{"id":6184,"date":"2016-05-04T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2016-09-08T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:30:08","slug":"lunch-at-the-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/lunch-at-the-irma\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at The Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ladies at the Cody visitors’ centre told me that I really should “do lunch at The Irma,” the restaurant attached to Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel<\/a>. I checked the menu online and found prices very reasonable, so I decided to do that today. I had to stop at an optometrist’s first to have a screw replaced in my sunglasses (free service), so by the time I got to The Irma, it was almost 2:00.<\/p>\n

I started by ordering a beer since I haven’t had one since Moab. The Irma offered a number of beers brewed at the nearby (60 miles away) Red Lodge Brewery in Montana<\/a>. I went for the very “grapefruity” Bent Nail IPA, which was delicious!<\/p>\n

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The restaurant was updated in the ’70s to meet health codes, but would have fit in 100 years ago.<\/p>\n

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The ceiling is an exact reproduction of the original:<\/p>\n

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I had a fantastic patty melt with “Irma fries,” which are cubed and saut\u00e9d red potatoes with seasoning. Much better than frozen fries! At $9.99, this meal was priced right around what I’ve paid for a patty melt in many locations, but the potatoes really elevated the dish. Excellent food at a fair price. Rather unexpected for such a touristy location.<\/p>\n

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I went upstairs to check out the hotel:<\/p>\n

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This is the original bar, which was a gift from Queen Victoria:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a random shot of the pest who has insisted on cuddling with me all week:<\/p>\n

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The ladies at the Cody visitors’ centre told me that I really should “do lunch at The Irma,” the restaurant attached to Buffalo Bill’s Irma Hotel. I checked the menu online and found prices very reasonable, so I decided to do that today. I had to stop at an optometrist’s first to have a screw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[906,14,635,11,3,16,27],"tags":[790,794],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cody","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-personal","category-travel","category-usa","category-wyoming","tag-breweriesdistilleries","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}