Starving Artists Find Food At Illegal Pete’s In Denver
If your group is touring through the Denver Metro Area in Colorado, Illegal Pete’s will feed you. In hopes of making the road a little more comfortable for artists, the restaurant, which looks to serve some amazing Mexican breakfast and cuisine, is filling the bellies of musicians passing through. Their “Starving Artists” program offers free food to bands. In return, all Illegal Pete’s wants is for groups to tell their friends and fans throughout the globe of their good tidings and tasty burritos.
Spearheading the program is Virgil Dickerson, CEO of Suburban Home Records, and Andy Thomas, a local musician and music journalist. With it, the two aspire to get like minded people into the restaurants and create a community atmosphere for musicians and fans alike. Artists interested in grabbing some grub are urged to stop in or make contact by email at music(at)illegalpetes.com.
Really? It’s new to me.
Well, gee. THAT was constructive. Thanks, but I haven’t played Denver, so I hadn’t heard about this (quite frankly) great thing that these folks are doing for touring musicians. Then again, when your time is being spent perfecting your craft, you sometimes miss things. Like when trolls started creeping hypebot.
There are similar programs in other cities (I remember reading something about a restaurant in Chicago doing it). But since some of these are location specific, it’s good to know where to get food in each town you are passing through. If every city has a place, then perhaps we can compile a list of places for traveling bands to stop.
Illegal Pete’s has great food (and locations in Denver and Boulder) so I highly recommend it. It’s affordable even if you have to pay for it yourself.