Directory of Diners: Colorado

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The Carnation

Lakewood
2/5/99: I just sent you a review of my cafe. Mawbeys Cottage Cafe. I then checked out what you had in the Denver area,as I am going there on vacation in march. I'll be visiting a cousin and the last time I was there he reccomended we have breakfast at The Carnation. Awsome,busy, reasonable, clean. I did not have the slaw however . I am not sure of street address. Worth checking out!! Also a few years back I was able to escape the harsh wisconsin winter for a month in Tucson, Arizona. Check out the Hungry Fox. Some of my older customers who winter down there turned me on to that place. I went there almost every day for b-fast. I was on a first name basis with the waitresses before I had to fly home. I always ask the snowbirds where they eat when they go south, and a lot are going to the Vegas area. And they all said in their christmas cards they have not found an equal to Cottage Cafe. They have to cook for themselves. If you know of any, Please let me know. We all know there is somebody offering an alternative to corporate crap, and its probably tucked away in some obscure area. I also found a real diner on the way to Florida some years back. It was in Goergia, almost to FLA, and I can't think of the town. Suzies Diner I think it was, I will think of the town and let you know. I was so sick of Waffle Houses I got up one mornin, and asked myself, "Where are the locals eating!??" I got out the "paper back phone book" and found it. Ya just gotta look. We also do B-fast all day and have a great cup of fresh ground blended coffee for ninty cents. Cheerfully kept full. -- Review by Joel Mawbey

Durango Diner

957 Main Ave., Durango
Pancakes as big as my head and just as dense. Coffee that seemed to be lacking something. Reminicent of the Tom Waits line about "My cheeseburger star ted beating the shit out of my cup of coffee and the coffee was too weak to defe nd itself." Service was less than impressive. Sometimes, in your travels, it's best to abandon the guidebooks when you're looking for local color and head for Denny's (while I agree with the sentiment, that last sentence should not, under any circumstances, be taken to be the opinion of this page, or its parent corporation, DaveNet inc., ed.)-- Revew by Bob Cohen

Reese Coffee Shop

Denver, CO, on Curtis street between 14th and 15th.
The decor and menu could have been that of a thousand diners in a thousand towns, but did that ever slow a dinergoer down? Denver's skid row slipped out from around Reese's, leaving it to the mercy of a freshly scrubbed corporate downtown, but it seems to be mulishly persisting. Breakfast Burrito ugly but good, the way they should be in the west. It was a fine place to meet Betty Jane, once we found out she wasn't missing; she'd dyed her hair red because the peroxide kept attracting unwanted solicitations.