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From the people we love at St. Michael's Bistro on the corner of Whiskey Row, comes a little offshoot window you might be likely to miss... Don't!  They serve an obscure Turkish treat out of that little window you do not want to miss.  Find out all about it in this episode. 

hello my fellow pickle peeps this is diana randall bro here in my lovely town of prescott uh we are so excited to share with you some of uh some new places that have opened up here in prescott after coven has lifted uh we are psyched oh yeah really psyched it’s really lifted the only bad thing is everything’s reopened everybody’s at the restaurant now we have a little weight and i’m a little yeah other than that a lot of people who should be serving me my food are home still collecting checks it’s kind of hard the restaurants are struggling to get staff and but everybody’s come out but everybody’s going out of out of their uh isolation and they’re like we’re ready to socialize we can get out now and be safe yeah so uh other than you know having a little weight at some of our favorite restaurants we are super excited that some new places have opened yeah and some old places we’re still waiting yes so uh the barley hound has won they’ve done renovations yeah i know they’re going to open just like they’re doing major renovations a lot of our places are like you know what we’re going to use this time to revamp and uh redecorate re do some renovations and so some of them but they’re coming back they’re just in the middle of yeah once they open that’s it i mean i know they’re going to be flat out so i guess they know that so one place that randall while he was driving by you know we take our dog for a ride at least twice a day and we go around the square she loves to go for a ride that’s her thing so as we’re driving brandon’s like oh i see something and i’m like what and he’s like donors i’m like that means absolutely nothing to me but it means a lot to him means a lot to me yeah so this is this is an offshoot of the st michael’s bistro one of our favorite restaurants right on the corner of whiskey row and they have been shut down for kovitz i mean for over a year now and they are renovating they will open much like barley hound they’re common say michael’s bistro’s coming back so give me something like a little taste they opened up this little a little sliver on the side of the hotel and it’s you have to look twice to understand that’s actually part of the bistro yeah but it’s their kitchen so they’re just serving right out the window and they brought this sandwich called a dirner like he says i say derner but it was a sandwich way back in the day uh a friend of some high school friends of mine uh joined together in germany for a little trip and we were in berlin and that’s when i first met the durner so at that time there were a whole bunch of turkish people immigrants or something yeah and they brought their cuisine with them and one of them was this sandwich so it’s a dirner turner a donor amazing yeah it’s a they make it with a rotisserie that’s vertical and they shave it off and they put it in this delicious sort of pita like bread but softer yeah just very spicy season beautifully and all kinds of extras so as we were driving by he’s like i see dirners donors whatever you want to call it i have no idea what that means that means nothing to you well it means a lot to me yeah it’s like i said this is like 15 years ago i have never seen 15 years ago 15 years ago i first when i was in germany it’s been longer than that i think so i’m about 15. i was in like early 40s that’s all right all right if you say okay it was first high school reunion but anyway uh that was not my high school room so the trip to germany yes it was for your 25th uh yeah 25th yeah there you go yeah i think you can graduate a little bit longer i don’t know have you no i don’t know we’ll do the math but anyway so that’s when he went and that’s when he had these sandwiches and all throughout germany yeah in some places like new york city or very big metropolitan areas they probably have i’m sure uh but i haven’t seen one yeah european cuisine right so i immediately bought like six of them oh yes oh my god oh that’s so good he felt compelled to share this with everyone out there when you come here you need to have a dinner whatever you want to call it and also know that saint michael’s bistro which is right next door will be reopening and they’re bringing back my favorite thing on the menu which is the uh uh reuben burger reuben burger corned beef reuben burger yeah it is a monstrosity it is really really big every time i ordered one the whole restaurant would go silent as i was being certain you would finish the whole thing here’s the thing do you notice we talk a lot about food a lot of us we’re foodies i think you can tell by our we’re more eaties yeah we’re more eating we are eating yeah so hey we enjoy everything yeah we love our little town we love all that our little town has to offer amazing all kinds of stuff i mean they even have turner’s donors whatever you want to call them d-o-n-e-r-s with the two dots over here what does that mean walnuts what is it walnuts i think it makes a diphthong of the vowel dorn i mean it’s like i don’t know what that is it kind of makes one vowel to about two i don’t care it’s good that’s all i know so if you’re headed here to town we’ll tell you where to go to get a dirner or a donor um yeah at this point they are uh they don’t have full service so i think it was like thursday friday saturday right in the afternoon hopefully it will catch on with all the other town folk and it will still be here because i checked the lady who uh serves it and she said they are on fire they’re going gangbusters this town has a sophisticated talent they know good stuff when they see it it’s sophisticated palette means you know turkish peasant food sure man anything unique we love it prescott loves it and prescott embraces it okay so if you are looking to visit and have a donor of your own or if you’re looking to come visit and try to find some homes here or if you want to list please feel free to call randall and i you can contact us at pickle411.com yeah lots of information or you can call us at that’s 713-302-1964 i will answer and uh anyway we hope to see you there soon he see you here i should say and share darner with us that is all bye

In the episode we explore yet another great Prescott restaurant located atop one of the town's historic buildings.  Great views, great atmosphere, and good eats.  Come check it out.

