I may be an orphan, but I’m thankful this Thanksgiving Day that I’m not at the Orphan Thanksgiving Party at Donkey Den, Grenade and Gavi.
The trio of hot spots at 11th and Lincoln offers a traditional all-you-can-eat turkey dinner at Donkey Den for $40, a fancy four-course dinner at Gavi for $85 – all with an all-day, all-you-can-drink, in all-three-joints special for $20.
That’s what I want to do. Drink for 12 hours while I’m eating turkey. Sounds like “Rise and Ralph” at CSU. The joints will also offer Xbox contests, pool, darts, the Broncos game on TV and “traditional Thanksgiving board games.” Yikes.
“I’ve been dreaming about doing this event for a long time,” says promoter Kevin Joseph at Event Savant. “It’s too far for me to go home to New York for three days. The sizzle to this is it’s a great post-feast fest. It’s better than going to a movie. A lot of fun can be had here, but it’s very experimental. We’ll see.” Check it out at orphanthanksgiving.com.
The good news is, by going to some clubs on Thanksgiving, maybe you can hook up. A recent survey from AXE (a company that studies how 18-24-year-olds get along) ranks Denver as the ninth “Best City for Hooking Up.” Seattle is first; Birmingham, Ala., at 80th, is last.
Hooking up means different things to different people, but you may be interested to know that the survey says: More than three times the number of guys (20 percent) than girls (6 percent) said they would hook up with someone after knowing them for only five minutes. Pass the gravy!
Talking turkey
There are lots of places to eat your Thanksgiving dinner, but the best deals seem to be McCormick’s Fish House & Bar at the Oxford Hotel and McCormick & Schmick’s at DTC, $17.95 for turkey and all the fixin’s.
Eat at Aspen
One of Hunter S. Thompson’s campaign promises when he ran for sheriff in Aspen in 1970 was to change the town’s name to Fat City so the moniker wouldn’t be commercialized. He lost. Aspen became a cologne and now it’s a Thompson-themed restaurant in NYC.
The new Aspen restaurant-lounge on West 22nd Street in Manhattan looks like a ski lodge, reports the NY Post. It’s owned by East Coast nightclubber Greg Brier (Groovejet, Jet East and Jet Lounge). And it has a private “Gonzo” dining room with a “massive mural” of a young Thompson.
City spirit
Sightem: Jake Plummer and friends at Cucina Colore on Sunday night celebrating the Jets shutout … Free parking in Cherry Creek North at Clayton Lane garage Friday, American National Bank garage Saturday and Second & Josephine garage Sunday … “America’s Most Wanted” sent host John Walsh to Aspen last week to tape a segment on Ronald L. Young, wanted on embezzlement charges. It aired on TV Saturday night and the guy was caught in Fort Lauderdale on Monday … Sez who: “Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Halftimes take 12 minutes. This is not coincidence.” Erma Bombeck
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears on Fox 31 News. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
