Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Arizona Dinners

Ristra decoration at a Mexican restaurant in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
By the time the food arrived I didn't feel like taking a picture --
anyway chicken mole with rice & salad isn't much to look at.
We're having fun watching birds and looking around the incredibly beautiful scenic back roads in southeastern Arizona, but we don't have time to look for any special type of food. A restaurant near out motel is more attractive than one that we'd have to drive far to get to, and we've been eating quite a few picnic lunches with food from a supermarket. This isn't really an adventurous gourmet way to do things.

Last night we ate at the Mexican restaurant next door to our motel -- the food was passable, the waiting time was really annoying. The same thing happened the previous night... not-too-bad classic Italian food, terrible wait, annoying attitude of management. Frankly, we don't know how to learn from this: we did look at online reviews! Just bad luck, we guess.

Tonight we did better at the Wagon Wheel Saloon in Patagonia, Arizona.
I guess that's the eponymous wagon wheel above the bar.
The green chili cheeseburgers came out very promptly.
 I told you we weren't going gourmet! 
When we finished eating the sun had set,
and we walked up the hillside near our Bed & Breakfast, a lovely place.
To give you an idea of what we're doing here: this pond is near the San Pedro River where we took a long walk.
In the late afternoon we watched many birds including this family of Gambel's Quail.
The chicks are a little bit camouflaged but you can see them between their mom & dad.

1 comment:

Jeanie said...

Don't you hate it when you end up at a restaurant and it's so disappointing? We felt that way at Corktown's Mercury Bar. The food took forever (not that huge a crowd), it wasn't cooked to order and even though it came to the table late, it was not hot. Their reason? The computer broke. You know, whatever happened to reading an order from a slip of paper written in pen or pencil? Sorry -- the computer has nothing to do with the grill and fryer!