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| - The atmosphere was very noisy, but perhaps because they were in full Stampede swing. They had live music, which was nice, despite the crowd noise. However, when the music wasn't playing, live or otherwise, we had to practically yell at each other to have a conversation. We weren't the only ones, either. Everyone was yelling their conversations!
The food was okay for Calgary. I am a bit biased, however. In Oklahoma, we do nachos & barbecue quite differently! The nachos here had a miniscule amount of cheese on them. Once you peeled off the top layer of chips, the cheese was gone. The presentation was nice & they are quite large in size. Three of us worked on them & half was left!
They offered a barbecue buffet which consisted of barbecue beef, pasta salad, lettuce salad, rolls, & baked beans. The flavor of everything was quite good. It was how the food was prepared & served that seemed odd to me.
The Meat & sauce: Nearly every BBQ joint in Oklahoma serves the meat soaked in BBQ sauce. The few places that do not serve it wet do so because 1) the meat is smoked & slow cooked & delectable on its own & 2) they offer no less than 3 kinds of BBQ sauce, each a different degree of heat (1 inevitably sweet). Buzzard's meat was soaking in water...??? The flavor was surprisingly good, despite this grave error in BBQ cooking. They make their sauce in-house. It is extremely tasty! It would have been great slow cooked on chicken! Alas, no chicken was offered, only this brisket-style beef.
The Beans: Buzzard's baked beans (more like cowboy or camp beans - there is a difference) we really good. They were a medley of pinto, garbanzo (chick peas), kidney, & red beans & corn. Wait!?! Back this gravy train up! Did I really just say "baked beans" had garbanzo beans & corn??? Good as it was, again, this was NOT what we Oklahomans would call baked beans. Baked beans....the melt in your mouth kind.....the musical fruit kind....are slow-cooked, as well. They have a slight hint of hickory flavor. Some are cooked with molasses & are sweet. While others are cooked with the juices of the BBQ meat & leave your mouth watering for more.
The Pasta Salad: Well, that was just a miss altogether!
The deserts were good but odd in comparison to the menu entrees & appetizers. The Irish Chocolate Biscuit & Guiness ice cream were our faves. The Mayan Ice Cream & cookies were good but just strange. The ice cream had a spice with a slow burn. The cookies were VERY hard & difficult to stick even a fork through!
Buzzard's seems to be a cool place to hang have drinks for Happy Hour. However, when it comes to serving food, they should really try to decide what kind of cuisine on which they want to focus. It ranged from American, to Asian, to Irish, to Mexican, to just odd.
Not bad, but just not great.
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