showcattlegal
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Where are some good places to eat during the stock show. I'm bringing some friends that have never been, I want to show them a good time.
showcattlegal said:Where are some good places to eat during the stock show. I'm bringing some friends that have never been, I want to show them a good time.
showcattlegal said:Where is the Exchange Building restaurant?
aj said:There was a place in downtown Limon that I always like. It is a modern looking building but it had the old long bar deal up front. It had kind of a western theme to it...john wayne pictures and stuff. One saturday night we were coming home from denver on I-70 and stopped there. There was a bunch of locals in there(cowboys and farmers) and it was kinda neat. It was probably the only spot for a 100 miles around there or whatever. Limon is in the middle of nowhere. I've even stayed in Limon before so it is I-70 all the way to the stockyards. It seemed like the deal in Limon had decent mexican food. Another time i was coming home form the stock show and stopped in there about 3 in the afternoon to eat. There was a 78 year old guy in there that was local. I talked to him for a couple hours and he was fascinating to talk to. It was like right out of a Jerry Jeff Walker song or something. Limon is probably a hour out of denver at least though.
You guys on here amaze me. Y'uns rant all the time about "english only spoken here", or some other Xenophobic rant. May i suggest that Y'all's French, Polish, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish,Italian and Norwegian ancestors didn't learn English, past the "survival English" level, but their children did. Nothing has changed.In those close-knit Ranching and farming towns with VERY "ethinic" names in the affore-mentioned languages, your proud, European ancestors hung together, spoke their old, native language, had their own mini-economies, and didn't learn to read English (I'm sure their children always translated for them, as the succeeding generation attended public schools) for DECADES. Many of these people NEVER attempted to mater the English language, proudly and defiantly, until the day they died.cowz said:La Loma is my favorite. It is a Mexican place, south of NWSS, go south on I-25 and west on Spear Blvd. Here is the website: www.lalomarestaurant.com/contactus.html
The are some real fancy steakhouses downtown. I'm a cheap date, so when we go downtown (16th st) we go to the Spaghetti Factory. There are also several good BBQ places. One is near the hotels off of Peoria. It's Bennett's Pit BBQ. www.bennettsbbq.com
If you like wild game there is an old west place called the Buckhorn Exchange. Mr. aj tells me he likes the steakhouse down on Colorado Ave. ;D haha
Tell me what hotel you are at and I will try to help!
garybob said:You guys on here amaze me. Y'uns rant all the time about "english only spoken here", or some other Xenophobic rant. May i suggest that Y'all's French, Polish, German, Czech, Swedish, Danish,Italian and Norwegian ancestors didn't learn English, past the "survival English" level, but their children did. Nothing has changed.In those close-knit Ranching and farming towns with VERY "ethinic" names in the affore-mentioned languages, your proud, European ancestors hung together, spoke their old, native language, had their own mini-economies, and didn't learn to read English (I'm sure their children always translated for them, as the succeeding generation attended public schools) for DECADES. Many of these people NEVER attempted to mater the English language, proudly and defiantly, until the day they died.cowz said:La Loma is my favorite. It is a Mexican place, south of NWSS, go south on I-25 and west on Spear Blvd. Here is the website: www.lalomarestaurant.com/contactus.html
The are some real fancy steakhouses downtown. I'm a cheap date, so when we go downtown (16th st) we go to the Spaghetti Factory. There are also several good BBQ places. One is near the hotels off of Peoria. It's Bennett's Pit BBQ. www.bennettsbbq.com
If you like wild game there is an old west place called the Buckhorn Exchange. Mr. aj tells me he likes the steakhouse down on Colorado Ave. ;D haha
Tell me what hotel you are at and I will try to help!
Read the book, by Upton Sinclair, titled "The Jungle. The USA has always had various cultures with their uniquenesses.
The Moto on the statue of Liberty has been replaced, that's for sure.
Whine & Growl about not being able to buy Gravy on your Fries at Mickey-D's by the NWSS grounds, THEN turn around and say a Mexican restaurant close to that part of Denver is a "good eat".
Sorry Cowz, I just think you guys up north and out west have more racism than us Southerners do.
GB
cowz said:Gary Bob,
Just for clarification, I am NOT biggoted. Some of my best friends are Hispanic. One thing that most people do not know about Colorado is that half of the Hispanic families that reside here were here 200 years ago. They were here first, Spanish and Ute were the first languages spoken here. The white settlers came here during the 2nd gold rush in 1860's.
I have some dear friends that ranch in the San Luis Valley. Their family owned the ranch when it was a Spanish Land Grant before statehood. They call themselves "Mexicans". We do not call it Spanish food, or TexMex. Here we call it Mexican and it is not meant or taken as derrogatory in any way. Half of the streets in our bigger towns have Spanish Names. It has always been this way and those of us that live here think nothing of it. If I sent the NWSS folks to a Soul Food place called "Babes Soul Food", would you also take offense?