Denver: I'm here to eat all of your food

I arrived in Denver after the scariest two day drive of my life and since have mostly been concentrating on scheduling interviews and finding an awesome place to live. I think I have the awesome place to live part worked out (pending any surprises on the criminal background check) which is a huge relief seeing as we are driving with two animals and all of our belongings in one week.

The other part of my time has been spent researching places to eat and drink in the city. I've never had this opportunity: a whole new city to explore that I LIVE in. Amazing. I was racing around on Yelp jumping from review to review, bookmarking the crap out of everything as "To Try". It was all over the map and then I realized I needed some focus.

Since I am a pretty organized person and don't want to go on a food rampage through the city all willy nilly, I'm outlining a very loose plan for the next few months. Here is what I aim to accomplish:

1. Find a place that serves decent pad kee mao (drunken noodles) & has a spice rack (I NEED pickled peppers & sambal in my life). The spice rack may seem minor, but it can make a huge difference.

2. Locate and indulge in $1 oyster happy hours throughout the city. I love a good happy hour and I love it even more when it includes $1 oysters.

3. Go on the hunt for amazing eggs benedict. I love all kinds, be they topped with smoked salmon, veggies or simply with hollandaise.

4. Locate an amazing and cheap mexican food joint, be it a truck or hole in the wall. Sometimes there are times (i.e. hungover) when only a delicious burrito will do the trick. Sometimes you only want to have to eat once in a day and you want that meal to be a 5 pound burrito. Hey, I'm from California and I need my mexican food.

5. This might be wishful thinking, but I love noodles (nothing like a big ass bowl of carbs), especially ramen & udon. If I could find a decent japanese noodle house, then my food life would be complete. One that serves both traditional udon & spicy ramen topped with soft cooked egg and fish cake. Mmmmmm.

So those are my main culinary related goals for the next few months (obviously semi-dependant on my finding gainful employment). Today is day one of this magical food journey...oyster happy hour....I've come up with two options (one on the recommendation of Nick's cousin) for this afternoon depending on where my friend Katie would like to go. I'm so excited to have so many options to try, especially after being painfully limited in Humboldt County.

Here we go taste buds!!