thunder wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:45:15 +0000, Butch Ammon wrote:

I wonder how much
my bill was at Beefsteak Charlies after all these years!?!?

I couldn't tell you specifically, but Beefsteak Charlie's was "all the
beer or sangria" you could drink. I can personally attest that you
weren't the only person to walk out in that condition. ;-)

There is a handful of restaurants in the DC area that serve mammoth
portions of beef. I don't know how anyone can eat that much at a sitting.

In my cub reporter days at the KC Star, there were a number of competing
steakhouses that offered a full steak dinner for $2.50 or so. That
included salad, 10-12 ounce steak, baked potato(e) and a side veggie,
and a couple of rolls. Lucky thing, because I was making under $100 a
week in those mostly salad days.

There also was a diner-restaurant that served "steak and eggs" for under
a dollars. Nichols, I think it was called. Steak, eggs, homefries, toast
and coffee, under a buck.

We also used to hang out at a Mexican joint called Los Corrals, which I
believe is still open. The proprietors back then never paid attention to
"closing hours" as they pertained to booze. Good, cheap food.

Bryant's Barbecue is well-known, of course, but I don't know what
happened to the joint after Arthur Bryant died. Slabs of ribs served on
white bread (to absorb the grease). A short hop away from the old ball
park before it moved to suburbia.

Kansas City had a huge number of great restaurants back then, all out of
proportion to its size as a city.


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