Red Roof Outlit Mall Status

sanddunerider · July 25, 2012, 08:51:56 PM

I am not sure a microbrew can compete with old chicago in that close of an area.. (the landing)..

BUT, if they have cold beer, bring 'em on! i will give them a try.

rubedugans · July 25, 2012, 09:13:07 PM

American made, local product....I'd be at the microbrew 10/10 times! We have a few local micro and nano breweries here in st Charles (about 45 min outside st louis, and they all do very well for that same reason.

Joy · July 26, 2012, 03:38:23 AM

I vote for T-Rex. Rainforest Cafe is cool, but T-Rex has a better menu (at least, comparing the RC and T-Rex I've been to).

I just went to Bubba Gump's for the first time ever this weekend, in Chicago. Gotta say... I think I prefer Joe's Crab Shack. JCS's menu has a better variety of choices.

MissinTheGreenTrams · July 26, 2012, 07:25:49 AM

I have never been to any of those eateries. I almost went to a RC. It was in a mall, I want to say KC mall. Anyhow, the menu was outside and I saw the prices and my family walked away. This was when I was a kiddo. Even now I dont think I would pay to eat there. I cant imagine the food would be that amazing.......but I have been wrong before.

chittlins · July 26, 2012, 07:56:02 AM

Quote from: MissinTheGreenTrams on July 26, 2012, 07:25:49 AM
I have never been to any of those eateries. I almost went to a RC. It was in a mall, I want to say KC mall. Anyhow, the menu was outside and I saw the prices and my family walked away. This was when I was a kiddo. Even now I dont think I would pay to eat there. I cant imagine the food would be that amazing.......but I have been wrong before.

it's not so much about the food as it is the experience. We recently took the kids to the Aquarium at Opry Mills. The food wasn't fantsfic but servicable but the shark swiming by our table was very cool. It's the experience that makes the cost easier to swallow.

underdog · July 26, 2012, 10:04:37 AM

Quote from: Joy on July 26, 2012, 03:38:23 AM
I vote for T-Rex. Rainforest Cafe is cool, but T-Rex has a better menu (at least, comparing the RC and T-Rex I've been to).

I just went to Bubba Gump's for the first time ever this weekend, in Chicago. Gotta say... I think I prefer Joe's Crab Shack. JCS's menu has a better variety of choices.

I had never heard of T-Rex so I google imaged it. I want one SOOOO bad!

Joy · July 26, 2012, 01:11:35 PM

Quote from: MissinTheGreenTrams on July 26, 2012, 07:25:49 AM
I have never been to any of those eateries. I almost went to a RC. It was in a mall, I want to say KC mall. Anyhow, the menu was outside and I saw the prices and my family walked away. This was when I was a kiddo. Even now I dont think I would pay to eat there. I cant imagine the food would be that amazing.......but I have been wrong before.

It was the RC at the Oak Park Mall in KC that I went to. The atmosphere is great, but the food is expensive and the choices aren't really that great. T-Rex is cheaper, has (IMHO) a better atmosphere, and the food is cheaper and there's a wider variety (if you don't want some fancy schmancy stuff, they have stuff like hot dogs and pizza).

chittlins · July 26, 2012, 01:32:04 PM

Bubba Gump, Rainforest Cafe, T-Rex and Aquarium are all owned by Landrys. What else is that company doing these days? Oh they developed Kemah Boardwalk and Galvaston Pleasure Pier. What could use that type of redevelopement in Branson? (hint CC)

Swoosh · July 26, 2012, 01:55:23 PM

^I'd love them to build a new pier at Lake of the Ozarks. I know, a little off topic, but still

chittlins · July 26, 2012, 03:12:50 PM

Quote from: Swoosh on July 26, 2012, 01:55:23 PM
^I'd love them to build a new pier at Lake of the Ozarks. I know, a little off topic, but still
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Its a good idea but the COE would likely be absolutly or next to impossible to deal with.

underdog · August 03, 2012, 03:22:17 PM

Quote from: sanddunerider on July 25, 2012, 08:51:56 PM
I am not sure a microbrew can compete with old chicago in that close of an area.. (the landing)..

BUT, if they have cold beer, bring 'em on! i will give them a try.

They have an Old Chicago at the Landing now? Man, I really need to get over there soon.

thelarsonsix · August 04, 2012, 08:59:37 PM

Quote from: chittlins on July 26, 2012, 03:12:50 PM
Quote from: Swoosh on July 26, 2012, 01:55:23 PM
^I'd love them to build a new pier at Lake of the Ozarks. I know, a little off topic, but still
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Its a good idea but the COE would likely be absolutly or next to impossible to deal with.

Lake of the Ozarks is a privately owned lake by Ameren Corporation (Union Electric). They built it. The COE has next to no say so on what goes on there. Hence every house, bar, restaurant, resort and hotel on the water has a dock. Ameren grants the dock permits. It's quite different from Table Rock or even it's upstream brother Truman Lake. That being said, it's not quite the free for all it used to be. Google "FERC LOTO shoreline management plan" and you get get a taste of another example of the Federal government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong. That has more to do with property rights than docks, but it's a pretty sore subject around here.

Swoosh, are talking about something like the old Casino Pier?

Junior · September 06, 2012, 09:05:11 AM

When I was in Branson two weeks ago there was only one shop left and out front it had a big banner stating yes they were open. The rest of the place was a ghost town. Anyone else know the latest on what will happen here?

rubedugans · September 06, 2012, 10:59:10 AM

I HAVE to get some time lapse / long term exposures of the place at night, because that is my best memory of going there...cool evenings shopping there as a kid.

eagle1 · September 06, 2012, 07:10:22 PM

Only new news I've been told is still going to be a sports complex or organic garden thing? There has not been any update in the local papers that I've found so far. Thinking I need to go to the next council meeting to find out. I'll ask some others around here too and see if anything new.....