Subject: Katie Mullen

• Disorder in the court: Sheraton closes Supreme Court for renovation

  September 23, 2008

• Behind the scenes at Katie Mullen's

  So, a few weeks ago, I wrote this little piece titled "How to Create a Great Irish Bar." It wasn't something I put a lot of thought into. It wasn't something that groaned under the weight of background research (unless drinking counts as research). Really, it was just a way to vent a little anger over a terrible weekend spent cruising through places like the Celtic Tavern and Delaney's and wondering what the hell was the matter with this city that it couldn't manage to come up with even o

  February 17, 2009

• American Beauty: Dinner at Venue

  While employed in my last-ever cooking gig before coming here, I got to know grits pretty well, because I worked the night-shift at an Albuquerque Waffle House and one of my many responsibilities (along with tossing the drunks and cooking the hash browns and cleaning the grease traps) was fixing grits for the morning shift. These were plain grits -- yellow corn, very cheap even by grit standards -- and we did nothing to them but cook them. But even that was a process, like making perfect risott

  February 17, 2009

• Luck of the motherf%@$ing Irish

  The first numbers are coming in from Katie Mullen's Restaurant and Pub, which opened on Monday at 1550 Court Place, and they're huge. Yesterday, just two days after opening, they did 800 covers, give or take. This morning, the house was on a wait from the minute they opened the doors at 11 a.m. and -- helped out a bit by a forensics conference in town -- managed to put north of 350 bodies through at lunchtime. At dinner tonight, the owners are expecting to do about the same.

  February 19, 2009

• Go green at 8 a.m. today

  If you can't find fun today, you're not looking. A good place to start -- and end -- your St. Patrick's Day celebration is Katie Mullen's, the new - and giant - Irish pub at 1550 Court Place, which will be bringing in Irish entertainment all day after opening at 8:30 a.m. But beating Katie Mullen's by half an hour is the Fainting Goat, at 846 Broadway, which will be serving pancakes and beer at 8 a.m. today. Jonathan Shikes, Westword's managing editor who has a March 17 birthday, will be bloggi

  March 17, 2009

• IACP Conference Report: Drunk and in possession of press credentials

  IACPers apparently flocked to Denver's hottest noodle bar, Bones, on the conference's opening night. For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Sheehan is embedded right in the middle of all the action, causing trouble, sponging up free drinks and

  April 2, 2009

• IACP Conference Report: Dispatches from the front lines

  For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Sheehan is embedded right in the middle of all the action, causing trouble, sponging up free drinks and generally comporting himself in as disreputable a way as possible. His reports from inside the conve

  April 4, 2009

• After vegan requests LVTOFU license plate, the DMV reveals its dirty mind

  April 9, 2009

• Best of Denver: They coulda been contenders

  April 2, 2009

• From Bistro One to Katie Mullen's, restaurants keep opening. And closing.

  February 26, 2009

• For Venue's Holly Hartnett, a room of her own

  February 19, 2009

• DenverSportsRadio.com prepares to launch ambitious online station

  Dino Costa beside the new Denver Sports Radio logo. According to talk-show host Dino Costa, one of the principals behind DenverSportsRadio.com, a new online project that will be introduced at a press conference today in advance of its scheduled Monday, April 20, launch, the sports-radio offerings in Denver at present are "below mediocre." He adds, "We're confident we can provide an independent, fearless talk-radio model that will eclipse anything that's available now." Of course, Costa has nev

  April 17, 2009

• Ask the Critic: Where to go for a break-up date?

  He should have taken her to Katie Mullen's.It probably won't surprise you to learn that I haven't been on a lot of dates. Thus far, my personal history of socio-sexual relations has been divided into two very distinct categories.  Depending on the year, the place and my condition, I have either gotten by as some kind of sleazy Lothario man-skank or in a state of almost hysterical serial monogamy.In the first instance (which usually saw me as a wasted and twitchy cook or chef, rarely out of my w

  April 27, 2009

• Fancy dancin' at Katie Mullen's

  It's already got four bars, a full menu, big crowds and, in my opinion, the best Guinness pour in the city.  It has a prime location (at 1550 Court Place) for foot traffic, a big patio and an entire hotel's worth of captive customers.  So what else could Katie Mullen's possibly need? Dancing, apparently.  Because an application for a cabaret license is currently posted on the big front windows, with a hearing slated for June 11 when Katie Mullen's will officially ask the city for

  June 10, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 10 edition

  Photo by Autumn DeWildeBuilt to Spill. You think you're so smart.... Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Built to Spill's Doug Martsch. • Mini Q&A with the Fluid's John Robinson. • A first look at FOE and Karma's "Tic-Toc" video. • Atmosphere, Bat for Lashes, Brad Paisley shows announced. • MP3 Freeloader, Showcase Edition: Astrophagus -- and MP3s of many other Showcase bands are available at the main link above, too. Today in Cafe Society: • Top Denver chefs play with fire for c

