What is this?

Colfaxavenue.com says that Colfax (US Highway 40) is the longest commercial street in the USA, running from Strasburg to Golden. I have never heard of Strasburg and I do not intend to go there in search of food or to get a tattoo or buy liquor. Colfaxavenue.com does not have a section on eateries. Denverrestaurants.us comes up with zero matches to my query when I entered Colfax. 

A google search of bars on Colfax is another matter. About.com tells me about a Colfax pub crawl –10 bars in one night!—the first of which listed is the now defunct Red Room, a place where for one pessimistic afternoon I was forced to imagine my job as its manager. I stole a pint glass when I was there, and my moralistic co-worker saw me, so you know, that made me feel even crappier. I even have a very distant memory of djing at the Red Room, or perhaps just wanting to dj there. But I digress, as the space-void that is the Red Room will not be on my eatery list.

What am I going to do? I am going to eat at every eating establishment on Colfax, in geographical order, from Sherman to Colorado Blvd, minus the chains. If it’s a bar it must also serve food, so for example Lost Lake will be out as pretzels don’t really constitute food. 

Why am I doing this? Because I have lived on Colfax for 2 and a half years and I don’t know it at all. On the rare occasion I walk down it from home to work, I have my mask on, my walls up, my gaze stony and closed. But I’m fascinated, especially lately. I keep noticing new things, that is, things I have never noticed before. Hardly anything on Colfax is new. I'd like to get to know the oldies but goodies before Colfax turns into another Belmar. I am a food critic in that I eat food and I’m a critical thinker, but that’s as far as it’s gone. I’m not doing this to judge, I’m doing it for the experience. I am going to eat and drink and write and talk and generally just have one experience a week that I wouldn’t normally have if I weren’t doing this. And I’m going to share it with anyone and everyone who cares in the way that thousands, millions of other people do: on a blog.