Written by Michelle Collins
Pun stores. Stores with puns in the title. Bet you didn’t think we could rank the 50 best ones. But you didn’t even think there were 50. Well guess again. BWE.tv has scoured the internet and pulled together the 50 Best Pun Establishments. And here we go:
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Comments time! Let us know your favorite pun store titles below.
It’s kinda late.. where’s June 8?
lox stock and bagel is in champaign and has been closed for several years, its such a cool looking building though still
There’s a Thai food place in South Carolina called Thaicoon, in the spirit of # 17
In a drive back from Denver I saw a construction truck with the sign on the side “Well Hung: Windows and Doors”… just priceless
a couple clever ones I’ve seen (both bikes shops oddly enough): “Cyclepath” and “Out Spoke’n”
two of my favorites:
Cycle Therapy (bike shop, now closed I think, in Colorado Springs)
The Best Little Warehouse in Texas (self-storage, in San Antonio)
There is also one called the best little floorhouse in texas (killeen TX)
I think every town in the U.S. has a Best Little Hair House in [anytown], so that one annoys me.
There’s a “Pho King” somewhere in Orange County, CA, I’ve been told. I hope it’s real and not an urban legend.
My mother in law said she saw one in Florida and had the fun of having her friends whom she was visiting stare at her when she said “lets go t’ pho king.” It must have just opened up because they had never heard of it, it was about half a mile from their house, and they were completely slack-jawed when they saw it.
There’s one in Austin, TX I’ve been to it. Makes us smile every time we order takeout.
Polynesian Restaurant in Hewlett, NY: Fu’s Rush Inn
How about Shang Chai – kosher chinese restaurant in Brooklyn (for those hebrew impaired folks – chai means ‘life’)
I live in Woodstock NY, and we have a place called Hip e Living. They sell tree hugger housewares.
There is (was?) a Chinese-Tex-Mex fusion place in San Antonio call Wok-a-Molรฉ.
There’s a steakgrill restaurant in Leuven, Belgium called The Meating Room: http://www.meatingroom.be/
My favorite was a caterer I saw in Maine named “Food Forethought”
In upstate NY we have the “Hair Port” and in Wisconsin there’s a “Yarn It All”
There’s an adult store in town: Venus Envy
Best. Name. Ever.
Nearby bar out in the sticks where I live (in the spirit of 46): Stumblin’ Inn
Then there’s the oriental restaurant here in Rochester NY that’s been featured on Jay Leno: House of Poon
Grill From Ipanema, D.C.
There’s a Vietnamese noodle shop in Bellevue, WA called What the Pho? — believe it or not.
In Bellevue, WA there’s a Vietnamese restaurant called “What the Pho?”
There is an ice cream place in southern Ohio called Custard’s Last Stand.
There was a pet grooming business on Rt 22 in Whitehouse Station, NJ entitled LaundraMutt. I laughed everytime I drove past the place.
There’s a “Wok and Roll” in Austin. A coffee house called the “Daily Grind”. And you could get a “Oaky Dokey at Smokie Oakies” in Carmichael. Let’s see, also in Austin a “Fu Shin” Fusion restaurant. A wire manufacturer who’s boss is Rusty Wire. I could write a book.
A bakery in Indiana: “Hoosier Mama”.
There is a salad place in Grand Junction, CO called “Garden of Eatin'”
Pho Shizzle in Cambridge, Ontario and Oberlin, Ohio
There is also “Lion in the Sun” of Huntington, New York
If I ever open a bird store, I will call it “Victorious Egret”
There’s a pub in Evansville, IN called the “Duck Inn” — and an upscale women’s clothing store in Lexington, KY called “Isle of You.”
Chinese restaurant in Winnipeg, on 1st Street . . . Hu’s on First!
A restaurant in Skokie Illinois called “East of Edens”, as in fact, it was only two blocks east of the Edens Expressway (in turn, named for a government transportation official Edens)
Greeley, CO there is a bar called “Stagger Inn”
Ever seen the Chinese franchise in Houston called “Yummy Chow”?
