PROJECT ANGEL HEART – DINING OUT FOR LIFE 

April 19, 2005

   Next Thursday, April 28^th, is the 11^th annual Project Angel Heart fund-raiser that the people of this metropolitan area have turned out in great numbers to support. Project Angel Heart has been around since 1991 serving folks with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses in Denver and Colorado Springs. 

How can you help? It’s as easy as lifting a fork.  Dine at any one of over 200 restaurants in Denver/Boulder for breakfast, lunch or dinner and 25% of your food bill will go to Project Angel Heart. Please patronize these restaurants throughout the year.

Here’s a list of muh favoritist eateries that are participating this year. For the complete list visit www.projectangelheart.org and click on the link to participating restaurants. The master list is broken down by region, has full details including links to those restaurants that maintain websites and also indicates which meals are being served. The following is only a partial list. The list is broken up into neighborhoods that none of you will really understand. Just check each list for your favorite. As for the chains, I’ll mention them once and hope you’ll understand that if you don’t see them in your section I got tired of listing them. So there’s only one Wahoo’s listed. 

Aurora: Luigi’s Bent Noodle; Sam’s No. 3; and Kenny Sonoda’s. 

Boulder: Full Moon Grill; KT’s BBQ; The Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant; and Wahoo’s Fish Taco.  

Capitol Hill  - Central: AIX Restaurant; Avenue Grill; Bastien’s; Benny’s Restaurant & Tequila Bar; Chedd’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese (now there’s an oxy moron for you); Cherokee Restaurant; City Grille; Club 404; Cuba Cuba; Dazzle; The Earl of Sangies; Emma’s Restaurant; Enzo’s End Pizza (including deliveries}; Gateaux Specialty Cakes & Pastries (ooh la la); Goodfriend’s; Goosetown Tavern; Las Margaritas: Le Central; Lik’s Ice Cream Joint; Little India; Luca d’Italia; Mizuna; Panera Bread (13^th & Grant ); Panini Grill; Pasquini’s Pizzeria Uptown; Piscos; Potager Restaurant; Racine’s; Randolph’s in the Warwick Hotel; Red Room; Sonoda’s; Spicy Pickle; String’s; Tom’s Home Cooking; and Wolfe’s BBQ. 

Are y’all getting hungry yet? Now let’s head East.Cherry Creek: Amore Restaurant; Barolo Grill; Restaurant Brix; Cherry Cricket; Chez Jose; Chinook Tavern; Fourth Story; Gelato d’Italia; Go Fish Grille; Manhattan Grill; Mao Asian Bistro; Mel’s Bar & Grill; Panera Bread; Piatti; and Rodney’s;  

Remember I ain’t including ones I don’t like or don’t know anything about. New we can head back West.

Downtown: 1515 Restaurant; 9^th Door; Appaloosa Grill; Bistro Vendome; Café Berlin; Del  Mar Crab House; Dixons Downtown Grill; Duffy’s Shamrock; Il Fornaio; Jax Fish House; Little India; Panzano; Red Square Euro Bistro; Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant; Rioja; Rocky Mountain Diner; Sam’s No. 3; Saverino; Sonoda’s; Tamayo; Vesta dipping Grill; Wazee Supper Club; Wynkoop Brewing Co.; and Zengo Restaurant. 

Now we head back East again. Getting tired. And hungry.

East Denver: Annie’s Café; Bull and Bush; Cherry Tomato; Kate’s at 35^th; Nonna’s Chicago Bistro; Senor Pepe’s; and Tante Louise.  

Now we mosey up to the west side.Northwest Denver: Bang; Café Brazil; Gaetano’s (another Hickenlooper eatery); Highland’s Garden Café; Mead Street Station; Pagliacci’s Italian Restaurant; and Trattoria Stella. 

And scoot way down South.South Denver: Blue Bonnet Mexican Cafe; Carmine’s on Penn; Casablanca; Fresh Fish Company; Imperial Chinese Seafood Restaurant; La Fogata Mexican Restaurant; Monaco Inn; Palace Chinese Restaurant; Pearl Street Grill; Rodney’s; Seven 30 South; Sushi Boat; and Washington Park Grille.  

Now moving towards the East againSoutheast Metro: Bourbon Street Pizza, etc; City Pub South; Deli Tech; Great Northern Tavern; La Fogata Mexican Restaurant II (ate there yesterday, yummy); Las Brisas; Luigi’s Bent Noodle; Pesce Fresco; Rodney’s; Sahara Restaurant; Sansone’s Bistro; Sushi Wave; Trapper’s Chop House; Venice Ristorante Italiano; and Yia Yia’s. 

Whew! Sure am getting stuffed!  

Going southwest and then west.Southwest/West: Attivo’s Pizza & Pasta; Jose’s Restaurant; Romano’s Italian Restaurant; 240 Union; Chad’s Grill; Café Bisque; Moosehill Cantina I & II; and the T-Wa Inn.  

Up towards Wyoming we go.Northwest Metro; Bloom; Il Fornaio; Jewel of India; KT’s BBQ; and Tokoyo Joe’s

Way out west in the burb’s there’s Restaurant Kody (Evergreen); and Table Mountain Inn (Golden).  Maybe next year they’ll get more participation from eateries in the East and West sides of town. 

   Cya.

NMMNG Jay Fox’s column can be viewed at his website, www.jayfoxcpa.com, along with the past two plus year’s of dining columns. You will also find all kinds of good tax planning advice, financial calculators and the latest in tax news. In his real life Jay is a CPA. He just writes this column for the money.