Pat “Gabby Gourmet” Miller is out with the 26th edition of her restaurant guide, Colorado’s ultimate Beadecker for foodies. More than 600 restaurants are listed, and the ones in Denver and Boulder are rated and reviewed.
“I don’t think anyone has to agree with me,” she says. “I just go out and do the best I can.”
The book is arranged by city, neighborhood, cuisine, price — and quality. That last demarcation is what gets people going. Gabby names the 12 very best restaurants as “Heavenly”: Barolo Grill, D-Bar Desserts, Elway’s Cherry Creek, Elway’s Downtown, Frasca Food & Wine, Fruition, L’Atelier, Mizuna, Rioja, Root Down, Shanahan’s and Table 6.
Gabby adds this year a food-truck section. “They’re really big right now and everybody loves them,” she says.
The book, at $16.95, is available just about everywhere. The perfect stocking stuffer, the best gift for the new kid in town.
X marks her spot.
Longmont’s Rachel Crow made it through on “The X Factor” last week — moving into the final 12 people with a shot at stardom. All the judges just love her.
The 13-year-old song belter talked to me from L.A., where she’s hoteling it with her mom, Barbara Crow, getting ready for the next show. “I think my chances are pretty good, I don’t know,” she says. On TV, she’s always glowing and smiling and you can almost hear it through the phone. “I am having the best time of my life. This is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
The numbers the producers orchestrate for the contestants are pretty amazing. They look like Las Vegas revues. But they’re not sexing up Crow. She dresses and looks like a kid on the stage. A kid who can sing. But in a nod to television, this fireplug has lost 15 pounds since her first audition.
Simon Cowell is her mentor on the show. Is he as mean as he seems?
“He is the nicest guy I have ever, ever met,” Rachel says.
Kyle, Gary and Muammar.
In his monologue Thursday night, David Letterman began a new segment, “Phrases we didn’t think we’d be saying a week ago,” and a montage on “Muammar” starred 9News morning anchors Kyle Dyer and Gary Shapiro.
Gary: “Yes, you heard that right. In a freezer in a shopping center.” Kyle: “Stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center as Libyans try to keep it away from curious and angry crowds. O-K.” Gary: “Wow.” Watch it at cbs.com/late_night/late_show/
City spirit.
Nancy Sagar, Lisa Herzlich and Sylvia Atencio were headed for the Playboy Mansion in L.A. for a Halloween Party on Saturday night. Yikes! . . . Brian Regan comes to Wells Fargo Theatre on Feb. 25 . . . Legacy High in Broomfield sends its marching band to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year . . . Sez who: “Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” Mark Twain
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