In Bath, England, there’s a Tibetan restaurant called Yak-Yeti-Yak.
The one that pretty much takes the cake is “Bunghole Liquors” in Salem, MA.
If I opened a fragrance shop in Arizona, I’d call it “Scents of Yuma”.
In the village of Centerville, Barnstable, MA is a hair salon called “The Barber of ‘C’ ville”
An inn in Alaska called Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn
Portland Oregon apparently requires all Thai restaurants to be pun names.
There’s the Beau Thai, Typhoon, and Thai Noon.
Hayward, CA has a bike shop called Cyclepath.
In Brighton, UK, there was a shoe shop (might still be there, not quite sure) called ‘R Soles’ and a shop selling leather goods that was called ‘Hard Dix.’
There’s also a juice bar called “Sejuiced’ (seduced) and there used to be a barber shop called ‘Fat Boy Trims’ in honour of local resident and DJ Fat Boy Slim. There’s a Chinese takeaway called ‘Brighton Wok’ in hommage to the Graham Greene novel Brighton Rock. There are quite a few more that have elicited a smile and a slight groan from us over the years, but I can’t think of them at the moment . . . .
Oh – who could forget – there’s a pet grooming shop in Brighton called ‘Doggy Fashion’. . . . .
Theres a driving school in Liverpool called L Passo
There is a Thai restaurant in Rochester, England called Thai For Two. Until recently there was also a takeaway in Battersea (south London) called The Leaning Tower of Pizza.
In Santa Clarita, CA there is an insurance man, Duane Dye, whose office is right next to a mortuary! Everytime I drive past it, I think how convenient!
There used to be a bakery in Camden Town called Crusty Bloomers, there’s a fabric shop in the East End called Touching Cloth and a nick-nack shop in Notting Hill called Les Cuises De Chien (the dog’s bollocks)
I live just down the road from number 30. It’s pretty good, but just down the road from it was the now sadly departed wooden furniture store…
“Yew Wood Knot Believe It”.
There’s an Insurance place near Winton in Bournemouth called Norman D. Landings, makes me chuckle.
For anyone in the York and Selby may I recommend the plumber Richard Simpson and his company ‘All Cisterns Go’.
Cracking bloke and he does a bloody good job, too.
Here in Godalming we have a second-hand dress shop called ‘Change of a-dress’ (and there must be a million ‘Frock Exchange’s
In South East London there’s a fireplace shop called GRATE EXPECTATIONS, after the Dickens novel (and David Lean movie). Groan!
There’s a cheese shop in Keswick (Lake District) called ‘Fond Ewe’
In Gaithersburg, MD, there is a wine shop called Grape Expectations. DC also has it’s own Thaiphoon and Thaitanic.
There’s a shop in Shrewsbury, UK called ‘Write here, Kite now”, specialising in both writing equipment (fancy paper and pens), and yes kites.
http://www.writehere-uk.com/images/wp136cdecf.jpg
Tayloring by: Sew Easy
Taiwanese restuarant in Cape Town: Wo Flung Dung
Adult venue: Come Again
wedding chaple – – – Knot Here
Great fun – pun blog. I will have to look out for an entry from my region. (Dorset, Hampshire and The Isle of Wight.)
There’s a picture frame store in Syracuse, NY called I’ve Been Framed
There’s a store in Dixon CA that sells cake decorating supplies, classes etc. It’s called “Every Baking Moment.” Love the name!
In Honolulu, we have the “Dew Drop Inn”.
While not a pun, we also have a Chinese restaurant named “Fook Yuen”. I’m waiting for them to open a 2nd location they can name “Fook Yuen 2”. (and the horse you rode in on!)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The Brick Shirthouse
Then there’s the Chicago area institutions, The Wiener and Still Champion, a laundermat called,” Wash Up, Doc”, the beauty shop, “United Hairlines”, the sandwich shop, “Snaks Firth Avenue” and I’m stull lookng for a restaurant called, “General Meals”.
