‘Animal’


Eating Like a Human at Animal Restaurant

July 22nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

Drink up you coward.

On of the big perks of running a meat blog is the number of restaurants people recommend to me.  I always do my best to check these places out, but no restaurant has been recommended to me quite as voraciously as Animal Restaurant.  But Animal is not the kind of restaurant you visit every day.  It resides in that level of restaurants deemed “For Special Occasion Only.”  But last week a special occasion rolled around:  my birthday.  And to celebrate the fact that I have remarkably survived on this planet for 26 years, my perfect girlfriend wanted to celebrate by taking me to dinner at Animal.  Like I said, perfect. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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