Looking for something to do in Longview. Going out there for a week... any ideas?

Hmm... the depends on what you're looking for

Bars?
Family stuff?
Entertainment?

Need more info

Not a lot. It depends on what you want to do.

Eating, mall, movies, puttputt, etc. About like College Station.

There are some excellent places to eat.

Depending on your schedule, you could get on I-20 and go to Shreveport/Bossier. They have better restraunts, more theatrea, more malls, plus casinos!

Reo Palm Isle if you want trashy rednecks

Sports Page for the townies that weren't cool enough to leave Longview

Restaurants:
Bodacious BBQ
Jucy's Hamburgers (best in the world)
Butcher Shop
Papacitas
Dudley's (Cajun)

Crappy mall, movies, putt-putt, used to be a cool place to do the go-karts stuff, but I think its closed now, stay north of Hwy 80.

Macksimus has it nailed, those are the better places to eat in Longview. I used to go into Papacita's and eat free flour tortillas and chips and hot sauce for a meal. They used to get tired of us coming in and doing that and not ordering food. Oh well, it was good. Jucy's? Yes, the best burgers out there, I actually went to school with Ronnie's step daughter. (he owns the place) They have a nice house out on Lake Cherokee. Anyway, im sure no one wanted to know that. And yeah Fastrack I think was the name of that go-kart palce, I went by there the other day when I went home to Tatum and it looked closed.

Longview and CS are nothing alike. CS has 40-50 bars versus the 10 or so in Lview. Much more to do in CS.

I don't think I'd go to any of the bars in Longview. Of the 1-2 that are decent venues, the crowd there would drive me away.

Nothing says "cool" like 20 of your high school classmates doing coke and drinking natty light talking about how badass they were in 10th grade JV football.

Damn Macksimus you are from Longview. Know exactly what youre talking about there.

born and raised.

couldn't have said it better Macks...

Absof***inglutely nothing.

I was born and raised about 10 miles down the road from Longview (White Oak).

I dated a girl from White Oak a few times.

Bars:

McCann St. Grill - You will typically find most of the local high school graduates from the last 10 yrs or so hanging out here to start the night if they are in town. Dead as of late.

Gerald's - Downtown bar on Tyler Street. Easily nicest bar in Longview with smallest chance of running into the neck crowd. Generally, the hangout of the Longview "elite".

Sports Page aka "Roadhouse" - if you like to fight or see fights or smoke cigarettes this is the place to go. Guy to girl ratio is 10:1.

Memphis Bar and Grill - just heard about this one last weekend and checked it out. Formerly Thirsty's hotel bar where Neil McCoy used to hang out. Apparently, there is some chick called Lady Chaz that is an incredible singer and when she is playing the place is packed and is fun. She wasn't there when we went Sat. night. All neck clientele when we were there.

Yellowjackets - brand new sports bar in the old Whiskey River/Packard's and Ferrari's building. No review yet.

Legends - sports bar. Trash.

Players - regular bar. Trash.

Graham's Central Station - big country/dance club. Young crowd 18-25. Mostly trash.

Rio Palm Isle - apparently now a Tejano club which is a shame considering it's illustrious history.

Restaurants:

Trinity St. Bistro - next door to Geralds and also owned by Gerald. Nicest restaurant in Longview.

Dudley's - some of the best cajun food outside of Louisiana.

Papacita's - I think it sucks. Most people like it because they are captivated by the look of the building. It is two story and very unique for Longview but food is your average Mexican fare. I hate the chips with that spice bull**** on them.

Carlito's - in my opinion, the best Mexican food in Longview. Carlos is Gerald's brother from above. Best bet is to order one of the unique dishes from the right hand side of the menu. His basic Tex-Mex dishes are average.

Barron's - great for lunch. They have awesome food.

Pizza King - great Pizza. Probably better than most pizza joints you've been to outside of Chicago or N.Y.

Bodacious - best barbeque by far. It is better than anything I've found in Dallas.

King's Barbeque - almost identical to Bodacious. King is former Bodacious employer.

Country Tavern (Kilgore on HWY 31) - best ribs ever and frequently written up in Texas Monthly as one of the top ribs places in the state.

[This message has been edited by YouBet (edited 12/6/2005 12:34p).]

Tavern won World's Best Ribs a time or two as well.

One more:

Johnny Cace's Seafood Restaurant - locally famous place you may hear about once you are there.

It sucks. Highly overrated. I've never had a good meal there. If you want seafood, go to Dudley's or just go to Red Lobster.

Nobody brought up CRUISIN THE LOOP?!!

Taco Bell to Taco Bell.

I hung out in LV for a while. Most of the people were really nice and courteous.

L'View BARS -

Grahams: Sausage-fest, plenty of hot chicks if you want a contributing to minor

Sports Page: Lots of hot chicks, if you like the hair spray and silicon type

McCaan Street: Yuppies who like to sing karaoke, chicks on a mission

Legends: Trashy rock crowd, women with plenty of piercings

Yellow Jackets: Heard it was a nice club

Reo: Huge redneck palace, country girls

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Sports Page: Lots of hot chicks, if you like the hair spray and silicon type

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You must be thinking of another bar. It's all dudes.

Forget cruising the Loop, Nelson Street is where it's at.

if you want drug busts and drive bys...