Saturday, August 7, 2010

Upscale Mexican, creative Mediterranean -- in 1 day













Friday was a great food and drink day for us in Denver.

For lunch, we went back to Rioja, where we had dinner a couple of nights ago. It's on Larimer Street (I said Lattimer below, my bad) aka Larimer Square, the best part of Denver we've seen.





Our lunch included the Rioja Picnic (top photo), quite a presentation, consisting of artisan meats, pine nut crusted goat cheese balls, a hunk of gorgonzola, an array of delicious olives (inside the lettuce cup), truffle fennel salad, orange confit and almonds. Plus the crackers. Yum.





George had a terrific halibut dish -- second photo -- with all kinds of great veggies.





For dinner we went over to the Highlands District to Lola, the Mexican spot. Very creative approach to the food, nothing at all ordinary, and all quite good. The tableside guacamole service was a treat. My friend and I both had grilled escolar with chorizo enchiladas -- a terrific dish but way too big a portion.





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