good afternoon good afternoon folks this is diane and randall bro here in the heart of prescott arizona randall in the pickle lady all right back at you coming right back at you we’re ready to help you we’re still on the hunt for all of you people coming in looking for a great place and a new start we are the team to help you do that yeah one of the things we’d love to do is let you know all the great places to visit here in the city and so we have another one it’s it’s been open now i think for maybe a year or so maybe a year maybe a little less than a year yeah and it’s called the county seat county seat it’s really cool it’s right at the square it’s upstairs so you go up it’s a giant almost looks like a warehouse giant space upstairs very open um yeah so straight across from the courthouse the square there’s a kind of a i hate to call it a strip mall because it’s like 100 years old but it’s called bashford court yes and it is actually three or four stories high uh in this particular entrance there are a number of them on the block but there’s one in the there’s in the basement is superstition metering which i love which we’ve talked about before we were just love it just had a flight of mead which was delicious the flight of the flight and uh on the ground level is a gift store just really huge all kinds of cool kitchen and cooking yeah and then the loft there is is a kind of an art gallery and then finally i guess i don’t know if you’d call it the third floor the fourth floor you have an elevator there’s an elevator uh you go up to county seats county seat yeah it’s cool it’s all open space wide open it’s great place to go have organic they have a lot of organics yes organic sandwiches salads all natural plant-based yeah there is some meat if you want yeah no the carnivores have a selection of beers but uh good ones a slight number of good ones uh cocktails are are really good yes um and some some of their own home-grown kind of and it’s a great place to sit up there it’s a wall of windows so you can look out over the square beautiful view it’s really cool beautiful beautiful yeah we like to go there and just kind of sit and watch people and have some good lunch or a good dinner and so we highly recommend it yeah a lot of it is um sort of i don’t know lady food it’s a good holiday but i got a reuben and the reuben you know it’s always a manly meal and uh some of it as i said is plant-based yeah that’s really bread that women like it’s not like wildflower no no no it’s not that weird right panera bread it is it is all natural it is it is what is you go to the tree [Music] you know there’s no such thing as natural bread but anyway it is more or less yes so he goes right for the group and everybody else gets something healthy and kale related yeah which is a big hit right now as we know the whole kill the whole kale famous i’m kind of over the kill thing i’m like i don’t know but anyway lovely place uh to grab a bite to have lunch dinner and the architecture is really nice really high all the big open windows it’s light and airy very lightweight good for a large group if you have a group of like we went there we had like a dozen people yeah and no problem you know we’re able to sit down no problem so we thought we would mention it so if you are planning a visit soon make sure you check out county seat so if you are looking to list your home give us a call we would so be happy to list your home and make that happen for you if you were coming in town to look give us a call that’s our favorite we love to bring out buyers and connect you with the right place yep so you can check us out at pickle411.com yeah lots of information lots of information real estate about press kit all kinds of restaurants and things to do in town and events so much stuff um we love it it’s an all-inclusive oh all inclusive so if you come in we may end up taking you to luncheon county i don’t know it depends on how the day goes so we hope to hear from you soon and we hope to see you and if you’re here visiting check out county seat all right have a great rest of your day take care bye

