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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Variety in Lawrence restaurants is gastronomical
By LYNN PEARSON Kansan Staff Reporter
There has to be more to life than eating Big Macs, Cokes and French fries.
Lawrence has a number of good restaurants that do creative things with food. They may not be as quick as McDonald's, but several are almost the same. The Candian bacon quiche for $2, why settle for a hamburger with the works for $1.50?
I STARTED MY CULINARY expedition last fall and found that it was a highly entertaining way to spend time and money in the city. I learned that you can see your friends and make new ones.
But good food is still the most important reason for going to any restaurant. If food prepared with natural ingredients is what you want, your favorite restaurant in 100 Massachusetts St., has the best in town. Everything on the menu is prepared from scratch and is delicious. Homemade wheat breads and soups and the salad bar are soups and the specialties of this homeprawn restaurant.
THE CORNUCOPIA HAS THE best
Canadian bacon quiche I've ever tasted and its salad bar and soup make up the best $2 meal I've eat in Lawrence. Most of the prices are $2 or less. The daily special may cost up to $3. The rustic atmosphere is enhanced by wooden booths and small tables. Hang plants are everywhere. It's open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday from 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Try the Red Zinger sauce and the dessert blenders. They're great.
The Casbah Cafe, 803 Massachusetts St., is a similar restaurant. It's smaller and hotter than the Cornucopia (it had no air conditioning the day I ate there), but its garden salad is good and ample, as is the daily special, which is chalked on a blackboard hanging above the galley-like kitchen. The menu consists of a a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Most of its dishes cost about $2 and the highest priced item, a Kansas City strip steak, costs $4.99.
A FAVORITE OF NATIVE Texas like me is Mexican food. Our special type is called Tex-Mex, and the only place I can get it is at Kendall University in Kansas City, Mo. But there are a couple of
places in Lawrence that serve well- seasoned Mexican dishes.
The Agate Inn, 807 Vermont St., has the better atmosphere of the two, offering coy lit-hiking booths and dim lighting. It serves mild food with lots of cheese. You get a big bowl of toasted tortillas (toasted tortilla best served good service and refills on ice tea and coffee. The best dinner is the "El Plato Supremo," which has a little of everything. He prepared to roll out of the Agate Inn with a large pot of $6.50. It open 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. It's closed Monday.
IF YOU'RE TRYING Mexican food for the first time, you must decide whether you like soggy or crisp tortillas. If you like them soggy with lots of tolii and cheese, you should order enchiladas or burritos. If you like tortillas, order tacos, tortales or chupas.
Another good Mexican restaurant in town is the El Matador Cafe, 446 Locust St. its atmosphere almost duplicates that of cafes in Mexico. Old-fashioned vinyl-
covered booths, Mexican juke box music and Mexican curios almost overwhelm you at the door.
The dinners are great and like nothing you can get in Texas. The best things on the menu are the botanas and burritos. They both are made with soft tortillas, beans or meat inside and yellow cheese on the outside. You should not people who regularly order them at the El Matador. My favorite is "The Mouse Special." I don't know who the Mouse is, but he surely knows how to eat. The El Matador is open 5 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Monday, 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Through Saturday and 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Prices range from $2 to $3 a plate.
ANOTHER ETHNIC FOOD that is popular in many areas of the country is Chinese food. The Royal Pecking Restaurant offers a variety of Chinese food you'll find in this area. Its egg foo yong and beef with snow peas are superb. Your cup will never be empty of these soups. The finest restaurants in Kansas City. The decor isn't one of the outstanding features of
this restaurant, but when you're getting high quality Chinese dishes, it really doesn't matter.
Italian food is another popular food. One of the best Italian restaurants in Lawrence is the Campus Hideaway, 108 W. North Park St. It serves well-seasoned leafless, a large variety of pizza and excellent fried mushrooms. The atmosphere is conducive to leisurely dining, especially in the winter when a fire is crackling in the fireplace. The service is almost always good and the Hideaway delivers pizza anywhere in Lawrence after 4:30 p.m. This is a place where you can enjoy a long time and friendly clasmates and it is usually comfortably crowded. It's open 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Prices range from $1.50 to $4.10.
ANOTHER GOOD ITALIAN is restaurant in the New Yorker, 1021 Massachusetts St. This place serves New York-style pizza, which has a thick crust, and wonderful toppings. They're terrific. They're made with meats and cheese wrapped in fresh bread. If you're
watching, your weight, you can get an inexpensive and delicious chef salad.
