Amarillo opening 2023

There is no doubt that Amarillo is growing. We are about to have a convenience store on just about every corner. We have countless places to grab a cup of coffee. We have new restaurants being added all of the time.

Amarillo is a great place to go out to eat. We have it all. We have your chain restaurants that people just expect to see. We have our local favorites that have been here forever. Then we continuously add new places to try. We have a bit of everything.

Amarillo has been hurting for places to head to and dance. We have a few places but nothing like back in the day. Do you remember the days of Midnight Rodeo, The Caravan Club, and The Western Horseman?

Amarillo restaurants have had to make some changes. Some changes happened because of the pandemic. Restaurants learned how to operate solely as a place to get food to go. Laws loosened up regarding to-go alcohol.

We have been following this for a while. What started off with what I bet was a slip on the part of Coldwell Bankers a bit ago. They let it slip that HomeGoods was coming to Amarillo.

Back when I was in college we would go to lunch every Tuesday to Kabuki on I40 near Western. That was when they had lunch specials. It was always the steak special on that day. This was an every single week routine.

This is one of those stories that I am following closely. Ever since I got back from a trip to Dallas and figured out what Amarillo was missing, this has interested me. See I spend a lot of time at HomeGoods and wonder why we don't have one.

Nothing made me happier than seeing something on Facebook recently. I was scrolling through when I came across a post from Coldwell Bankers. I like to follow them because sometimes you can get a jump on some new businesses coming to town.

In Amarillo we have our favorites. We also love to try new places. We love to have a new place to add to the mix of our every day places to stop. So I was watching on Facebook about an already favorite in Amarillo getting a new place.

We have a lot of good places to eat in Amarillo. The best thing is it seems we get new places often. So if you don't have a favorite go-to yet, just wait. We have a bit of everything to try.

It's great to see empty buildings finding people to move in. We have had several strip malls and business areas recently that have had empty spaces. As they start to fill up that can only be good news for Amarillo.

It's been a long six years without Ruby Tequila's in our lives. I feel that Amarillo got duped and didn't get the closure that we needed with that one. It was there and just like that it was gone. Taking with them two successful locations.