Fried chicken, Wishbone restaurant, Westminster, Colorado
The Wishbone is quickly becoming our favorite restaurant. I believe this picture is from the meal where I suffered a small “incident” wherein a bone from the piece of chicken I was trying to eat came unattached and then flew through the air like the bone at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Fortunately it landed in our booth and didn’t hit some other innocent diner. I thought Ken was going to have a heart attack, he laughed so hard.
Wishbone’s fried chicken is my favorite fried chicken that I have had in the Denver area. It comes with mashed potatoes (from a mix but good) and neon yellow chicken gravy. You get a cup of extra gravy, to use as you wish, whether you want to dip your Texas Toast in it or just drink it. I have learned that the best thing for me to order is the 3-leg dinner. If I get carried away and order soup as an appetizer, I get too full. Ken really likes the chicken tenders. Last Friday was National Fried Chicken day, so of course we had to eat there, with my friend Cathy who is also a Wishbone fan.
Also last week, Leo the cat got his summer haircut:
He actually seems to enjoy being cooler, and of course he gets all kinds of attention from us. And attention is what he loves best.
I don’t just eat fried chicken at the Wishbone. I am willing to try others.
Fried Chicken at the Southside Restaurant, Limon, Colorado
I was on a work trip and we ate at the Southside Restaurant at Limon. I think everyone else had the chicken fried steak, but I was very happy with the fried (broasted?) chicken. Real mashed potatoes. Nice warm roll. We did not have the crabby waitress experience that several people mentioned in various online reviews.
On the same trip, we ate at Shorty’s in Granada, Colorado. This is a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant, family-run, not the cleanest, but there are not a lot of dining choices in Granada, Colorado. I had to have the nacho cheese enchilada along with a regular enchilada. They were both tasty. No free chips/salsa here, but you do get a free serving of ice cream at the end of the meal. And free entertainment if the family’s 4-year-old daughter is there.
On work trips, we usually eat at Chez Du Vall’s in Granada, but it was closed on this particular day. Chez Du Vall’s is quite a good restaurant, we have had many meals there with meetings and with trade teams and have always had good food.
That evening, we had a dinner meeting at The Route steakhouse in Burlington, Colorado. They always have good food, too, although I recommend sticking to what they are best at: steaks.
The next morning, our meeting was at Dos Hijos Mexican restaurant in Keenesburg, Colorado. They opened early for us to have our meeting. They have a breakfast menu but usually don’t open until 10:00 a.m. Well, when I see something like “Breakfast Stuffed Sopapilla” on the menu, I have to have it.
It was pretty good. Their spicy green chile is actually spicy, which I am in favor of. The sopapilla is stuffed with your choice of meat, plus eggs and potatoes. It certainly filled me up.
We didn’t have a lunch meeting, so we ate at the Home Plate Restaurant in Fort Morgan, which I would also recommend. I just had soup for lunch, because I was saving room for the dessert fruit-stuffed sopapillas. It was a sopapilla kind of day.
We shared peach and cherry around the table. They were Amazing.
- Fruit Stuffed Sopapilla, Home Plate, Fort Morgan, Colorado
Fruit Stuffed Sopapilla, Home Plate, Fort Morgan, Colorado
Do not pass up the vanilla ice cream with them.
All in all, another tasty trip around Colorado.
glenderella 
I have been going to the Wishbone in Colorado since I was 2 and my sis was a year old. Back then my mother who raised us and my grandmother went to church with the owner and his wife and we started going there as a special treat, always kind and curious to us, my mother an grandmother would always get the children while me and sis got to split a burger and fries.
As I got older my taste changed to the #15 and has been ever since. I took all my dates there and they new us all by name. As the years went buy marriage, kids and a new work location it took us away from there BUT! Every time we come home to see mom the very first thing we did is go to the wishbone and for me always the #15 of course with a extra side of Texas toast and gravy..
Well the years have went by, grandmother and mom are gone, Mark there son has taken over the restaurant and a new location on Fedral but the food has ALWAYS remained the same as well as the kindness of the staff. Don’t get home now very often now that I am 60 but when we do you can be sure are first stop will always be to the Wishbone and a greeting from Mark and to a great! dinner and of corse a box or two to go please…. Thank you to Mark and his family and father/Mother for sooo many years of absolutely great and amazing food and service….
The Daniel Morgan family….. and friends.