Squeaky Bean

It has been a while where I left a restaurant here in denver extremely satisfied.  5280 did not make a mistake by naming squeaky bean top 10 best new restaurant of 2010.  Located less than a mile from my school, I haphazardly decided on this place with my roommate 5 minutes after swim practice.

Our autumn squash salad featured 2 types of roasted squash.  The spaghetti squash was sandwiched between two crispy pistachio crackers.  The hollowed out sections of the delicata squash were filled with stracciatella, a mixture of mozzarella and cream that I was unfamiliar with.  The sweetness from the squash was a beautiful complement to the creamy and saltiness of the cheese.  A small frisee salad with a spicy mustard dressing was the 3rd component of this appetizer.

Our second small plate was roasted suchokes with a braised and crispy pork belly, poached apples, red onions, apple chips, frisee and a medium poached egg.  Each individual part was superb, but in combination was truly amazing.

We ordered the kobe beef short ribs entree which they generously split for us.  The meat was so tender, i felt so guilty eating it with the ratio of fat being at least 50%. You can probably see it the fat on the ends....The radishes 3 ways were interesting as was the asian style spicy cucumber salad.

Nothing from the dessert menu really striked us so we drove down the street to little man ice cream.  I was hoping for mocha chocolate chip but, it was not an available flavor, so i picked the salted oreo ice cream.  Delicious dessert for under $2.

Also, they have a $1 pints of ice cream to commemorate sub zero temps until 9pm tonight!

Plate Score: 9.5  


thanks brigitte! :)

Food trucks

With food trucks popping up like fro-yo places in the last year, i attended my first food truck party which had an 80's theme.  The justice league of street food hosted their 3rd event of the season in an empty lot behind coors field.  In attendance were many food trucks including fat sully's, the little orange rocket (the people behind deluxe), pinche tacos, steamin demon (folks behind watercourse) and denver cupcake truck, denver biscuit bus, biker jims hot dog and the great divide brewery.  I went with my roommate and her friend around 7:30 last friday night.  Upon arrival the place was already pretty crowded as we immediately jumped into line for fat sullys pizza.  The lines were long and we quickly decided that the best way to get the most food in the shortest amount of time was to split up.  I waited in line for pinche tacos and was soon greeted with a thin slice of cheese pizza, crispy and hot from my roommate and her friend.  It was amazing! a great slice even if you are sober.  Pinche tacos were $3 each, i ordered the beef tongue which was triple cooked, served crispy, with avocado, onion, cilantro roasted tomatilla salsa and guajillo honey mayo, yummy! The creamy chipotle chicken taco however was easily forgettable.  


While my roommate waited in line for the little orange rocket, I waited in the steamin demon line which was considerably shorter.  Coincidentally my old roommate was standing right behind me double fisting two beers from the great divide.  I had a sip and it was pretty hoppy, not exactly my thing.  I was excited for the thai rice noodle dish but was disappointed when they were sold out.  I settled for the loko moko which was white rice, pinto bean cake, fried egg, avocado and some sort of gravy.  It was good and homestyle, not exactly what i was expecting but still good.  when we finally got up to the little orange rocket, my roommate order fried truffled mac and cheese balls and the lamb sandwich.  We were given one of those restaurant buzzers and were informed that the wait would be 25 minutes.  We quickly found  we parked ourselves at a nearby patio table as we people watched including some individuals with ridiculous 80s outfits.  When the buzzer went off, my roommate lept from her seat to retrieve her food.  I took a bite of those cheese balls and could definitely understand why people really enjoy them: FRIED, CHEESE and TRUFFLES a sure win!  My roommate complained that her lamb sandwich which was a ground patty had too much dill yogurt sauce on it.  I thought it was good and her friend devoured the naan bread it was served on. I was pretty full by this point as we sat right by the inventing room stall, Ian Kleinman's catering company who uses liquid nitrogen to make ice cream. We watched group after group order the ice cream sandwich which was two 4 inch espresso fudge cookies with strawberry ice cream and housemade marshmallow....maybe next time

Little Man Ice cream

Looking for my favorite mocha chip but settled for the equally delicious Pumpkin chip ice cream at Little man ice cream, even on a snowy february night :)