Author: Nathaniel Glen
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Yummy fare at Naturally’s Market & Cafe will win over even staunch health-food skeptics
Some things just should not be messed with. Bacon is one of them. So when Naturally’s Market and Cafe serves a breakfast taco with “fakin’ bacon,” made of vaguely smoky, vaguely salty and definitely funky soy strips, it’s hard to forgive. Hard, but not impossible. That’s because this crunchy little vegetarian-focused Manitou cafe does so…
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DINING REVIEW: Naturally’s will win over health-food skeptics
Some things just should not be messed with. Bacon is one of them. So when Naturally’s Market and Cafe serves a breakfast taco with “fakin’ bacon,” made of vaguely smoky, vaguely salty and definitely funky soy strips, it’s hard to forgive. Hard, but not impossible. That’s because this crunchy little vegetarian-focused Manitou cafe does so…
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Dining Review: E Ado serves up tasty Korean at appetizing prices
The big red letters on the window outside the strip mall slot that is home to E Ado describe the eatery as an “Asian fusion meat restaurant.” The sign seems to conjure an image of a Thai/Viet/Chinese carnivore fest over an open fire. Instead E Ado, which opened almost a year ago, does traditional Korean…
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DINING REVIEW: E Ado serves up tasty Korean food at appetizing prices
The big red letters on the window outside the strip mall slot that is home to E Ado describe the eatery as an “Asian fusion meat restaurant.” The sign seems to conjure an image of a Thai/Viet/Chinese carnivore fest over an open fire. Instead E Ado, which opened almost a year ago, does traditional Korean…
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Dog-gone it: Downtown wiener joint needs to learn new tricks
You can tell a lot about a hot dog joint just by its pun-ridden motto. “Where man bites dog,” “We have a wiener” — most good hot-doggeries, frankly, have a pithy saying. They are so common, in fact, that a librarian at University of Illinois wrote a paper on them. She titled it “Dew Drop…
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Dog-gone it: Downtown wiener joint needs to learn new tricks
You can tell a lot about a hot dog joint just by its pun-ridden motto.“Where man bites dog,” “We have a wiener” — most good hot-doggeries, frankly, have a pithy saying. They are so common, in fact, that a librarian at University of Illinois wrote a paper on them. She titled it “Dew Drop Inn…
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DINING REVIEW: Downtown wiener joint needs to learn new tricks
You can tell a lot about a hot dog joint just by its pun-ridden motto. “Where man bites dog,” “We have a wiener” — most good hot-doggeries, frankly, have a pithy saying. They are so common, in fact, that a librarian at University of Illinois wrote a paper on them. She titled it “Dew Drop…
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Blue Agave serves taqueria-style food in a nice space
In the fresh, handmade tortillas and inventive sauces and salsas ladled over well-seasoned meats at Blue Agave Mexican Grill, I smell a crossover hit. Too often in Colorado Springs, Mexican restaurants fall into two unsatisfying categories. They are either American places with good locations but big, bland, lame menus, or immigrant-run taquerias with tasty traditional…
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DINING REVIEW: Colorado Smokehouse does barbecue, sides and dessert right
Barbecue, more than any other American food, is divided by sects, and each sect holds to a specific regional cuisine. In Texas, it’s beef, smoked over oak or mesquite, with very little sauce, usually served on the side. In South Carolina it’s pork, smoked over hickory, chopped and served with a wash of vinegar and…
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Colorado Smokehouse does barbecue, sides and dessert right
Barbecue, more than any other American food, is divided by sects, and each sect holds to a specific regional cuisine. In Texas, it’s beef, smoked over oak or mesquite, with very little sauce, usually served on the side. In South Carolina it’s pork, smoked over hickory, chopped and served with a wash of vinegar and…