In this warm review by Columbus Alive of Roadhouse 66 Bar & Grille in Worthington, Ohio, this excerpt caught my eye:
If you’re snacking with your nightcap, an appetizer menu is served until 11:30 p.m. This means you can get a pint of beer with Betty Boop’s Tickle Pickles – battered and fried dill wedges — or Roadhouse 66 CFB, five strips of chicken-fried bacon served with sausage gravy. (Believe it!)
Chicken-fried bacon. That’s so greasy and wrong, it’s right.
Roadhouse 66 is owned by Route 66 enthusiast David Wickline, who has published two photo books about the Mother Road.
I’m 43 years old. In that time I’ve learned that one can live to be 100 years old by doing absolutely nothing that would make one WANT to live to be 100 years old.
Pass The Gravy!
First Dawn one-ups Threadgill’s (whose chicken-fried steak is basically the Holy Grail of diner food) by making chicken-fried pork steak. Then I one-up Dawn by riffing on her recipe to make chicken-fried pork sausage. Now Wickline has one-upped me by replacing the sausage with bacon. If his variation can avoid the usual gilded-lily pitfall that seems to plague most attempts to improve on the perfection that is bacon, we’ll be three steps beyond the Grail. I believe we are approaching diner nirvana….
OK … this will be my dinner order when I’m there !!!
We encourage all of our visitors to check out the Roadhouse 66 Bar & Grille in Columbus/Westerville, Ohio. It is an honorable tribute to the Mother Road and David is one fine Dude. He is also one of our very best friends (live and in person, or on Facebook!).
Harley and Annabelle