A modern throwback to the speakeasies of the prohibition era, The Centennial Club in McAllen powerfully captures the feel of the 20s era style with rich and luxurious decorations, drinks, and designs. If you want to revisit the Roaring 20s at cocktail hour or have a succulent, scrumptious meal, The Centennial Club is well worth a stop on The Texas Bucket List.
The Texas Bucket List – South Padre Island Dolphin Research and Sea Life Nature Center
From touch tanks to dolphin tours, the South Padre Island Dolphin Research and Sea Life Nature Center is an experience you have to try for yourself — and make sure you meet the resident Dolphin Whisperer! Well worth a stop on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – Freiheit Country Store
For a good ole time and a good ole burger, head to the Freiheit Country Store in New Braunfels to try the Freiheit Extreme Burger. This is one you won’t want to miss on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
Look in on a law-enforcing legacy of Texas at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco! With nearly 200 years of history, the Texas Rangers are one of the most famous law enforcement groups in the nation. Come and see the people behind the badges as well as some of their symbolic artifacts! Well worth a stop on The Texas Bucket List.
The Texas Bucket List – Perini Ranch Steakhouse
Boy howdy, you won’t find a better Texas-style burger than at the Perini Ranch Steakhouse in Buffalo Gap! This steakhouse has its humble beginnings on a chuck wagon feeding hungry cowboys after a hard day’s work. Honestly folks, you can’t get more Texan than that. If you want a delicious burger and an even better steak, make sure to add this one to your list on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – Snapka’s Drive Inn
Opened in 1948, Snapka’s Drive Inn at Corpus Christi is a drive in with a Double Double Dixie Burger that dives you right into the past! But even as good as the burger gets, it’s another menu item that’s made a name for Snapka’s Drive Inn…Well worth a stop on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – The Texas Renaissance Festival
Hear ye, hear ye! Lords and Ladies are welcome every year to dress in their medieval finest, their magically mystic, and their outlandishly ostentatious for The Texas Renaissance Festival in Todd Mission. With appearances from every period in history, the Renaissance Festival offers a unique and immersive glimpse of the past with jousting tournaments, plays, and shops. For merriment and fun, this blast from the past can’t be beat on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – The Big Texan
Everything is bigger in Texas – especially the steaks! The 72 ounce steak challenge at The Big Texan in Amarillo is no easy feat. Serving as an establishment to perpetuate the Texas traditions and customs that make this state great, The Big Texan will give their customers a FREE 72 oz steak with all of the fixin’s – but there’s a catch! Can we finish the steak within an hour and join the World’s Most Exclusive 72 oz. Steak Club? Add this one to your own Texas Bucket List – if you dare!
The Texas Bucket List – Harvey Washbangers
Eat, wash, and be merry! At Harvey Washbangers in College Station, you can soothe your tummy’s rumbles while your clothes tumble in the restaurant’s laundromat. The Cajun Burger – featuring an Andouille sausage and beef patty – will have you craving crawdads and the Louisiana bayous. Well worth a stop on The Texas Bucket List!
The Texas Bucket List – Cocoamoda in Calvert
CALVERT, Texas – Over in Robertson County, in between Waco and Bryan, you’ll find the quiet community of Calvert. With a population just over 1,000 you wouldn’t expect to find more than just your typical antique shops and kolache stops, but if you happen upon Cocoamoda, you’ll come across one the most unique, interesting, and exquisite stops on Highway 6.
Chef Ken Wilkinson isn’t from these parts. He hails from jolly old England but now he considers himself something else.
“I’m Texan,” Ken explained. “My wife is Texan.”
Yes, this Texan that happens to hail from London, and his wife Jacqueline own this chocolate shop that has some of the most decadent and delightful desserts.
“They could very well be considered artwork but really it’s for the eating,” Ken said. “It’s for the flavor. It’s for the knowledge that you’re eating something absolutely fresh and nice.”
Ken has been a chef for over 45 years, even though he claims to be 36. While he appears to be a bit older than that, it seems his chocolate might be keeping him young at heart.
Ken’s career in cooking all started in London where he first worked in a kitchen during his teens, by his 20’s he was a head chef, by his 30’s he headed up 43 restaurants in and around London. He even served the Royal Family on Sundays. But a chance to consult with a line of restaurant and hotels in Houston lead him to an adventure he never saw coming.
For a few years, the comical chef had his own cable cooking show and was earning a lot of clams. Eventually the show was cancelled and Ken needed something to do.
“Then I started twittling my thumbs and thinking, ‘My goodness haven’t I always thought that I would like to start a chocolate business,’” Ken said.
Instead of opening his confection creation in a big ol city, Ken instead opted for a more centralized Texas location with some old world charm. When he found the old Calvert State Bank building built in 1870, he knew he had found his factory.
“I really thought it spoke European quality, the whole building,” Ken said. “You could airlift this to any major city in Europe the whole building and nobody would question the ability of it haven been built there.”
With some flavors you wouldn’t expect to find, such as bourbon, lemon, praline, and key lime, Ken’s chocolates are creations you won’t find in any old cookbook.
Each morsel is way more amazing than you might imagine. You see each one of these little chocolates takes three days to make, start to finish, and what’s inside might surprise you.
With exotic insides like Madagascar Vanilla beans, Persian saffron, even roses imported from India, you’re sure to find a sweet sensation you’ve never tasted before.
“My pride won’t allow me to use anything but the best ingredients,” Ken said. “Every ingredient is thought about.”
But there seems to be so much more to each one of these chocolates. It’s as if Ken has found a way to add his elegance, charm, and witty banter to each of his creations.
“It’s about following your passion. Being passionate about what you do,” En said. “Living life to the fullest.”
Leann Schroeder and Chris Nixon drove an hour to try these treats.
“Well I was a merchant marine so I’ve been around the world and I’ve eaten a lot of chocolate from a lot of different places,” Chris said. “It’s hard to beat this stuff.”
All Texans have a sweet spot for the Lone Star State but now the state has a sweet spot of its own thanks to a man from England, a town frozen in time, and delicacy that comes from deep within the heart of Texas.
“I’m proud of Texas and I really wanted to put Texas on the map for chocolates,” Ken said. “Why the heck not? Why not give the French a run for their money? You know what I mean? Texas can certainly do it.”
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