Reader: There is no great barbecue here!

Patricia Calhoun June 3, 2011 6:49AM

The days are getting hotter, which means it's prime time for barbecue, whether in your backyard or one of "Denver's five best BBQ joints," as listed yesterday by Laura Shunk.

Mr Sauce would add Moe's, a homegrown chain that got its start in Vail. JimRome is nominating Serious Texas BBQ, with outlets in Loveland and Durango.

And then there's this from UncleDave8:

Well, this should provoke a lively response. The truth is that if you've ever had real BBQ then you know that there is no great BBQ in Denver. Period.

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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.

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