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Best Food — Boulder

April 2, 2008 Like 0 editor

Overall • CRITICS: Frasca, Downtown What can you say about Frasca that hasn’t been said already? We’ll try this: Fantastic service (they have computer records of customers so waitstaff can greet regulars appropriately), exceptional food (chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson has been…

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Best Drink — Boulder

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Bar • CRITICS: Catacombs Bar, Downtown There’s just something intoxicating about this bar below the Hotel Boulderado that features a labyrinth of rooms, affordable drinks and one of the most unpretentious nightlife scenes in town. You’ll find high-falootin’ hotel guests…

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Best Food — Denver

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Overall • CRITICS: Rioja, Larimer Square Picking the best of Denver is really a state of mind. With so many great options offered by the Kevin Taylors and Frank Bonannos of the world, it can be darn right difficult to…

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Best Drink — Denver

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Bar • CRITICS: Tavern Uptown, Uptown There is now a Tavern Downtown, in Lowry and the Tech Center. None of them pass muster when measured against the original (that’s not a knock on the others as much as it is…

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Prospect in the Raw

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In this space I have previously disparaged New Urbanism as a conceit. For the uninitiated, this is the name given to housing developments that are designed with their own town square, “distinctive” houses and apartments, and ample retail space.

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At Long Last, Louisville Has its Empire

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Settled into the space occupied for so long by its predecessor Pasquini’s, Empire is an eclectic and elegant reimagining of a space that has screamed “potential.” Gone is the shabby familiarity that was the pizzeria’s true hallmark and in its…

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Challenging Elements: Chevre

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While reading our first crack at Challenging Elements last month, Moncia Smetena-Hertrich breathed a sigh of relief. The owner and chef at Longmont’s Praha Restaurant figured she was safe from having to work with pinto beans (March’s ingredient) during this…

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Best of the West

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It’s been a long few months. We’ve been busy eating at all the best restaurants, checking out the coolest shops, talking to interesting people and spending countless hours at the spa. Our job is terrible, we know. But this is…

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Not Ready For Prime Time Just Yet

March 6, 2008 Like 0 Graphics

Editor’s Note: It’s 11:33 p.m. on deadline night, and we just found out Hunter’s shuttered its doors just months after trying to revamp the 10-year-old eatery into a high-end steakhouse. Perhaps this is why:

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Destination Challenge

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There is perhaps no more consistently hopping dining room between Denver and Boulder than the Village Tavern’s, a fact which I overlooked recently when I made the observation that two other FlatIron Crossing spots—Bloom and Flatz—were the mall’s only culinary…