Full as a Bull- Sirloin Stockade
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 Gecko Guy |
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capnbobbyinyelapa |
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Posts: 1034 (05/16/08 7:34 AM) |
Interesting article, Harold. I think I ate the kind of foods they recommend last night--I just don't remember.
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friscodana |
Truly full as a bull also | ||
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Posts: 93 (06/22/08 2:49 PM) |
We tried Sirloin Stockade last night. It was not a disappointment. In fact, it felt like home cooking food. For $9.99 U.S., there is a fantastic salad bar,
soup area, breads, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, carving area, and some of the best desserts I have seen in Puerto Vallarta or anywhere. We loved the homemade
bread pudding, lemon bars, pecan pie and tres leches cake. The Oriental food was delicious and the beef was very tender in it. The salad bar was well
stocked. Had some good Mexican food also. It was totally packed with people - mostly nationals and a few visitors. Even had a line to wait to get in. We
loved it and would easily recommend it to anyone looking for a good value and good food. Will be back in a hearbeat.
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lovinlivininpv |
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Posts: 296 (06/22/08 3:00 PM) |
friscodana wrote:Note: Pilar...local Mexicans seem to be voting with their pocketbooks. These types of places are opening here because Mexicans are pushing for them. Outback Steakhouse, which I personally consider a major rip-off, is nevertheless constantly jammed with nationals. There is almost always a wait for a table. Why do I find myself there occasionally? Becuase my Mexican dining companions insist on it! At least Sirloin Stokade( I believe this is the correct spelling, but could be wrong) gives excellent value for the money. They are always packed in Guadalajara, as well. |
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Posts: 197 (06/22/08 4:55 PM) |
if any locals have noticed that the fathers day breakfast at your local diggs was empty there is a good reason !
2944 people where at the sirloin stockade i love to chow down on the salad bar salad so fresh you have to slap it!!! 
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char1937 |
Sirloin Stockade, McDonald's, Burger King, etc. | ||
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Posts: 30 (06/28/08 2:32 PM) |
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As a person who has been visiting PV since 1978 and have owned property there now for 4 years, that doesn't give me all the "ins and outs" and knowledge (I use that word hesitantly) that all of you regular posters have, but I read this website (and another one) almost daily to find out what's going on in my beloved PV when I'm not there. Take 15 minutes and read all of this post. Do you realize how petty, argumentative and stupid you all sound. I do hope that people wanting to visit and/or live in PV won't believe that all ex-pats sound and act like you do. It is petty drivel, jealousies are obvious and mean spirited. The friends that I have in PV wouldn't spend 10 minutes reading this. Paradise doesn't last long in your eyes. Enjoy PV for what it is, has been and will be. Why not spend your time fighting the atrocity that Molino de Agua has become and other issues that really undermine the beauty and charm of the city........or stop in the cathedral for 5 minutes of quiet and some thanks. Give the old lady sitting on the steps there a US quarter and see her smile, it will brighten your day. I have an idea I'd recognize many of you in the local spots, if I do, I'll stay quiet and leave as soon as I can. I can identify you by your pettiness, anger, etc. PS I haven't been to Bruce's new place and I wouldn't recognize him at a table for 4, but he seems to have a general respect and love for PV, I wish him well. He's a gem. |
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Posts: 15 (06/28/08 4:18 PM) |
you've called it correctly char....maybe this thread should be renamed full OF bull....
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Mikikis |
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Posts: 741 (06/28/08 5:12 PM) |
An "American" type food venue in the Liverpool shopping center is somehow adding to the "Americanization" of PV? First question: The other
5-6 U.S. based chain restaurants right next to the Sirloin Stockade do what exactly for the PV image? Why would you focus in on one in particular? And why
would you think that something within that structure and mall concept was that particularly important? An issue with the entire mall...ok.....an issue with
this one restaurant inside the mall...are you kidding?
