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What should the city turn The Downs Racetrack and Casino into?
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What should the city turn The Downs Racetrack and Casino into?
| Results so far: | |
|---|---|
| A soccer stadium | (13.33 percent) |
| A community garden |
(26.67 percent) |
| An amusement park |
(20 percent) |
| Something else |
(40 percent) |
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Gifts for Gourmands
ABC Cake Shop
1830 San Pedro NE 255-5080
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store)
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A whole room at this shop is dedicated to displaying wedding cakes, its forté. Kids' cakes can be adorned with anything from Shrek to Kermit the Frog. Basic sheet cakes can be ordered to serve anywhere from 15 to 96 guests (starting at $18.50). Choose from cakes like marble, German chocolate or carrot; fillings like Bavarian cream, blueberry or chocolate fudge; and icings including butter cream, chocolate chipped cream and cream cheese. Cakes aside, a wide selection of danishes, cookies ... and outrageous cupcakes.
Add a review Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Café
2209 Silver SE 262-CHAI (2424) • $
(Vegetarian/health Foods) (Specialty Food Store) (Bakery/sweets)
Credit Cards • Outdoor Patio • Vegetarian Food • Wireless Internet
Meals Served: Breakfast • Brunch • Lunch • Dinner
Winners of Best Vegetarian in our Readers’ Choice Restaurant Poll several years running, Annapurna is one of the only places in town with an entire menu devoted to vegan and vegetarian cuisine, and it shows. The food is satisfying but never heavy and, well, you just feel better after you eat there. The lunch special is a good bet with a spicy Indian soup, rice, wheat-free chapatis (flat bread) and your choice of a vegetable entrée for about eight bucks. Then pick up a bag of fragrant house-made vegan cookies and pop ’em until they’re gone.
Nearby Theater: SouthWest Film Center
Add a review Ar-Ri-Rang Oriental Market
1826 Eubank NE 255-9634 • $
(Korean) (Specialty Food Store)
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Meals Served: Lunch
Ah, the joys of a good bowl of kimchi and rice. Ar-Ri-Rang Oriental Market offers exotic groceries, dishes and cool collectibles. The compact lunch counter is also a fine stop for a tasty Korean lunch. Try the barbecued beef, pork or squid, or the seafood pancakes, and then wash it all down with a cup of hot barley tea. Breath mints not included.
Nearby Theater: High Ridge
Add a review Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop
8050 Academy NE 797-5050 • $
(Ice Cream/smoothies) (Take Out/to-go)
Credit Cards • Outdoor Patio
Meals Served: Lunch • Dinner • Open Late
Need a pick-me-up? How about some real ice cream? We admit it. We’re suckers for Ben and Jerry’s knack for blending the right flavors with just the right amount of gooey, crunchy, salty chunks. Take home a pint or two for your own chunky monkey at home.
Add a review Buffett’s Candies
7001 Lomas NE 265-7731
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store) (Organic/locally Grown)
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As you’re already well-aware, Buffett's Candies is home to the largest candy cane this side of the Mississippi. (Admit it, you’ve always wanted to pop in and see if it’s got melon-sized bonbons to boot.) All the candies are made fresh, with real butter, cream and sugar, and if there are piñons in it, you can be sure they came from New Mexico.
Add a review Café Istanbul
1415 Wyoming NE 294-9900 • $
(Middle Eastern) (Specialty Food Store)
Credit Cards • Vegetarian Food
Meals Served: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner
Driving north on Wyoming from the freeway, you can’t help but notice this grocery-cum-café’s vibrantly painted building. Inside, you can nibble on Middle Eastern fare ranging from hummus to herbed tabouleh and shop for a set of fancy tea cups or a bag of imported sugared almonds. Everything is made fresh to order and vegetarians will appreciate the meat-free selections.
Add a review Cake Fetish
2665 Louisiana NE 883-0670
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store)
Credit Cards • Vegetarian Food
Meals Served: Breakfast • Lunch
Cake Fetish is a boutique bakery with a singular passion for cupcakes (it won Best Cupcakes in the 2007 Best of Burque Restaurants Poll). Not only that, the shop makes teeny, tiny cupcakes. Dense, two-bite buttons of cake, so you can comfortably troll through 30 flavor concepts like "Velvet Elvis," red-velvet cake with cream cheese icing; or minty, dark-chocolate grasshopper, mounded with fluffy French buttercream. This is one instance where you can have your cake and eat it, too. Regular-sized cupcakes also available.
