![]() ![]() After your second or third prickly, you may look around at the restaurant's faux adobe walls and rancho ceiling beams and swear you hear coyotes howling out there somewhere. The Canyon even delivers a feel for the Southwest. Whatever it is, it's tasty and, well, different. It tastes like, um - a cross between a banana and a mango? No, that's not it. It has a pink blush and a faint, tropical-fruit afterflavor that'll have you groping for comparisons. The restaurant's house specialty, the prickly-pear margarita, is made with good Hornitos tequila. Canyon gives you some of the kick of the pedestrian version with a dash of flavor and a trace of the exotic. But, hell, for all the gustatory pleasure it provides, you might as well inject it into your arm. When the eagle flies on Friday, it's solace in a glass. Snowy cold, almost flavorless, giant-sized, and packed with enough clear tequila to power an outboard motor, it's a cocktail to blow away that acrid 9-to-5 pall. Just don't go hoping to practice your choreographed moves.įor almost 20 years now, the margarita has been the afterwork drink of choice. ![]() And as Palm Beach County's last country "bar," as opposed to the western dance clubs, it's also a vestige of the past. After four decades in business, Plush Pony is the remaining location of what was once a 27-bar chain across South Florida. The windowless building is the perfect place to forget what time it is, once your eyes adjust from riding on the range. the next day and has a cowpoke-priced happy hour for its first 12 hours of business with $1 drafts, $1.75 well drinks, and $2 bottles, for those who want to go fancy. Here, it's more about the liquor than it is about do-si-do-ing. They're more likely to accept a drunken jig on the makeshift dance floor of linoleum tile sandwiched between the pool table and the barstools. Those cowboys at the L-shaped bar, and yes, they're probably real cowboys, won't appreciate the two-step you learned in dance class. Plush Pony ain't the kind of place to start line dancing. ![]()
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