One of my favorite restaurants of all time is Claim Jumper. The nearest one to us in California was about 30 minutes away. Worth the drive every time. Last month I randomly looked up the restaurant’s website and lo and behold there is ONE in the entire state of Colorado! It was only about 40 miles from our house (45 minute drive) in Lone Tree, which is south of Denver. So what did I do as soon as I learned of its location? Called and made a reservation for Valentine’s Day Dinner, of course!

Knowing how long the drive can take with traffic and inclement weather, I made the reservation for 8:00 (last year we received 2″ of snow and drove to dinner in Genesee, barely making our 8:00 reservation.  This year we received 2″ of snow and drove to Lone Tree). We arrived at 7:30, waited for about 5 minutes before we were seated, ahead of about 20 other people. It was great! The food of course, was marvelous! I’m so excited that great food like this is only a short drive a way