So let me start off by saying I’m a total idiot.
I pull up around 6:30 I believe and let’s start with the positive. If you have a lambo, you’ll have a giant parking lot to take advantage of lol.
So a guy pulls up next to me and heads inside alone. I make a call and head in a minute or two later flying solo. The whole “Chinese food in a bowling alley” thing probably should have tipped me off but I felt the need to try this joint.
So I walk in and to the right is a door that leads to the restaurant. Wrong…it is locked.
So I head left and walk into the entrance where I find a bar with not a single person sitting. For some reason I decide it is a good idea to take a seat and not go down 200 yards to houlihans or that steak joint on the other side of the highway.
I sit down and there are two couples at booths along with the guy from the parking lot dining alone. So yeah, two tables on a saturday night. Did I mention I’m a moron? So I grab a menu and sit alone. I saw “braised chunk beef soup” hoping it was fatty short rib soup. Strike one…they are out. So I decide to try some other beef soup to start, after asking the bartender for a few minutes to look over the menu.
Well I put the menu down. I take in the “scenery” and I look over toward the liquor selection. The ENTIRE BAR bottle display is covered in thick dust! We are talking about dust that would take weeks to accumulate. I couldn’t believe it. It was almost like someone intentionally sprayed down the bar with a crop duster. So at this point I said I’d pass on a drink and I’m so hungry I decide to try the aforementioned beef soup and an ice water. Oh yeah, the big mirror behind the bar is covered in smudge marks. It is so high and behind several feet of bottles that I’m left baffled how the marks even got up that high in the first place. Quite intriguing lol
I get my water in one of those old school cocacola glasses and it has this white filmy residue on it.
After 3 or 4 strikes I continue to take it all in. I quickly get my soup and the bartender sits down right in front of me. It smells good and is a decently large bowl. The broth flavor is pretty bold and then I decide to sample the beef. I bite into a disastrous piece of beef filled with incredibly tough “seams” of fat…gross! I love fatty beef like ribeye, short ribs and brisket. I don’t feel like eating Gary carter’s catchers mitt. I could barely eat it and and stomached a piece since she was right in front of me. That was my only piece. What a mess. I ate some noodles and some broth. I left this and drove off. Note the huge seams of tough fat