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Gentlemen,
This is a hunting season question. When I go hunting, especially in familiar areas, there are places I stop to eat at that are so enjoyable they’ve become part of the experience. For instance, when I go on a hunting trip to central Iowa I always have to have at least one dinner at Rube’s Steakhouse in Montour, IA. If the trip involved camping at Rock Creek State Park I’d normally have breakfast at the West Side Diner in Grinnell, IA, and often times lunch at Maid-Rite in Grinnell, IA. While traveling around the Mid-West I really like biscuits and gravy at Hardee’s or a couple of slices of breakfast pizza at Casey’s General Store (and gas Station). What places are special to you while you’re on a hunting (or fishing trip)? I don’t care where it is, how dumpy or fancy it is, but I am curious as to what makes it so special.
Steve

When fishing or hunting near Grayling, MI, you have to eat at Julie's Restauratnt in Gates Lodge. Good, fresh healthy food.

When in New York near Oneonta I enjoy dinner at Sabatini's family style and desert at Pie in the Sky.

Jeff G.

Hello Rockdoc,

I would choose as one of my favorite places to have lunch after an early morning
dove hunt, this one:


Thought you would like me to share,

JC

JC, when can I come to lunch with you?

Yer killin me JC!

Guys, you are all invited!

The menu that day was: appetizer, abalones with home made mayonnaise and
lettuce accompanied by a Casablanca Valley Sauvignon Blanc; as an entrée,
grilled meat and avocados and Maipo Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and as dessert
an Italian style pastry filled with home made prune jam together with freshly
made, of all places, Vietnamese coffee. Go figure. No after lunch liqueurs because
we had to drive back.
Abalones being de-chilled:


Avocado being peeled (meat was just right, tender and juicy):


The coffee:


A "parting shot":


JC

JC
I was in Chile on a round the horn cruise my wife and I took about 2 years ago in 2008. We didn't spend alot of time off the ship but we did spend a day in Santiago, a drive trough Valparaiso to meet the ship and finally a tour of the Chilean "Lake Country" around Puerto Mont and a tour of Punta Arenas. Chile was probably my favorite country to visit on the trip. I did like Ushaia Argentina too.
Steve

Steve, you now have the pretext to come and visit the driest dessert on earth!

And come to do some shooting and have lunch with us.

JC

JC
I might just take you up on your offer one day. Right now I’m just trying to financially keep my head above water while I market an oil prospect I’ve developed. I expected to sell the prospect by now, but apparently the wildcatter of old has been replaced by the modern day reincarnated insurance actuary, a scared little fellow who’s apparently forgotten that the opposite of “risk” is “reward”. Today everyone’s focused on the risk side. The odd part is my oil prospect is an oil field extension, a very simple idea using 21st century drilling technology to make formerly uneconomic areas of a large field economic, but since it’s (gasp!) unconventional I’ve been having a hard time selling it. However, when I do I should become very well off very quickly! Oh well for now, cest la vie!
Steve
PS it’ll cost about $2 million to test my idea, if you know of any South American investors who still have their balls intact and would like to net about $400 million let me know.