Tag: dining guide
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DINING REVIEW: New menu, chef push Charles Court to dining excellence
Charles Court has long been known as The Broadmoor restaurant where rich out-of-towners could go so they could tell the folks back home that they ate elk or buffalo. It specialized in “Colorado Cuisine,” which for the most part meant a French treatment of wild game. It was good, but according to past Gazette reviewers,…
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DINING REVIEW: A blast from Baja
When exploring Colorado Springs taquerias, I always try to uncover some specialty that makes each stand out from the rest.Often these tiny Mexican restaurants, which spring up in the city’s forgotten strip malls, come and go with little more notice than the immigrant laborers they serve. The menus are often nearly identical. The décor is…
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DINING REVIEW: Italian that zings
La Zingara in Palmer Lake is a perfect example of the old standby — that restaurant, more familiar than fancy — that you end up going to again and again because it is delicious but not too spendy, comfortable, and dependable enough that you know it will deliver for all those minor celebrations that punctuate…
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DINING REVIEW: Old-fashioned goodness
Since 1972, Sandy’s Restaurant has been the place on the edge of Colorado Springs, where two lonely prairie highways meet, and ranchers sip coffee and talk cattle after a trip into town.A lot has changed over the decades. Sandy’s is now surrounded by defense contractors and an Air Force base instead of wind-tusseled grass. Its…
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DINING REVIEW: Deli gets all dressed up
Quick, think of a local restaurant with an extensive, creative beer and wine list, a delectable small menu of sandwiches, salads and a few entrees, shady al fresco tables along the street and (the Holy Grail of urban dining) ample free parking. Chances are you are not thinking of Black Tie Gourmet, the little catering…
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REVIEW: Sunbird soars for brunch, not so high for dinner
The window-side tables at The Sunbird Restaurant fill quickly with diners hungry for a sweeping view of the city. When we visited for the champagne brunch buffet recently, the only seat a friend and I were able to get was one row back from the glass. People like to look down on things, my friend…
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REVIEW: Sassafras deliciously blends cultures
In 1947, President Harry Truman told Congress that he was “fully aware of the broad implications” that his doctrine to contain communism around the world would entail. In 2009, when I stared into a plate of hot schnitzel over waffles, with red beans and rice, sauerkraut and black-eyed peas on the side and an order…
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DINING REVIEW: Surf meets turf at English Dockside
The fishiest name in Colorado Springs restaurants recently got even more fallacious, and in the most felicitous way. I’m alliterating here about English Dockside, a tiny hole in the wall just off Academy Boulevard. It’s fishy because the name suggests a British-style chip shop where limey expats shower deep-fried cod with vinegar while downing pints…
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DINING REVIEW: Best of the Wurst
On a sunny stretch of blacktop on Manitou Avenue last week, I was confronted with the best of Berlin’s street food: a sloppy, gloppy, greasy, gleaming, wonderful concoction known as a currywurst. It was handed to me from the window of one of those boxy white carnival stands that usually sell cotton candy, pork chop-on-a-stick,…
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DINING REVIEW: Antlers’ brunch better than bar, but only a selection of offerings shine
An electric sign above the bar in Judge Baldwin’s Brew Pub at Antlers Hilton hotel that reads “__ Kegs Sold” might be a bellwether for the hotel’s two restaurants, which I recently checked out. The sign has been turned off but not taken down. Evidence of past ambition sits everywhere in both restaurants among current…