I stumbled upon this site, thanks for the laugh ๐ Reminds me of a site I stumbled upon a few days ago called Punshurt. They sell shirts and stuff with puns on them so they used the phrase “puns hurt” and made it in to a pun in and of itself since it sounds like pun shirt. Ahh, I love puns. More like this!
awesome post ๐
google “sum yum gai” (pronounced ‘guy’) ๐
Here in the Adelaide CBD is a great little eatery called the “Do Duck Inn”. They’ve decorated (subtly) the interior with, you guessed it, ducks.
The Codfather made the best chips in London
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgen/2722662873/
A bike shop in Braunton, England that had it’s address on SOUTH STREET, was Called, ‘SOUTHFORK’ refering to the setting of TV’s Dallas, I guess. It’s not there anymore though. I think it moved onto the main shopping street, but kept the name, which doesn’t work so well any more!
How about a maternity shop- “Motherfrockers”
One more, a mail-order cheese shop in northeastern Pennsylvania.
“Cheeses of Nazareth”
“The Vinyl Countdown”, record store?
(not a real store though)
Also, Wok This Way is awesome!
Excellent list. I particularly like Cane and Able.
In my home town of Fermoy, Ireland, there used to be a hair salon called The Head Gardener.
On Nassau St in Dublin, there is a shop selling door handles and accessories (?!) called Knobs and Knockers (and if you don’t get that, “knob” is slang for the male member over here and knockers are, of course, boobies).
Not so much a name pun, but when I lived in the LA area a few years ago, I saw a delivery truck with this written on the side:
“CULVER CITY MEAT CO.”
“You Can’t Beat Our Meat!”
Near “Cheeses of Nazareth” is Swiss chesse shop called “Holey Cheeses”.
There’s are two rest. owned by the same people in a small college town in Oklahoma. One is a pizza and chicken rest. called Sam N Ella. and the other is a sandwich type rest. called Ernie Coli’s .
The Dick Liquor?? (How did they miss that?)
There is (was?) a Chinese place in Quincy, Mass. called Good Chow.
There is a Du Kum Inn in Sullivan Missouri. Best restaurant around!
The Master Bait and Tackle shop was in Wilson NY, where I grew up. Don’t know if it’s still there or if there was more than that one but we always laughed about it as kids.
In Danvers, MA I like to get food at “Pete’s A Place”. You’ll never guess what they sell there ;p
An ink shop opened up in our town called T.I.T.S
toner ink tank station.
Theyre slogan : “at TITS, we make no boobs!”
can u beleive how crude that is lol. they went out of business cuz ppl were too embarrassed to be seen there
how about a bath store sink’n’poop
we have a master baiter (tackle shop) near branson, mo
and springfield mo, has a furniture store called Wood You
If I had an estate sale business, I would call it “You Can’t Take it with You” I loved the skinny Dick shoppe and the Master Bait and Tacke Shoppe..guess my humour is abit off color..
Nice post, keep up the good work.
In Toronto, Ontario (in Canada) we have a Chinese Fast Food place called Ho-Lee-Chow. ๐
We also have a Cyclepath, a Caribbean restaurant called the Real Jerk, a Frame shop called Up in Frames, West Side Stories (a video store), Shoe la la…..tons! lol
I found a great article about Toronto’s punny stores: http://torontoist.com/2009/01/the_great_torontoist_pun_hunt.php
I just launched a photoblog about hairdressing salons with punny names in the UK: http://justteasing.wordpress.com
Love/hate them!
I always laughed at ‘Planet of the Grapes’ when I go passed it in London.
Today I saw ‘Floral & Hardy’ as a florist – that’s made it to my top 10 for sure.
