Restaurants

Fidel’s opens in former Metro Kitchen/Fat Daddy’s

Fat Daddy's -- the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook -- was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen + Bar, which was done in by -- well, who knows what.But now the...
By Patricia CalhounJanuary 20, 2009
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Fat Daddy’s — the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook — was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen + Bar, which was done in by — well, who knows what.

But now the space is back in business, with a big “now open” banner for Fidel’s hanging out in front.             

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. 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 (probably for her bar tab). She’s 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, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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