Photo courtesy Gothamist.comBecause, yeah… Triangles are so yesterday.Earlier this afternoon, I directed you fine foodniks to reviews in both the New Yorker and New York Daily News of K! Pizzacone in Manhattan–a new take on the tired old idea of eating pizza in the traditional triangular shape.But after seeing it online, it occurred to me that K!, in addition to sullying the long and already complicated history of the New York City pizza, was also breaking one of the other hard-and-fast rules of restauranteurship: never, ever put an exclamation point in your name.No, seriously. Think about it for a second. Can you name me ONE good restaurant with an exclamation point in the name? Anywhere in America?Can’t do it, can you…That’s because the exclamation point stands as a kind of highway sign for the wise gastronaut–a warning as plain as a biohazard trihelion that no good can possibly come of eating somewhere with this particular punctuation mark in the name. In Denver, there was an independently-owned comfort food restaurant called Bang!. If you’re curious, you can see what I thought of it here. There’s an Italian place in Issaquah, Cucina! Cucina!, that not only has two exclamation points in its name but seven on the front page of its website–out of only 52 words. And I’m probably never going to go simply because of the exclamation points.So while the punctuation at K! Pizzacone is not the only reason I’d avoid it the next time I’m in the neighborhood of the Empire State Building (I’m also find highly suspect any food item extruded almost completely by a machine and am cautious around anything in a cone that’s not ice cream), it certainly seems to follow the general ! = horrifying rule of thumb.So tell me, am I mistaken here? Can you name a restaurant with an exclamation point in the name that serves food that’s not just wrong in several elemental ways? Shout it out in the comments section below if you’re got something, but I’m thinking this exclamation point rule is going to hold.