The July Mutt Of The Month

I took the photograph above of the July Mutt of the Month tied up in front of the entrance to Venice, an upscale Italian restaurant in Lower Downtown Denver (LoDo), located just around the corner from the Wynkoop Brewing Company. And no - I wasn't dining at Venice, but just feeding the meter while dining at the Wynkoop. Just for fun I checked out Venice's webpage when I got home and found that all of the items on it were in Italian, although the descriptions below were in English. Spaghetti con Polpettine is, of course, spaghetti and meatballs. I would complain about the price for it, but everything seems to be expensive at restaurants these days, even at Olive Garden. You would have saved a mere 8 bucks dining there instead. And in case you were wondering, Venice has the largest wine cellar in Colorado. Of course they do. I just hope the owners of that dog were not having a three-course meal while their dog was tied up out there. As I recall, it was starting to get chilly. The least they could have done was to send out the sommelier with a decent vintage for the poor thing. Who knows - perhaps they did after I left. One can only hope.