For whatever reason, it has taken me 2 years to try Colterra in Niwot, just outside of Boulder.  In hindsight, it was a large mistake to wait so long.  I had the pleasure of eating dinner there on Saturday night with my CU Law colleague Brad Bernthal and was very impressed. 

First of all, I’m going to like any restaurant with a good cheese course and these folks will serve cheese as an appetizer or dessert.  (I know of one regular reader of this blog who would probably do cheese courses for both).  We ordered the Ossau Irraty and the Haystack Chevre.  Yummy. 

Appetizers included a wonderfully complex, yet familiar corn chowder and crostini that was baked just right.  Main courses were a super tasty rissotto with scallops and lobster claw and a ahi tuna that seemed like it was San Francisco, not Colorado.

The wine list was diverse and interesting as well.  The two negatives were mosquitos – we tried at first to eat outside and got eaten alive and the service, while competent, lacked a certain warmth that the food clearly exhibited. 

All in all a really nice experience and will try again.

The other night I went to Frasca with the Foodzie folks from TechStars.  On the way to dinner, I snapped these two pictures of the most incredible rainbow that I’ve ever seen. 

Waiting at the end of the rainbow, was indeed a pot of gold, in the form of a wonderful dining experience.  I’ve been to Frasca many times, but they were completely on their game, even in the absence of Bobby.

Three items that really shined were the Guinea Hen Tortelloni, the House made Russett Gnocchi and the Shaved Long Family Farm Pork Leg, which was the best pork that I’ve ever eaten.  I’m a "swine is fine" guy, so I have a lot experience here.

Bravo, Frasca.  Bravo, Rainbow.

Along with venture capital, music and stirring up some occasional controversy, I also have a passion for food.  

Born and raised outside Detroit, I can’t honestly say that I was brought up a "Foodie," but I certainly can’t complain about mom’s cooking.  The ten years that I spent in San Francisco Bay area definitely honed my culinary acumen.  To which I decided to start posting some review on restaurants I hit in my travels.

Last night, I had the pleasure of dining with Mike Steinberg at Cut in Beverly Hills.  It’s part of the Wolfgang Puck empire and normally I’d be a bit suspicious.  My previous Wolfgang Puck experiences included the awful Spago in Palo Alto, CA (thankfully now deceased) and the wretched Wolfgang Puck Grill in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Plus, despite my proclivity to watch Iron Chef, I have general negative connotations about celebrity chefs.

Well Cut changed all that.  Wow, what a great meal.  It’s a steakhouse, but might be the best one that I’ve been to.  They bring out the beef to the table and show you raw, what you are about to eat.  Mike and I split a wonderful and highly tastes Blue Fin Tuna Tartare and then at Mike’s suggestion ordered the Butter Lettuce Salad. 

Butter lettuce salad you ask?  How boring?  Uh, no.  It was perhaps the best dressing that I’ve had on a salad (champagne herb vinaigrette, if you must know).

Next came the big boy toys – the meat.  We decide to go Kobe beef, one American from Snake River Farms in Idaho and one a true Japanese imported steak from Kyushu.

I’m a huge Kobe fan and was shocked when both Mike and I preferred the American version over the Japanese version, although both were superlative.

With any great steak, a nice Cab is in order and we did ourselves proud with a 2005 Ghost Block.  Yummy.

Dessert was the cheese plate, which was wonderful and some crazy banana thing that I shouldn’t have ordered as I was full.

Service was wonderful, too.  Friendly, not stuffy and very competent.  I’m sold.  If you can get in, go for it.