The Buckhorn Exchange

Posted on: September 30, 2010

This is the last place I checked out here in Denver, Colorado. It was also featured on Man V Food. The restaurant has a lot of history and interesting animals hanging on their walls. Lots of them. I was excited to try out the Rocky Mountain Oysters (aka, Bull Testicles). Turns out it was actually not bad, it’s just the mental factor that I had to get over. It tastes like calamari honestly.

The special they were running was a side of ostrich. I ordered that along with the quail, duck, and cornish game hen. Four meats on one dish! The ostrich is actually a red meat, which tasted pretty differently from the other birds on the plate. Overall, I wasn’t too thrilled about the dish while I was eating it. I think I may have hyped it up too much. I was just glad that I was able to try out the ostrich, which was just okay.

The steak, the T-bone (24 ounce porterhouse) was also just okay.

I will confess that I have a weakness for apple pie as a dessert. I don’t have a sweet tooth or anything, but I do enjoy apples, especially if it’s in a pie. This was probably my favorite dish of the night. I definitely recommend it a la mode with some cinnamon rum sauce.