Nearby Theater: Winrock Theatre
View/Add reviews [ 2 ] The Candy Lady
524 Romero NW 243-6239
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store)
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Stop in for a chocolate fix or to pick up some old-fashioned candies, restock on sugar-free treats or order a “titillating” birthday cake. We love The Candy Lady—and we collectively awarded her a tie for Best Chocolate Confections in our 2007 restaurant poll. The truffles are 100 percent orgasmic.
Add a review Collectabili Tea
7101 Menaul #C 884-0505 • $$
(Coffee/tea/espresso) (Specialty Food Store) (Bakery/sweets)
Meals Served: Lunch
Having lunch here is kinda like having tea time with Grammy and Aunt Netta, minus the bourbon and cigarettes. There is an astounding collection of fine imported teas, available by the cup, pot or loose to take home, and even though the daily menu is modest, it is seriously gourmet. The house scones are always the same—cranberry almond and lemon apricot—but after you try them, you’ll see why. And if antiques are your thing, they’ve got ’em in the front and the back. They also sell on consignment with available space, so call them for details.
FULL REVIEW: Collectabili Tea (6/15/2006) Nearby Theater: Winrock Theatre
Add a review Cupcakeology
2000 Carlisle NE 266-1115
(Bakery/sweets) (Coffee/tea/espresso) (Specialty Food Store)
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Winner of Best Cupcakes in our 2008 restaurant poll. With a rotating baking schedule of 32 cake and frosting combos, this place is bound to have a cupcake that calls to you. The “Monkeybutter” (banana cake topped with butterscotch butter cream) will have you swinging from a tree with its moist crumb and lightly flavored icing, as will the flufly cream cheese frosting on the red velvet, the triple-dose coconut and the adorable "Bun Bun" (chocolate cake topped with baby-pink marshmallow and shredded coconut). Everything is baked from scratch and nothing less than real butter gets mixed into the frosting. Small tables and coffee complete the feel.
FULL REVIEW: Saratori’s di Tully and Cupcakeology (3/6/2008) Add a review Dagmar's Strudel House
2120 Juan Tabo NE 293-1982 • $$
(German) (Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store)
Meals Served: Breakfast • Lunch
After a hiatus, Dagmar’s has come back to us in a new Northeast Heights location! Whether it’s a full German breakfast with jagerschnitzel the size of a baby’s arm, German rye bread and späetzle , or a big honkin’ breakfast burrito, the food here is large, affordable and fantastic. If warm apple strudel is one of your favorite things, then you're in luck—Dagmar’s has that in abundance, too. Winner of Best Other National Cuisine in the 2007 restaurant poll.
Nearby Theater: Winrock Theatre
Add a review Enchantment Chocolates
3107 Eubank NE 294-2470
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store)
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Do you like fudge? Cuz this place in the Scottsdale Village shopping center sells, like, a jillion kinds of the stuff. Taste a little bit of each so you can pick out your favorite before taking home a pound.
Add a review Fremont’s Fine Foods
1100 San Mateo NE 792-DINE • $$
(Deli/sandwiches) (Specialty Food Store) (Take Out/to-go)
Credit Cards • Outdoor Patio • Vegetarian Food
Meals Served: Lunch
Fremont’s is good for a lot more than shopping for obscure imported groceries and fine teas. Its location (in the lower level of the Courtyards at Lomas and San Mateo) has a lovely patio space and professional kitchen. You can choose from a small lunch menu of sandwiches and salads like the Fremont’s chef: a small mountain of field greens piled high with grape tomatoes, baby carrots, crisp shards of seedy lavosh, rolled deli meat slices, Swiss cheese, egg and avocado. If you opt for a sandwich, make sure it’s on the house-made honey whole wheat bread. Then pick up some lovely imported candy bars and other sweets for dessert.
