On Feb 26, 11:23*pm, "SteveB" > wrote:
> "Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig" > wrote in ...
> On Feb 26, 7:35 pm, "SteveB" > wrote:
>
> > We went to The Cosmopolitan in Silver Reef, Utah, last night. It was just
> > okay. The site was the actual site of a restaurant there from about 1880
> > to
> > about 1895. The recreation wasn't even close to the original. Although the
> > restaurant calls itself a four star restaurant, I found it only passable.
> > The lobster bisque was lacking a lobster taste. I had seafood risotto. The
> > plate had some shrimp and langostino which were represented to be
> > lobsters.
> > It had some salmon, scallops, and sole, also. My wife had lobster ravioli,
> > and they were skimpy on the lobster.
>
> > Anyway, we looked at the menu, and it has some old pictures, and
> > historical
> > data on it.
>
> > I was wondering what anyone here (who actually knows, that is) could offer
> > about restaurants of that era. Without refrigeration, the menu had to be
> > "different". I would wonder what the common fare was in restaurants at
> > that
> > time, and what the common fare would have been say, for a boarding house,
> > and for the common household.
>
> > This lovely place is in a historic ghost town. When driving there, we saw
> > about thirty deer, so fresh deer probably would have been a staple. I know
> > that in many restaurants, fresh game and fowl were common, as was
> > commercial
> > hunting without restrictions from Fish and Game Departments.
>
> > Anyone care to comment?
>
> > Steve
>
> ==========================
>
> My comment, respectfully, would be that the only thing sillier than
> ordering lobster in Utah in 2009 would be ordering lobster in Utah in
> 1889.
>
> But don't feel too bad, Steve. *Couple of years ago I got really lousy
> lobster bisque in SanDiego.
>
> Lynn in Fargo (North Dakota)
> No good lobster here either.
>
> I grew up in Las Vegas. *I remember this story from an old menu, I think
> from the Golden Nugget or the Showboat. *A miner who had just struck it rich
> went into a restaurant and asked what was the most expensive things they
> had. *They said oysters and eggs. *He said fry up a mess of them mixed
> together. *The dish was called a Hangtown Fry.
>
> Steve

True story but it happened in San Francisco I believe.
:-)
Lynn in Fargo