WE ALL SCREAM FOR BREAKFAST BANANA SPLITS
Sam’s No. 3
1500 Curtis St., Denver
The perfect way to cheat on your diet – without cheating on your diet? A banana split down the middle dashed with vanilla yogurt and dressed with strawberries and seasonal fruits. Served in the traditional glass boat with a sprinkling of crunchy granola. Available all day. No questions asked. No eyebrows raised.
MEET THE BEETLES, THE GIANT BEETLES!
John May Museum Center
710 Rock Creek Canyon via Colorado 115, Colorado Springs
Eight thousand creepy bugs as big as your head line the rooms of this museum southwest of Fort Carson. Moths with 10-inch wingspans. Stick insects 17 inches long. And the relatively puny Hercules beetle, 9 inches in real life but magnified to 16 feet long at the turnoff to the museum.
HIGH STYLE,
NOT HIGH PRESSURE
Parallel Seventeen
1600 E. 17th Ave., Denver
Two-day-old Parallel Seventeen is the sort of place chef-owner Mary Nguyen had been looking for all over Denver. Slightly swanky but not too cool. An Uptown spot where it’s OK to linger over wine and a few small plates. Hers is a Vietnamese take on the bistro; look for that fragrant influence in everything on the menu, including the gingery Asian Glo cocktail.
