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Guess where I’m eating?

Long before other Denver restaurants started offering pico de gallo -- or naming themselves Pico De Gallo -- this Mexican eatery was making fans with its "special" salsa. Among the fans eating there Sunday night: former mayor Wellington Webb and some of his extended family and, just a table away,...
By Patricia CalhounDecember 14, 2009
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Long before other Denver restaurants started offering pico de gallo — or naming themselves Pico De Gallo — this Mexican eatery was making fans with its “special” salsa. Among the fans eating there Sunday night: former mayor Wellington Webb and some of his extended family and, just a table away, restaurateur Cliff Young (CY Steak) and some of his extended family.

Can you guess where we all were eating?

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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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