À Côté - My Will to Power

À Côté 
2245 West 30th Ave.


I like to think of À Côté  as Z Cuisine's  baby sister. A sassy, pain in the ass, punch you in the face kind of sister who is the most fun, but the kind of fun that inevitably leads to someone getting arrested. Until that moment where those cuffs hit your soft and delicate lady wrists, you are suffocating in freedom from an adrenaline that can only come from something illegal... a fun you have never known and will never relive.

Overwhelmed with passion and love and the warmth of the most romantic of ambiances, I am transported into another time and dimension as I walk through the door of À Côté. Without hesitation, I am compelled to throw caution and even my ladypants to the wind. I forget my responsibilities and stress and work and life and my brain is screaming I LOVE GLAMOUR and my life is perfect and how many minutes will it take me to suck down this Josephine (an incredibly subtle yet stiff little cocktail.)  Tonight the world is without problems.  Tonight I shall live in the glow of light and pate and beautifully cured meats that dissolve on my tongue which would totally give me a mouth boner if it wasn't already erect from the anticipation of my arrival.  It is impossible not to experience happiness in its most pure form, the kind that can only derive from dining in the perfect setting with your dearest friends. This is Denver's little Midnight in Paris, where you are smarter and prettier and more elegant than you have ever been and everyone around you is brilliant and no one makes mistakes or shares regret. For this one night, you have everything you have ever wanted and you want everything you could ever have and your ambition and heart know no boundaries and you know your purpose in life and you understand the meaning of everything.

Even though the food stands on its own as some of the best you can find in the city, it is only one component of this most incredible place, where you know your destiny and you are surrounded by perfection and there is no such thing as wrong and you just wanna fuck everyone's brains out. But you don't because you know that the moment you step outside of those doors and the dizzying joy that previously overwhelmed you fades, you might be kind of grossed out that you let it go that far. So instead, you keep your dignity on your person and soak in this moment. You appreciate what you have in life and think to yourself I can do anything. Why was I being such a pussy before I walked in here?

Because everything is beautiful at À Côté.