Cruising down Council not too long ago, I spotted a restaurant called the Big Buffalo Grill, 8027 NW 23rd in Bethany, buried in the back of a junkie-fried shopping center. Intrigued, I made a mental note and then, realizing I’d forget the mental note almost immediately, grabbed a pen and wrote the name on my arm.
Having thought about that hidden diner quite a bit since that drive-by, I eventually called up my own personal Lester Bangs—local journalist and area historian Steve Lackmeyer—and invited him to head out there with me one afternoon for a couple of hours of dinin’ and cryin’.