Boneyard Grill - Guthrie

[boscorama]

Boneyard Grill has moved from the old filling station on Division Street to the Granny Had One building on Harrison Street in downtown Guthrie. This is an excellent development, as the new location simply beats the living daylights out of the old one. Boneyard has been around a few years and has established itself with quality food and good service. The new location has been home to a string of less than stellar restaurants recently. Finally, a good restaurant. Yay!

[corwin1968]

My wife eats there on a regular basis and she felt the move was a negative. I think she said the location is harder to access in the new location and parking is a problem.

[boscorama]

True, unless you get a parking space at the door, yer gonna have to walk further, maybe down the block, across the street, around the corner, or in a nearby (free) parking lot. Parking will be a greater challenge during events like 89ers and Pollard shows, but what else is new?

Unless you're disabled, it's kinda nice to actually walk sometimes, like people do in other "happening" cities.

[metro]

Boneyard Grill has moved from the old filling station on Division Street to the Granny Had One building on Harrison Street in downtown Guthrie. This is an excellent development, as the new location simply beats the living daylights out of the old one. Boneyard has been around a few years and has established itself with quality food and good service. The new location has been home to a string of less than stellar restaurants recently. Finally, a good restaurant. Yay!

What's the evidence at the new location is better?

[boscorama]

The first place was an old gas station which was later a liquor store and a couple other restaurants. Just one square room devoid of architectural detail. The new location has much more seating and space, two main rooms and a party or banquet room. The food, in my experience, hasn't changed.

[corwin1968]

My wife definately doesn't like to walk too much but besides that, one of her lunch group is disabled and they are all on a tight lunch schedule so I can see why she prefers the older location. The interior does sound like an improvement for sure. I'll probably never eat there since my wife brings me her left-overs. We live in OKC and I only drive to Guthrie to eat at Romas.

[RadicalModerate]

I think the old location was once a charming, old-timey, Video (VHS) Rental place.
(with ample parking . . . in an historic building)
"Granny's" (actually "Granny Had One"--much like The Sand Plum--used to be GREAT!!!
(and there is no reason that it can't be great again =)
The restaurant business is always challenging.
I hope the food (BBQ) doesn't suffer from the relocation.

Did anyone ever figure out how to work The Abandoned/Haunted/Historic Railroad Depot into any long-term "development" plans? I can think of one person who might make the drive from KC in order to be able to complain not only about the sub-standard BBQ in Oklahoma (as compared to Kansas City) but also the lack of authentic, non-recorded, Ghost Train Whistles.

[boscorama]

I don't know much about the railroad deal except that there was an acclaimed restaurant at the depot, The R&R, for about five years until just recently. The food was good and the trains were RIGHT THERE. I dined there just a couple of times and know nothing more of its demise.