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Doing the Arizona Restaurant Week at Bloom

October 23rd, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Oh cheesy joy.

Oh cheesy joy.

LA isn’t the only place in the world to offer a restaurant week.  Arizona also flexed their restaurant week muscles last month.  At $29 for a three-course meal for every restaurant listed (as opposed to LA, which has three different price levels), it’s important to pick the right place.  They also note that the price is $58 per couple.  Thank you, but I can do math.  I know that 29 x 2 = 58, so if you’re not going to offer me some sort of couples discount, I really don’t see the point of showing me this.  Mathematical anger aside, we decided to head to Bloom, a fancy American restaurant. 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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