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I like kitschy places and this place is like Hee Haw on crack! For those under 40, paste this link into your browser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw then go to YouTube, watch some episodes, then you will have a point of reference and finally get the joke.
The location is fantastic with incredible views. I've eaten here three times and it seems that each time I go, the food gets a little more mediocre. Perhaps the first time I went I was too bedazzled by all the kitschy cowboy-ness to realize the food was not that great. They have a massive stinky bull penned outside complete with the flies going in and out of his nostrils (whom I feel kinda sorry for) Think kid from UNICEF commercial but replace the kid with a bull with massive horns. (Bad joke I know, but hey comedy is sometimes cruel.)
There is a slide you can go down. There's a live band playing country music in the center of it all. There are cowboys and cowgirls serving. They have a gift shop where you can buy funny and gross things like scorpion in a sucker and chocolate covered horse turds. Well not really but the sucker is real. You get cotton candy with the bill. A gimmicky whirlwind of Southwestern yee-haw! Good for parties, great for kids, huge corporate BBQ's held in a massive building outside blah blah blah you get the idea.
The food: well, kinda underwhelming considering how hard they work to create a fun atmosphere.
I have tried the deep-fried rattle snake. Don't bother. It's mainly tiny chunks of tasteless mystery meat (snake? gopher? lizard?) over-breaded and over fried. You could hack up your worn out Old Navy belt and cook it up the same way with a similar result in terms of food experience.
I have had steak, fried chicken and the beef ribs. All were just ok. The ribs have way too much BBQ sauce. The fried chicken was kinda dry. My steak was cooked just right, but sat waiting to hit the table too long and was almost cold.
The last time we went we took my mother and her friend who were visiting from back east. It was around xmas time and kinda chilly outside. It was also pretty chilly INSIDE as the place is drafty and I don't think they even bother trying to heat it. All of our hot food was tepid by the time we strapped on the ol' feed-bags.
The salads come out family style and are literally drowning in dressing. The salad however is probably the only item on the menu besides maybe desserts that comes out at the right temperature.
Everyone on Yelp is right: that for what you get, you pay way too much. There shouldn't be anything on that menu over $20.00 a plate. It's just not that good.
However, the cocktails are good and it is an interesting place to take visitors as I said the view is worth at least one visit. I suggest you head up for happy Hour, have a couple cheap appies, then head down the mountain for a quick drive downtown to a nice steakhouse like Durant's for the main event.
I get the impression that this place has been resting on its' laurels for many years, and has stopped even trying to put out good food. It's slop-n-drop at best. They figure diners will be too overwhelmed by the Cowpoke Carnival going on all around them to notice the food is meh and the prices are YIKES!! Think I'll mosey on to greener pastures when I got a hankerin' to sink my teeth into a nice grilled slab of cow!
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