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Saturday, October 20, 2018

New Sammy's Cowboy Bistro

New Sammy's Cowboy Bistro, Talent, Oregon
Friends of ours recently returned from a trip to Ashland (famed for their Shakespeare Festival). While there, they had dinner at New Sammy's Cowboy Bistro. The place has been operating in Talent for a number of years. In a previous life, the owners had run The Boonville Hotel in California which was famous for it's food and notable for its collapse.
     In retrospect it’s easy to see the restaurant’s failure as the natural outcome of various forces – a sort of epicurean perfect storm. Begin with some inexperienced investors with a worshipful attitude toward the nascent California Cuisine movement and its practitioners – “food gods and goddesses,” as the star-struck investor Stanford calls them. Introduce them to a cultured and charming bon vivant with dreams of a French-style country inn in California. Add a hostile local populace and season with a profound lack of business acumen – or even common sense – and voila! A recipe for disaster. - Sean Elder

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