Dinner and a Concert

Strix and I are in Telluride for the weekend.  It's pretty cold here, being high altitude and all, but apparently not cold enough for the skiiers who are dying for snow.  It's a beautiful little town, despite all of the trees being dead.  A word of warning, though - there was a sign outside of town that said "Icy Conditions Ahead," and someone had written "PR" before "Icy."  Fairly warned, as they say.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of it, but I was driving.

We wandered around downtown for a little while and found that most of the restaurants here don't open until 5:30 for dinner.  At 5:15, one of them deigned to let us sit down and look over the menu while they got the kitchen up and running.  It was an Rustico Ristorante, an Italian restaurant with an impressive menu of gourmet country Italian cuisine.  Strix had risotto with saffron and rice, and I had rigatoni alla montanara, which is tube pasta with an arrabiata sauce and Italian sausage.  Both were excellent.  The bill, unfortunately, reflected the excellence of the meal.  I only wish I had been in a better mood to enjoy it.

In an aside, the restaurant's website is worth visiting for the music alone.

After dinner, we took a shuttle over to the High School, which has a surprisingly nice theater, to hear the San Juan Symphony play with the combined community choruses from Durango and Telluride.  The concert was very well done, as always.