Eating out brought Lucy to a wide variety of dining spots: sit down resaurants, diners, cafés and lunch counters are all here – in Lucy’s Dining Guide! When Lucy’s knit dress unravels, she has no choice but to don a kangaroo costume to deliver important papers to a fancy restaurant. A bowl of onion soup is spilled in her pouch! While Chris has a party for her teenage friends, Lucy and Viv bring their sons to the Elm Tree Inn for dinner and dancing. The boys especially enjoy the ice cream sundaes. When Chris’s party is a dud, Lucy, Viv and Harry (Dick Martin) come to the rescue with entertainment, a silent movie sketch featuring Charlie Chaplin at a café. When Lucy and Viv double date, there’s an argument about where to dine and the couples split up, fibbing about their plans.Harry suggests going to Tony DiBello’s for Italian food. DiBello’s will be featured in “Lucy Meets a Millionaire” (1964). Viv suggests The Country Kitchen in Ridgebury. Eddie wants to dine where George Washington slept – the 300 year-old Colonial Inn. Lucy makes one more suggestion: The Café Tambourine, which is probably a gypsy tea room. Naturally they end up at the same classy restaurant: The Pink Pheasant. So that Viv and Eddie (Don Briggs) don’t discover their deception, Lucy hides under the table. [The Pink Pheasant restaurant is really just a re-dressed version of The Cavalier, a restaurant seen earlier in the season in “Lucy Is A Kangaroo for a Day”. They even use the same chairs!] When Chris can’t make it to work at Wilbur’s Ice Cream Parlor, Lucy and Viv fill in. While Lucy works the counter, Viv handles table service, waiting on patrons played by James Gonzales and Desi Arnaz Jr. When the train to Washington DC stops in Greenview, Lucy darts into a trackside café to steal their sugar cubes to rebuld the model of the White House her cub scouts are bringing to President Kennedy. Charlie’s menu includes coffee, sundaes, hamburgers, and bacon & tomato sandwiches. Lucy’s dates Umberto Fabrini, an Italian millionaire who doesn’t speak English. Naturally, he takes her to an Italian restaurant - Tony DiBello’s. Tony is played by Jay Novello. Novello is associated with Italian food having played Mario, the "Visitor from Italy” turned pizza chef on“I Love Lucy.” Umberto (Cesare Danova) orders Tortellini Bolognese, which - thanks to Lucy - ends up in his lap! Fleeing the restaurant to make a phone call, Lucy and Mr. Mooney pass an un-named café . The abandoned and run down café offers Raviola (another name for ravioli) and has a Sugar Bowl Special. Despite their renovations, the café fails to bring in any customers.To rescue their investment, Lucy and Viv hastily reinvent their investment. They settle on a Gypsy Tea Room, serving Hungarian fare. When the Gypsy Tea Room doesn’t work out, they transform it into The Colonial Inn, an Early American themed restaurant, complete with the George and Martha as greeters (aka Lucy and Viv). The chalkboard says they offer Roast Beef Sandwiches, Hot Dogs, and Hamburgers. Stafford Repp plays the bored counterman. Mr. Mooney orders a hot dog and accidentally squirts himself with mustard. [Oops! Gale Gordon actually is eating a hamburger, not a hot dog.] The streets of Danfield featured these same no-name restaurant windows. Lucy pursues the star into a fancy restaurant, where she succeeds in dumping a tray of food on his head! After shopping for sales at Bigelow’s, Lucy and Viv duck into a coffee shop for a cup of tea. They run into Mr. Mooney, who is having liver for lunch. Lucy and Mary Jane double date at a Greek restaurant. Lucy’s date Howard suggests the moussaka. Lucy thinks he is talking about the musicians! After seeing a James Bond movie, Mr. Mooney takes Lucy and the Countess (Ann Sothern) for dinner at a fancy restaurant. There Lucy sees a man she believes to be a spy. Crane takes “simple and unassuming” Lucy out for a lobster dinner at a“simple and unassmuing” restaurant decorated in a nautical theme. Crane orders them both lobster. While Wayne is filming a movie, Lucy has lunch with him at the