If you could only eat at one restaurant for the rest of your life, which one would you choose? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Dillons, 1015 West 23rd St. on August 26, 2011

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“Probably a Mexican food restaurant. Somewhere with chips and salsa and cerveza.”

— Kenny Butler, truck driver, Lawrence

“My favorite would be Pancho’s, but it’s no longer here.”

— Kim Hubbel, Kansas University employee, Lawrence

“Chipotle. To me it’s the perfect man food.”

— Rod Landreth, religious studies major, Eudora

“Perkins in Lawrence. It has good variety and nice people.”

— Antoinette Swett, computer systems technician, Lawrence

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GreenEyedBlues 1 year, 9 months ago

My thoughts exactly. Eew.

big_john 1 year, 9 months ago

The article ask for restaurant, and own choices, not from people questioning other people choices. this blog seems to have a abundance of smart a.... people.

CMM 1 year, 9 months ago

Oh c'mon. The lady is a bit older. You're really shocked she would choose Perkins?

somedude20 1 year, 9 months ago

Um, YES!!!!!

H_Lecter 1 year, 9 months ago

Bloody Mary's.
Love the location and...the name

...with The Yardhouse & Cheescake Factory as back-ups

camper 1 year, 8 months ago

Have to look at the original. Here is a version that I 1st learned of the song.

http://youtu.be/0Fdl9ltaxxI

labmonkey 1 year, 9 months ago

Golden Corral because they have pretty much everything.

somedude20 1 year, 9 months ago

good god of puck sir....gross!!! today I shall be the food police, your busted!

RoeDapple 1 year, 9 months ago

"Alice's"

or "autie's"

oopssillyme 1 year, 9 months ago

Vermont St. BBQ........oh, wait....

phoggyjay 1 year, 9 months ago

Chipotle

somedude20 1 year, 9 months ago

gross...busted. from the food police!

phoggyjay 1 year, 9 months ago

Don't get what your sayin'.

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 9 months ago

A Las Vegas casino buffet

Pitt_Mackeson 1 year, 9 months ago

my thoughts exactly

vertigo 1 year, 9 months ago

Wa - I can never get tired of sushi and sashimi.

vertigo 1 year, 9 months ago

You've never had the Pad Thai at Zen Zero? It's a must!

Now let's see if you're a man of your word.

Jonathan Kealing 1 year, 9 months ago

Free State Brewery. No question. Must have good beer if I'm going to be eating there for the rest of my life!

somedude20 1 year, 9 months ago

they let you play on th puter while @ work? hope you were on a break when you posted that personal message

secrettoalonglife 1 year, 8 months ago

Beer is FOOD. It is also nice to have something to nibble on...

Paul R. Getto 1 year, 9 months ago

Tacos el Sol on East 6th Street in Topeka. Real food, not TexMex. Try the tongue tacos or barbacoa.

Fixed_Asset 1 year, 9 months ago

Mmmmmm. I dine there frequently. Have I seen you there?

sbward1 1 year, 9 months ago

I've heard good things about this place from many people... will have to make a quick lunch trip.

Smarmy_Schoolmarm 1 year, 8 months ago

Another vote for Tacos el Sol. Nothing fancy, just nicely flavored food, clean, and crazy cheap prices. You order at the counter and they deliver to your table in disposable dishes so it's not fine dining but the dining is fine.

Liberal 1 year, 8 months ago

ugh...You can go a head.

kernal 1 year, 9 months ago

Paradise Cafe.

Thank goodness, Missy McCoy, who we have to thank for Douglas County Pie and other delectable goodies, is working on a cookbook which will include many of our favorite recipes from the Paradise Cafe. Now, if someone would just do that for TinPanAlley and Cornucopia...

KansasPerson 1 year, 9 months ago

WHAAAAT?!?! I need to be on the list for that book!

(Please God tell Missy not to forget the Potato Pancake recipe)

(and those pork chops!)

ScottyMac 1 year, 8 months ago

You want the recipes from Tin Pan Alley? You got it:

http://www.realtyx.com/getagent/Pages.php?Page=0000369645&aid=000100592&temp=1165&aname=Glen+Sohl&aimg=1&agent_hasfeat=8&;

cellistpilot 1 year, 8 months ago

Glen Sohl, the owner of both those restaurants, has already done that with a link on his real estate website.

Here it is: http://www.realtyx.com/getagent/Pages.php?Page=0000358886&aid=000100592&temp=1165&aname=Glen+Sohl&aimg=1&agent_hasfeat=11&;

misterlee 1 year, 9 months ago

Golden Corral or another non-Chinese buffet. Best in Lawrence now has to be Fridays at the Flamingo. I could live with El Matador, too.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 9 months ago

Yardhouse has scantily clad dancer/waitresses that serve $1.25 tacos?

larrytowngirl 1 year, 9 months ago

RED LOBSTER.. they sure need one in Lawrence!!!

Thinking_Out_Loud 1 year, 8 months ago

I prefer Anglers to RL.

Andini 1 year, 9 months ago

My Moms Kitchen.

