Eight restaurants named for movies, and your ideas for a few more

Should anyone be surprised that some enterprising entrepreneurs took the title of the popular 2002 Nia Vardalos movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and used it as a restaurant title? The owners of the Arizona-based My Big Fat Greek Restaurant chain — the subject of this week’s Cafe review — did, and you have to give them credit: It’s clever, and it works.

This isn’t an isolated idea. There are many other restaurants named after famous movies, including the Canadian restaurant, above, named for a 1945 Warner Bros. film, Mildred Pierce, about a waitress turned restaurateur — played by Kansas City’s own Joan Crawford.