commissary. Thanks to Lucy, Wayne ends up with a face full of catsup! To find a wayward Danfield boy, Lucy and Viv visit the Sunset Strip, where they search a biker bar. Motorcycles are parked in front of a burger joint called Hamburger Hovel, home of the original Bikerburger! The eatery’s name is a pun on the real-life Hamburger Haven on Santa Monica Boulevard. In Bancroft, Lucy and Mel (Mel Torme) order two Strawberry Ice Cream Sodas (Mel:“In a clean glass”). Doc Porter is played by Paul Winchell. After shopping (and before getting arrested), Lucy and Mary Jane pass by an un-named restaurant on their way to the bus stop. Lucy takes a part-time job as a carhop at a drive-in burger joint where she must deliver food on roller skates! Lucy’s boss, Mr. Burton, is played by Jackie Coogan. Lucy order. chicken cacciatore, baked lasagna and broccoli with Hollandaise sauce. Mr. Mooney orders roast turkey with oyster dressing, apple fritters, candied yams, and homemade cornbread. Sid Caesar (aka Frankie the Forger) orders cottage cheese and skim milk - because he’s on a diet. In this Emmy Award-winning special, Kaye and Ball play three couples visiting three themed restaurants of different cuisines: Japanese, French, and Tahitian. Kaye introduces all three sketches as himself. The first sketch is done without dialogue. At a Japanese Restaurant, Lucy has trouble with chopsticks, a bowl of fried noodles, and lychees. In the second sketch, this time with dialogue, co-workers Miss Naomi Dinsmore (Lucy) and Charlie(Kaye), are on a first date at an elegant French Restaurant. Lastly, married couple the Andersons go to a tropical restaurant named The Tahitian Typhoon. It lives up to its name when a sudden downpour drenches the couple.On the way through the tropical foliage, Mrs. Anderson steps in quicksand. Refusing to pay the check since they didn’t eat anything, the angry tribal maître d’ claps his hands, mutters an incantation, and shrinks the Andersons to pygmy size! The Restaurants & Eateries of the Lucyverse ~ Part 2
The Cavalier Restaurant~"Lucy is a Kangaroo for a Day” (1962)
The Elm Tree Inn ~“Chris’s New Year’s Eve Party” (1962)
The Pink Pheasant ~“No More Double Dates” (1963)
Wilbur’s Ice Cream Parlor ~“Lucy is a Soda Jerk” (1963)
Charlie’s Café ~“Lucy Visits the White House” (1963)
Tony DiBello’s ~“Lucy Meets a Millionaire” (1964)
Four Corners Café ~ “Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant” (1964)
LUCY: “How about making it a Spanish restaurant?”VIV: “Great! How about calling it El Fiasco.”
OLGA the COOK:“Push the Hungarian goulash.”
OLGA the COOK: “Push the Yankee Pot Roast.”
Danfield Train Depot Snack Bar ~“Lucy is a Process Server” (1964)
Restaurant ~“Lucy the Meter Maid” (1964) and“Lucy the Coin Collector” (1964)
The Park Royal Restaurant ~“Lucy Meets Danny Kaye” (1964)
Coffee Shop ~“Lucy and the Ceramic Cat” (1965)
The Golden Greek ~“Lucy and The Golden Greek” (1965)
International Supper Club ~“Lucy and the Undercover Agent” (1965)
Seafood House ~ “Lucy and Bob Crane” (1966)
LUCY:“Lobster is so ‘simple and unassuming’.”
The Studio Café ~“Lucy and John Wayne” (1966)
Hamburger Hovel ~“Lucy Visits Viv” (1966)
Doc Putnam’s Drug Store ~ “Main Street U.S.A.”& “Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (1967)
Restaurant ~ “Lucy Meets the Law” (1967)
Phil’s Fatboy Burgers ~“Lucy Gets Involved” (1968)
The Dining Room of the Lafayette Men's Club ~ “Lucy Meets Sid Caesar” (1968)
BONUS RESTAURANT(S)
“The Danny Kaye Show” (1962)
Kaye:“Where the menu is in French, and the waiters are in French, and the prices are insane. The food is not only in French, but in Brandy, Cognac, and pure alcohol. You can get drunk just by breathing the napkin.”
Kaye: “These are usually, the most exotic, the most authentic, the most uncomfortable, and… the most popular.”
Mr. Anderson: “Don't struggle, you'll only sink faster. I learned that in the Amazon.”Mrs. Anderson: “The Amazon?”Mr. Anderson: “Yeah, it's a restaurant in Cleveland.”
Look for Part 3 of LUCY’S DINING GUIDE
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