Tag: dining reviews
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White collars welcome at downtown Slayton’s
If there can be such a thing as white-collar barbecue, the new Slayton’s Tejon Street Barbecue is the place. Instead of big rolls of paper towels on the table for mopping up sauce splatters, Slayton’s has cloth serviettes. Instead of pictures of customers’ dogs, or no pictures at all on the wall (the decorating schemes…
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Fare at Dutch Kitchen tastes like tradition
Six days a week, Michael Flynn flips on the kitchen lights in Manitou’s tiny Dutch Kitchen at about 6 a.m. and starts rolling out homemade pie dough. By lunch, his fresh creations are cooling in the pantry, and the small white board that servers hand to customers while asking, “Did you save room?” is crammed…
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Sunflower Cafe beams with hope
A friend’s jaw almost dropped when she walked into Sunflower Cafe and saw a whole tray of gluten-free desserts at the counter. There were big cookies, dark, moist chocolate cake, and buttery scones, no longer marginalized, but finally in the wheat-free spotlight. “There they were, right on the top shelf,” she said. “It just blew…
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Taste of Thai Spice is a hidden gem
Location is everything. Or at least almost everything. A restaurant situated on the right corner can thrive for decades, even though a spot just a block away would be the kiss of death. Sure, service, value and the food can trump the address, but it is tough. That’s how you know that Taste of Thai…
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Arharn Thai restaurant doesn’t take shortcuts on tasty dishes
“Arharn” is Thai for “food,” and it is a fitting title for this humble, wholesome, well-priced, delicious little restaurant that recently sprang up near the Super Target on Powers Boulevard.Dishes such as steaming-hot, spicy lemongrass soup swimming with shrimp and fresh chopped cilantro ($6), and deep-orange Panang Curry – tart with fresh basil and kaffir…
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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 of Boddington’s…
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DELETE: Manitou Pancake House – is it just for tourists?
The Manitou Pancake House? That place is for tourists,” a friend and longtime Manitou Springs local told me when she declined an invitation to go there with me for breakfast.That certainly is the reputation for the place. In the summer, when the RVs roll in, the parking lot is full. In winter, spots are always…
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Ephraim’s BBQ is quirky; food is seriously good
The squat, shabby buildings that surround Ephraim’s BBQ on Platte Place at first glance seem like an unlikely spot to find some of the most authentic Texas barbecue in town.The light industrial backwater is full of small warehouses and crime statistics that spill over from nearby Platte Avenue.But since the crime rate is high, the…
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Delicious nonconformity at Vietnamese Garden
Most Vietnamese menus in the United States are striking in how similar they are. You got your summer rolls and your spring rolls, your steaming bowls of pho and the ubiquitous combination noodle bowl.Even though Vietnamese cuisine is wildly diverse and highly regional, its American-menu counterpart is often so uniform you get the impression that…
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Find best of the wurst at Uwe’s Currywurst in Manitou
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,…