Chicken Rock Paper Scissors
Posted on | February 25, 2008 at 9:16 pm | 1 Comment
My Oscar wrap-up will have to wait, I guess. We got back from dining a bit late last night and only managed to watch the first couple of hours of the Academy Awards before we got just plain tuckered out. We’ll watch the rest in a few days. It’s impossible to avoid the results however, and from what I’ve seen, it looks like it pretty much went as I thought it would. One happy surprise was the Best Song winner, which is what N & I were pulling for and was the major reason we wanted to watch the show. So we’re looking forward to seeing that award presented, as well as the actual performance. All day long yesterday before dinner, we were puttering around the house duetting “Take this stinking boat and point it home, we’ve still got TYYYYYYMMMMMME…”
Instead of going modern for Denver Week Restaurant week like we did last year, we decided to Old School It this year and eat at the Briarwood Inn in Golden. I swear, it’s been at least 20 years since I last ate there, and I don’t think the place has changed at all. Eating in the main dining room is like eating in your gramma’s house, especially if your gramma lives in a really big old mansion-type house with dim lighting, lots of dark wood, and antique furnishings. It’s fairly “elegant” – some place where you probably wouldn’t feel right in jeans – but not too formal either. It’s pretty much upscale comfort food. $52.80 for two people is a pretty good deal there. The DRW menu was limited but still had some variety. I got the prime rib, which was nicely cooked and a very hearty cut (I could only eat half), while N got the Chicken Rochambeau, which was very rich, decadent, and mouth watering. I wanted to trade. We also both got the spinach salad, which was tasty and dripping with bacon dressing. The highlight of the Briarwood was thankfully left intact for DRW diners – their appetizer tray. The tray is part of every meal and is packed with lots of huge shrimp on ice with cocktail sauce, and a variety of special crackers with different spreads (duck and chicken liver paté, smoked salmon butter, fresh vegetable marinade with mozarella, select cheeses blended for dipping, spinach and water chestnut mousseline). Really, you could do the whole meal just with that and go away satisfied. The dessert tray (”an assortment of Fresh Fruits and Petit Fours”) wasn’t as good, but by that time we were too stuffed to care and just took most of it home. The service was good, even to us DRW “slummers”.
I wish we could’ve tried out more restaurants throughout the week, but alas I’m on call at work this week. Plus, eating out every night, especially at $50, can be a bit of a drain on the wallet and not too good for calorie-watching either. I’d love to be a restaurant critic, but I don’t know how they do it.
So tonight it was back to leftovers. Until next year.
Latre.
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February 26th, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
When you go to Golden, just take the Coors tour and drink your dinner. We ate at the Table Mountain Inn which is probably touristy.