Share your memories of the Stockyards Inn

I’ll go first.

I had a memorable meal there in the spring of 1986 — my wife and I went to The Stockyards to celebrate after we closed on our house.

Now my recollection is we were both a bit traumatized by the house-closing experience — especially the very large dollar figures on the documents we were signing. But the trauma subsided as we relaxed over a fine meal.

And I can still recall what I ordered off the menu that night. I had the NY strip steak au poivre and a bottle of 1979 Freemark Abbey Bosche Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. The au poivre sauce was creamy and filled with piquant, just-cracked black peppercorns. The wine had some significance — it was from a Napa Valley winery we had visited as newlyweds three years earlier — and it was delicious.

We walked out of the restaurant with full bellies and in a much better frame of mind than when we walked in. Can’t ask for more than that.