We’re staying in Moab one more night. There’s so much to do here and we decided it was worth it. Not only is the scenery devastatingly gorgeous, there’s pretty good food to be had – I think there must be a lot of foodies that relocated here for the recreation and stayed to start restaurantes.
Last night we ate at the Center Cafe which turned out to be a little oasis of good food, wine, and ambiance off of the main touristic drag. Tonight we tried the ultimate test of a town’s cuisine; we went to the local Chinese restaurant. And it was good – very good Chinese food – with typically huge portions so that we really could have ordered just one entree.
We didn’t do too badly for lunch, either; we had a decent turkey sandwich with a big slab of jalapeno pepper on it at a picnic table n the shade of a pinon tree at the Upheaval Dome trailhead in Canyonlands National Park.
More on that in a bit. At least we’re hiking a lot and walking a lot to try to work all the food off… but I think the food is gaining on me. 😉
there is a great brew pub in Moab….can’t remember the name but its on the main street… there may be more now but a couple years ago this was great!!! Hope you got to slick rock area… great hiking… there is also a jeep trail that starts with an S – Stanton, Swartzer.. at least it starts with an S or something like that…. it will scare the hell outta ya!!! Have fun!!!
Ah, you mean the “Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote” road that I blogged about? I think it’s called the Shafer Trail Road. We saw a station wagon on it before I spotted the white SUV so I SUPPOSE it’s driveable, but I’d be chanting the “look, Nibby, no guardrails!” family mantra the whole way.
There’s Eddie McStiff’s and the Moab Brewery right on Main – we might eat at one or the other tonight. Oh, and it looks like uranium king Charlie Steen’s house is now a restaurant called the Sunset Grill – I think Mom used to do his wife’s hair back when they lived in Grand Junction (or she used to come into town from the wild hinterlands).