Tag: dining reviews
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Cafe Pacifica isn’t quite smooth sailing yet
Vanessa Lakey’s philosophy toward food is good ingredients and lots of them. So at her new downtown restaurant, Café Pacifica, the California native — and longtime local — tries to serve simple food right. You will never find a rock-hard avocado or Styrofoam-flavored tomato in her sandwiches. Her green chiles only come from Hatch, New…
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Vietnamese soup perfect on cold day, but not here
It seems unlikely that a country as hot and humid as Vietnam would come up with a dish that is as perfect on an icy winter day as pho.But walk into Pho 54, Colorado Springs’ only pho-specific restaurant, on a brisk December day and you’ll see it is true: steaming broth, golden and translucent like…
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Delicious sushi at Bara Sushi
If you are going to steal an idea, you might as well steal from the best. So when our server at Bara Sushi, the new raw-fish den in the Promenade Shops at Briargate, told us that their treatment of yellowtail tuna sashimi ($12) was lifted straight from Nobuyuki Matsuhisa’s fleet of trendy high-end Nobu restaurants…
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Finally made it to the Penrose Room
20 years in the Springs and I finally made it to the most highly decorated restaurant in the Rocky Mountain region. My wife took me as a surprise for my 50th birthday. It was, of course, fabulous. The after-glow has worn off, though, so I can dispassionately deconstruct: – It was the most we’ve ever…
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Rumi’s Kabab borrows from several countries, including Afghanistan
The menu at Rumi’s Kabab is emblazoned with a photo of the Buddha of Bamiyan, a 121-foot statue carved from the raw rock of an Afghan cliff in the sixth century. In this central Asian country along the Silk Road, the statue’s flowing robes were influenced by the ancient Greeks and Persians. The Buddha came…
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Pizzaria Rustica honored as a green restaurant
Pizzeria Rustica was recently named a Bronze Achiever in the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program. The program, administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recognizes businesses that demonstrate sustained superior environmental performance and consistently operate at a level that goes beyond compliance with environmental regulations. Pizzeria Rustica was one of four Colorado Springs…
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There are moments in life when we must put aside the diets, stifle our super egos, embrace our ids and grab spoons. The kids inside us want something sweet. Fortunately, some of the greatest culinary…
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
There are moments in life when we must put aside the diets, stifle our super egos, embrace our ids and grab spoons. The kids inside us want something sweet. Fortunately, some of the greatest culinary geniuses in our region have dedicated themselves to the art of confection. You want a treat or two. You’ll find…
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A slice of rivalry
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save New York vs. Chicago.It is the classic rivalry when it comes to pizza.Sure, there are other regional contenders: San Francisco with its thin, crispy crust and zest for adding inventively weird toppings; New Haven, Conn.,…
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A slice of rivalry
New York vs. Chicago.It is the classic rivalry when it comes to pizza.Sure, there are other regional contenders: San Francisco with its thin, crispy crust and zest for adding inventively weird toppings; New Haven, Conn., with its mozzarellaless but delicious tomato pies. But in Colorado Springs, The Big Apples’ floppy, foldy, flat slices dominate and,…