The Taste Of Lone Tree

Hamburg and Seared Tuna Sliders from Leo Cafe'

Friend Mike and I headed over to the Taste of Lone Tree last weekend. It turned out to be pretty nice weather with the sunny hiding behind some clouds. Overall, this event was a wonderful experience. Unlike Taste of Denver, one pays a $10 entry fee and can eat as much food as he/she can handle (where as in Taste of Denver you end up spending $50 on a meal that wouldn't feed a picky five year old.) the samples were generous, the servers friendly and the music killing. (Turned out the music was provided by a former coworker Jeff. We ended up talking for a half hour. If you're ever looking for a DJ he's your man.)\

There was probably about dozen to twenty booths for food and another dozen or so for art. As far as food goes, the vast majority of the restaurants that participated in the fair were located around the United Artist Theater, but there were a few from the Park Meadow's Mall area and a restaurant named Mosaic (with their short ribs in brown sauce with sour cream, chives, and black Hawaiian sea salt) off of Lincoln. Sushi was overly represented with four booths the best one was John Holly's hand roll of Ungi and mango-- a surprisingly tasty combination. Granted sushi probably isn't the best sampled at 90 degree weather so we'll have to visit the restaurants to see them in they're true glory. My favorite food was by far the sliders from Leo's Cafe', which appears to be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Newly opened Grazio's brownie dessert melted Friend Mike's heart. Grazio also had the clever idea of handing out free gift cards that were any where between $3 to $20. The catch was, however, you won't know how much it's worth until you use it at the restaurant. Coupons and discounts ran wild at the booths.

For the most part the art work was typical nature, flowers, Colorado landscape pictures and photos. But I did end up getting a piece with gold fish on a red background and a quilt card from two different booths. I thought the quilt booth was interesting because it's not an art work you find anymore and all the pieces were so beautifully done. Another 'art' there was Cadillacs and I think Mike spent much more time looking at these beauts then any booth on the strip.