Good Grub

One of the benefits of being a traveling engineer for a oil company was that I was on an expense account and I got to eat at some fine restaurants on the company when I traveled. I have shared some of my favorite eating places in today’s story. It’s a wonder I didn’t get more porky than I did.

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When I was working out of the Oklahoma City E & P office, I got to go to the GPA ( Gas Processors Association) annual meeting in San Francisco, California. Pam went with me on that trip. We got to eat at a lot of fine restaurants while we were there including one that had a chef that had been John F Kennedy’s chef at the white house. However, our favorite restaurant of the trip was Fisherman’s Wharf. We rode the trolley car out to the restaurant and had a very fine meal. As I recall I got the Fisherman’s Platter. The atmosphere was awesome in that place as was the food.

 

 Fisherman’s Wharf not only had great food, but it had a lot of atmosphere also.

 

 

The food was really great. Makes me hungry just to look at it. Ummmmm.

 

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When I was working in the Houston E&P office, we had a gas plant at Luling, Texas. Occasionally, I would take a field trip out to the plant with the Plant Engineer who worked for me. There’s a couple of things I remember about the Luling Area. One was that the mesquite trees there grew large with a single trunk like oak trees rather that the scrub bushes that are every where in the Texas Panhandle. The other was the best barbecue perhaps in the state of Texas. There was a restaurant in the small town of Luling, Texas, called The Luling City Market. The building it was in didn’t look like much, but the barbeque was out of this world. They had a large fire pit in the back covered with a grill where they cooked the meat. When you walked in and smelled that meat cooking your mouth began to water. They brought your meal on a piece of butcher paper and laid it in front of you. The sides came in short paper cups. I ate at that place anytime I was in the area. It was fantastic.

 

Kind of a rustic looking place from the outside, but the barbecue was heavenly.

 

 

 

The rustic atmosphere and the smells in the Restaurant made that barbecue taste even better .

 

When I was working out of Bartlesville, I often spent the week staying in Houston working in a contractors office. I got to eat in a lot of great restaurants in the evenings. One of my favorites was a South American restaurant called Churrascos. They had chips made out of a fruit kind of like a banana to munch on while you were waiting on your meal. I usually got a steak that was always excellent. The desert there that I loved was called Tres Leches. It was made out of three different kinds of creams. It was the best desert I have ever eaten. I went to Churrascos at least once a week.

 

One of my favorite Houston restaurants was Churrascos, home of the original Tres Leches.

 

 

The steaks at Churrascos were melt in your mouth good. Wish I had one now.

 

 

This is simply the best desert in the world. Enough said.

 

 

 

When I was working out of the Houston E&P Office, we had several gas plants in southern Louisiana. I made many trips into the area and often stayed in Lafayette, Louisana. Everytime I stayed there I went to a Cajun restaurant there call Randols. They had the finest Cajun food that I have ever tasted. I would always get  the deep fried alligator tail for an appetizer. I tried something different every time I went there and everything I tried was superb. They had a Cajun band in there every evening and I would sit by their large dance floor and listen to the music for an hour or two after I ate. There was an old man in there every time I went in that danced every dance with the young ladies. He would walk up to a young lady and raise his hand high in the air and point down at them and they would pop up and dance with him. He was an excellent Cajun two stepper.

 

That big Gator puts you in the mood for some of the finest Cajun food in the world.

 

 

Those Cajuns created some of the finest eating in the world. Deep fried crawfish are super yummy.

 

 

When I was in the Bartlesville office, I worked on several projects at our Kenai Plant. I usually stayed at the Uptown Motel. The Motel had a restaurant called Louie’s Steak and Seafood. The restaurant had a lot of local atmosphere because it was decorated with trophies from the Alaskan wilderness. Every morning I would have the reindeer sausage with two eggs over medium, fried potatoes, and biscuits and gravy. What a way to start the day. In the evening I would eat fish. Sometimes I had the Salmon, but my favorite was the Beer Battered Deep Fried Halibut. It was mouth watering good.

 

A great place to eat if you ever make it up to Kenai, Alaska.

 

 

Hell, it was fun going into Louie,s Steak and Seafood just to look at the stuff on the walls. The food was excellent too.

 

 

The Beer Battered Deep Fried Halibut was some kind of good and always fresh.

 

 

 

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I was able to spend some time in Stavanger, Norway, working on some problems with the Ekofisk Offshore Oil Complex.While we were there, we tried a lot of the local restaurants. One of my favorites was Sjhouset Skagen Resturant. I tried several different entries but my favorite was the reindeer steak.

 

The Sjhouset Skagen Resturant was a quaint place on the waterfront. Very nice atmosphere.

 

 

The reindeer steak made for some very fine eating while in Stavanger.

 

 

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There were hundreds of fine restaurants tthat were really great that I haven’t mentioned here. These are just some of my favorites.

Thanks for reading Good Grub,
Bill