Travel + Leisure magazine and “Live With Regis and Kelly” each hold the fate of a Denverite and Denver itself in their hands. Travel + Leisure is conducting its annual America’s Favorite Cities survey, and city booster Rich Grant is stumping for the Mile High City.
“Denver is one of the top 25 cities, but the bad news is we always score near the bottom in some categories,” Grant said. “It’ll be real embarrassing if Denver falls behind the new cities (in the survey) of Cleveland, Houston, Kansas City and Providence.”
Last year, we scored No. 1 in the athletic/active category but 24th for destination restaurants. That’s Limburger. You can’t swing a rack of Colorado lamb without hitting a great eatery around here.
Show ’em who’s best. Fill out the survey at 2009/survey.
If “Live With Regis and Kelly” airs White Chocolate Grill founding partner Bobby Fitzgerald‘s one-minute video on his grilled citrus soy glazed salmon this morning (9 a.m. KWGN), voters have until 8 a.m. Saturday to vote for Fitzgerald to win the show’s Ultimate Hometown Grill Off.
See the video of Fitzgerald and his 7-year-old daughter, Kate, at regis . The winning chef will grill on the show next week.
White Chocolate Grill opened in the Vistas at Park Meadows last fall.
Party on the patio.
If you’re looking for Denver’s bold-name businessmen and women Wednesdays through Aug. 19, look no further than the patio and outside courtyard at Elway’s Cherry Creek.
Wednesday night, Opie Gone Bad kicked off the Fifth Annual Summer Music Series and rocked the house. Seen tapping a toe or two: Metropolitan Homes honcho Peter Kudla, CPA Lenora Nearen, clothier Craig Andrisen, former Bronco David Treadwell, golf guy Greg Vickers, “The Single Man’s Guide to Cooking With Beer” author Streeter McClure, former federal Judge Edward Nottingham, former City Councilman Ed Thomas, real-estate broker Rollie Jordan, PR pooh-bah David Kenney, the Look Beauty Boutique owner Gina Comminello and Gabby Gourmet ad rep Trisha Lindeman.
Concert info: .; click on “what’s new.”
Eavesdropping.
A man at Elway’s during the first concert on the patio Wednesday: “Why go on a safari when you can go to Elway’s?”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@ .