  June 10, 2009

• Cooking Dirty: Fourteen days and counting

  And who, you may ask, is the handsome devil right there?  That's me, folks. No bullshit. No disguises.  The anonymous restaurant critic in the flesh and en clair. On Monday, June 15, at around 4 p.m. local time, my cover was finally, permanently blown.  That picture is the jacket photo from my book, Cooking Dirty, which was pulled and made public by fellow food critic Laura Reiley from the St. Petersburg Times -- run alongside a piece she wrote about the book (which she liked) and

  June 17, 2009

• Cooking Dirty: Eight days and counting

  Lev Grossman is my new best friend. Who is Lev Grossman, you ask?  Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine.  And in Time magazine, Lev Grossman (my new best friend) just wrote a killer review of my book, Cooking Dirty. Yeah, that Time magazine.  And yeah, little ol' me and my little ol' book. But it's actually not just because he wrote about me that I now dig the guy.  It's because this is a guy, ensconced as he is amid the desks and bylines and serious news-gath

  June 23, 2009

• Cooking Dirty: A peek inside

  Guess who?While I have spilled gallons of virtual ink over the shameless self-promotion of my new book, Cooking Dirty, one thing I haven't yet managed to tell anyone?  What the damnable beast is actually about.  What, in fact, someone willing to lay down a little dough might get for their hard-earned dollars. Yeah, that's a fairly big oversight on my part.  I've shown the book itself.  I've shown off my own smirking face in a kind of meta-orgy of blown covers and uncovered se

  June 24, 2009

• Wait! White Fence Farm also makes good fudge

  June 25, 2009

• Wide open spaces: Is downtown Denver experiencing a restaurant recession?

  ESPN Zone's departure adds to the empty restaurant space downtown.When Fogo de Chao opens at 1513 Wynkoop Street in mid-July, the Brazilian steakhouse chain will occupy -- wait for it -- 14,000 square feet, enough footage to house nearly 600 cows, at least by my mathematical calculations, where are based, more or less, on an average cow size of eight feet long and three feet wide. In any case, while Fogo will soon swallow up half a block, there are three nearby restaurants with a whole lot of em

  June 30, 2009

• Tonight: Meet the very tall, dark and handsome Jason Sheehan

  Lori MidsonOhmigod. That's Jason Sheehan in CROCS! So...if you haven't already heard about Jason Sheehan's new memoir, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then your reading catalog clearly consists of titles that you should keep between yourself and your therapist. Oh, please. Shameless Sheehan has pimped his book here, here again, there and everywhere, so it's not like he's all shy about it. But here's the thing: He has been shy about showing his face since h

  July 1, 2009

• Live from Sheehan's book signing

  We're at Katie Mullen's for the official release of Jason Sheehan's book, Cooking Dirty, and get this: There are actual people here! And they have his book! And they want him to sign it! And someone just took a picture of him! Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but it's always strange when people fawn over someone you know to be so regular -- even if they are that booze-swilling, chain-smoking, otherwordly-talented Rochester kind of regular. Anyway, since Sheehan has heretofore been entirel

  July 1, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

  As reported here -- a lot -- Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan had a book-signing at Katie Mullen's last evening. And that just happened to be the bar where Ward Churchill and attorney David Lane went after their day in court, where they'd told Judge Larry Naves why Churchill deserves to get his job back at the University of Colorado. Naves had presided over the trial in March during which Lane and Churchill had argued that CU had wrongfully discharged the controversial prof not for ho

  July 2, 2009

• Cooking Dirty, the book-signing: Round two

  I had a pretty good turn-out for my first book signing at Katie Mullen's a couple weeks ago.  There was a good crowd, plenty of drinking, lots of laughs.  Surprisingly, lots of people seemed to be very excited about finally getting their hands on a copy of my book (Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, available now wherever fine books are sold...).  Even more surprisingly, no one showed up to take a poke at me.  But maybe that's understandable.&

  July 22, 2009

• From the Pour House Pub in LoDo to the Archive Room in Arvada

  Where were you then? That's the question the new Archive Room will ask diners.​ Neil Arnold, Jeff Arnold and Storm Ireland, the owners behind the Pour House Pub at 1435 Market Street, will bring some LoDo fervor to Arvada in early November when they open the Archive Room at 5601 Olde Wadsworth Boulevard. That's the space that held, briefly, the Arvada Grill. "We're doing an upscale pub and restaurant, and the whole thing about it is that we're putting up framed newspaper and magazine stories o

  October 26, 2009