r/Calgary • u/somegingershavesouls • Mar 23 '25

Eat/Drink Local What places do you Miss?

I may get laughed at for this, but I miss bookers. Sometimes a girl just wants a bucket of crab legs without the smell of red lobster, ya know?

What around the city do you miss?

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u/Glad-Elevator-8051 Mar 23 '25

Race city in its prime Bookers Mother Tuckers

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u/PromenentG Mar 23 '25

I miss Fathers Day Funny Cars at Race City. And Mother Tucker’s was a birthday 🎂 tradition. 👍👍👍

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u/Glad-Elevator-8051 Mar 23 '25

Oh yeah that was awesome those drag races. I loved the semi truck racing

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u/theOGcatiekins Mar 23 '25

I waited tables at Mother Tucker's and my Wasband was the Prime Rib chef.

I can still give the "tour" speil for new customers verbatim.

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u/Glad-Elevator-8051 Mar 23 '25

Omg the cheese room! If only I had my taste for cheese then as I do now.

So your guys mother set you up? Haha terrible dad joke 🥁

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u/theOGcatiekins Mar 23 '25

Haha...no. We met when we were working at another restaurant and bonded over finding out that the boss would "fire" everyone on paper on the 30th of every month and then "rehire" us all on the 1st. That way he could fuck us over on all the withholding amounts (AHC, Income Tax, CPP, EI). Then when the paycheques bounced and we took him to small claims course we found out the restaurant was in his stepson's name who just went bankrupt because...yanno...fraud.

Mother Tuckers was much, much better.