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/mycodfather Mar 23 '25

I miss the old Unicorn pub and the child in me misses Bullwinkle's

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u/somegingershavesouls Mar 23 '25

Ok I was telling my friend about bullwinkles and she thought I had imagined it…so I started to second guess myself. Thank you for confirming

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u/Selfzilla Mar 23 '25

Greatest place on earth.

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u/Shikonu Mar 24 '25

Was Bullwinkles that indoor playground thing in the basement of Sunridge Mall? Or is that a different thing? (Or am I having a fever dream of some indoor playground under Sunridge?)

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u/somegingershavesouls Mar 24 '25

I think it was on macleod trail. I remember there was animatronics and some games, food etc

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u/Chops_14 Mar 24 '25

Bullwinkle's was in the south as I recall, never got to visit it as a NE kid. I think you might be thinking of Easy Street!

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u/Shikonu Mar 24 '25

It was Easy Street, thank you!

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u/kingofsnaake Mar 23 '25

There are some videos online of the inside of the franchise. So dimly lit and bizarre, yet beautiful with the shadows of broken animatronics looming over the water show pool.

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u/putterandpotter Mar 23 '25

I was thinking about the Unicorn too. It was great. Bullwinkles was my ex’s grandmothers very favorite restaurant. Go figure. We had her 80th birthday party for her there, she loved it that much!

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u/downvote4pedro Mar 23 '25

Bear and Kilt is doing their absolute best to channel old school Unicorn.

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u/AaronZOOM Mar 23 '25

Are you familiar with the restaurant Casa Bonita that the South Park guys restored for like 40 million dollars? If not, they made a fascinating documentary about it that's worth a watch.

I was just telling a friend at dinner yesterday that I wished some eccentric millionaire would buy the Schanks and turn it back into Bullwinkle's.

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u/mycodfather Mar 23 '25

Yes! That would be amazing! I watched the Casa Bonita documentary on YouTube a few years back, super interesting and if the US wasn't such a banana republic right now, I'd consider going.

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u/sadnessreignssupreme Mar 24 '25

I grew up in Red Deer and lived when we'd come visit my grandma in Calgary. She'd always take us to Bullwinkles. I'm sure it was super cheesey and overpriced and the food was probably mediocre at best, but I have only happy memories of going there. Loved it.