Magazine salutes Denver's finest

The Denver Post
May 27, 2001

Magazine salutes Denver's finest
Author: Bill Husted

Edition: SUN1
Section: A
Page: A-02

Baby, you're the top.

And you'll know it when you read 5280 magazine's Top of the Town issue, due out Monday at a newsstand near you.

Here's a preview of some of the winners. The city salutes you.

Top womenswear: Nancy's Paley's Edward Dorian on Larimer Square.

Top menswear: Lawrence Covell.

Top athlete: Ray Bourque.

Top columnist: Post's Tina Griego.

Top sports columnist: Post's Terry Frei. (Readers' choice, Woody Paige, of course.)

Top husband and wife: Leo and Susan Kiely.

Top local loudmouth: Tom Martino.

Top radio personality: KBCO's Bret Saunders.

Top TV personality: Channel 4's Teresa Marchetta.

Top ski resort: Snowmass Village. (Has anyone at 5280 been to the ghost town resort lately?)

Top overall customer service: Bell Plumbing. (Readers' choice, Wines Off Wynkoop.)

Top burger: Sunflower in Boulder. (Huh? Readers picked Cherry Cricket, as they should.)

Top pizza: New York Pizza.

Top sushi: Hapa - in Boulder and coming soon to Cherry Creek North.

Top steakhouse: Del Frisco's.

Top comfort food: Emma's.

Top breakfast: Annie's Cafe.

Top salad: McCormick's.

Top Caesar salad: Campo De Fiori.

Top place for a first date: Emma's.

Top doughnut: LaMar's.

Top macaroni & cheese: Mizuna. (Because it's also loaded with lobster.)

Top sub: Spicy Pickle.

Top mountain restaurant: SIX89 in Carbondale.

Top waitstaff: Campo De Fiori.

Top bartender: Tim Harris at Jax.

Top margarita: La Cueva.

Top martini: Sacre Bleu.

Top Bloody Mary: Bistro Adde Brewster.

Top band: Cabaret Diosa.

Top new restaurant: Mizuna. (Yeah!)

Top reason to watch the local TV news: Fox 31's Phil Keating. ("Because he's real," says 5280. "Articulate, smart, funny." Even at the Funky Buddha? Readers' choice: Fox 31's Libby Weaver.)

Some good choices, some off target. But that's what gets us talking on a Sunday morning.

Hunter on his high horse

Hunter S. Thompson praised Patrick Roy in his espn.com column this week - and seriously dissed Denver for getting on Roy's case in October for the domestic violence hubbub.

"Denver is a very bad town for suddenly being stigmatized and gossiped about in the usually churlish media," Thompson writes. "You don't have to spend too much time in Denver to understand there is a distinctly Hyena-like quality about the People. Indeed, the troubled history of Denver suggests very strongly that these people have an overweening habit of turning savagely on each other, given even the vaguest excuse or cheap reason."

City spirit

Colorado's Cody Wood, 17, is listed by YM Love magazine as one of the 50 Cutest Guys in America. ... The 2002 Mask Project has snagged Danny Glover as the National Entertainment Chair - he'll be hitting up Hollywood types to paint masks for the April 27 gala. ... Wine Brats Denver meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wolfgang Puck Cafe. ... Save Aug. 5 for the Denver International Polo Cup. ... The Do at the Zoo, one of the summers best parties, gets in gear June 21. ... Sez who: "Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on." - Budd Schulberg

Bill Husted's column appears Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Bill also appears Thursdays on Fox 31 News at 9 p.m. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or BillHusted@aol.com.

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PHOTO: Keating