The Happy Hour coordinator was out of town Friday, and so there was no official Happy Hour, per se. However, a couple of my intrepid adventuring friends and I made the trek to Deep Ellum to partake of the chow at Cowboy Chow.
GO TO COWBOY CHOW.
They bill themselves as a "wedding chapel and tacos" place, attested to by the extensive listing of tacos on the menu and the veiled and top-hatted buffalo heads on the wall. For those of you who dislike mounted animal heads, take heart: they are obviously fake. I want one.
In the spirit of the evening, I partook of the buffalo tacos (for those watching their waistlines, they're 500 calories for the whole meal) which were amazing. Tacos are served with a side of beans, which are something of a cross between pinto beans and baked beans, and a bed of rice that catches the delicious juices that dribble out of the tacos and onto your hands.
Cowboy Chow specializes in braised meats, and to this end you will find all sorts of braised beef and pork (REAL cowboys don't eat chicken). My compadres in comiendo both ordered the Dr. Pepper braised ribs (beef) and liked them, although they thought the ribs should be served with some form of Dr. Pepper reduction sauce. Mashed potatoes have corn mashed in with them, so don't get all up in arms when you see "corn" on the menu, and it isn't served in a neat yellow pile next to the taters.
There are three grades of beer at Cowboy Chow: Texas and Mexican Beer, Good Yankee Beer, and Cheap Ass Beer. Seeing as I'm unemployed, I drank a cheap ass Pabst Blue Ribbon, but for those with more - ahem - refined palates, you can order a Blue Moon or a Buffalo Butt (?).
A good reason to eat the low-cal tacos di bufala is the dessert offerings: homemade ice cream sandwiches, peanut butter brownie smores, or a warm-baked cookie (which should be ordered at the time you order your meal so they can bake the cookie for you). The waiter informed us that the ice cream sandwiches are about the size of a hockey puck.
He lied.
They're bigger.
And before I forget, let's go back to the beginning, where you eat appetizers and such. They have the most wonderful invention on the menu: fried green tomato lollipops, served with 3 cheese ranch dipping sauce. They're $1 each. They're heaven. Get one.
So, as a recap for those of you with short memories: GO TO COWBOY CHOW AND CHOW DOWN.
You will not regret it.
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