Redforkhippiechick has launched a Web site dedicated to restaurants along old Route 66, called Route66Food.com.
On the home page, it says:
On this site, you’ll find the best dining experiences the Mother Road has to offer, from Lou Mitchell’s in Chicago to the Fair Oaks Pharmacy in Pasadena. Whether your tastes run to hamburgers or hummus, frozen custard or French silk pie, you’re sure to find a little slice of culinary heaven somewhere along Route 66.
On her blog, she says the site will serve another important purpose:
Several years ago, I built a Web site called Route66Motels.com to provide an online presence for some of my favorite mom-and-pop motels that didn’t have Web sites. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a similar site for restaurants, and while I was having dinner the other night at Al’s Route 66 Cafe in Sapulpa, I was talking with the owner about the fact that he needs a Web site but doesn’t have the time or computer access to put something together, and professional Web designers tend to be prohibitively expensive for little mom-and-pop operations.
So some of her favorite Route 66 eateries that didn’t have a Web presence will have at least a small one — and perhaps something even more substantial in the future.
She has listings only up through Kansas so far, but it promises to be a valuable resource for travelers when she’s done. Check back often.
She will only list restaurants that she has actually visited. But she’s planning on enlisting a West Coast correspondent to help fill the gaps in the western half of the road.
Please try to visit Scotty’s Route 66 Bar & Grill in Hamel, IL. We were inducted into the Route 66 Hall of Fame in 2006 and will celebrate 75 years of being a restaurant (not always Scotty’s) this year. We have fried chicken specials on Wednesday and Sunday, Fish Fry on Friday, Prime Rib and Jumbo Shrimp on Saturday night, and we serve breakfast on Saturday beginning at 7 AM and ending at 11AM and on Sunday beginning at 8AM and ending at 12 Noon. Our breakfast special is two eggs any way you want them, bacon or sausage, hash browns or American fried and bisquits and gravy for 4.50. Coffee is $.50. Our lunch special every day is 4.75. Love to see you.
Pat Allen