About Them Horseshoes-- Part 6: Heading Over to Norb Andy's

The first time we went to Springfield for the Mother Road International Festival in 2002, we had never heard of a horseshoe.  People kept talking about them so we finally asked what they were.  Sounded good.  Pretty much anything that is piled on is good in my book, and this sounded like a really good garbage sandwich.

However, I wasn't too sure how you'd pick one up with all that stuff on it.  (Found out you didn't take it in your hands, especially when hot melted cheese is involved.)

Where could we get one?  Several people mentioned Norb Andy's Tabarin on Capitol Street so that's where we went.  This is quite the historical place.  With a bar/restaurant there since the late 1800s.  It has been Norb Andy's since the 1930s or so.  Its location so near the State Capitol Building caused it to be a hangout for politicians and the like.

It is just a block or so from the LeLand Hotel, where supposedly horseshoes were invented and we heard they used the original recipe for them.  When we mentioned out loud what we were going to order, we had a lot of comments about how good of a choice we were making.

How do you do better than that?

--RoadDog