Chuckwagon??

I have been a season pass holder for about 5 years, have not made it there yet. But we always liked to eat at the Chuckwagon, by the looks of some of the pictures they are not selling the same food they used too. Looks like just pizza, is this true?? Real bummer if it is.

Thanks

You have had a season pass for 5 years, and have not made it to the park yet?

this year sorry

Yea, it's pizza this year. No chicken or salad bar like in the past.

Thanks for the info

Actually, they do have a salad bar. My parents ate there last week and said that the salads were very good, but the pizza looked kinda gross.

They still have the make-your-own salad, but the rest of their menu is gone, replaced by pizza. This was the most disappointing discovery I made opening weekend, as Chuck Wagon used to be my favorite place to eat...

The explanation seems simple. The Frontier Inn used to be a pizza place, replaced by Chick-Fil-A, a chicken place. So, replace Chuck Wagon's menu, which included baked chicken, with pizza...

This was always a great bargain lunch for my son and I. I would get the salad, and let him order whatever he wanted, usually the BBQ pork sandwich. Then I'd eat all his leftovers, and we'd both walk away full for under 13 bucks...

Wow, this is pretty depressing. I really liked the beef stew.

Hmph. Oh well.

The chicken fried steak with the gravy was my favorate.
*** Edited 5/30/2007 1:30:11 AM UTC by crazy horse***

^^ Second that. The beef stew was my favorite. Chuck Wagon really had a unique menu, for amusement park food. It will be missed...

Oh no! This is sad news...my family were always the "lunch-packers", but when we did dine in at CP, it was always the chuckwagon!

Please tell me they still have the metal plates you eat on...

Please?

I was disappointed to see Chuckwagon's menu go away. I really like the Chicken Fried Steak, Stew and Baked Beans. It would have been nice if they kept much of the old menu and just added the pizza.

No metal plates. Black plastic, disposable plates.

Oh that's a load of crap. They've basically taken everything good about the Chuck Wagon and thrown it away.

How disapointing.

Oh Man! That was a baaaaad decision, IMHO. Not only was the food pretty good, it was fairly priced, for CP. Plus, it was kind of "authentic" for the theming of the area. We ate at the Chuck Wagon many times when in the park. It was a way to get a decent sit-down meal, in the "atmosphere" of the area, without all the bells, whistles, lights and other loud crap you sometimes encounter in other "inside" restaurants at CP. And I always loved the metal plates. I am not the most "green" person in the world, I will admit, but I hate the idea of using plastic for everything, most of all, food service utensils and supplies.

These many food issues discussed here & elsewhere beg the question: Was there a cranial-anal inversion in Food Services sometime last winter?

Hmm. This is sad news...mainly because it's tied to childhood memories of the point, but also because it was one of the few places that actually felt "old west" in Frontiertown.

So let me get this straight...

On the FRONTIER TRAIL, CP added a chinese place, a christ-fil-a, and got rid of the western menu from Chuckwagon?? And the metal plates???

Well, at least they added a shooting gallery.

Yeah, but is it a "real" shooting gallery, like they used to have, or one of those silly "beam-of-light" things? I miss the pellet guns!

It's all infrared sighting, just like the Scooby Doo interactive ride at Kings Island. Oh, and you only get about 20 seconds to play for a dollar. It actually was pretty cool, just too short for the money spent.

From my June 4, 2006 trip report:

"After the show, we went next door to the Chuck Wagon. The food was okay, although Catherine's chicken fried steak was cold and the server literally ripped apart half a chicken by hand to give me my quarter white, but took half the white breast with it, which was a little irritating. I wasn't overly impressed with the meal, and at $11 with the drink, I think we'd have been better off at Midway Market."

AND it was served on black plastic plates...so they must have dumped the metal plates last year.

The metal plates may have been gone longer than that; I don't remember seeing them for some time.

We went there from time to time in the last two seasons, but only because I advocated for it; no one else in my family liked the food very much. And, the place was nearly always empty. The change is not much of a surprise.

The good news is that the decor seems unchanged.