Second: This reminds me very much of the patronizing white people who truly believed that the Native Americans had no right whatsoever to change from the Pow-Wow image to anything else. Who are these folks (or who do you they think that they are), that they should be the chosen ones to govern and critique how things should advance in this city. I'm not saying that they don't have valid points...but neiter of these people EVEN LIVE HERE (2 of them at least). It is part of that "I want everything to STOP changing from the moment that I arrive forever and ever" syndrome. Maybe we should have some Pablo and Maria synthetic Mexican joint in place of Sirloin Stockade with those Jalisco dresses and noches 'Mexicanas' for the tourists to get a taste of perfectly generic and manufactured culture? If you wish to argue about gentrification or architectural image issues within the city...I am on board with you. If you wish to talk about what happens when greed trumps foresight and development, I'm right there. But to imagine that for some reason there should be a prohibition of United States based food chains because you in particular do not agree with it strikes me as arrogant and of a specific enhanced sense of self to include 'he who should be chosen to decide for the entire tribe.' Sorry if this seems harsh, but it just seems so very out of line to pretend to be the person who should choose for a city of a 1/3 million people....the people choose what goes here....and yes, apathy is rampant here, but when something is truly out of line people do speak up, even if they aren't always heard. But I don't remember seeing any protests about this stuff.... Maybe we should also ban blue jeans and Nike shoes (for a reason other than slave labour) and baseball caps and name brand clothes and the English language...where exactly does the line get drawn?
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06/28/08 5:21 PM.
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anchoa |
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Posts: 3642 (06/28/08 7:53 PM) |
Thongs.
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Posts: 4162 (06/28/08 9:27 PM) |
<<Give the old lady sitting on the steps there a US quarter and see her smile, it will brighten your day.>>
It sure won't make her smile to receive something as useless to her as a US coin. If you want to give her something, it should be pesos! I'm sure you think this too is petty and argumentative, but often newconers to the area don't realize foreign coins cannot be used or exchanged here. |
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Posts: 742 (06/28/08 11:45 PM) |
I've got to give it to you...you are probably the only poster here that can make me laugh out loud all to myself on this board.
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lovinlivininpv |
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Posts: 301 (06/29/08 8:25 AM) |
"Give the old lady sitting on the steps there a US quarter and see her smile, it will brighten your day."
This is so typical of the clueless "Ameri-centric" thinking that those of us who live here encounter on an almost daily basis. |
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Posts: 620 (06/29/08 9:40 AM) |
"Ignorance is Bliss"
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." --Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
The Insider's Guide to Vallarta |
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Posts: 240 (06/29/08 9:41 AM) |
I once tried to give the taxi driver a loonie because I was out of pesos. He refused it saying he would rather have no tip. Now I always have a safety stock of
$1 greenbacks.
If I was a taxi driver, I would take the loonie and ask the next Canuck to swap it for a greenback. But I would never insult one of the beggars with a quarter. A 10p coin is so much more appropriate. We need to focus on these little things because that is how we are judged. OTOH I can hardly wait to try the Sirloin Stockade. a recommendation by Brenda I all I need. I like probably tie it in to an upcoming trip to Walmart. (BTW I even go to a French bistro restaurant in Vancouver. Somehow I am not concerned about us losing our local culture.) (Edit to satisfy the quibblers. Golly what an attitude.)
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Gecko Guy |
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Posts: 2415 (06/29/08 2:18 PM) |
<<A 10p note >>
And where will I find that? 
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lovinlivininpv |
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Posts: 303 (06/29/08 3:25 PM) |
"A 10p note is so much more appropriate." Of course, there is no such thing. More of the "clueless" referred to above. In this case
Canadian.
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char1937 |
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Posts: 32 (06/29/08 3:28 PM) |
OK, I blew it when I said a "US quarter"; I seldom have any US currency in my pockets when I'm in PV, what I actually meant is "GIVE HER
SOMETHING, i.e., pesos" to brighten her day. I once gave her a newly purchased cold bottle of water and she patted the step next to her indicating for
me to join her. She was just looking for company and altho I was pretty clueless to some of her rapid Espanol, it was about her familia y nietos who bring her
there when they go off to work. I felt like I'd spent 15 minutes with an "angel".
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seapoetpv |
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Posts: 68 (06/29/08 9:36 PM) |
This is beginning to get "off topic" but I once had a business here where both US citizens and Candians would put their coins in the tip jar for my
hard-working staff. It was such a joke. It was useless to them. Banks won't take foreign coin here. I exchanged it for them and tucked it away for my next
trip to the US and/or Canada. Pennies. Lots of pennies. Sad.
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Mikikis |
went tonight | ||
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Posts: 746 (06/29/08 9:39 PM) |
Excellent value for the money....nice selections...will be back. Place was fairly full...easily well over 90% Mexican nationals eating there.
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friscodana |
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Posts: 95 (06/30/08 12:54 AM) |
Mikikis, You make an excellent point. Very well stated. Glad that you enjoyed S. S. We will also be back. It is certainly evident that the local population
loves it and is glad that it has come to P.V.
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