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Frommer's Highly Recommended

With its big booths, huge steer horns over the bar, and cowboy gear adorning the walls, this restaurant looks like a glorified cowboy steakhouse -- but this is big flavor country, and the menu isn't the sort any real cowboy would likely have anything to do with. Start out with fried cactus strips with black-bean gravy or perhaps a rattlesnake brochette. For an entree, be sure to try the buffalo sirloin, which is served with some flavorful sauce of the moment. At lunch, try the buffalo burger. Service is relaxed and friendly. The adjacent Silver Saddle Room is a more upscale spin on the same concept, with similar menu prices. It was in this building in 1965 that the Cowboy Artists of America organization was formed. The kids should get a kick out of the cowboy decor and, who knows, you may even get them to taste your rattlesnake or cactus appetizer.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Arizona 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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