Okay, I had to laugh, more than usual at this one:
Westword's eatery snob is really great at his job and this is some funny shit (from this week's featured review) but what today's point is really about...dun da da dun!... D-town getting it's own Lucile's. Lucile's is now my favorite of the boulder brekky places and easily rates the #2 all time position for B-town brekky eating and until now, the Big D (and I don't mean Dallass) didn't really have much in the way of competition with even the sorriest of Boulder breakfasts (to wit: Dot's Awful Wretched Cancerlike VI Cum Wafflehouse Cum IHOP Diner*).Planned communities are the Galapagos Islands of the retail world -- a protected environment where the dim, the flawed and the strange can flourish without predation, safe from the market forces that might otherwise cripple and kill them. Such artificial survivability pollutes the gene pool, and that's never a good thing.
Unless, of course, you are one of those operations existing within the cordon. Then it's the greatest thing in the world. If you're a sea turtle or some kind of freak-ass flying monkey-lizard, then the Galapagos are exactly where you want to be. They're freak-ass flying monkey-lizard nirvana.
Since I've lived in Denver there's been at least 3 and maybe 5 restaurants in the location next to Chipotle @ Logan/Alameda but Lucile's at least last Sunday AM looks like they might pull it off between just being a good place to eat and all us yuppie assholes who went to school in boulder but now can't be bothered to head up there because let's face it we ain't yet made it to being pure d- yuppie boulder fucks.
* Apologies to the Dot-o-philes here but between the not outstanding food and the destruction** two far better establishments earn them the distinction of being on my full-on hate list
** admittedly, both were gone/going anyway but that doesn't alleviate any of the distaste
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