Escape Thunder

If you would like to run the other way, Westport General Store is offering some Escape Thunder specials:
Slow Smoked Pulled Pork sandwich with house made chips.

Black and Blue Bison Steak- blackened top sirloin with melted blue cheese crumbles, southern smashed potatoes with sautéed vegetables.

Chef Dave Clancy rocked it out last night during our re-opening. The whole team did a great job.

If you would like to run the other way, Westport General Store is offering some Escape Thunder specials:
Slow Smoked Pulled Pork sandwich with house made chips.

Black and Blue Bison Steak- blackened top sirloin with melted blue cheese crumbles, southern smashed potatoes with sautéed vegetables.

Chef Dave Clancy rocked it out last night during our re-opening. The whole team did a great job.

Indeed.....Get on your bad motor scooter and ride!

Sounds amazing - I'd be there but I'm being dragged into the nightmare of Thunder by my wife and our 16 y/o and a French exchange student living with us. God help me.

My wife's first visit to the Westport General Store was a few years back when I took her there for her wintertime birthday celebration. I’d asked her whether she would rather know our dinner destination or not, and she opted to be surprised..... (Come to think of it, that’s the last time she’s asked to be surprised for a special occasion dinner.)

She was enthusiastic heading out from Frankfort toward Louisville, but a little bemused when we left I-64 at Shelbyville, heading toward LaGrange. Once we drove on through LaGrange and turned left on US 42, she got a quizzical expression on her face, and as I turned off of US 42 onto KY highway 524, the enthusiasm in her mood vanished. After a couple miles on this dark, winding country road (in the wintertime), she started getting concerned.

I drove into Westport Proper and deliberately shot right past Westport General Store--which she assumed really was just a general store, past the post office, past the last house/streetlight/visible-feature-of-civilization and stopped the car in a deserted boat-launch parking lot next to the Ohio River. I told her we had to wait there to catch the Westport ferry, at which point she started to get REALLY, REALLY concerned. In our car’s headlights, we could see some construction barricades placed along the launching ramp, which gave the impression that there really MAY have been a ferry here on--or under--the river. She looked across the water, then looked at me as if I’d lost my mind, then back across the river...to the darkened Indiana side--the dark, featureless, cold (did I mention that it was wintertime?) Indiana side....

Pitch blackness...and a long pause....

She didn’t so much panic as simply become very adamant: “I want to go home....”

I laughed, turned the car around, drove a few hundred yards to the Westport General Store’s parking lot, spent the few minutes that remained before our reservation time convincing my wife that I wasn’t crazy (just an idiot), and we went inside and had a fantastic time with wonderful food that led my wife to not only forgive my attempt at a joke, but to insist now that we take the Westport ferry anytime the opportunity arises.

Mr. Crawford, the health of my marriage hinged on the quality of the dining experience you provided on that dark, cold night, and you came through for me. Thank you, and we’re happy to see you open again!

Mr. Crawford, the health of my marriage hinged on the quality of the dining experience you provided on that dark, cold night, and you came through for me. Thank you, and we’re happy to see you open again!

Mr. Morris, thank you for sharing this story. I am so glad it was good experience. That is what we strive to do.

May I use your story as a testimonial on my website?

Mr. Crawford, the health of my marriage hinged on the quality of the dining experience you provided on that dark, cold night, and you came through for me. Thank you, and we’re happy to see you open again!

Mr. Morris, thank you for sharing this story. I am so glad it was good experience. That is what we strive to do.

May I use your story as a testimonial on my website?

Absolutely! Feel free to use it any way you like.