Daring Fireball2d ago
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/25/chain-restaurants-whose-names-contain-unusual-structures
‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’

Link to: https://onefoottsunami.com/2026/03/18/a-list-of-chain-restaurants-whose-names-contain-unusual-structures/

Daring Fireball
Show threadGlenn Fleishman
@daringfireball I confess I thought my Italian was strong enough that it was “mouth of Beppo,” not “Beppo’s Pit”, until reading this and following links to dialectical use. (Bocca versus buca.) There’s a phrase in Italian, “in bocca al lupo” (into the mouth of the wolf, or “break a leg”) that I thought Buca di Beppo was playing off!
Mar 25 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadPeter Cohen2d ago
@glennf @daringfireball Buca was always a straight up ripoff of "red sauce joints" starting with Boston's own Vinny Testa's. Second-generation eyetai performative bullshit right from the start.
Show threadGlenn Fleishman2d ago
@flargh @daringfireball Oh, yeah, I went twice about 20+ years ago. Once, a friend was excited and we went. Fun! But I’d lived on the east coast and gone to Boston a lot? The second time, command performance for somebody's birthday. I think my wife and I had to chip in $60 total in 2000 for some not great food. But the bathrooms were well decorated.
Show threadJason Snell2d ago
@glennf @daringfireball They loved this joke down in Buca Raton
Show threadGlenn Fleishman2d ago
@jsnell @daringfireball The health inspectors shut that version down.