We joined Historic Pueblo Inc a few months ago and have been to two events: a tour of the Elks Club building on N Santa Fe last month and a fly fishing demo at the Nature Center yesterday. We saw how fishing flies are tied. Fascinating!
At the recommendation of one of Mark’s friends, we tried Cuca’s, a small neighborhood Mexican restaurant, just north of Northern, on Routt. We expected we would be the only nonHispanic people there (and we were), but our money is green – and that’s good because it is a cash only place. We liked the food, the people, and the decor. Nice place to sit and relax with friends. Bonus: they serve huevos rancheros all day.
A few weeks ago, Mark and I were in Trinidad and ended up eating in a tiny Mexican restaurant called Habaneros, I mean tiny. The food was great! It turns out they have a bigger place – at least three times as big – near Cactus Flower on the north side of Pueblo. The food was equally great. I had chicken tacos, really spicy. I liked the colorful furniture too. The menu is huge, so we will have to back often to try it all. And, of course, I forgot to take a picture of the food.
Rocco’s Riverside Deli (1300 W 4th St ) has fresh food made-to-order. It’s clean and friendly – Coco took our order and made sure it was correct. I had a panini and Mark had a salad; both delicious. It’s a busy place. Mark said: another visit soon.
I am still working on how to do a restaurant blog. I forget to take a photo of our food until I have eaten some, and that’s just not a good picture to post. Trust me: it looked great!
I convene the group Pueblo Makes. We are the people who support makers. We include schools, colleges, universities, libraries, makerspaces, maker groups, etc.
We are working now on adapting for our use Mark Hatch’s list of verbs in The Maker Movement Manifesto: MAKE, SHARE, GIVE, LEARN, TOOL UP, PLAY, PARTICIPATE, SUPPORT, CHANGE. We have added ADVOCATE and PROMOTE, and CURATE. We have groups working on answering the question: what does this word mean to Pueblo?
Email me at janemfraserphd@gmail.com if you would like to join the group.
What choices! We had Tivoli pasta salad, Pueblo stuffed baby bell peppers, ground lamb, and Tivoli chicken bocadillo. Mark gave the food the best compliment: “This is worth a revisit really soon.” Bistoro, 109 Central Plaza.
Mark and I have now had lunch at El Nopal (1435 East Evans), Momo (716 N Santa Fe), and Rockee’s (123 N Main). Since both El Nopal and Rockee’s are Mexican, we had the same items to compare. I had Mexican pizza and Mark had chile rellenos. Same name, very different, all good! How do they keep the tacos so crisp under all the meat, chile, cheese, beans, and rice? Both places seem very successful, with regular customers. “Medium” hot chile (actually half hot and half mild)? I drank a lot of water at Rockee’s.
We have eaten at Momo many times, but not recently. It is still very good. The three of us (our neighbor Jessi joined us) had a variety of food and it was all good.
Remember that I don’t intend to do detailed reviews here. I also should state that Mark and I have polo shirts with the logo “easily amused” so we aren’t fussy people. We like food and we love Pueblo.
The group I convene, Pueblo Makes, has a website at https://pueblomakes.com/. We are working to add more resources to support makers, creatives, and artists in Pueblo. You can make suggestions at the bottom of the home page at the website. Please do so!
Since I have retired, Mark and I plan to go out to lunch more often, at locally owned restaurants, so we made a list (I did it in Excel, of course). We included no chain restaurants, and only restaurants in Pueblo (I did list a few in Colorado City); we have over 100 on our list. I will be refining the list and I am not sure what the total number will be, but I will call it 100 restaurants. If we eat lunch out together once a week, we have almost two years of restaurants! I don’t intend to write reviews, but rather to celebrate each.
#PuebloMakes food.
David Packard, one of the co-founders of Hewlett-Packard, was born in Pueblo and graduated from high school here. As a child, he experimented with rockets, and one exploded in the house, damaging his thumb. His mother returned home to find the front door open and a trail of blood.
This story was told in Pueblo by David Packard’s grandson, David Orr, on 21 June 2019 at the announcement of the $20 million Sperry S. and Ella Graber Packard Fund for Pueblo, named for David Packard’s parents, who lived almost their entire lives in Pueblo. David said that his grandfather showed him his damaged thumb while telling this story.
Tinkering has deep roots in Pueblo.