Fire in Downtown Larryville

[jhawks99]

https://lawrencekstimes.com/2023/12/14/ ... ito-lindo/

I was kitchen manager there for the 1st five years it was Dos Hombres.
Used to day drink there when it was Sgt. Preston's.

[Overlander]

Day drinking is supposed to be done at Johnny's North

[pdub]

Ah, that sucks.
It had a good outdoor space for the spring and summer.

[Shirley]

Ah, that sucks.
It had a good outdoor space for the spring and summer.

I sent the news to my daughter who went to KU. One of her girl friends worked there and she had been there a lot, when it was Dos Hombres.

[pdub]

Wasn't it also briefly a club?
For like 2 or 3 years?

[jhawks99]

When I worked there you had to have a club card to drink. But that was true for all of Kansas at the time.

[pdub]

https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/dec/ ... _downtown/

[jhawks99]

OK, I knew the owners of Dos didn't renew the lease when the landlord refused to make upgrades. Raoul's Velvet Room. Would have loved to see what that was like.

[pdub]

That would have been when I was going to KU and I remember never having any interest.
Pretty soon after it was a Mexican restaurant but I coulda sworn it was called something different for 2 to 3 years before becoming Cieltio Lindo.

[jhawks99]

I had left Lawrence by then. Not sure what it was.

[Back2Lawrence]

The restaurant that burned down sucked. I can’t speculate on why may have caused the fire.

It was Dos Hombres during my time there, which was alright as I remember.

I for sure remember my freshman year, going there on Monday nights for $4.25 all you can eat tacos (they fried the meat in the shell then stuffed white people style. Me and a buddy would demolish 13-15 tacos each. My single memory of being poor and exploiting a food special.

[Overlander]

The restaurant that burned down sucked. I can’t speculate on why may have caused the fire.

It was Dos Hombres during my time there, which was alright as I remember.

I for sure remember my freshman year, going there on Monday nights for $4.25 all you can eat tacos (they fried the meat in the shell then stuffed white people style. Me and a buddy would demolish 13-15 tacos each. My single memory of being poor and exploiting a food special.

Border Bandido always filled that “cheap and plentiful” spot for me

[pdub]

I don’t think it sucked.
It was exactly what you expected, mid tier Tex mex. It was the level of La Familia or El Mezcal.
I hadn’t been in three or four years though so maybe it dropped off.

[Back2Lawrence]

La Familia was really good bad Mexican food. I don’t think Lawrence has any of those places anymore. Lots of good good taco places, but no cheesy saucy goodness place. La Tropicana sucks. El Matador sucks. Meh.

[pdub]

I thought Molcajetes was decent ( ate there last December ).
El Porto can be a cheesy saucy goodness place.

[zsn]

The restaurant that burned down sucked. I can’t speculate on why may have caused the fire.

It was Dos Hombres during my time there, which was alright as I remember.

I for sure remember my freshman year, going there on Monday nights for $4.25 all you can eat tacos (they fried the meat in the shell then stuffed white people style. Me and a buddy would demolish 13-15 tacos each. My single memory of being poor and exploiting a food special.

The best one for cheap food was the Holiday Inn, near the Turnpike entrance on 2nd (?) Street, across from the Hallmark. It used to be $1 beers and all you can eat tacos.

I just tossed the Sanctuary Club card a few months ago when I was cleaning out some old stuff. Didn’t even know I had it

[DCHawk1]

I liked Dos Hombres.

[pdub]

I got a band card one year in college that offered 4 dollar deli meal combos from Dillon’s. One main, two sides and a roll.

It was a cheat code bc the workers there DGAF and filled your styrofoam box til it was busting at the seems. You’d get 8 chicken tenders, and two full servings of mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese etc.

Multiple times a week.
Two meals each serving ( unless you just went full glutton mode ).

Other deals on the card included 2.00 six inch meatball subs from Subway and 20 percent off Jade Mongolian Grill ( buffet all you can eat ) and Jade Garden. Also I want to say a dollar off the pizza shuttle 2 topping personal pizza deal.

[jhawks99]

I liked Dos Hombres.

You da man