Foodie fodder. The Broker restaurant at 17th and Champa streets celebrates its 37th birthday this week by giving price-rollback presents to ladies and gents who lunch.
In a noshing nod to the ’70s, lunch-menu prices include tossed salad for 75 cents and prime rib for $4.95. Nonalcoholic beverages are 95 cents, and desserts are $1.50. Reservations: 303-292-5065.
Baur’s Ristorante, 1512 Curtis St., goes even further in the wayback machine to offer menu prices from 1958, if you donate $58 per couple ($30 for one) that will go to the Junior Symphony Guild, founded in 1958.
With the dough donation, you can get prime rib for $5, desserts for $2 and martinis for $1.50. Reservations: 303-534-4842.
Eavesdropping. A guy with four pals each holding a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer at Jax Fish House in Denver: “This doesn’t look like Denver; this looks like Milwaukee!”
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