The Sagebrush Grill

Another year and another trip to the Sagebrush for our pre-rally dinner.  20 of us invaded the poor little place and the understaffed restaurant worked it's collective posterior off to accommodate us.  So even if the service had been crap, which is most certainly was not, I wouldn't have knocked a star off.

Good wine, stiff drinks and some pretty good food were to be had.  I had the chicken fried steak and it was so amazing and tender that I did not need a knife!  Veggies were cooked to perfection and the sausage gravy was good enough to bring a tear to my eye.  

I cannot wait for next year to return to this ultra-cool little town and not just for the Sagebrush.

This establishment provided the worst dining experience of my life. I'd brought some friends in to town (my hometown... where I was born and raised) for the day, and, because I'd previously enjoyed the food, decided to drop in. What followed was an embarrassing debacle.

The waitress, who barely had a voice, personality or pulse, basically dropped the menus off at our table and left. Once our food arrived (nearly an hour later), a member of our party asked for more salad dressing. The second request involved me physically getting up and tracking down a waitress--it came about 10 minutes later, with the first request following about five minutes after that. I think we could have walked away from the table without paying--that's how important we were to the staff of about three who took turns dropping things off randomly at our table.

I can understand slow service if a restaurant is busy, but this wasn't the case. We collectively decided that it was the worst service we'd ever been given... anywhere--EVER. It was so bad that I can't even tell you how the food was. I'm not even sure there was a tip left on the nearly $100 dinner. I doubt they cared.  We wished we'd have gone to Donna's Drive Inn.