Hello fellow pickled peeps peep starts randall and diane bro here something we’re kind of excited to talk about well because we just found this out the other day and we almost flipped our lids yes and then we have our yes so excited so we thought let’s do something on facebook and i’ll tell you why uh lots of people come here and they think we’re just this little bitty old town and do you even have fast food i’ve had people ask do you have movie theaters do you have we have all of them we have all of that yes it’s nice small town living but we do have a lot of the infrastructure that you’re used to coming from a bigger city yeah so we’re here to talk about fast food fast food the ones that we think might be you know really important to you the ones that you just can’t live without hold on i’m so glad you got one of those people come here and they’re like so we did a top five we did our top five so just to let you know for only people coming in in town and like jeez do they have chipotle i love it chipotle yes number five there are two of them one from prescott valley yeah yeah and one in brisket yeah so not a problem if you’re a huge uh chipotle you like their rice bowl and yeah all that other stuff so we have tons of fast mexican food yes of course we have taco bell and taco bell is there and you know but nobody makes nobody makes a better honestly dr pepper than we’re talking about taco bell they’re found dr peppers to die she goes there for the doctor i do we also have uh filibertos there’s a lot of little local fast food mexican chains but yeah so that’s here so yeah chipotle we’ve got it we’ve got it people you gotta miss your chipotle you won’t have to because you’ve got one we got it the other thing we have papa john’s dominoes i also have a local restaurant bill’s pizza yeah bill’s pizza lots of pizza yeah we got a lot of great pizzas no worries i don’t know if you i mean if you want it delivered um you know i haven’t delivered all the time yeah so we it’s here people yeah papa john’s dominance i don’t want you to think oh what will i do without him little caesars we got a little caesar we do where’s little caesar it’s on iron springs it’s uh iron spring i’m positive not just you’re positive okay all right well we’ll have to take his word for it i’m not sure we haven’t we don’t order little seizures but if you do we got it we got it it’s across where the um uh the uh starbucks is on gail gardner it’s across the street in that area that little place with that okay yeah someone didn’t know that the other thing is burger joints burger joints everybody the two that people are very happy that we have [Music] i love that animal style animal style it’s really hard to be it’s good so all of our californians come in and they’re delighted they’re like oh my gosh i can still have a little taste of home yeah you can’t we have red robin we have panera [Music] yeah we’ve got all those little fast food yeah we’ve got you know the burger king and mcdonald’s oh yes there’s an orbeez all that’s outside oh that’s standard i don’t know i don’t know about wendy’s i don’t know but anyway yeah we haven’t done one these now yeah but you know that they’re fast food but the ones that are important we find are five guys although they’re not doing the peanut thing during cole bed well they might that might be coming back because that’s my favorite thing at five guys i like to crunch those peanuts the five guys in in and out is very very popular we got it we do the other thing we have which we were so excited coming from texas we were right around the corner from a chick-fil-a yeah oh my gosh so every morning you know when the kids are on the way to school if they have a big day going to some drama event we would go get chick-fil-a chick-fil-a breakfast we’re going to raise children without chickens oh my god it’s essential it is essential so we were absolutely delighted that presque valley brought a chick-fil-a into our town yes well worth a little trek from from prescott it’s not even that far maybe 15 minutes 10 minutes but um chick-fil-a’s here super long line super good food so if you’re a chick-fil-a fan we got it we got it not on sundays not on sundays i know and that’s what i always seem to crave at the moment i want to we call it a chisket isabel that’s a shout out to you and your family yeah they used to call their chicken biscuit so now we do but anyway and then our newest and latest greatest that we were so excited we found we just tried to drive by there last night because we were going to pick some up yeah but they’re not but they’re not open yet they’re still under construction very much under construction not even close but we’re coming from new orleans yeah popeye famous fried chicken is now coming here it’s also in prescott valley actually it’s across from chick-fil-a yeah very close uh we are super psyched uh i don’t know for all of those uh who who maybe don’t know but popeyes originated in new orleans al copeland developed all the spices that make it special and uh so popeyes started in new orleans the best part of uh popeye’s is not the chicken although the chicken’s good the chicken it’s the sides oh my god cajun rice and red beans and rice biscuits oh yeah the biscuits season fries the