{"id":12342,"date":"2015-01-31T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12342"},"modified":"2015-01-31T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:37:13","slug":"rib-chop-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12342","title":{"rendered":"Rib &#038; Chop House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16150046308\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7478\/16150046308_3d294113a7_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup. You guessed it. More pictures of food are coming your way. This happens when I get behind on blogging. Sorry, guys. We are almost caught up, though.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite aspects of traveling is trying restaurants that I wouldn&#8217;t find in Wichita and trying dishes that I wouldn&#8217;t normally get back home. Our friends in Saint George took us to Rib &#038; Chop House, a restaurant conveniently located next to our hotel. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16151764097\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7538\/16151764097_1d80c7731a.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had the stuffed red snapper with a side of asparagus (above). The filet was stuffed with crab meat. It was almost over the top. The dish was delicious but it was so rich that I couldn&#8217;t finish it all. It&#8217;s a shame too because I want to eat it again just thinking about it. I wish I could have found it in me to eat every single morsel.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16151450319\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7568\/16151450319_8e1ec7a459.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The surf and turf was popular with several people in our group. You could get with either lobster or crab legs. As soon as I saw the surf and turf plates arrive at the table, I regretted ordering the red snapper. The surf and turf plates looked amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15717706743\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7522\/15717706743_4fb2b4279e.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t order it because I didn&#8217;t want to fight crab legs which tend to be difficult to eat, but Rib &#038; Chop House has pre-split the crab legs. They&#8217;re already cracked open so you don&#8217;t have to do any work. You just dig the meat out of the shell with your fork and chow down. It required little to no effort at all. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15715729794\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7523\/15715729794_43f04b7a89.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant also served mutant baked potatoes as a side option. That&#8217;s not what they&#8217;re called on the menu but that&#8217;s what they looked like to me because these potatoes were ginormous. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15715734794\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7472\/15715734794_6082a34c09.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of ginormous, check out this ice cream sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16336003331\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7491\/16336003331_1a69158170.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like any ice cream sandwich I&#8217;d ever seen. It was huge!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16337631395\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7552\/16337631395_3e9a2124e6_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-top:5px;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/312\/1798996\/restaurant\/Utah\/Rib-Chop-House-St-George\" ><img alt=\"Rib &amp; Chop House on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1798996\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I had to get a picture of Josh&#8217;s beer. That&#8217;s something else not readily available in Wichita. LOL. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a beer drinker so I didn&#8217;t get to try it but now I wish I had. I mean, when will I ever return to Utah? Sometimes the things we regret most are the things we didn&#8217;t get to do.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. Maybe work will let me go again next year. If so, I&#8217;m definitely having a Polygamy Porter. Bitter beer face and all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. You guessed it. More pictures of food are coming your way. This happens when I get behind on blogging. Sorry, guys. We are almost caught up, though. One of my favorite aspects of traveling is trying restaurants that I wouldn&#8217;t find in Wichita and trying dishes that I wouldn&#8217;t normally get back home. 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