The New Yorker is open from 1 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday. Prices range from $1.50 to $4.75.
Lawrence's best delicatessen is probably the Massachusetts Street Delicatessen, 941 Massachusetts St. It has a wide selection of meats, cheeses and breads, which you can purchase at any time to taste. The chef salad is good and the cheese-and-fruit plate is refreshingly light. The Deli is open from 11 a.m. until midnight Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. until it a. Friday and 4 p.m. on Sunday. The highest priced item is $1.75.
IF WHAT YOU ENJOY most is a good steak or just good plain food then I can give you only hearsay information. My friends can tell you what kind of foods, aside from the private dinner clubs, are the Eldridge House, 7th and Massachusetts streets; the Castle Tea Room, 1370 Massachusetts St., Don's Steak Restaurant, E, 23rd St.; and the Sirion, 1380 N. 3rd St.
$11.75 million county bond issue will build strong bridges 51 ways
By PENNY CHILTON Kansan Staff Reporter
Old Kaw River Bridge will be coming down—but not for a while yet.
One half of an $11.75 million bond issue passed by Douglas County voters last November will finance construction of two spans to replace the bridge, but this 38-year-old landmark will probably see its sixteenth birthday.
THE OTHER HALF of the bond issue will insure that the bond or replacement on 50 other bridge bridges.
The bridge, on Massachusetts St., will continue to be used until the first span, from Vermont St. to North 2nd St., is completed. Completion is not expected until the summer of 1977, Dean Sanderson, county engineer, has said.
Once that span is completed, the old bridge will come down and construction on a new Massachusetts St. bridge will begin. The project was completed late 1979, Sanderson said.
"This is barring striken, unusually bad weather, shortages and high tides on the coast."
JOHN FRAZIER, CONSULTING engineer with Firem and Turnipseed, the Topoka firm handing the design of the two new bridges, said the two-lane, 20-foot-wide Vermont St. span would eventually carry southbound traffic.
A bicycle path will be on the west side of the Vermont St. span and a pedestrian walkway on the east side of the new Massachusetts St. span. Water and gas lines, cablevision and telephone lines will be carried on the Vermont St. span.
Sanderson said no decision had been made on the design for traffic routes to and from the finished bridges. Several options are being considered, he said.
In addition to the $5,875 million for
the construction of the bridges, the city
must pay approximately $400,000 for
approach grading.
An inspection in February of the present structure revealed crumbling concrete and rusty beams. An eight-ton weight limit was set for traffic on the bridge.
TRUCKS AND BUSES have been forced to take different routes. Sanderson said county trucks were using the Kansas turnpike from the east toll gate to the west toll gate. County trucks were using that route or crossing at the Eudora and Lecompton bridges.
Steve Glass of Lawrence Asphalt Co. said 90 per cent of their trucks must use the turnipkite. He said the cost was substantial.
The efforts to build a new bridge over the Kaw River have encountered obstacles.
The replacement campaign began in 1966 when the Douglas County Commission began discussing a bond issue to replace the Lecompton bridge. The Lecompton issue passed in 1967, but the Lawrence bond election wasn't held.
Attempts were made annually to revive
the issue but debate on financing the project kept it from reaching the voters until 1974.
AFTER THE VOTERS' approval, the U. S. Coast Guard had to approve the design for a building permit because the Kansas State Board was unable stream for administrative purposes.
Upon submitting the design, local officials discovered that the Vermont St. span would cut into Robinson Park. Any bridge project required a minimum impact as well as to its impact on the environment.
COAST GUARD OFFICIALS in St. Louis reported no objections were received by the July 1 deadline, and they will file a report Washington, D.C., recommending whether
After a delegation of local officials lobbied in Washington, D.C., for exemption from this study, the Coast Guard office in Seattle requested that the Coast Guard about the project and ask for objections.
a permit for the bridges should be granted.
City officials expect approval of the project.
In addition to these four, Sanderson said, he hoped to begin work this year on four others in that area and a group of five in the adjacent near-Lone Star Lake and on Louisiana St.
Sanderson said his office was about ready advertiset for bids on four bridges in the city.
"All bridge construction over $25,000 must be approved by the state highway department," he said. "That's what we're waiting on now."
THE BOND ISSUE will result in a levy of about 5.5 mills per year for about 20 years, the League of Women Voters said at the time of the bond election.
The existing Massachusetts St. bridge was built in 1917 for $200,000. Some of the county bridges being replaced were built in 1894.
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