Nice collection. Not sure the rest have been able to express their appreciation as well. Most just seem interested in adding their own ๐ Looking forward to seeing more, Michelle.
theres an amazing one near my hometown in ireland; Lawn ‘n’ Order:D
I much like the Chipsy King. I took a photo of this barber shop in Rouen, France.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14650923@N05/3476314136/in/photostream/
Hey can you guys help?! Just settin up own entertainment / events business providing all sorts or events e.g murder mysterys, themed evenings and more. I really want a pun at a name . I like in Sussex Sout coast My names Laura (Law) Any suggestions????:)
Mister E’s
Personal favourites are Kebabylon in Nottingham and Pizza Me and You in Prestich manchester
Lionel Richie is going to open a kebab shop……. Halal, is it meat your looking for?
Off Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island there is a Vietnamese soup place called “Pho-natic” and i absolutely love it!
In South East London thereโs a fireplace shop called GRATE EXPECTATIONS, after the Dickens novel (and David Lean movie). Groan!
Trenton, Ohio, has a nice little coffee shop, “Now Or Latte.” I knew of a transmission repair service in Texas called “Trans-Ex.”
SUPREME BEAN = name of coffee shop in Eugene
Theres a kebab van in Bristol, England called ‘Jason doner-van’
In Fort Worth, Texas -southern part of the city- there’s a video rental store called Videosyncrasy.
For Laura from South Coast… Hey can you guys help?! Just settin up own entertainment / events business providing all sorts or events e.g murder mysterys, themed evenings and more. I really want a pun at a name . I like in Sussex Sout coast My names Laura (Law) Any suggestions????:)
“In the event it happens” or
“In any Event” or
“We plan Murders Really” or
“Hit Man and More” or
“In any Event we Bring People Together” or
“It’s My Parties and I’ll Cry if You Want too” or
“Plan a Murder by Law” or
“Law and Dish Order” Food events?
“Plan Everything…It’s the Law” or
“Sussex-full Events”or
“We Make a Big Deal Out of Anything” or
“Day Planners” or
“My Team, Your Theme to be Seen” or
“Cream Your Themes” we are the best of the best. or
“Themes of Dreams” or
For a Dentist
Emergency Dental Office…”Inconvenient Tooth”
“Shampooches”- a dog grooming place in surfside beach, south carolina.
theres a chinese buffet place in toronto called “Pick โnโ Chus”
In Madison, Wisconsin there used to be a Dew Drop Inn.
Brilliant.
I’ve seen- in Sydney Australia, hair salon ‘Hairlarious’
bedding suppliers ‘Holy Sheet’ and restaurant ‘Thai-riffic’. In Dublin, Ireland there is the flooring shop ‘Lino Richie’ (www.linoritchie.ie) and the tiling guy ‘The Bonny tiler’ (http://url.ie/5dkr)
Taxidermist’s in London called Get Stuffed!
Brighton UK is obviously the place for puns, I do remember ‘R.Soles’ and also ‘The Whippet Inn’ pub
My favorite is Sleepers In Seattle.
the dick liquor! ๐
sooo funny !:D
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My favorites store is Cycle Therapy
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Thank you for this! It’s good to see that someone is using proper grammar.
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“Wok this way” – Brilliant!
Chip shop in Gloucestershire, UK – The Frying Machine
In Derby, UK, there is a window cleaner called ‘Mister Bit’.
These names are brilliant, there is a fish and chip shop near us called ‘For Cod’s Sake’ – love it ๐
Some great ones here! I know a Wok This Way in Teddington.
On holiday in the Scilly Isles some years ago, there was a pickup truck on the quay belonging to a man who took groups scuba diving. Written on the side was “My Business is Going Under”. I thought that was a good one.
In Olney, Bucks, UK there’s a ladies hair salon called “Curls Aloud”…..
There’s an estae agent in Bridgnorth, Shropshire called ‘Dolittle and Dalley’
In Exeter Devon UK – Walter Wall Carpeting – speaks for itself !
There used to be a hairdresser in Canford cliffs called “Blow Jobs”. But thye area is so conservative, they never realised the double meaning