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The Olympia Café was a fictional greasy spoon featured in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch. The staff, led by John Belushi as Pete Dionisopoulos, were Greeks.Staff also included Bill Murray as Nico, a busboy who does not speak English, Dan Aykroyd as short-order cook George, and Sandy, a waitress played by Laraine Newman.
A greasy spoon is a small, cheap restaurant typically specializing in short order fare. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A greasy spoon is often located alongside a main road to serve passing motorists, particularly a truck stop catering particularly to truck (lorry) drivers; this is known as a transport cafe in Britain [ citation needed ] .
Culver's Blue Spoon Cafe opened its first store in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, in 2000 as a soup-sandwich-salad restaurant as Blue Spoon Creamery Cafe. [30] The name Blue Spoon comes from the color of the spoons used at the Culver's fast food restaurants. A second store in Middleton, Wisconsin, was open for two years but closed in August 2010. [31]
Pho 95 is a leading purveyor of pho, the Vietnamese noodle soup. The restaurant receives rave reviews for its big bowls of brisket, seafood, chicken, and veggie soups, starting at $14.
A greasy spoon is a colloquial term for a British cafe, American diner or other small eatery which tends to serve food at a low cost. Generally fried foods are served, and in the United Kingdom, such places frequently serve all-day breakfasts and strong builder's tea. They are commonly found in working-class areas.
Discover which classic drive-in restaurants are worth a visit on your next road trip. They had their heyday in the 1950s and '60s, but there are still plenty of drive-ins to discover.
Bouillon spoon — round-bowled, somewhat smaller than a soup spoon; Caviar spoon — usually made of mother of pearl, gold, animal horn, or wood, but not silver, which would affect the taste; Chinese spoon — a type of soup spoon with a short, thick handle extending directly from a deep, flat bowl.
Spifork - A utensil consisting of a spoon, knife, and fork. [8] [9] [10] Spoon straw – A scoop-ended drinking straw intended for slushies and milkshakes. Sporf – A utensil consisting of a spoon on one end, a fork on the other, and edge tines that are sharpened or serrated. Spork – Spoon and fork; Splayd – Spoon and fork and knife