After saying our goodbyes, we left Glenwood Springs with amazing memories. We were on the road for only a couple of days, but it already felt like we were on a vacation going around for weeks. During the 6 hour train ride from Glenwood Springs to Denver, we were lucky to enjoy the magnificent views of the Rocky Mountains ands run into John and LJ who have been living in the Denver area for a long time. John recommended the Colorado History Museum and the Modern Art Museum in Denver. He also really recommended that we take the B bus that goes to Boulder, Colorado. At this point of the conversation, LJ joined in. She suggested several amazing places to eat and even was kind enough to say that should would drive and take us around if she wasn't working :) She just loved Bolder. The more recommendations John gave about places to eat, the more obvious it became that he was a huge foodie. It turned out that he was actually a pastry chef himself!
He suggested a restaurant called ACE, which was close to the place that we booked over Airbnb. Apparently the place serves Asian comfort food such as Dim Sum and had a great ping pong area. What a marvelous combination! So this place stood out from their several suggestions, and we decided to go there tonight. We also couldn't turn down John and LJ's offer to drop us off to ACE from the train station. Such an awesome couple!
Either way, after having some amazing pork belly bun, crispy shishito peppers & Brussels sprouts with lime mayo and pork & ginger shumai as small plates, we moved on to the Kung Pao pork loin. Everything was very original and tasty. We were really looking forward to the ping pong portion of the dinner, but were not able to play due to a private ping pong party going on this Tuesday night.
Also following John's recommendation as a pastry chef, we walked for 10 minutes down 17th street with all our stuff to The D Bar. It was very cold outside and we were already full, but I insisted to give this desert place a shot. After seeing the menu, I lost control and ordered both "Nola" - a brioche bread pudding with brandy butter sauce, cinnamon ice cream and port soaked raisins, and the legendary "cake & shake", which was a huge piece of rich awesomeness as a 3 layer chocolate cake and a fresh and tasty vanilla milk shake on the side to accompany and ease the richness of the desert. Wow! You can imagine how well we slept that night :)