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I'm trying to come up with a name for a restaurant for a Halloween costume. I want to use French words that not everyone knows right off the bat.

The best I've come up with using Google translate are:

"Le Assez Effrayant" (The Pretty Scary).

"Le Placard Squelette" (The Skeleton Closet).

"Le Grenier de Cauchemar" (The Nightmare Attic)

Are those translations correct?

Do you like one more than the other?

Any better suggestions?

Thanks!

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@boomerang,

How about:

"le sous-sol en colère" (The angry basement)

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@boomerang,

"l'étranger nuisible" (The harmful stranger)?

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@boomerang,

Oh!

"l'étranger de cauchemar" (The nightmare stranger)!

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@boomerang,

Pay no attention, I'm just playing and I know close to no french at all - anything here, I looked up -

Cassoulet cachot (dungeon of white beans and sausages)

Camara de vents froids (my guess at chamber of chilly winds)

Chambre de squelettes pendantes - room of hanging skeletons

Cuisine pour les fantomes (Food for ghosts)

Feel free to scoff..

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@ossobuco,

Thanks for playing!

I hadn't thought of the word "dungeon"! That's a good one. My Google translate gives me "donjon" and I like your "cachot" better. I wonder if they're interchangable....

And "chamber" is another good word I hadn't considered.

What about "donjon faim" or "cachot faim" for The Hungry Dungeon?

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Hangar des loups-garou (Werewolves Shed)

Grotte des Chauves-souris. (Bats Cave)

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@Lordyaswas,

Nice!

What about "abri affamés" (Starving Shed)? That sounds like a restaurant name

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

Nice!

What about "abri affamés" (Starving Shed)? That sounds like a restaurant name

Salon des Sorcières? (Witches Lounge)

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@Lordyaswas,

How about....

Fantôme Rôti (Ghost Roast)

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@Lordyaswas,

I like it but I think people would be able to translate it easily. I want them to wonder about it a bit, maybe ask what it means. That's why I'm avoiding words like chef, cook, cuisine, or other things directly related to cooking. It also doesn't have to be too Halloween-ish, just something that sounds pretty but means something un-pretty.

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@Lordyaswas,

I very much like Fantôme Rôti!

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@boomerang,

"des larmes de douleur" (Tears of Pain)

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@boomerang,

"le fabricant de fantôme" (The Ghost Maker)!

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@boomerang,

That could be tears of sorrow, too.

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@boomerang,

The French usually use cave for basement.

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Bistro des fleurs du mal

Fleurs du mal means "the flowers of evil," and is a reference to opium. It's also a literary reference, because Charles Baudelaire entitled a volume of poetry Les Fleurs du mal.

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