Twenty minutes of delight, followed by eight hours of sluggishness and regret. When I think biscuits and fried chicken, I think gut bomb. The bar also serves a diverse selection of beers, which go along splendidly with your bird. And for $7, you get baked beans, salad, a roll, and your beloved chicken. If you ever wanted your perfectly greasy fried chicken served in an old-man bar, now you got it. But then, this is one of those meals you just have to have, despite your empty bank account and the spare tire around your waist. Their buttermilk chicken is skillet fried in duck fat, making it heathenishly rich and delicious and worth plunking down the substantial price of $16.75 a plate. What started out as one of their daily specials has now become one of Kenny and Zuke's specialties. No one needs an excuse to get wasted on Friday, but anyway, now you have one. You remember those legendary White Castle burgers you used to eat when you were growing up in the Midwest? Well, these are pretty much the same.
But the one thing that's better than George's is that Club 21 serves free sliders on Fridays. KSĬlub 21 is the best dive bar you've ever been to. but in my experience a local dive comes in handy. Mind you this is not fine dining, this is your local dive. A hefty burger comes along with fries for less than six bucks, and a prime rib sandwich is $6 and comes served with awesome white trash potato salad. Also, the food is surprisingly delicious and super cheap. George's is one of my favorite places to drink because the people are so friggin' nice. So fantasies intact, an evening of beef, beer, and boobs makes for a riotous Vegas-style romp, without those pesky Vegas-style prices. I choose not to confirm or deny this rumor, because I don't want to find out that my giant slab of beef came from somewhere other than a local organic beef farm. Rumor has it the owner of the A-crop strip club/steakhouse has a nearby cattle ranch, which is why the steaks are so cheap ($5.25). So yeah, if you're bloodthirsty and strapped for cash, this is the spot.
Dinner comes with salad, baked potato, garlic bread, coffee, and ice cream. Poor Richard's allows me these simple pleasures, with their two-fer top-sirloin dinner deals for around $20. I want a big glass of whiskey with my meat, I want to follow my meal with a cigarette, and I don't want to be out more than three hours of pay.
When I want to step out with my honey for a big steak dinner on the town, I want to do it like I live in the 1950s. Sorry folks, I can't get behind this splurge when I can make an equally delicious steak on the barbecue, and have it delivered with a tableside fluffing that's 10 times as good as the one I'd get at El Gaucho. Also, the service is impeccable, if you're one of those people who prefers babysitting to table service.
In El Gauge-o's defense, though, their side dishes are reasonably priced (but not included in the cost of your steak) and delicious-try a baked potato with butter, cheese, cracked pepper, and scallions, fluffed tableside, or roasted corn with chipotle honey butter, or lobster mashed potatoes (wait. Pair dinner with a $220 cocktail and you're pretty much the biggest jackass I've ever met. Oh goodness, I wish I was rich enough to sit in a dark room with a bunch of new money showoffs who validate their lives by spending $38 on a top sirloin, $58 on a rib eye, or $130 on Chateaubriand (filet mignon) for two.