onion rings oh oh yeah it’s all good yeah good stuff good stuff we also have kentucky fried chicken you know your usuals but we are particularly being from new orleans excited to hear about love that chicken from papayas that’s how the song goes yeah i don’t know if it still goes that way but that was in the that was in the commercials what’s the other part of it i think that’s it spice geek delicious chicken they used to actually have pot pie on the couch yes they did it spicy yeah that’s i’m showing my age it’s been a while since how did he say spicy spicy delicious chicken or something i don’t know popeye accent popeyes came out when we were kids yeah right they’re teenagers yeah so it’s been a while we know all the old commercials that’s why you miss it you know you grow up with it it’s a it’s a little slice of home absolutely and i’m sure some of these other places are also kind of a slice of home for you yeah wherever you’re coming from so when you move to prescott or prescott valley you will still have that little sliver of home it’s here people we have it all we have it all right so anyway we were just so excited yesterday to see popeye’s tried to drive through the drive-through and realized that this man hadn’t been bored yet yeah it’s kind of already so it wasn’t going to happen of course but maybe in two months couple months yeah we’ll be uh hitting it hard some other good ones they have uh uh subway got lots of subway lots of subways um i don’t know i can’t think about anymore there’s a another sandwich shop i can’t mike subs oh no uh jersey mites jersey mike’s jersey mike’s not as good as scottish and the big chains as well yeah so if you’re looking to come here and you’re like wow is this going to be like living out in some rural you know little town no we have it here and you’ll be excited if you need that fix one night and you’re tired and you’re like you know i just want pizza i want popeyes chick-fil-a we have it it’s at your disposal absolutely all right so that is all we just want to share we’re so excited about popeye’s coming here yeah it it evolved into this whole wine down need more information the best place to find it is pickle411.com and whether you’re a buy seller somewhere in between lots of great information about real estate about restaurants about press kits life in general just lots of things we got useful information and we’re here so give us a call if you need any help finding finding a home or selling we’re happy to help you take care bye

hello hello hello folks
hello peeps cheers to you
this is diana randall bro here right in
the lovely
hubbub in the middle of prescott
arizona yes we are and we’re happy to be
here this this afternoon
absolutely um it’s uh spring has from
spring is fun
we’re excited got our second shot today
second shot today
it was awesome i tell you they have like
a well-oiled machine
so everybody here is getting vaccinated
left and right
systems are in place it’s easy for you
to get vaccinated
and with that opens up us going to all
of our favorite restaurants oh
and our favorite restaurants becoming
our favorite restaurants again because
correct a lot of them change quite a bit
yeah covet has unfortunately closed some
down uh there are several though who are
still going strong
and we applaud you for that absolutely
for hanging in there and making it
happen and
so uh one of those we want to talk about
is our favorite our daughter’s favorite
as well so whenever they come to visit
we call it pj’s the actual name is
prescott johnson basket
junction it’s a great great little diner
family-owned yes local family um
it’s great it’s like a mom and pop uh
little diner
delicious food right absolutely
delicious it’s like
home style cooking meatloaf is good
fashion
diner yeah stuff they even play the
old-fashioned music play old-fashioned
music when you sit in your face yeah
your little booth
oh narcotide
[Music]
it is really a trip back but uh the
thing that was really cool about the
endicovid is the breakfast buffet
and pjs has reopened as of i think last
weekend
yes so we hit it we were like about two
or three days after they opened it when
i saw
they had the the breakfast bar baby your
little eyes
lit up oh man he was the first one
running up there to get they make these
delicious chicken we called meat sticks
meat sticks he was all about that
chicken fried steak
correct my daughter was with us so she
got to come back to the
breakfast bar she was in for easter she
was just tickled pink
um it’s uh very reuniting when the whole
family can join and hit the breakfast
ball get the meat sticks
so it’s called press conjunction because
it sits at the junction of highway 69
and highway 89.
