we hiked across the road from the Red Rocks area (which was totally jammed; there was even a long line just to get to the parking area for the visitor center. When we hike here we will, for sure, go during the week.) at a place that also had horse stables for rides in the Blue Diamond Hill area.
The map we had was not very good and neither was the description so we 'wasted' quite a bit of time trudging around huge mounds of horse dung and laboriously making our way down the soft sand trail. Finally when we got up to a lookout we could see where we should have gone which we started doing.
I'm glad we didn't turn around and just leave because the hike turned out to be lovely; with a great trail that had super switchbacks and the view at the top of the city and the red rocks was worth the stumbling frustrating start.
So since we were in the diversified "this is where its happenin'" part of town we took advantage of the culinary offerings and ate at this greek restaurant. What a lucky find.
It was just beautiful with a great outdoor area with blue and white lights and lots of plants and comfy places to sit in corners and under arbors and the inside was just as inviting. The atmosphere was noisy fun festive. Service was superb and the portion size and prices were very reasonable.
We shared an appetizer of puffed sesame seed pastry stuffed with a ricotta and feta mixture which was light and flavorful. We also shared a gyro plate and a small Greek salad. The dressing was wonderful; full of herbs and there were lots of tomatoes and slabs of feta cheese and kalamata olives. The gyro meat (we picked a combo of beef and lamb; they also had chicken) was great and this came with a large portion of tender slightly lemon flavored rice and some vegetables.
Wonderful ending to another day on the road.
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