Big Apple Donuts & Coffee (Malaysia chain)
Big Apple Donuts & Coffee is a retail chain that began in Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia, in 2007, Stores are now located in both Malaysia and Cambodia. The company logo shows some buildings,…
Big Apple Grill & Bar (Puryear, TN and Murray, KY)
The Big Apple Grill & Bar is located at 1005 Arcadia Circle in Murray, Kentucky, and has a long history serving students from Murray State University. The establishment has also been called…
Big Apple Grocery Store
Manhattan telephone directories are partially available through Ancestry.com (a pay service) and Archive.org. "Big Apple Shine Parlor 2306 7Av AU dubn 3-8985" was entered in the 1942…
Big Apple Inn (Jackson, MS restaurant)
The Big Apple Inn on Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi, was started by Juan “Big John” Mora in 1939. The name was taken from the “Big Apple” dance, a national craze in 1937. Farish…
Big Apple Inn (Somerdale, NJ, 1937-1999)
The Big Apple Inn, at Somerdale Road and White Horse Pike in Somerdale, New Jersey, opened in 1937. It was surely named after then then-popular "Big Apple" dance craze. In 1964, it became…
Big Apple Pierogi (Veselka Restaurant pierogi, 2023)
Veselka restaurant, located at 144 Second Avenue in Manhattan (and also Grand Central Terminal), opened in 1954 and serves Ukrainian food. "Pierogi" (dumplings) is a popular dish.…
Big Apple Pizza (Israeli pizza chain)
Big Apple Pizza was founded by Haim Kedem in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1986. Kedem came to New York City in 1978, then returned to Israel to open Big Apple Pizza. The kosher pizza chain has 11…
Big Apple Pizza & Pasta (Florida pizza chain)
Big Apple Pizza & Pasta is a Florida pizza chain that was founded in 1997. The Italian restaurant describes itself as a New York-style pizzeria. The Big Apple Pizza & Pasta in Fort Pierce,…
Big Apple Restaurant (Asheville, NC, 1957-1991)
The Big Apple Restaurant existed at 573 Swannanoa River Road in Asheville, North Carolina, from 1957 to 1991. From 1957 until about 1963, it was called the Big Apple Drive-In. The "Big…
Big Apple Restaurant (Covington, KY, 1938)
A Big Apple Restaurant existed at 524 Madison Avenue in Covington, Kentucky, from March 1938 to October 1938. The Big Apple Restaurant was almost surely named after the "Big Apple" dance…
Big Apple Supermarket & Red Apple Supermarket
There have been both "Big Apple" and "Red Apple" supermarkets. Sam Alterman opened the "Big Apple" supermarket in 1939 at 794 Marietta Street, N.W., in Atlanta,…
Bill Johnson’s Big Apple restaurants
Bill Johnson's Big Apple bar-b-que restaurant opened at 3757 East Van Buren in Phoenix, Arizona in December 1956. The "Big Apple" name supposedly came from 1937's Big Apple…
Bird Circuit (Manhattan gay bars with bird names)
The "bird circuit" of gay bars existed in Manhattan, along Third Avenue around the lower East 50s, after World War II. The bars had such names as the Blue Parrot (on East 53rd Street),…
BK Lounge (Burger King nickname)
Burger King is a fast food chain restaurant that began in 1953. The nickname "BK Lounge" (a jocular use. giving the restaurant an illusion of class) has been cited in print since at least…
Blind Pig
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: SpeakeasyA speakeasy was an establishment that surreptitiously sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition…
Blind Tiger
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: SpeakeasyA speakeasy was an establishment that surreptitiously sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition…
Booger King (Burger King nickname)
Burger King is a fast food restaurant chain that began in 1953. The Burger King nickname of "Booger King" has been cited in print since at least 1990. The name "booger" is often…
Breastaurant (breast + restaurant)
A "breastaurant" (breast + restaurant) is a restaurant where the waitresses wear sexually appealing costumes, such as those that emphasize the bosom. The formula of food and…
Broadway Country Club/42nd Street Country Club (Knickerbocker Hotel bar)
The Knickerbocker Hotel (or Hotel Knickerbocker) was located on the southeast corner of Broadway and Forty-Second Street. The hotel opened in 1906, but Prohibition laws slowed business and it…
Broadway Diner (on Lexington Avenue)
Quick, where is the Broadway Diner located? Lexington Avenue, of course. It began in the 1980s and used to be located at Broadway and West 55th Street - just a block away from "Big Apple…