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Davies Chuck Wagon Diner is now a triple threat

The Davies diner horse has overlooked West Colfax for fifty years. In the beginning, there was Davies Chuck Wagon Diner, a classic diner that's stood sentinel at 9495 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood for fifty years now, serving up the area's Best Chicken Fried Steak as well as other greasy-spoon...
By Patricia CalhounNovember 11, 2008
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The Davies diner horse has overlooked West Colfax for fifty years.

In the beginning, there was Davies Chuck Wagon Diner, a classic diner that’s stood sentinel at 9495 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood for fifty years now, serving up the area’s Best Chicken Fried Steak as well as other greasy-spoon classics.

Last year, Davies’s owner Dwayne Clark opened a second outlet at 2601 West Alameda, taking over for a longtime breakfast spot that was, well, just greasy. And then, this past weekend, he introduced a third Davies outpost: at 12100 West 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, inside a Howard Johnson’s hotel.

Now, if he could just clone that horse….

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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.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com
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