Dew Drop Inn

With our area in another shut down we went to the Dew Drop Inn in Bloomsdale Mo yesterday.  We'd been told of this place when we went to St. Genevieve a little bit ago and had been wanting to go there.  We almost went last weekend but went to the Eagles Nest instead.  We saw later some friends from Murphysboro were there and had a good time.
We finally got a break from the clouds and the rain so it was a nice day for a ride and route 3 is always a good ride.
When we got to Bloomsdale we saw this redneck looking place and it was the Dew Drop Inn (thanks CDB).  It really wasn't a redneck looking place just had to use it.  There are two restaurants in the building, the Dew Drop and the Kozy, plus a banquet room called the Mill Room.  The Dew Drop had a really nice bar and 16 taps so we knew it was our kind of place.  We got a table and ordered a couple drafts, Amberbock for the Glue and Southern Pecan for me while we look over the menu.  I'd seen they fried ribs which I've been wanting to try so we got some of those.  Once again I was swayed by fried catfish and the Glue got a bowl of chili.  They let us sub grilled brussel sprouts for the fries. 
The catfish was very good and so were the sprouts.  The slaw was a creamy style but I really liked it.  Only downside is that we didn't get the hushpuppies we were supposed to get.  I'm not a big fan of them but the Glue likes them.  The Glue said her chili was good but it need to be hotter.  The fried ribs were interesting.  We got them with sauce on the side but the sauces were their wing sauces.  I got the BBQ sauce and the Glue got hot which she said was basically Franks Red Hot.  Overall I like the fried ribs but probably prefer regular ribs.
We debating go to Perryville for a drink but ended up having one at the bar at the Dew Drop.  While we were sitting there a guy came in and asked if we owned the El Camino sitting outside.  He was a used car dealer in Jackson and Farmington and was a big time car guy.  He talked cars which neither of us really know much about them but he happened to mention something about smoking BBQ.  I told we could converse on that.  He seemed more interested in talking about what he did than what we knew.  He mentioned he uses Mike Mills cookbook a lot and really likes stopping there when he's close.  We got sidetracked into talking about chili and he seemed a little put out when I mention the Glue was 5 time chili champion at 17th St.  Overall it was a nice conversation and he told us a couple places in Farmington to try.  We had more than we planned there so we had to head home with a few detours onto back roads.