Email Author Kyle Wagner

1995 Stories by Kyle Wagner

• FAD CHANCE

  published December 27, 1995

  It may have been the Year of the Pig on the Chinese calendar, but in Denver, 1995 will go down as the Year of the Restaurant. Through official... More >>

• THE ROYAL TREATMENT

  published December 20, 1995

  We screeched to a halt in front of the Brown Palace Hotel in our luxury Toyota, two minutes late because the first movie we'd seen in a theater in... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published December 20, 1995

  Attention, shoppers: It's the eleventh hour, people. If you haven't yet found that perfect gift for your foodie friends, you haven't been looking.... More >>

• CLASS ACTS

  published December 13, 1995

  Try to remember the last time the tuxedo-clad manager of a restaurant ran, actually ran, outside into the parking lot so that he could... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published December 13, 1995

  Going to the dogs: Four out of five mutts surveyed in my neighborhood agree--the biscuits from Cosmo's Dog Biscuit Bakery, at 1224 East Sixth... More >>

• THAT'S ITALIAN

  published December 6, 1995

  By now, even Americans raised on Spaghetti-Os know the infamous differences between Italy's northern and southern cuisine--but that's just the tip... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published December 6, 1995

  Dining, Italian-style: My discovery of Geppetto's (see review this issue) helped fill the hollow left behind when a real class-act Italian... More >>

• GRILL CRAZY

  published November 29, 1995

  Heaven help us if someone does a study that shows eating dog food lowers cholesterol and helps us live healthier, longer lives. Within weeks... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published November 29, 1995

  Eat and be merry: Nothing works up an appetite quite like a day of Christmas shopping. Hey, the energy required to repeat "No, thanks, I'm just... More >>

• OUT TO LUNCH

  published November 22, 1995

  Over the past year the neighborhood around Coors Field has exploded with new eateries. Now, with the baseball fans gone and a long, cold winter... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published November 22, 1995

  An ugly day in the neighborhood: The employees at Chef Zorba's Cuisine, at 2630 East 12th Avenue on Capitol Hill, say a year-old controversy is... More >>

• IT'S THE DREGS

  published November 15, 1995

  Even a restaurant that set up shop in the Sistine Chapel and employed Capuchin monks who devoted their lives to serving others would eventually... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published November 15, 1995

  On the market: After nearly nine years of purveying fresh, organic produce and superior gourmet deli items, Michael and Clare Nolting are washing... More >>

• MOTH LIKELY TO SUCCEED

  published November 8, 1995

  Few caterpillars crawl as much as Radek Cerny has on his way to the butterfly stage. After the Communist government took away his family's... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published November 8, 1995

  Brunch hunch: A co-worker recently asked me to recommend a good place to take his mother, who was celebrating a birthday, for Sunday brunch. The... More >>

• ALL FOR ONE

  published November 1, 1995

  You can't make all the people happy all of the time--especially if you're a restaurant. A few years ago, trendy dining establishments tried to... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published November 1, 1995

  Subsisting: Finally, downtown Denver has a sub shop worth raving about--Mangia Subs, which opened a few weeks ago at 1730 Glenarm Place. In... More >>

• EATING IS FUNDAMENTAL

  published October 25, 1995

  Judged by its cover, the Fourth Story is looking good. This restaurant has what might be my favorite dining room in Denver. There's an endless... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published October 25, 1995

  California, here I come: After Barbara Lane, Westword's first food writer and then-restaurant critic at its partner paper in San Francisco, the SF... More >>

• GRAPE EXPECTATIONS

  published October 18, 1995

  It started with wine dinners at a handful of restaurants, monthly culinary happenings where cellared vino was uncorked and paired with... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published October 18, 1995

  Soon after trying Denver's version of Napa (see Cafe, previous page), I visited the original for the first time. The weather was beautiful, but my... More >>

• TRIUMPH OF THE MILL

  published October 11, 1995

  Facing the unappetizing prospect of unemployment when their company laid off a third of its workforce last year, two couples decided to ensure... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published October 11, 1995

  Brew snub: At this past weekend's Great American Beer Festival XIV, Colorado got skunked. Denied. The state's 27 microbreweries, 33 brewpubs, two... More >>

• AND SOW IT GOES

  published October 4, 1995

  Once upon a time, Daddy made the money and Mommy made the dinner, and Junior and Buffy would come home from school and do their homework while... More >>

• MOUTHING OFF

  published October 4, 1995

  To market, to market: Back in 1989, Alfalfa's Market, the granddaddy of Denver's organic groceries, introduced hot-and-cold food lines at its... More >>