Denver Eats - Tony's Market

So, before we went to Charlie Brown's for dinner, my friends and I were walking around looking for a market to buy some water and we stopped by here:

Tony's Market (Picture from the site)

Tony's Market
950 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: 720-880-4501
Fax: 720-880-4496

Store & Bistro
Sun: 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Mon - Thurs: 7:00 am - 8:00 pm
Fri - Sat: 7:00 am - 9:00 pm

Live Music at the Bistro!
Friday Nights - 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Tony's Market. It reminded me a bit of Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, but slightly more market like because it had a deli and things like that. They had a lot of specialty items that regular markets would not normally carry, which was neat, but I have to say I believe that we were all drawn to the pastries. They had a very large selection and I am bummed that I did not take a picture of their display, but since we were looking for bottled water and they did not carry just regular water, we decided to go get the water elsewhere and come back to get the desserts.

So the people from Tony's said that there was a 7-11 up the street that sold water, so we walked there and as we arrived to our destination...we were at a liquor store. Luckily they sold gallon water bottles, so we bought 2 and walked back to Tony's for our desserts.

Before getting the desserts, we walked around some more and I saw this:

Oh my goodness! I love popcorn and I love smoked Gouda, so I had to buy this to try. The guy at the deli department said that it was good and then asked if we came in earlier and left. I guess a group of Asians walking in and leaving and coming back does not escape unnoticed. We chit-chatted about the water we were looking for and he told us that they carried $18 bedazzled water, and here it is:

This water is manufactured in Beverley Hills. The price is inflated due to the packaging obviously, but I think he said that maybe one person had bought it...or maybe he said he had never seen one person buy it...I can't remember, but this water seems pretty ridiculous.

So after all of that, we choose our desserts and they wrap them up and we went back to the hotel. After dinner at Charlie Brown's, we cracked them open to try.

Boxed up desserts ~yay!~

Creme Brulee Cheesecake

Taste: I thought this cheesecake was pretty sweet, but then again I am not big on desserts unless it is a fruit tart (or something with fresh fruit in it) or tiramisu. This flavored cheesecake was the closest to creme brulee flavored anything that I have tried (and the last thing I tried was Ben and Jerry's Creme Brulee ice cream, which I did not particularly like because it reminded me of dulce de leche), other than the real thing. Very creamy and rich, like cheesecake should be. I could not eat more than 3 bites from it. It was a bit much for me.

Apple Cake

I picked out this apple cake and everyone agreed to try it. I have to say, I was a little disappointed because I was hoping that there were going to be apple bits in the cake, but alas, there were none. The layers of icing were a bit overwhelming for me as well, but it was really good because it was a cream cheese frosting. I think that the cinnamon dusting on the top was a little excessive and it would have worked out better if it was infused into the cake itself. Overall, it was a pretty moist cake, albeit sponge cake from the Asian bakeries are much more moist, and pretty tasty. I did prefer this over the cheesecake, maybe because there were apple slices on it.

And now on to the popcorn:

Smoked Gouda Cheese Flavored Popcorn from the package

The look:

Cheese popcorn, like the ones you used to buy in elementary school on Friday's from the PTA, just not as yellow.

The Smell:

Cheesy Smoked Gouda. I love that smokey ham like smell...anything smoked. YUM!

The Taste:

Smoked Gouda flavored popcorn. The taste was very close to that of smoked Gouda, just in powdered form. It was a bit salty, but I think a lot of these cheese snacks are like that because each little popcorn morsel is coated in a layer of cheese. MMMmmm...delicious

NOM NOM NOM

OH! and I forgot we bought some drinks there!

What a pretty bottle...

My friend bought this Sparkling French Berry beverage that has this really awesome top that I could not figure out for the life of me. I want to say that this was about $12, but you are really buying it for the bottle. The drink itself was pretty good. Fizzy like apple cider, but with a berry taste. I tend to think most berry flavored things taste like medicine, but this one was not so bad.


Then there were these 2. The watermelon one tasted like fake watermelon flavored things, so needless to say, I did not care for it all that much, but the Sarsaparilla I liked because it is like root beer. I guess people who don't like root beer won't like that drink.