Reader: Your list of good wine lists was super cool, your headline was not

Denver is blessed with many great restaurants -- some modest, some considerably more ambitious -- and yesterday, Kendra Anderson served up six moderately-priced restaurants that happen to have very impressive wine lists. Their wine lists night be "super cool," but the rest of the post's headline was not...

By Patricia Calhoun

September 23, 2011

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Denver is blessed with many great restaurants -- some modest, some considerably more ambitious -- and yesterday, Kendra Anderson served up six moderately-priced restaurants that happen to have very impressive wine lists.

Their wine lists night be "super cool," but the rest of the post's headline was not.

Writes Wade Sears:

I now know why the Denver restaurant scene is so screwed up. Of the places listed here that I have been to, only mellow mushroom would qualify as "fast casual" anywhere else in the U.S. These are all bars/pubs with food. And I can't really vouch for Mellow Mushroom, since the last time I went there was the original location in Atlanta -- when the' shroom was a Boulder dream: hippies serving organic pizza - no beer, no wine; hell, no bar!

A fast casual place is Biker Jim's, Illegal Pete's or Anthony's Pizza.

The Denver restaurant scene isn't screwed up, Wade: This headline was, and I've changed it to better reflect the content of Kendra's excellent list of wine lists. My apologies!

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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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