The dining adventure begins: Red Table

Northern Colorado Restaurant Blog: The Doctor Dines Out. January 22, 2012 OK, my wife claims that I eat out more than anyone she knows, and my friends and acquaintances are constantly asking my advice on restaurants, so this is my attempt as what will probably be a weekly blog. If someone reads this and has a suggestion (please try the great Bulgarian Restaurant in Timnath, for example), that’s cool. So, in the last 48 hours I have been out to eat twice. This last Friday noon I went to the Red Table Café on Linden in Fort Collins. This is one of those places on my “gosh I should really try this sometime” list. First, the owner’s wife used to work with my wife, so that’s a plus. And it’s it Old Town, which despite the great parking search, means that I can wander around afterwards and buy tea or spices or books. I hadn’t been yet because they don’t open until 8am, which for an employed breakfast lover is a negative. You either decide you are going to be late to work or you just look at someplace else that opens sooner. But…as I perused their menu in preparation for going, they serve breakfast all day, which is a secret guilty pleasure. The decore inside is quaint and with a homey feeling. I ended up ordering the "Breakfast at Tiffany's Burrito," which has spinach, onion, mozzarella and scrambled eggs wrapped in a flour tortilla then smothered with a green chile. The green chile has a slight bite to it but is not the kind that overwhelms the rest of the food. The other thing I realled liked was the fact that I got a small fruit cup instead of a ton of breakfast potatoes. This may sound odd, but when you get the potatoes at some restaurants then you mentally go through gyrations of trying to decide how close to that low carb diet you really are going to go. Then the potatoes start calling to you. And, before you regain consciousness half of them are ingested. The Tiffany burrito was a great way to have a something that feels likes it should be bad for you but really isn't--yum! The folks I ate with had the Avocado Burrito, the Potato Burrito and the Patrami Reuben and didn't leave anything behind. If had been my family we would have passed and shared and made yummy sounds together, but these were business associates so I can only surmise that what they had was good. The rest of the menu looks interesting. Nice salads, bagel sandwhiches, and pizza. They had gluten-free bread, which I guess is cool. Haven't quite decided about the gluten thing. It seems to be kind of a dietary badge of importance for our current generation. Not the true Celiac disease folks, but the ones that have had a saliva test that says they should never eat bread again. No wonder church attendance for the standard denominations is down--you can't have communion and be a gluten groupie at the same time, right? But, maybe it is a real thing...I will have to be more open. The only other thing I would have liked food wise would have been something with salmon--gotta have those omega-3 fatty acids. And, my cousin Andrew works for the North Atlantic Salmon Foundation, so it would be anti-family if I didn't have Salmon often. All in all it was a good experience, and I will be back. Coming up next: Greek Food. So stay tuned....Berm.