While traveling around Germany, one notices that most towns have a Greek or Italian restaurant, and they all kind of have the same names. How bad is that lack of fantasy?
Let's play with https://overpass-turbo.eu/. Select a bounding box and run this query:
node
[cuisine=greek]
({{bbox}});
out;
Export the results as gpx and have some fun on the command line:
sed -nre 's/^name=([^<]+).*/\1/p' /tmp/greek.gpx \
| sed -re 's/ *(Grill|Restaurant|Tavern[ae]) *//g' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > /tmp/greek.txt
Likewise, with Italian restaurants, you can use cuisine=italian and something like:
sed -nre 's/^name=([^<]+).*/\1/p' /tmp/italian.gpx \
| sed -re 's/ *(Restaurant|Ristorante|Pizzeria) *//g' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > /tmp/italian.txt
Here are the top 20 that came out for Greek:
162 Akropolis
91 Delphi
86 Poseidon
78 Olympia
78 Mykonos
78 Athen
76 Hellas
74 El Greco
71 Rhodos
57 Dionysos
53 Kreta
50 Syrtaki
49 Korfu
43 Santorini
43 Athos
40 Mythos
39 Zorbas
35 Artemis
33 Meteora
29 Der Grieche
Here are the top 20 that came out for Italian, with a sadly ubiquitous franchise as an outlier:
66 Vapiano
64 Bella Italia
59 L'Osteria
54 Roma
43 La Piazza
38 La Dolce Vita
38 Dolce Vita
35 Italia
32 Pinocchio
31 Toscana
30 Venezia
28 Milano
28 Mamma Mia
27 Bella Napoli
25 San Marco
24 Portofino
22 La Piazzetta
22 La Gondola
21 Da Vinci
21 Da Pino
One can play a game while traveling: being the first to spot a Greek or Italian restaurant earns more points the more unusual its name is. But beware of being too quick! If you try to claim points for one of the restaurant with the top-5 most common names, you will actually will actually lose points!
Have fun playing with other combinations of areas and cuisine: the Overpass API is pretty cool!
Update:
Rather than running xml through sed, one can export geojson, then parse it with the excellent jq:
jq -r '.features[].properties.name' italian.json \
| sed -re 's/ *(Restaurant|Ristorante|Pizzeria) *//g' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > /tmp/italian.txt