Add a review French Riviera Bakery
4208 Fourth Street NW 343-0112
(Bakery/sweets) (French) (Specialty Food Store)
Delivery
Meals Served: Breakfast • Lunch
You have enough to worry about without the stress of not knowing where your next baked good is going to come from. Have a buttery fruit pastry, a slice of pie or buy a loaf of that nice, spongy white bread to take home and tear off chunks to stuff in your mouth in a secret corner of the kitchen. We won’t tell.
Add a review Golden Crown Panadería
1103 Mountain NW 243-2429 • $
(Bakery/sweets) (Specialty Food Store) (Pizza)
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Meals Served: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner
Shopping in Old Town can be an exercise in restraint, but feel free to splurge on a snack at Golden Crown Panadería. Have a fat, fruit-stuffed empanada or a flaky dessert flauta. And if you want biscochitos, these are so good they were featured on the Food Network and in Gourmet magazine. For the more savory eats, try the green chile bread, loaded with tomatoes, cheese and onions, or a fresh bakery pizza. Yes, GW does pizza, too. And coffee drinks.
View/Add reviews [ 2 ] The Grove Café and Market
600 Central Ave SE 248-9800 • $$$
(Deli/sandwiches) (Specialty Food Store) (American)
Credit Cards • Booze Served • Outdoor Patio • Vegetarian Food
Meals Served: Breakfast • Brunch • Lunch
This ray of sunshine in East Downtown serves gourmet breakfast and lunch, sells housemade English muffins and has a mini-shop filled with goodies like honey, jams, mustards, vinegars and an antipasto bar. The hot and cold sandwiches are dandy and come with twee sides of sliced bread-and-butter pickles and fruit salad. There’s also a large, shaded patio. Team this up with an espresso bar, wine service and “Sangria Saturdays” and the power of triumvirate treats—and what our readers say is the Best Brunch in Burque—awaits you.
View/Add reviews [ 1 ] Hannah and Nate’s Home Décor and Market Café
6251 Riverside Plaza NW, Suite B-4 922-1155 • $
(American) (Specialty Food Store)
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Meals Served: Lunch
Get a little taste of the farm right here in the city. Hannah and Nate’s is a country gift shop and a lunch café, so come in for a portabello salad and some potpourri, or a spinach salad and some ceramics. The sandwiches are as stuffed as the handmade pillows, and the prices are down-home and hospitable. And all you rebel sickies out there, tip the servers, not the cows.
Nearby Theater: Movies West
View/Add reviews [ 1 ] India Kitchen
6910 Montgomery NE 884-2333 • $$
(Indian) (Specialty Food Store)
Credit Cards • Booze Served • Vegetarian Food
Meals Served: Dinner
The intimate India Kitchen has a large vegetarian menu that’s dotted with exciting combinations of fruits, nuts and vegetables. If tandoori tempeh isn’t on your radar, a steaming bowl of lamb mulligatawny might be right on target. Be sure to shop a little from the selection of spices and gifts up front. Voted Best Restaurant to Pretend You're in a Foreign Country in the last Best of Burque Restaurants poll.
View/Add reviews [ 1 ] India Palace
4410 Wyoming NE 271-5009 • $$$
(Indian) (Buffet/all-you-can-eat) (Specialty Food Store)
Credit Cards • Booze Served
Meals Served: Lunch • Dinner
Voted Best Indian in the 2005 Readers’ Choice Poll. Indulge in the lavish lunch buffet, or go for dinner when you’ll have a more relaxed meal with great service and an icy cold beer. There’s nothing like a steaming plate of saag paneer to wash those blues away; but if that doesn’t work, head next door to the gift shop for some uplifting Bollywood videos and posters.
Add a review Just a Bite Bakery
7900 San Pedro NE, Suite A-13 822-5001
(Bakery/sweets) (Deli/sandwiches) (Specialty Food Store)
Meals Served: Lunch
This mother-daughter bakery specializes in special occasion cakes, some boxed lunches and a suprisingly large selection of mini-cupcakes filled with ethereal creams, berries and other unexpected delights. The cupcakes look less than perfect, but everything else is down pat—the flavors and textures are just how we like ’em and among the very best we’ve had.
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