Worst restaurant in the Panhandle...possibly Texas

On Valentines day I was very excited about trying the supposed fancy schmancy restaurant in Vega. The owner was on the Food Network, and even featured in Bon Appetit magazine, but as far as I am concerned she is all hat and no cattle. For starters the Valentines day menu had a total of four entrees. Chilean Sea bass, Tilapia, Filet Mignon, and Shrimp with Filet mignon. Well let me tell you if you tried to order any thing but Tilapia you were out of luck. We arrived at eight in the evening, with reservations, to a mostly full restaurant. When I placed my reservation the young women who answered the phone explained to me how booked they were and the earliest time I could get was at eight. So me, being the math major that I am, assumed that several other people had reservations, both before and after mine. This is important to remember because of the fact that the restaurant had run out of steak by 8:00 p.m. Now wouldn't one prepare for a large number of steaks to be ordered when out of 4 dishes 2 contained steak? Furthermore, fish is not a favorite for many people...namely my date. We ordered our drinks, and appetizers and placed our orders, at which point we were told that it would be a minimum of 45 minutes before they could even cut the steaks then judging by the speed at which people were being served around me, another 30 minutes on top of that. I am sorry but no steak is worth an hour and a quarter of campy old west atmosphere. Much to my surprise the appetizers were tastless and bland, not bad just nothing. We ordered green chile chicken wontons, sounds like a nice dish, but it tasted like air...nothing at all. So I finished my two luke warm beers, Summer finished her glass of ice tea, which by the way was served in a mason jar, we paid our tab and left. We drove back to Amarillo, ordered a pizza, it was delicous, ten times what we had to eat at Boot Hill. I understand why people in othere areas of the world would like the campy old west atmosphere, but not so much for me. And if you are going to charge nearly thirty dollars for a steak...have the damn steak, and make your beer cold, don't use mason jars, this is not the old west, and work on your customer service. And for the record making your wait staff dress like extras from Broke Back Mountain is a nice touch. On a scale of one to ten, I would give Boot Hill a 2, and the only reason it got that high of a rating is due to the fact that my grandparents are from Vega, if not for that this sorry excuse for a restaurant would not have even scored at all. So stay away from this place unless dissappointment is your thing. You may be offended but who cares... I for one don't.
More to come, I have been so busy I fell behind blogging but I am back at it.
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Paging Dr. Freud...and the rest of the psychological community.

I just recently watched a television news show 20/20 or Dateline, not really sure which one it was. But it was one of the most disturbing documentaries I have ever had the displeasure of watching. It was a story about women who breast feed for an inordinant amount of time. The first woman was still letting her child suckle at the ripe old age of 5. I am no expert but I do know quite alot about medical procedures and protocol. And this is way to long to let a child get milk straight from the tap. To compound the weird out factor, the next mother on the episode had a child breast feeding at the age of seven. I understand in foreign countries this is not uncommon due to the fact that there are not many other options for food for a young child. That being said, this is America, we don't have to substitue breast milk for food becasue we have the food to feed our children. When asked why they liked to still breast feed the children said it made them feel closer to their mothers. To me this demonstrated quite the Oedipal complex. One young boy was actually begging to have his mothers breast in his mouth. I can only imagine the amount of confusion and therapy that this child will have to deal with in his young adult life and potentially even longer than that. Just thought I would share this with you guys. Kinda bugged me and I wanted to get your reactions. More to come...Steven