Reader: Restaurant names are starting to sound like boutique clothing shops

Denver is about to see a run of new restaurants with similar-sounding names. Work & Class opens next week. Guard and Grace is coming in February. Opening a month or so later is Salt & Grinder -- which will also go by its initials, S&G. That prompted a slight name...

By Patricia Calhoun

January 24, 2014

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Denver is about to see a run of new restaurants with similar-sounding names. Work & Class opens next week. Guard and Grace is coming in February. Opening a month or so later is Salt & Grinder -- which will also go by its initials, S&G. That prompted a slight name change for Stoic & Genuine, the fishhouse that Jen Jasinski and Beth Gruitch are putting in Union Station; construction continues, but plans to use S&G in the signage have been Our post rounding up these name games led to a tasty conversation on searchabiity, typography and more.

For example, this from bondadprevalece:

I feel like restaurant names are starting to sound more and more like boutique clothing shops.

What is the best restaurant name you've heard of? The worst? Post your suggestions below.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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