Samurai.Chris

Okay, I promised myself I would write about this, and have been kind of slow getting to it. Back at the beginning of July, I road-tripped with the missus and the madre back to Colorado to visit friends and family (it was so wonderful to see you guys!!!!).

 Let me wander off on a tangent for a moment... I promise, it's relevant. Have you ever seen "Swimming to Cambodia"? It's basically a film of a live performance piece by Spalding Gray (God rest his soul). In it, he talks about how when he travels, he looks for the 'perfect moment'... that experience that crystalizes the purpose of your trip and tells you it's okay to go home.

 Back to Colorado. I had such a perfect moment. In a restaurant, of all places. See, part of the rationale behind our trip was to attend the Eisenhauer family (my wife's maternal family) reunion in Estes Park. I've loved Estes Park ever since I was a little hemophiliac camper at the YMCA Camp (location of the reunion, coincidentally), so it was a no-brainer for me.

 Anyhow, on the evening of the 4th of July (don't ask me about the significance!), we found ourselves without dinner plans... so we decided to head into town and try one of the many restaurants we saw on the way up to the Y-camp. Our first stop was at an Italian place that looked really shee-shee and appealing, but totally blew us off because we didn't have a reservation and they were an hour behind on the evening as it was. Sucks to be them... they might be getting the effusive review to follow, if they hadn't been so totally indifferent to us.

 Moving on down the road, and following one of my uncanny hunches, we settled on dining at the Sundeck restaurant. What a delightful twist of fate.

 After a short wait in the bar, playing the peg board game, we got our table, and were attended to with utmost professionalism and courtesy. That's all well and good... should be expected by any respectable restaurant. That's not the story, though.

 The story was the meal. I opted for the Forelle Blau, which is their house specialty. It's a poached rainbow trout (apparently caught out of the river 10 minutes before cooking!) with drawn butter and parsley potatoes. In short, it was the BEST MEAL I'VE EVER HAD. I would not kid about such a thing.

 Should you find yourself in Estes Park and looking for a good place to eat, take my advice and get thee to the Sundeck and have the Forelle Blau. They also make a killer 'Gangster', if you're the drinking type.

 Buon Apetito!

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