Dining Out for Life Today: Good Food for a Good Cause

Eat well and do good for Project Angel Heart.
By Patricia CalhounApril 24, 2025
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Cheers to Dining Out for Life.

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Where are you eating dinner today? What about happy hour? And isn’t it time to treat yourself to a long lunch?

Today, April 24, is Dining Out for Life, back for its 31st year. When you patronize a participating restaurant – whether for breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner or takeout – 25 percent of your check will be donated to Project Angel Heart, a nonprofit that provides medically tailored meals for Coloradans living with severe illnesses, including HIV/AIDS. That was the major focus when the nonprofit started thirty years ago, but it’s since expanded its scope in both service and geography.

More than a hundred restaurants are participating this year; check the list on the Project Angel Heart website…and then get out and eat!

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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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