special tomato sauce.

http://olivemountainrestaurant.com/03-d ... stern.html

Be sure your shots are up-to-date....

Sort of a typo:
Boneless Cat Fish from Larsa's in Skokie - http://www.mealsanddeals.com/view_menu2 ... =63&menu=3

The first time I visited In Fine Spirits, I saw "BEET CARPACCIO" in the charcuterie section of their menu. I immediately assumed it was a typo and that they meant beef. I was mistaken, horribly mistaken - I hateeee beets

The first time I visited In Fine Spirits, I saw "BEET CARPACCIO" in the charcuterie section of their menu. I immediately assumed it was a typo and that they meant beef. I was mistaken, horribly mistaken - I hateeee beets

That phrase literally made me shudder. The current obsession with oddball beet preparations is a culinary scourge for those many of us who share Sara Moulton's opinion of beets, that being that they taste like sweet dirt. Blech. I'll stick to its close botanical cousin in the Goosefoot family, chard. Tastes better, easier/faster to cook, adaptable, and - most importantly - no indelible murder-scene mess to deal with.

At Blackbird once I saw "hangar steak, burnt orange baby, romaine." Of course what they meant was burnt orange and baby romaine, but that misplaced comma . . . oh, that misplaced comma.

A common problem: "crap legs."
No wonder they offer "all you can eat"!!

Not on the menu, but a sign outside a Holiday Inn:
Give your mother a buffett for Mother's Day.

Vital Information once suggested a dinner at Lao Sze Chuan where we order only all the items from the menu that have typos in the name. I think we'd need half of LTHForum to show up to help finish all the food.

I've posted at least two personal favorites:

Clams in a seamanlike sauce

and of course

Truffle Mouse Crostini

This other thread has some other great catches ("crap eggs" by stevez, etc.)

For the longest time, the old menus at LSC had "La La La Spicy.Ch.Pot," an item we ordered often because we loved the rendering even more than the dish. I think they still have, but spelled out somewhere.

I recall a special at Family Palace restaurant on Harlem & Lawrence that offered some main meaty entree with "your choice of pot." I think I noticed this around age 12 and I stole the little card from the menu and sent it to Jay Leno's headlines. I don't think it got featured.

A while back I saw a sign in the window of an Indian place on Devon: "Curry Vegetables- $2 per bowel"

I didn't try it so I really can't attest as to whether that was a typo or not actually.

NeroW wrote:At Blackbird once I saw "hangar steak, burnt orange baby, romaine." Of course what they meant was burnt orange and baby romaine, but that misplaced comma . . . oh, that misplaced comma.

Reminds me of the joke, "A panda goes into a café,...", in one of my favorite books, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss.

On a Taiwanese menu here in Boston: "Deep Fried Doug". Poor Doug.

This link contains some real howlers. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkinthe ... rtentl.php

Oh my, I'm in tears. Good thing we're getting new keyboards this week!

Sorry, this one is not my own, but I've always wondered what possibly could have led to this series of mistranslations.

Clearly the restaurant is a front. "The rabbit fucks the pot" means "bring me Hef's castoffs."

porklet wrote:On a Taiwanese menu here in Boston: "Deep Fried Doug". Poor Doug.

I don't think my first guess as to what this was supposed to say was correct....

my favorite is the new "Specialty's" in the loop.



It's not all about the grammar, I guess.

I keep wanting to ask "is Mr. Specialty around ?" or leave a "Bob the Angry Flower" printout on a table.

tem wrote:
I keep wanting to ask "is Mr. Specialty around ?" or leave a "Bob the Angry Flower" printout on a table.

Can you leave one for "crimini's" at the top of the page as well?

Somewhere, someone said that, judging by the copious use of apostrophes, people must have learned in grammar class that apostrophe meant, "Here comes an 's'!"

Pie Lady wrote:Clearly the restaurant is a front. "The rabbit fucks the pot" means "bring me Hef's castoffs."

After a little research, I've found the answer. It's apparently a quirk with a particular computer translation program, which translates a particular character meaning "dry" or "to do" as "fuck."

I think I'll leave the next joke up to someone else.