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Brasserie Ten Ten
Posted by : Chef on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 07:55 PM
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This is a classily designed fine dining restaurant. Inside you will find classic cuisine, white linens, polished silver and stemware handcrafted walnut woodwork and Carrara marble mosaic floors.
Located at 1011 Walnut St., Boulder’s this French restaurant makes you feel you could be dining in Europe, New York or San Francisco. But although the atmosphere is big city, the prices are not. Appetizers and desserts cost under $8, lunch entrées are under $10 and dinner entrées range from $9 to $22.
The menu is “French-inspired,” uses French cooking techniques that include saucing, braising and sautéing as well as preserving meats as comfits. Weekly specials take advantage of seasonal local and regional produce.
To accommodate local taste buds and health concerns, the chef created lighter sauces and vegetarian options. His napoleon, for example, is a crisp black-bean cake with grilled tomato, eggplant and artichoke compote, dressed with crème fraîche and crisp fennel. French classics include bouillabaisse, cassoulet and coq au vin.
A current favorite is marinated, grilled skirt steak served with a trio of sauces—goat-cheese crème, salsa verde and Brasserie cocktail sauce. I really liked the coquilles Saint Jacques with diver-caught sea scallops, a citrus beurre blanc and orange-and-avocado salad, served with jasmine rice.
For Desert, the apricot-maple tarte Tatin has fresh apricots caramelized in maple sugar, cradled in a puff-pastry shell and served with warm vanilla-bean ice cream is exquisite. The white-chocolate blackberry explosion is a molten blackberry truffle inside a warm white-chocolate pistachio cake is served over a pool of wild-berry coulis.
If you are looking for a special place to take your significant other for a special occation or just “because”… you will make a good choice going here.
Brasserie Ten Ten is at 1011 Walnut St. The phone number is 303-998-1010.
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Benjamin tries Fish and Chips
Posted by : Pamela on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 07:38 PM
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The Meal:
I first heard about south Denver's GB (Get Battered) Fish & Chips from a friend who was very excited about finding this place on Broadway.
Now, I love fish and chips and try them at a lot of different restaurants, but it's a complicated love, because with so many dry, mealy, over battered fish-and-chips platters so heartlessly served in so many soulless restaurant chains across the land, it's a dish I rarely find worth the effort to try most of the time.
GB also fries tilapia, prawns (shrimp), oysters, squid and scallops, to varying degrees of success. I must say that I think the cod is the only way to go.
They have other British dishes which you may or may not like as they are very different from American food dishes. The individual pork pie, faintly spicy sausage meat encased in a buttery-brown pastry was a fine example of egalitarian British pub food that may be your cup of tea but is not mine.
Pasties (meat-and-vegetable-filled pastries) were also ok for having flaky crust and flavorful fillings which you can take and back, by the way. Or you can try the super-salty Walkers potato crisps, imported straight from Britian. And another: surprisingly good New England style clam chowder, creamy and clam-packed. Give this one a B+
They also serve a shepherd's pie, a layered dish of beef, vegetables and mashed potatoes, which are a bit different and only good when piping hot. . And the bangers (English sausage) were too bland for my taste buds.
1311 S.Broadway Denver, CO 80210 Tel: 720-570-5103 11.00am - 9.00pm Daily
The Movie:
Before seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button I wondered how I would react to the story of a man who is born old and gets younger as he grows up. Of all of the stories I have come across, this is by far the strangest. But I did not think it would be very good as I prefer action movies.
How wrong I would have been. This film is by far one of the best if not the best of 2008. The film from start to finish does not let up. There are moments of joy and ecstasy followed by sorrow and understanding. The characterization is amazing and very believable. All members of the cast have done a fine job with this film.
Brad Pitt stars as Benjamin, a boy born an old man who must live his life in reverse. His friend from childhood, Daisy, is played by Cate Blanchett. The story is narrated from Benjamin's point of view with some particular highlights from Daisy.
The cast does nothing wrong. Pitt leads with Blanchett and a strong performance from Taraji P. Henson as Benjamin's surrogate mother Queenie, the only person in the world who seems to understand and truly love him from the start. Other cameos along the way bring a large array of characters, including Tilda Swinton, one of Benjamin's early love interests.
The film spans from the end of World War I to the the arrival of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The transitions from life stage to life stage and decade to decade are seamless. The film does a tremendous job at maintaining a steady flow of action and dialogue. There is not a dull moment in the film.
Even with a runtime of about 160 minutes, time just flies by, much like it does for Benjamin, only we are going forward. This is a tender and meaningful film you do not want to miss.
Note: Movie is filled with adult content and is NOT for kids,
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