{"id":1057,"date":"2012-04-18T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:50:30","slug":"warm-mashed-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Warm Mashed Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Linda Burton posting from Carson City, Nevada<\/em> \u2013 I don\u2019t usually recommend restaurants. But everybody I\u2019ve met so far in Carson City has told me Red\u2019s was their favorite place to eat. I had to go see for myself. It\u2019s not really a restaurant anyhow, it\u2019s a museum that just happens to serve really, really, really good barbecue. And a lot of other good stuff.<\/p>\n

The windmill signaled me in; what lay ahead under the patch-worked tin-sheeted roof? I walked past stone walls, carved wooden bears, an enclosed patio with a giant barbecue grill and a blazing fireplace. Laney welcomed me at the door; handed me a leaflet describing the fabulous Red \u201ccollection.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Directly ahead was the biggest blackest hunk of steel I\u2019ve ever seen at the front door of a restaurant. Or a museum. \u201cThis steamroller was used to pave Wall Street,\u201d Laney said matter of factly. \u201cAnd that cart hanging above our heads was used in the movie Planet of the Apes<\/em> that Charlton Heston was in.\u201d Wall Street? Hollywood? \u201cHow did all this stuff get here\u201d I asked, \u201cwhat\u2019s the story?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe owner is a collector,\u201d she answered, leading me into the next room so I could see the giant fire steam water pumper\u00a0perched above the bar. It was built in 1907 and sold to the city of Waco, Texas. \"\"<\/a>And yet it wound up here. Every inch of wall, every inch of air space overhead, has something with a story behind it. Even the rock used along the outside wall was gathered from the debris of the former state \u201cAssembly room\u201d and the Nevada State Prison. An all-knowing Eve-in-a-portrait gave me a Mona Lisa smile when I sat down.<\/p>\n

Nick, who stepped in next as my server, said immediately upon hearing my southern accent \u201cYou\u2019re going to order pulled pork, I can tell.\u201d He headed off to get samples for me, a taste of the pulled pork he predicted I would want, and some beef brisket too. Both were delicious but he was right, I HAD to have that pulled pork; it came with slaw and baked beans, each presented in a colorful shell; the baked beans a combo of limas and pintos and black-eyed peas, very interesting.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a good time at Red\u2019s, in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. Imagine the place on a Saturday night! \u201cThere\u2019s a five-course Sierra Nevada Beer Dinner coming up soon and we\u2019re serving a different beer with each course,\u201d Nick told me. \u201cWould you like a ticket?\u201d \u201dIf I ate that much food and drank that much beer I\u2019d need Charlton Heston to drive me home in that famous cart,\u201d I declined, with my regrets.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The host stand at Red\u2019s was salvaged out of the St Francis Hotel in San Francisco following the great quakes. As I departed, I noticed this statement printed underneath \u2013 Life<\/em> is a bowl of warm mashed potatoes.<\/em><\/p>\n

And Red\u2019s is the gravy. Eat at Red\u2019s. Do it today.<\/p>\n

Red’s Old 395 Grill, 1055 S Carson Street http:\/\/www.reds395.com\/html\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda Burton posting from Carson City, Nevada \u2013 I don\u2019t usually recommend restaurants. But everybody I\u2019ve met so far in Carson City has told me Red\u2019s was their favorite place to eat. I had to go see for myself. It\u2019s not really a restaurant anyhow, it\u2019s a museum that just happens to serve really, really, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4586,304],"tags":[90,325,324,322,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15509,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}