I've been to FoodHedz World Cafe in the middle of the day for an after-hike lunch. Click here to read my previous post about owner/chef David Welch's culinary credentials and a
bout one of those lunches. Yesterday evening, I went there for early dinner after showing cousins from Washington, DC, around some of the Colorado high county. They are staying in Breckenridge, and when they asked for dinner suggestions as we pulled off I-70 at Frisco, I suggested FoodHedz -- conveniently right there. I enthused about what a warm, welcoming place it is with first-rate food and moderate prices. Even on a rainy Wednesday, it didn't take long for every table to fill up, and there was even, briefly, a line.It was a hot soup evening, and Georg and Paul each selected one. Two of the evening's soups were smoked chicken and Olathe sweet corn chowder (below left) and New England clam chowder (right) -- and I had a taste of each. In some places, one cream soup base would be prepared, with chicken and corn stirred into one and clam pieces in the other in the very last minute. But at FoodHedz, even though the two soups' colors were similar, they tasted distinctly different and were both delicious.
Having succumbed to the lure of house-made fudge while we were in Leadville, I decided to go light and instead ordered a house salad (below). I figured that the crisp greens, julienned carrots and cucumber and a bit of tomato, all caressed by a gentle basil oil and Balsamic vinegar dressing, would cancel out the fudge excess. Maybe it did -- at least a little.
Georg chose the Pan Seared Pork Filets (below) with roast green chile, goat cheese polenta,red chile pork natural jus and mango salsa. Four thick pieces of pork topped with chile alternated with triangles of polenta, with pretty yellow salsa in the center.
Paul and I both ordered the Grilled Diver Sea Scallops (below). Three of the four gorgeous scallops perched on a large slice of tarragon-roasted tomato, and a fourth was hidden under a small tuft of salad in the middle. Toothsome saffron orzo with laced with scallions accompanied the scallops. A lovely, light chardonnay lemon butter finished the dish.
We wanted desserts that would glide down easily and settle in with what we had already eaten. A large scoop of vanilla ice cream surrounded by fresh strawberries, two scoops of Espo cinnamon gelato and three spoons were perfect.
Price check: At dinner, soups, $4.95; soup and salad, $9.90; entrées, $18.75-$21.95; desserts, $5.50 (I think).
FoodHedz World Cafe's address is 842 Summit Boulevard, Frisco. That is between Wal-Mart and Safeway in the Safeway Shopping Center along Colorado Highway 9, just south of I-70. Look for the Wells Fargo bank. FoodHedz is just to left, under a sign that only announces: Cafe. The phone number is 970-668-2000. It is important to remember that FoodHedz is closed on Sundays and Mondays -- and will be for a few weeks later this fall before ski season begins.
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I had no idea that was there! I'll have to check it out next time I'm up that way.
I ate there a while ago, after winning a gift certificate to Foodhedz in the Summit Trail Race. I had a great bean dish and my friend had something more filling. We both liked the food, but it's a bit pricey so we haven't been back.
FoodHedz may be pricey compared to the abundant Tex-Mex places, pizza parlors and pubs, but IMO, it is extremely reasonable when compared to restaurants of comparable quality, using comparable ingredients and with a kitchen captained by a real chef and not just an elevated cook.
The locals seem to love this place. Unfortunately, it is closed until November 10, 2008. the note on the door indicates they will be offering expanded options when they reopen.
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