Thanks for sharing, the restaurants look amazing. As I said before we lived in Amarillo years ago and took my nephew to the steak house and it was a lot of fun. Great idea to sharing all your favorites. Thanks again.
I was waiting to see if you included the Rt. 66 Diner. My favorite restaurant. My favorite is meatloaf with fried okra and mashed potatoes. It is also about the only place I can get chocolate Malts and rhubarb pie!
I love malts! They’re becoming increasingly difficult to find these days! I also am a huge fan of meatloaf!!!! Looks like we’ll have to stop again on our way back through! Thank you for watching!
Maid-Rite is a franchised name. There were originally four franchises which opened several to many locations in the Midwest over the years. In the last 20 years or so there have been court battles. Everyone can search the history. The location I am most familiar with is Taylor’s Maid-Rite in Marshalltown Iowa which I have been eating at for almost sixty years. Their website says they have been in business for over 95 years. The reason other restaurants use the word loose sandwich for the same thing because the name Maid-Rite is copyrighted. Nu-Way burgers in Wichita Kansas copied them and opened in 1930. At one time they had four locations in Wichita but two have closed in recent years. The loose meat style sandwiches are often called Taverns. When I was growing up in Iowa churches ,other nonprofits and even schools would often say they were serving Maid-Rites at their functions. I never heard of any of them being sued.
Wow!!!! Thanks for all the information!!!! We really enjoyed them but we had no idea that it had such a history!!!! Thank you so much for watching!!!!!
@@drewschumann1 I think it was mustard only on the counter If I remember correctly. All businesses have to give the customers what they want to stay in business. Just a fact of business life. I don’t know if the mustard or nothing was a company policy or just Taylor’s. I never really liked mustard until adulthood, so I think I ate them plain in those days. Do you remember Henry’s 15 cent hamburgers in Marshalltown? I think the old building was all boarded up the last time I was there a couple of years ago. How about Stones Restaurant? That’s at the other end of the dining spectrum. They’ve been closed now for several years. Sad.
Great video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm going to try to stop at all the restaurants you recommended. We start 66 in Chicago next week. Can't wait to try some pie at Mid-Point Cafe.
We have been to the Big Texan Steakhouse and we loved that. Would love to go back someday soon. We got to see one guy try the challenge and that was cool. We are going to Arizona next month and looking forward to trying some of the restaurants along Route 66. Thanks for sharing!!
Some great places for sure on your list, but, and this is a BIG BUT. The Best restaurant on Route 66 is Westside Lilo's. Westside Lilo's is simply amazing. Especially, for breakfast, but really anytime. Excellent! I loved the video, and it gave me a few other places to try on my Travels! Thanks so much!
There are so many good places to eat on Route 66! I think it’s worth driving again just to try more places to eat! Thank you so much for coming along and safe travels!
My wife and I have done the Route 66 trip about 10 years ago. We are scheduled to do it again in mid-July of this year. I dont believe we ate at any of these except Midpoint and the Rt66 Diner in Albuquerque and of course the Snopcap in Sliegman. . . I will add these to the list.
Those Maid Rite sandwiches remind me of ones we had at a place in western Iowa. They called them "loose meat" sandwiches, which was a really unfortunate name, but they were oh so good. And home made root beer? 'Nuff said! I'll go ahead and rank Midpoint Cafe right up there, because of their "Ugly Pies" and today is after all, National Pie Day. Safe travels, Sandy and Jed! -Burt in NJ
Happy National Pie Day!!!!! I have seen them in our travels but it never sounded good enough for us to stop and try one… I am so glad we did! The root beer was the icing on the loose meat sandwich for me! Thank you for watching as always Burt!!!!
Good job, but it's pronounced "Root-sixty six", not ROUTE. Made Rights originated in Iowa and are awesome my mother made the best. "Loose meat sandwiches" are the same thing.Reminds next time I am back in US I am hitting 66 for the 5th time.
Nice! Sorry for the pronunciation! Should have heeded the song! Made Rights are amazing… I love ant to try more! Thank you for watching! Safe travels on your 5th!!!!!
@@WanderfulRevolution my wife and i recently purchased a 28 acre ranch in fort worth texas with exotic animals 3 zebras would love for yall to do a video there one day?
Bugs me how they keep pronouncing it “ROWT” 66. Did they ever hear the song? I mean, I get it, but nobody says “ROWT”, the call it “ROOT”. Are they doing it on purpose? Annoying to me. Sorry!
