Kristin Mastre, FeastingFortCollins.com

No matter what a person’s tastes may be – conversations about food will always bring people together. You can debate politics and religion and find that your opinion of the person on the other end of the conversation changes for the worse.  But you disagree about food and you still remain friendly. I don’t think you can find that to be true with any other conversation topic.

That’s one reason why Feasting Fort Collins has such a lively readership. Everyone relates to food (some more than others), and everyone loves to talk about it at length. Food is what is binding us all together, and if we should happen to sit down and break bread, we’d have something to relate to.

This was exactly my experience at Vincent’s. I met with two readers whom I’d never met before, on two separate occasions. While eating thick-crusted pizza and tasty pasta, we had great conversations about food in Fort Collins.

Vincent’s Heavenly Pies & Pasta is a very small, upscale bistro in the nearly half-empty commercial center on Drake and Shields. That north-east corner is where the Drake Farmer’s Markets are on the weekend. Vincent’s sits behind Starbucks, and next to Pho-Duy. Owner Brian Tessari opened up Vincent’s in May of 2007, and has been able to hold strong during the bumps and bruises the restaurant industry takes during a rough economy. He also owns the sibling restaurant to Vincent’s – Dominic’s on Lemay and Harmony…

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