Reader: Here's why we need a health department...

There's lots of action on the Denver restaurant scene -- the ongoing controversy over Frank Bonanno's fight with the health department, the upcoming Tavern Platt Park...and today, the opening of a new Bubba Chinos downtown, just steps away from City Hall, which will be serving up free chile cheese fries...

By Patricia Calhoun

July 13, 2012

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There's lots of action on the Denver restaurant scene -- the ongoing controversy over Frank Bonanno's fight with the health department, the upcoming Tavern Platt Park...and today, the opening of a new Bubba Chinos downtown, just steps away from City Hall, which will be serving up free chile cheese fries from 11 a.m. to noon.

And one comment ties much of the action together.

Says Jon S of the new Bubba Chinos:

I am as excited about this as I am about the new Platt Park Tavern. Which is to say not at all.

Also, everyone knocking the health department in the Bonnano story should really remember these two words as a reminder of why we need a health department: Bubba Chinos.

Have you had experiences with the city's health department? Post them below...or join the conversation already under way here.

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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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