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| - Warning: The following review is based on a real life conversation between myself and Carly M.
C: I Saw the picture you posted! OMG the Palomino. Those garlic fries!
D: I like how they let you choose between "garlic fries" and "BORING fries." Do they make your "horngry", baby? Do they?
C: I want those fries like ALL the time.
D: You're a "nymfrymaniac"! I LOVE the Palomino. Their badass alternative cowboy attitude is the Calgary I wish to live in.
C: Right?! Have you had the nachos? The BEST.
D: No, but the weekend Cowboy Brunch is unreal too!
C: What? They have brunch?!
D: Yah! They have have pulled pork or brisket bennies and this monsterously delicious deepfried breakfast burrito thing! You can basically get all the Palomino BBQ awesomeness but with some eggs for breakfast time.
C: Wow! I seriously didn't even know that!
D: I'm like a miniature breakfast buddha, covered in hair.
ANYWAY, The Palomino is awesome and edgy. It's country, but in that badass Johnny Cash giving the middle finger kind of way. Billy-Ray Cyruses need NOT apply. The BBQ is a freaking smokey wonderland and it's all fresh. Go to the Palomino when you want meat with a side of meat, garnished with meat. Some wicked sides include the garlic fries, bacon wrapped corn cobs and Jack Daniels Apples. There's green things and crap like that to, if you want it.
I once gave them hell for running out of pulled pork because that's the whole point of the Palomino! They said "It's fresh. We won't freeze anything ever, so once it's gone, it's gone. Get here sooner." I got schooled and I freaking deserved it.
It's old. It's eclectic and it owns everything it does with ease. It all comes natural and I never get the feeling that The Palomino is pretending to be something it's not. Points for authenticity, Palomino.
The basement turns into a live music bar where you'll find any kind of kick-ass alternative act from country to death metal and everything in-between. It's dark, dirty and loud down there, and one hell of a good time!
I wasn't lying when I said "their badass alternative cowboy attitude is the Calgary I wish to live in." I take out-of-towners here all the time. I want them to leave with an awesome impression of Calgary and I want it to be The Palomino.
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