Work the Name of a C’ville Restaurant into a Book Title!

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.  CONGRATULATIONS TO ELIZABETH McCULLOUGH FOR HER WINNING ENTRY. SEE MAIN SITE FOR NEW CONTEST. The C’ville-restaurant-book-title challenge was our most active yet, thanks to all who participated with these funny comments! We loved them all!

The Mixed Bag Challenge: a new question each week for the 15 weeks leading up to the Festival. Prizes include a bag for the best comment each week, and a raffle chance at Festival event tickets for each entry. Check here for last week’s winner.

This week’s challenge: 13. Work the name of a Charlottesville restaurant into a famous book title. [Example? Howard's Enoteca]

Deadline: Dec. 24, Noon. New challenge then!

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38 Responses to Work the Name of a C’ville Restaurant into a Book Title!

  1. Jesse

    The Pit Stop and the Pendulum?

    My best effort so far.

  2. ZoCaLong Day’s Journey into Night…

  3. encyclopediavirginia

    Boar’s Head-ipus
    Harry Petit Pois-ter
    Korea House on Mango Street
    Bizou’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    C&O Pioneers!
    Goodnight Blue Moon
    Ivy Inn to the Wild
    South Streetcar Named Desire
    Romeo & Jul’etoile

  4. Jesse

    OK, well if we can do more than one:

    Murder on the Asian Express

    Fisherman on the Inland C & O

  5. The Sound and the Fleurie
    The Old Mill Room on the Floss
    Maya Antonia
    The Great Bagby’s
    Wide Sargasso Si

    And of course, the next to last volume of the Left Behind Series:

    The Rapture.

  6. Hilary

    Pilgrim’s Progress and Christian’s Pizza
    The Portrait of a Lady and Five Guys

  7. The Milan the Floss
    Bang the Drum Slowly

  8. ajquixote

    extremely loud and incredibly zocalo

    franny and kyoto

    of mice and mel’s cafe

    one hundred years in aqui es mexico

    dr. ho’s in venice

    death in the old mill room

    the brothers l’etoile

    maya-tan transfer

    appointment in casella’s

  9. sandy

    A Moveable Feast!
    To the Mudhouse
    Splendora’s in the Grass

  10. Stephen Edward Millard

    Frog in the Kitchen Zinc
    by Jim Post
    ISBN-13: 9781579390983

  11. Stephen Edward Millard

    Frog in the Kitchen Zinc
    by Jim Post
    ISBN-13: 9781579390983

  12. Call of the Wild Wing Cafe
    Aberdeen Barn Burning
    Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House of Mirth
    Waffle House of the Seven Gables
    Rabbit, Beer Run
    Cheeseburger in Paradise Lost
    Dragon Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    Pita Pit and the Pendulum
    Steak Out of Africa

  13. Lynda

    The Mudhouse Rules

  14. Lisa

    The Bizou in the Crown

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  16. Sandy Anderson

    Ruby Tuesday with Morrie
    or perhaps
    Wayside Chicken Little
    Bon appetit

  17. Faye

    Splendor in the Lemongrass

  18. Practically Perfect in Every Wayside Deli.

    Awfully, disgustingly self-serving. I’ll be back.

  19. Nancy

    The Thin Blue Light
    The Snows of Guadalajara
    Where the Wild Greens Are
    The Grapes of Rapture

  20. Lex

    East of Bodo’s

  21. Dan

    Breakfast at Tiffany’s Seafood

  22. Dan

    Midnight in the East Garden of Good & Evil

  23. The Life and Times of Pancho Italian Villa

  24. Lord Hardwicke’s of the Rings
    and of course the sequel
    Return of the China King

  25. Dan

    A Flaming Wok in the Woods
    The Thin Red Lobster
    Tale of Two CiCis

  26. Buddha Girl

    Anne of Greenberry’s

    Far From The Maddening Spudnut

    The Turn of the Sublime

    Angel Cakes: A Girl of the Streets

    The Red Lantern of Courage

    Journey to the Center of Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie

  27. Shann Palmer

    Gravity’s Rainbow Lounge

  28. Deborah

    The Count Basil Story

  29. Theresa

    I was going to try to come up with something, but after reading all these amazing entries, I think I’ll pass! Good luck judge, this is a hard one!

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  32. Marilyn

    A VERY VALENTINE proposal at Enoteca.

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