Dine Out Challenge Day 4: Who’s Got the &$&%# Map?!?!?!
September 26, 2009
Thursday, the 4th day of our challenge, was the day we headed over the divide to spend a whirlwind 3 days in Denver trying to hit close to 20 restaurants… with 3 kids… and a giant Surbuban… and two adults who apparently were both born without any sense of direction.
The plan was simple: get on I-70, make it over the passes, head a bit north of Denver to Broomfield, quickly visit, purchase, and distribute food from five of our targets, and head South into the city to check into our hotel. Simple, no?
Not so much. I’m not sure how many historic misadventures have begun with the words “Let’s take a shortcut”, but methinks it numbers more than three. I won’t divulge who was driving and who was navigating, but I will say we ended up in Broomfield about an hour later than we had hoped… after getting stuck behind a Casino bus on a two lane road… and after taking a less-than-diligently marked detour… and after taking said detour and discovering our shortcut hooked back up with I-70 just a few miles from where we left it.
Yup. Classic. Three hungry children, two lost adults, and a ‘burban full of frayed nerves. I really can’t do it justice here, but I’m pretty sure our respective children don’t trust us to navigate our way across a room anymore. Ah, well. A little disillusionment never hurt anyone.
So anyway, we ended up eating at The Village Tavern near the Flat Irons Crossing Mall. I have to say, the pleasant interior, friendly waitress, and good, rib-stickin’ fare was enough to soothe our tempers quite quickly. I got the oven-roasted turkey sandwich with potato salad, the kids got shrimp scampi and a grilled cheese sandwich, and Mindi ordered the Maryland-style crab cakes. The waitress recommended a couple of appetizers we didn’t feel we had time to sample – the hot crab dip and freshly fried potato chips with a side of dippin’ ranch. It was a cool place, and we certainly left in better spirits than we entered with.
Unfortunately, however, our navigational debacle ate too much time to hit the other four, so we headed into the city to check into our hotel and get ready for the Rockies/Padres game (so much fun (!) even though the Padres prevailed). We’ll have to head north over the next couple of days and knock the other four off in quick succession…
Tomorrow: More fun, food, and our meeting with the good people of the SAME Café…
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