Comments on: Stuart Anderson's Cattle Company: Roseville, MN

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:33 +0000

They tore it down! I drive by here every night and noticed two weeks ago the bulldozers were out and about. And then, voila and a poof the building was gone!

By: TheOldScowl

TheOldScowl — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:47:55 +0000

Glory be! MangoTango appears to be in operation as of June 7! It is a Carribean/Tiki Bar themed restaurant, according to the sign out back. Maybe they can put in a volleyball court and have leagues like Earl Brown Bowl.

By: TheOldScowl

TheOldScowl — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:40:45 +0000

BillB:
Just went by the BC Chi Chi’s this morning and now the front sign (on Shingle Creek Pkwy) is announcing ‘Mango Tangos coming soon’. I wonder what the next type of restaurant will be announced here. “Trough and Brew”? (SNL watchers recall that place?)

By: BillB

BillB — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:26:40 +0000

Outhouse Steakback- seriously? Their steaks (and everything else) seem to sparkle with salt crystals.

The Cattle Cow had the best dark wheat honey bread ever- anyone able to find the equivalent?

The Brooklyn Center Chi Chis location is still there, and has had many ‘coming soon’ signs up over the years.

By: Lynne Johnson

Lynne Johnson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:18:36 +0000

Brilliant blog. Used to go to Cattle Company in the 90s for the trivia. One could win wooden tokens redeemable for more drinks. No trivia game has ever matched that of the Cattle Company! Find it eerie that the place is still there totally abandoned.

By: The Talking Horse

The Talking Horse — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:50:16 +0000

Ahhh, Cattle Company. Liked the big, dark, private booths.
But the service was very poor sometimes. I just quit going for that reason.

Loved Mr. Steak! There was one on Rice at Arlington, and one near Rosedale… now both buildings house something else – used to go there with my parents back in the ’70s.
I ate at one about ten years ago — over in Minneapolis somewhere– and it was real good. I guess they’re still around the cities.

Does anyone know of a Steak House/night club that was on Central Avenue – in a strip mall? I think it was in the Columbia Heights/Hilltop area on the West side of Central. I used to eat there back in the 1980′s. The steaks were over an inch thick and the size of dinner plates and the dinners were like $12. It was really unbeatable.
What was the name of that place? What happened to it? Anyone know?

By: AJK

AJK — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:44:16 +0000

The Brooklyn Park Cattle Company was actually in Brooklyn Center, I think, just off 100 and 694, near the old Chi-Chi’s. Remember that place?

By: DeKay

DeKay — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:34:02 +0000

Thrifway makes some damn good fried chicken
I worked at the Mr Steak on old hwy 52 now 81 in Robbinsdale. I think it was a chinese restaurant last time I looked. Working at Mr Steak sucked as it was my first job. A better name would have been Miss Steak haha.

By: Tom Berg

Tom Berg — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:31:41 +0000

So here are a few more of my memories from working here:

The bar was called “The Square Cow Fun Bar”

We had NTN interactive trivia and gave away prizes during happy hour.

Wednesday night was our busiest night of the week, “Weekend Wednesday” we called it. Well, wine and tap was a buck. It was a huge college night!

Not long after I started working there, we started doing Karaoke on Thursday nights. After a while, it became the most fun night of the week, a lot of interactivity.

Friday and Saturday nights were regular dance music nights.

We also would host specialty events like movie premiere nights. We hosted premiere post parties for movies like Die Hard 2, Hook, Boomerang, etc.

With our projection TV, we would sometimes have viewing parties for special events like, the last episode of Cheers, David Letterman’s first Late Show on CBS, Johnny Carson’s last Tonight Show, and so on.

I really enjoyed my time there, I met friends that I still keep in touch with.

I was sorry to see it close.

Here are some links to some related videos:

We had an employee party to velebrate meeting a goal. I was to shoot it and make it into some sort of music video.

This is the raw footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCs951CAPcU

From about 1990 here’s video from the last night that a bartending duo was to work together:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-a98Jdmy2w

Finally, here’s an opening music montage that preceded the dance music on weekends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIYuQ74BTxc

By: mygypsynature aka Tracy Jo - 1961

mygypsynature aka Tracy Jo - 1961 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:15:21 +0000

Thriftway WAS the only place to shop in the mid sixties. When we moved from BP to MG in 1966 we had to drive ALL the way to Crystal to shop – but you didn’t know it was far cuz it was what it was. I was there back in ’98 right before I relocated East and I swear it looked the same and am surprised to see it is still there. My mom and I always laugh our asses off at the golden memories we have of the old man (the owner whose name escapes me) yelling at his employees ALL the time in front of customers!