a question to Springfield blogger land

Aug 30th was my youngest sons 18th birthday so to celebrate we decided to give some of our business to the downtown area. I had been to Hickok's Steakhouse & Brewery during the Neil Boortz/KSGF event and Jesse wanted to eat someplace different. We have been to all of the franchise type steakhouses and our favorite was closed down last year, Smokey Bones, for some unknown reason even though they were part of the Red Lobster, Olive Garden family chain.

Jesse didn't want a really fancy place or we would have driven down to Wal-Mart corporate headquater territory to eat at Ruth's Criss Steakhouse, the absolute best tasting steak I've ever had in any restaurant.

We arrived at Hickok's to find a sign on the door that it was closed until further notice, anyone know why ??