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#1502 - Shorty's Country Western Saloon, Boise, ID - 7/4/2011

5467 North Glenwood Street, Boise, ID 83714-1335 - (208) 672-9090

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#1501 - Pengilly's Saloon, Boise, ID - 7/3/2011

A classic old saloon that accentuates the historical with the pictures on the wall and the 113-year-old Brunswick bar.

513 Main Street, Boise, ID 83702 - (208) 345-6344

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#1500 - Bittercreek Alehouse, Boise, ID - 7/3/2011

A fairly typical modern brewpub/gastropub, with an emphasis on local ingredients and beers.

246 North 8th St, Boise, ID 83702-5816 - (208) 345-1813
Est. Feb 1996
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#1499 - Barbacoa Grill, Boise, ID - 7/3/2011

Barbacoa is a fun, wildly theatrical restaurant and bar serving wildly theatrical, high end, Latin American food.

The food tastes quite good. The cocktails are unsophisticated and overly sweet, but you can opt for something from the extensive wine collection. Watching the servers walk past with various plates is a bit like watching a circus -- each dish formed into wild swirls and elevated onto vertical skewers.

The weekday we attended, the upper floor was not open, which friends informed me was a pity, though there is plenty of sensory overload on the main floor alone. There is also a nice veranda, which looks out onto a small lake in the adjacent Parkcenter Park.