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I was zooming down I-25 through New Mexico, trying to knock off the thousand miles from Denver to Tucson in a day, when I saw a billboard that made me hit the brakes: It was for the Owl Bar in San Antonio, just a wide spot in the road --...
By Patricia CalhounApril 2, 2009
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I was zooming down I-25 through New Mexico, trying to knock off the thousand miles from Denver to Tucson in a day, when I saw a billboard that made me hit the brakes: It was for the Owl Bar in San Antonio, just a wide spot in the road — but home to the world’s best green-chile cheeseburger, according to Jason Sheehan.

Sheehan hasn’t steered me wrong on some of Denver’s best green-chile cheeseburgers: at Steuben’s and the Cherry Cricket. I also love the green-chile-covered cheeseburger at Jack-n-Grill.

But all thought of any other burger disappeared at the first taste of an Owl burger — a thin, griddle-fried patty covered with oozing melted cheese, onions, pickles, lettuce, tomato and sense-searing green chiles.

For this cheeseburger, I’d gladly drive another thousand miles.

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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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