16 February 2012

Breakfast: homemade SOS on mashed potatoes and a largish bottle of Diet Pepsi
Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had

• white rice
• various beef and chicken dishes
• chocolate ice creamme (a small scoop) with chocolate pudding on it
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner:  We went to "Mariah Hills" Restaurant (the best steak place in Dodge City and far superior to the "steak" house we went to in Salem Oregon in January 2010). I had:

• salad with "French" dressing
• a baked potatoe - "fully loaded" and
• a 10 oz fillet Mignon with "Ham's Special Topping"
• a small desert that appeared to be a no-glutton, chocolate sauce filled-cupcake and
• two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

The steak was simply superb!

I had one of the best steaks I have ever eaten. The prices are a bit high but the food makes it worth saving up for. If you live in DDC, you should treat yourself to one of Ham's meals. If you live outside of Dodge City, Kansas, you should make the trek to DDC and go here!

You'll be glad you did!

Ham is the name of the owner and "Ham's Special Topping" is really great and his speciality. To put a steak sauce on a steak (especially a fillet) would be an act of blasphemy akin to putting orange juice in with Dom Peron. 

The service was good and the view of the golf course quite nice.  They have a good selection of drinks, even if they have too many "lite" or "light" drinks. However, "lite" or "light" beers is a plague that afflects many other bars or restraunts. I remember when the US of A was a nation of beer drinkers...

You should also go to the Boot Hill Museum but I digress.

23 December 2010

_____Breakfast: not a traditional one but

• stewed pork chops
• rice
• coffee

________Lunch: I went to that new Italian place and had

• two slices of loaf shaped white bread (think 'Wonder Bread") dipped in sauce
• two and a half spiced bread sticke
• dipped in olive oil and
• spaghetti in meatless sauce
• two glasses of Diet Coke

_______Dinner: We went to the new place at the public golf course club house, Mariah Hills Restaurant and had

• nice salad with Thousand Island Dressing
• excellent steak with "Ham's topping" (butter and spices)
• baked potatoe
• small piece of desert
• water

I ate about half of my dinner and ate the left overs for breakfast the next mooring.

I think it is safe to say this is the finest Steak place you can go to in Dodge City Kansas. This is because

• the food is simply excellent
• the service is very good
• the view from the dining room windows is great and
• the owner ("Ham") has "worried feet" and checks the customers to see is the customers are happy and if everything is going well

In "Kitchen Confidental",  Anthony Burdoine wrote of the need for the manager to have "worried feet". That is, for the manager of the restaurant to make sure everything is going well and that only happy customers will walk out. It is a well known fact that angry customers will tell at least ten (10!) other people of their dissatisfaction. I personally try for higher numbers. Happy customers don't tend to tell as many people.

So, as a happy customer, I can safely say go to Mariah Hills for a great steak dinner!

Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic