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Originally posted by russellwarshay
I stayed at the Gateway Center. Its a very generic looking hotel, nice, but it doesn't seem exceptional. It had the best service of any hotel that I've stayed at, and I stay at a lot of nice hotels.
Also, the filet mignon at the hotel's restaurant was outstanding. The best filet mignon that I've had. A few months later, I was talking with a friend of mine, who lives in New Jersey, and who has been exposed to many of the finer things in life. He told me that he just had the best filte mignon ever. I asked, "where?" He told me that we was in Ames for a wedding, and stayed at the Gateway Center, and had the steak in the hotel restaurant. It was like déjà vu all over again.
So Ames might boring enough for the college kids to call it "Lames," but it is a nice little town with a great hotel that has great steak.
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It used to be a Holiday Inn, hence the genericness in appearance.
Now if you really want a good steak, go to Rubes in Montour--about an hour east of Ames on 30. They hand select their cattle at the local meat auction and then butcher and process it themselves. It's an open-flame, grill-your-own kind of place, not very fancy, but the filet mignon literally
melts in your mouth. And I grew up on a cattle farm so I know my beef!
I loved Ames as a college student. Not too big, not too small. You could get anywhere in that town in 20 minutes or less. I think it also helped that the Kappa house was the closest one to campus and the closest one to the bars!
