Bring out your Best in 2009!

Want a taste of the town's best restaurants? We're whetting your appetite by publishing our Best of Denver 2009 Readers' Poll earlier than ever -- in this week's paper and right here online. What's the best new restaurant in town? In the Best of Denver 2008, Izakaya Den took that honor...

By Patricia Calhoun

January 1, 2009

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Want a taste of the town's best restaurants? We're whetting your appetite by publishing our Best of Denver 2009 Readers' Poll earlier than ever -- in this week's paper and right here online.

What's the best new restaurant in town? In the Best of Denver 2008, Izakaya Den took that honor. But a host of new places have opened in the past twelve months, including the Berkshire, Beatrice & Woodsley, Delite, Bistro One, Indulge, Brasserie Felix, Lala's, Farro, Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria, Twelverestaurant, Root Down, Venue, Shazz, Tocabe and, at the stroke of midnight, Frank Bonanno's Bones.

The Best of Denver 2009 itself won't appear until March 26, so that gives you plenty of time to recall your favorites -- and start sampling restaurants you didn't get to in 2008.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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