Denver visitors guide: the best 5280 steakhouses

Denver has long struggled against a reputation as a cow town. However, one thing you can always count on in a cow town is a good steak.

And Denver is steak nirvana. As a guy who has lived in various parts of the country I can promise visitors to the Mile High City that our run-of-the-mill beef is better than the best stuff you can get most other places. Our best beef – tender, juicy, immaculately marbled USDA Prime Cut – is out of this world. (Note the “prime” in that last sentence – most steak you get around the country is “choice” cut, and choice can be pretty good. But prime is to choice as choice is to McDonald’s.) Continue reading

Biscotti Goddess

Biscottii Goddess is awesome. Just saying.

I don’t normally pimp products and services, although perhaps I should. I, like most of the staff and many of our readers, am a dedicated consumer of local, hand-made, craft and independent everything and tend to avoid mass production/corporate retailers and goods when possible.

Not long ago I reconnected, thanks to the magic of social media, with an old college friend, Wheeler Wood. Turns out he now runs a small biscotti business. Well, I loves me some biscotti, and he kindly offered to send me a sample or two to see what I thought.

Holy hell, this stuff is good. Continue reading