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Squid Row logo in GTA IV.

The Easton, Algonquin Squid Row in GTA IV.

Squid Row is a chain of seafood restaurants featured in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. With its name an obvious pun of "skid row", the restaurant is promoted as a budget restaurant, featuring in its logo a squid (against the background of a cityscape) wearing a torn hat and holding a bottle, a cigarette and a syringe. None of the restaurants are accessible to the player. The restaurant's slogan is "We're well worth the risk!", implying their produce carries a risk of food poisoning.

In The Ballad of Gay Tony, gay movie star Chris Hunt is known to be a big fan of the restaurant, and Daisie Cash-Cooze and Luis Lopez once chased Chris to one of the stores, only to find out that he already left.

Locations

Long John Ave, Leftwood, Alderney
Bismarck Ave, Easton, Liberty City

Trivia

Although primarily revolving around the concepts of urban dilapidation and the urban poor, the "Squid Row" name is also similar, intentionally or not, to Saints Row, a video game considered to be a GTA Clone.

Restaurants

Fast Food and Diners	60 Diner • The 69th Street Diner • Acter diner • Beef Bandit • Bolt Burgers • Burger Off • Burger Shot • The Cheesy Crust Pizza Co. • Cluckin' Bell • Crazy CJ's • Fat Burger Kid • Happy Blimp • Hobos • Jays Diner • Jim's Sticky Ring • King Knuts • King Ring • Paradiso Diner • Pizza Face • Pizza Pizza • Punk Noodles • Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts • Shaft Hot Dogs • Skyway Diner • Substandard • TUBE • Tuff Nut Donuts • Up-n-Atom Burger • The Welcome Pump • The Well Stacked Pizza Co. • Wigwam Burger
Traditional Restaurants	Al Dente's • Alazone's Italian Food • Barzini's • Belching Buddha • Brother Mings' • The Brown Starfish Bar and Grill • Chinese Restaurant Noodle House • Drusilla's • Fanny Crab's • Gelateria Pasta Liquor Pizza • Gozushi! • Gulag Garden • J & J's Restaurant • Joe's Pizza • La Cucaracha • Little Gorbachefs • Marco's Bistro • The Mexican Restaurant • Momma's Restaurante • Mr. Fuk's Rice Box • Papa's 12 Inch • Pastageddon • Pier Pressure Pizzeria • The Pilgrim's Pantry • Pizza • Pizza This... • Ristorante Ecoli • Roast Peking Duck • Samo's Wok • The Smokin' Beef Grill • Special Fried Vice • Squid Row • Steak-Out • Sum Yung Gai • Tableau • Ting Fu Garden • Viendemerte • Vinewood Bar & Grill • Wok & Wok • World of Coq
Cafés	The Bean Machine • Cafe Metropolitan • Café Robina • Café Under the Tree • Front Page Café • Greasy Joe's • Homebrew Café • Le Singe d'Arbre • Les Beans Café • Mars Cafe • Superstar Café • Tarbrush Café • TW@ Internet Café

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 [[Image:SquidRow-GTA4-Easton.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The [[Easton]], [[Algonquin]] Squid Row in GTA IV.]]
-'''Squid Row''' is a chain of seafood restaurants featured in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]]. With its name an obvious pun of "[[wp:skid row|skid row]]", the restaurant is promoted as a budget restaurant, featuring in its logo a squid (against the background of a cityscape) wearing a torn hat and holding a bottle, a cigarette and a syringe. None of the restaurants are accessible to the player.
+'''Squid Row''' is a chain of seafood restaurants featured in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars]]. With its name an obvious pun of "[[wp:skid row|skid row]]", the restaurant is promoted as a budget restaurant, featuring in its logo a squid (against the background of a cityscape) wearing a torn hat and holding a bottle, a cigarette and a syringe. None of the restaurants are accessible to the player. The restaurant's slogan is "''We're well worth the risk!''", implying their produce carries a risk of food poisoning.
 In [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]], gay movie star [[Chris Hunt]] is known to be a big fan of the restaurant, and [[Daisie Cash-Cooze]] and [[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis Lopez]] once chased Chris to one of the stores, only to find out that he already left.