CHEEZIT 1 year, 8 months ago

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! Nobody does it like Mom! Well at least my Mom!

charliejohnson 1 year, 9 months ago

I think you just need for your wife to get home.

breeze 1 year, 9 months ago

The problem with this is that it assumes one would eat only at Lawrence restaurants. Sorry to say but there aren't many good restaurants in Lawrence.

grammaddy 1 year, 9 months ago

A.B.'s!! Love those crepes! A.B. is the best cook EVER!!!

homechanger 1 year, 8 months ago

John brown is a beer at Freestate!

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 9 months ago

T_O_B, A mercenary, plain and simple. Just like those moveon.org people with their signon.org crap.

CWGOKU 1 year, 9 months ago

Where ever TOB is making biscuits and gravy

I think he is from Ohio

kaw7987 1 year, 9 months ago

For the rest of my life? Noodles and company or ingredient. I love their food and they're only places I could go daily and keep from getting really fat! For forever fatness.. Encore cafe! Yum yum yum!

CWGOKU 1 year, 9 months ago

No, maybe Pennsylvania now that I think about it.

Anyway, I'd pick whatever restaraunt that Mangino is NOT eating at, if youu know what I mean

somedude20 1 year, 9 months ago

Sammie's Curry in a Hurry!!!! "That stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me" Should be Sammie's motto^

1029 1 year, 9 months ago

Arby's.

MarcoPogo 1 year, 9 months ago

Showbiz Pizza. The end.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 9 months ago

"Well, he is now a notable Kansan according to people that determine such things" - T_O_B

Well you call it that, but if a bunch of yellow journalist editors who use eye-catching headlines, exaggeration, scandal-mongering, and sensationalism to sell more newspapers and undermine journalistic integrity pay some guy to paint an exaggerated and disturbing image of John Brown on the State Capitol walls, that does not make the mercenary a Kansan, it just shows you the power of media has on domesticated and docile masses of people.

Irenaku 1 year, 9 months ago

Definitely Cheesecake Factory!!!

Pitt_Mackeson 1 year, 9 months ago

probably Sirloin Stockade in Ottawa or Coyote Canyon in Topeka. Both owned by the same people who run Montana Mikes (ewww) but don't let that phase you. All you can eat cow meat and masht taters n ribs n macncheese n dessert crap......

jiminkansas 1 year, 9 months ago

Zen Zero!

jaywalker 1 year, 9 months ago

Prejeans, Lafeyette, Louisiana. Or The Palm.

gphawk89 1 year, 9 months ago

The Village Pub, Breckenridge, CO. But alas, it's gone.

CWGOKU 1 year, 9 months ago

He isn't a Kansan and quit thinking, it is Friday, go have a beer

PennyBrite 1 year, 9 months ago

La Parilla...BUT the OLD La Parilla before they changed

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 9 months ago

Saying John Brown was a Kansan is like saying Idi Amin was a Saudi. Fred Phelps is a monomaniacal zealot also, but he has not sparked a civil war yet. Send em both over to that amoral France.
BTW, that Canook Naismith taught morals and sex ed to the original village people in France.

CWGOKU 1 year, 9 months ago

Bucky's

secrettoalonglife 1 year, 8 months ago

YUM.

vertigo 1 year, 8 months ago

Yeah I'm sure when you think of the PI you think of the food... ;)

CreatureComforts 1 year, 8 months ago

We get it, you've traveled :)

jonas_opines 1 year, 8 months ago

Somewhere that serves good sushi Sushi Haru in Leawood is about right.

Liberal 1 year, 8 months ago

There is no such thing...

merrill 1 year, 8 months ago

No way only one..

Esquinas Guacomole plus Free State accompanied by Rudy's Pizza with a stop by Local Burger from time to time.

jackpot 1 year, 8 months ago

In n Out burgers.

camper 1 year, 8 months ago

Furrs. All the mash potato's and steamed brocoli and carrots you could ask for. Baked Chicken. 2nd and 3rds always. Man, those were the days when Lawrence had Furrs on 23rd and Iowa. A pretty good deal for under 10 bucks.

bergerfry 1 year, 8 months ago

Mimi's Cafe.

RoeDapple 1 year, 8 months ago

Anything you want . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

jackpot 1 year, 8 months ago

'cepting Alice?

trailblazer 1 year, 8 months ago

TEXAS ROADHOUSE!!

PrimalScream 1 year, 8 months ago

Snore

secrettoalonglife 1 year, 8 months ago

...as many people cold not spell...thank ewe.

PrimalScream 1 year, 8 months ago

Jesus Christ do I hate everyone of you mfr;s. How does a simple question of eating, get turned into John Brown being a real person, or whatever? Lawrence sucks for restaurant choices, f downtown, with all the students, please Freestate, come on food ok once in awhile, but arrogant service yes they do have, except whiskey girl. This town needs to get the hell over themselves, and grow.

RoeDapple 1 year, 8 months ago

Always fun to watch the haters hate . . .

deskboy04 1 year, 8 months ago

I think that the El Matador would be my choice.

Dejacrew423 1 year, 8 months ago

If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.

raerae 1 year, 8 months ago

Locally? The Global Cafe General vicinity? Jazz.. good food booze and music! Why can't we have something like this in town? Anywhere in the world? If the tab were paid, I'd go hoity-toity seafood, or a little cantina in San Felipe that had the best carne asada and shrimp right off the boat.