2101 11 Street SE
Calgary Alberta

Fodor’s 1989 Guide to Canada

Inexpensive. If you like cowboys and stockyards, try this. 33 rooms, very clean and comfortable. 13 rooms have wash-basin only. The attractions are price, cowboy fun, and games in the beer parlor.

1108 4th Street SW
Calgary Alberta

Ulysses Western Canada 1998

The Mongolie Grill ($$; 1108 4th St. SW, ☎️ 262-7773) is truly a culinary experience. Diners choose meats and vegetables from a fresh food bar, the combination is then weighed (to determine the cost) and grilled right before your eyes. Roll it all up in a Mongolian wrap with some rice and hoisin sauce and there you go!

337 17 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta

Fodor’s Canada 1984

Expensive. Reservations. Live entertainment and dancing.

235 10 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta

Fodor’s 1980 Guide to Canada

Deluxe. A steak house amid a central mast, rigging, bellaying pins and other paraphernalia of an authentic pirate ship.

320 17 Avenue SW
Calgary Alberta

Where to Eat in Canada 1984/85

The editors of this guide have always been skeptical of the more formal, and expensive, sort of restaurant in Calgary. There was the Owl’s Nest in the Calgary Inn and after its demise came La Chaumière. But La Chaumière has now become, in it’s old age, little more than a safe place for the rich. L’Orangerie has different virtues and different vices. One can admire nouvelle cuisine and still have reservations about fillet mignon with goose liver, grapes and walnuts and terrine of sweetbreads with kiwi. The marinated raw salmon, on the other hand, is delicately bathed in white wine and lemon juice, and the veal skillfully flavoured with pernod and cream. The vegetables are usually underdone, the fish often overdone, but the appointments have everything, except fresh flowers, that one could desire.

Open Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 6 pm to 10:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, 6 pm to 11 pm, Sunday 11 am to 2:30 pm (brunch). Licensed. Amex, Master Card, Visa.

4714 1 Street SW
Calgary Alberta

Where to Eat in Canada 1984/85

Last year the Home Food Inn moved to a new location and the move brought with it an expanded menu, a liquor license, higher prices – and all the problems that go with those amenities. The owners have had extensive experience in China, France and the United States, and they work with genuine enthusiasm. But when the sous-chef is in charge of the kitchen the cooking is less reliable. Higher costs are reflected in smaller portions, tinned vegetables, pre-shelled shimps. But the fish Peking-style is still delightful and so are most of the spicy dishes. Several of the items they’ve added to the menu this year (sliced duck with mushrooms, fried lamb with scallon) are memorable and the noodle dishes are all good buys. The service is desultory, but you can linger profitably over a dish of spun apples and bananas coated with sweet syrup and seasame seeds. This year, however, they’ve started refusing reservations for fewer than five. Twos and fours have to take their chances.

Open Monday 11 am to 2 pm, Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 2 pm, 5 pm to 11 pm, Saturday and Sunday 5 pm to 11 pm. Licensed. Amex, Visa.

1116 1 Street SW
Calgary Alberta

Fodors 1980 Guide to Canada

Expensive. Mexican food and wonderful entertainment with a south-of-the border atmosphere.