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Demand for the $60 tickets to attend the January 12th inaugural dinner for Governor-elect Bill Ritter sold out so fast, a second dinner has been added.
Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10:00 am MT Colorado Promise. Org. The purchase ticket link is here.
Both Bill Ritter and lieutenant governor-elect Jeannie O’Brien will be present and accessible at the dinner, to be held at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center which is across the street from the Colorado Convention Center.
The menu:
… three course meal — Aspen Salad, romaine lettuce topped with sun dried apples, figs, smoked bacon and crumbled blue cheese and a honey mustard viniagrette; Beef Wellington, beef tenderloin, wild mushroom duxelle baked in puff pastry, accompanied by cabernet sauvignon demi-glace and pearl roasted root vegetables; and a dessert of chocolate tea cups filled with white chocolate and blackberry swirl mousse with biscotti.