so it’s called prescott junction great
breakfast buffet
great staff everybody’s super friendly
great pies
i order all my pies from them for
thanksgiving
uh and they’re always delicious coconut
creams
yours is the french silk right i think
it’s the other one the chocolate
chocolate silk chocolate cream i don’t
know they’re all good the boston cream
is good
they have rhubarb yeah i like it he
likes that
yeah yeah he’s one of the weirdos that
eats
you know but there are others to select
from normal folk out there
but the other good thing about uh
prescott junction is
they do have some wine and i think maybe
beer
but i’ve had beer there before you’ve
had a beer i couldn’t remember
but they have really good uh like their
dinners are delicious uh
i love their pot roast i love their
meatloaf i love their cajun pasta
because you know we are from cajun land
randall loves their burger he gets
that’s double
that’s my usual yeah usually it’s all
there and it’s not breakfast time
yeah i’ll get a double cheeseburger
sometimes he still gets the burgers 10
30 it’s like
he calls it it’s time for me to have a
morning birthday my breakfast burger
breakfast burger
that’s it so i think i want a breakfast
burger
then he eats that and he comes home goes
back to sleep
takes a nap but anyway we love
prescott junction prescott junction made
it through the covid
of this past year uh i don’t think they
missed a beat
i don’t think they did i mean they were
going to take out people are lining up
absolutely it’s an institution we’ve
talked about a lot of different
restaurants and i guess we
we we tend to focus on the ones that are
sort of fancy
or noteworthy but i mean the one we
probably go to more than any other is
pjs
pjs are oppressed we that’s just our
little nickname within our face yeah
don’t look up pj
look at prescott junction it’s lovely so
if you want a good mom and pop
family diner experience
it’s a place to go and they also honor
their patriots there so
anyone who has been a vet a lot of times
they meet there
and uh someone will pick up the whole
time more times than not people yeah
it’s a really nice nice place
so we wanted to give a plug to prescott
junction that’s good
you probably don’t even know we’re
giving a plug we get plugs
all over the place we should yeah we
have a lot of plugs yeah
we like to spread the love people don’t
even know we’re spreading love
but we like to do it and we enjoy it and
i think
all family-owned restaurant businesses
deserve that little extra plug
no extra family i’m all about small
business
all about it how about you oh yeah
absolutely
you yeah i think you’re just you got the
meat sticks yeah
he’s all about the meat sticks and they
make a taco thing you like on there too
oh yeah
when the breakfast is over they have a
taco bar and taco bars
and a salad bar um also also pretty good
but anyway excited to say everything’s
really starting to open up again
it’s been really nice it’s been nice to
get back to them it has been starting to
get back to normal
so if you guys are coming in to visit
and you’re like hey you know what i just
kind of want
like a good home-cooked meal we highly
recommend prescott junction
very reasonable and when you move here
always order your pies from them they
are delicious
very very delicious very good so that is
our little plug for today
on prescott junction if you need
information the best place to find it is
pickle411.com
whether you’re a buyer seller somewhere
in between lots of free information
including restaurant recommendations
absolutely among many other things that
we’re that’s right
always plugging always plugging plugging
away
we’re plugging away and we also make
plugs
we are here for you to serve you help
you find your way help you navigate this
crazy insane market and the breakfast
and help you uh find some good breakfast
i’ll show you the meat sticks
what should i sticks are awesome it kind
of reminds me of high school again when
i
eat you know because we used to have
those those were good nothing beats
there’s
nothing from high school or the rules
the rules
oh yeah good stuff i didn’t go to the
same school you did so i know you didn’t
but yeah our roles were disgusting
really yeah ours were good they made it
themselves you can’t buy something
i remember uh our high school capture
with great fondness
i love their pizza their rolls and their
meat sticks yeah
but anyway i digress going back