Restaurant Show on Saturday August 22, 2009

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We were at Brothers BBQ at 6th and Washington. Love the place, the barbecue—ribs, chicken, beef ribs, pork, brisket, and all the trimmings!!! Chris and Nick were there with me—and such fun.

We had great barbecue-and now THEY ARE DELIVERING!!!! YEAH---CALL AND PLACE YOUR ORDER AND THEY WILL DELIVER. And a new sandwich is coming-ribs off the bone-yum and easy to eat.

Question of the day: how many whole chickens (Red Bird, natural) do they serve in a year-35,000. And the folks of Piatti gave 2 tickets to the Food and Wine Walk Around tonight.

Next week we are at Ling & Louie’s on the 16th St. Mall-next to the Cheesecake Factory-and so much better-come on down between 1-3 while we are on the radio and say hi. And have some great goodies to eat too.

Be sure and set aside time on Labor Day Weekend-Sept 4-5-6-7 to come down and watch the great demos on the culinary stage. On Friday, at noon, there is a hot dog eating contest and you can enter!!!! At 2.30—the cupcake taste-off-and you might be one of the judges-and you will get to taste!!! On Saturday, Sunday and Monday we have our ice cream eating contest!!! And in between-come see great chefs including Hosea Rosenberg, top chef on Bravo this year, Keegan Gerhard of the Food Network and D-Bar Desserts and more. And the food at Fine Dining is amazing too.

NEW DINNER

October 19, 2009

Annie’s Café and Bar
3100 East Colfax Avenue
(East Colfax and St. Paul)
Denver, CO 80206

(303) 355-8197

6:30 p.m.

Diane and Peggy from Annie’s Café and Bar are excited to welcome Gabby and all of her friends for “Breakfast for Dinner.” We will be treated to your favorites like pancakes, eggs and bacon and lots of surprises along the way. We will end our “dinner” with their homemade apple streusel coffee cake and gingerbread. Price is $19.95 per person including tax, tip and bloody Mary, mimosa and screwdrivers.

We went to the Dumb Friends League BBQ dinner at a private home-it was beyond anything you have ever seen. What an amazing event for a wonderful cause---they raised a fortune-and it cost a fortune but was underwritten by supporters-Chris Isaak entertained, the chef came from Texas, the wines were amazing. It was unbelievable.

We went to Strings for brunch!!!! It is amazing and divine.  We want you in your Sunday "worst"--just drop on by-not your church clothes (although they are welcome too), but this is casual, fun, and a super Sunday delight-a great menu at great prices and relax and enoy!!

I made that up-above-and it is soooo good you want to get there-we had pancakes, eggs, cherry pancakes, eggs in brioche, scrambled eggs and bacon, salmon and scrambled and huevos with Phillippe’s great green chile!!!! Got to get there.

We went to Wild Basil for dinner and it is so great. The food, service, portions, prices are fabulous. We had sushi from the latest—sushi bar and it was so terrific. We had the rainbow roll, the mango with shrimp tempura, and the white tuna rolls and lettuce wraps for appetizers. Then we had Peking duck, royal chicken and teriyaki chicken for entrees. We were too full for even a bite of dessert. The place is terrific-the portions amazing.

Dinner was from Strings-and more than incredible as we had an unexpected day at the doctors. And we picked up chicken salad sandwiches and salad for dinner and they are the best!!!! And a glass of wine made it all perfect. And I ordered and got my Kimmel’s Scottish duke of Edinborough from Silver Plume tea house---the best tea ever.

LoDo Bites was a huge success and fun too-we stopped by Ice House Tavern, Morton’s, Wynkoop and McCormick’s. We stayed for a divine dinner at McCormick’s Seafood and Oyster Bar and it was marvelous. We had the bread, the gazpacho and the Greek salad to start. Then we had entrees of a giant whole lobster, wild salmon, and Petrole sole parmesan and they were all wonderful. And the wine and the dessert of apple pie a la mode were perfect.

TV was great with steaks and more!! Fogo de Ciao was beyond incredible-they brought a grill and cooked for the entire station!!! And it was amazing. Fleming’s is doing a summer fixed price for $35 with salad, steak, chicken, or fish, sides, and dessert—LoHi has steak and frites for $18, Ice House was great and Rodney’s Angus huge steak with baked stuffed potato and veggies is $23. Fogo is $38.50 for the entire meal-as much as you can eat—or $19.95 for the salad bar only.
So many choices now to keep you busy.

The new Colt & Gray is now open. It is at 1553 Platte and it is gorgeous!!! Great décor and super patio with comfortable the word everywhere. Service is fabulous, the wine list (and drinks) great, and the food was terrific. We were served great bread-yeah!!!—and then we had salmon gravlox, heirloom tomatoes with burrata, and a crispy soft boiled egg frisee salad with wild mushrooms---all were absolutely wonderful. Then we had the flank steak, the salmon, the balsamic barbecued quail with grilled broccoli with anchovy (amazing) and chicken. All were so good-and it was the second night open. And then we had chocolate ganache cake and homemade gelato. I can hardly wait to go back.

We went to Venue and had a delightful time. The place is charming, the food, wine and service are all so great. We sat on the patio and loved it all. We had great bread and peach butter and then corn chowder, carrot soup, and the heirloom tomato salad for starters. Entrees were the halibut with peas and several orders of duck with fresh peaches and tomatoes. Both were excellent and beautiful to see as well. Dessert was a great chocolate pudding drizzled with butterscotch. The wine was super as well-service perfect.

Then we went to see Mack Bailey and Rachael Levy at Dazzle. He is one of the John Denver band and Limelighters-he is great and so was the show---and he will be in Aspen for the reunion in October. And the great Wine Jester wine store sponsored the event. Get over to the wine jester and say hi to Chris—it is super.

We went to Fleming’s for dinner. We had great bread and butters to start—and a terrific bottle of wine. Then we had spinach salad, onion soup, and shrimp cocktail. Then the entrees were scallops, veal chop pounded and a strip. Sides were excellent –mac and cheese, green beans, spinach and mushrooms. We did not have dessert. It is definitely a high end restaurant. We had a very nice time.

We talked about some great patios—3014 on E. Colfax-a bar there—Shells and Sauce-roof top patio at the restaurant 12th and Elizabeth—Strings-Root Down-fabulous view-Colt & Gray-new and super patio too.

Kathy called about Strings brunch-love it—me too-and all the great choices. She adored the dinner at Argyll and the mac and cheese contest too. She had great sushi and food at Wild Basil and adored the new Colt & Gray-both the food and décor. McCormick’s was amazing as always.

Diane adored the dinner at Argyll and went to Pinocchio in Brighton and said it was really great. 177 Bridge St.

We spoke to David Miarassou who will be signing bottles at Applejack on Thurs afternoon.

Jackie went to the wine dinner at Strings and loved it. And she really enjoys Lala—they do have a great happy hour too.

Jo asked about Praha in Longmont.

Michael called and has been there Praha in Longmont and says it is incredible—a real hidden gem. It is Chec, etc. and worth the trip. It is off highway 66 and 75th St.

We talked about cooking schools and Johnson & Wales with Sally who is thinking about going.

Jake adores Brothers-and he is from Kansas City-this rocks!

Connie wants the delivery in Westminster—and the number there 303625-2424.

We were way out of time.

Thanks for calling listening and joining in.

Gabby