Littleton

Live Review: Januar at the Walnut Room

Review: Januar @ Walnut Room

Seafood, Eat It

Best Pie Plates

Mudworks Pottery

Is second Santa Fe Tequila Company drying up?

Last month, the Santa Fe Tequila Company at 901 West Tenth Avenue (shown above)abruptly closed its doors -- shortly after opening a second outlet in Littleton. Although Jason Sheehan wasn't a big fan of the original spot, which was close to empty when he visited it this summer, he's no fan of clo ... More >>

Best barbecued brisket

Blest Bar-B-Que of the Rockies

Best public golf course

Arrowhead Golf Club

Big buzz, big stink: Swirls closes...for now

About a month ago, I heard about a Littleton restaurant named Swirls that was putting out some awesome food, so I made a note to get down there to try the Southern-style cuisine. But a few days later, I heard that Swirls had closed. Turns out that this fall, an odor began coming up fro ... More >>

Best Place to Recycle a Defunct Monitor

PC Brokers

Best Nursery Outfitter

Cradle and All

Best Art at Invesco Field at Mile High

"Equipment Field"

Best Tacos al Carbón

El Lucero

Best DIA Survival Guide

How to Be a Frequent Flier: Version 2.0
E. Larry Beaumont

Lights Fantastic

How to Be a Frequent Flier: Version 2.0
E. Larry Beaumont

Rub-a-Dubb's Pub

How to Be a Frequent Flier: Version 2.0
E. Larry Beaumont

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Do all three at the Gorilla Room’s comedy night.

Gaelic Gala

Catch the luck o' the Irish all weekend long.

NoNo’s Cafe

Thanks, but NoNo thanks.

Beyond Borders

The Chen Brothers offer a pan-Asian experience at Blue Moon.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of March 10, 2005

The Commodes

Cursed From the Beginning (Self-released)

Scot Times

Highlands Ranch festival promises a fling

Best Beer Selection

The Wine Company

Best Dinner Destination for Impressing the Folks

Opus

Art for Space

Opus

Today: To market, to market

Marcyzk's Fine Foods, at 770 East 17th Avenue, today is offering 10 percent off on all store sales, as well as sales in the adjacent wine shop. For more info, call 303-894-9499 or go to www.marczykfinefoods.com. And the Cherry Creek Fresh Market kicks off its eleventh season at 8 a.m. today; it's ... More >>

The Market Report, June 20

Since I found myself in Littleton Friday night, I decided to substitute a trip to the Southwest Plaza's farmers' market, at Wadsworth and Bowles, for my regular Saturday morning visit to the Boulder Farmer's Market. Big mistake.If you bill yourself as a farmers' market, more than 25 percent of the s ... More >>

Tonight: A symphony of food and wine at Opus

Opus, Michael Long's longstanding restaurant at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, is hosting a wine and food pairing dinner honoring Italian winemaker and lettuce lord Lucio Gomiero, who, along with being a wine jester, just happens to grow more radicchio than anyone else in the world at his farm ... More >>

YourHub.com: A local-media success story

My copy of today's YourHub.com insert, zoned for Ken-Caryl, Littleton and South Jeffco.​The citizen-journalist project YourHub.com was initially championed by Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple, who touted it in an April 2005 Message column with some particularly h ... More >>

Tonight: Wines from California vines at Opus

​Littleton's Opus restaurant, 2575 West Main Street, is hosting a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. this evening with grape guru Lisa Rein, the associate winemaker for Row Eleven Wine Company, a producer based in San Rafael, California. The four-course menu, prepared by owner/exec chef Michael Long, in ... More >>

Restaurant Roll Call for October

Lori MidsonAnother 24/7 option: Tacos Rapidos on West Alameda.​ RESTAURANTS OPENING IN OCTOBER: CY Steak, 1222 Glenarm Place Illegal Pete's, 1744 East Evans Avenue Jack-N-Grill, 2630 West Belleview Avenue, Littleton Mangiamo Pronto!, 1601 17th Street Noodles & Company, 1737 East Evans Avenue ... More >>

Tonight: Pig out at Opus

​Pork-lovers, take note: Opus, at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, will host the aptly named "Cele-bracon: A Celebration of Bacon," tonight at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will consist of four courses -- all featuring bacon -- and the pig-out costs $59, plus tax and gratuity. For information, call ... More >>

Jump Around

​Pork-lovers, take note: Opus, at 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, will host the aptly named "Cele-bracon: A Celebration of Bacon," tonight at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will consist of four courses -- all featuring bacon -- and the pig-out costs $59, plus tax and gratuity. For information, call ... More >>

Syrup soon to pour over Cherry Creek

​First, Cherry Creek got Toast -- a second outpost of the popular Littleton cafe that moved into the old Village Inn space at 222 Columbine Street last summer. Now, it's apparently going to get Syrup. A new sign is up at 300 Josephine Street, in the spot that the Egg Shell had occupied for 25 ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Wine dinners and Breakfast for Boobs

A Flickr photo.​The upcoming week is overflowing with wine tastings and dinners, many to benefit great causes, but there's also a long-awaited beer release, the continuation of the Green Routes tour and much more taking place in Denver's culinary scene. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, ... More >>

Charlie Blosten, suburban superhero: Kenny Be's Hip Tip

​ Littleton Leaf Blower Real Name: Charlie Blosten Occupation: Public Services Director Suburb of Operations: Littleton, Colorado Hair: Steel Blue Eyes: Cupola Cams Super powers: The Littleton Leaf Blower channels pure willpower in the form of hot air. This willpower can be used to do just a ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: St. Germain cocktails, Tasty Colfax and teen cooking classes

​There are plenty of dinners and tastings for oenophiles this week -- plus some beer and St. Germain action thrown in for good measure. Here's a taste of what's to come: Monday, July 26: Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl Street, presents its weekly Monday Night Wine Dinner. This week, winemak ... More >>

Today: Homemade popsicles at Sunflower Market

A Flickr photo.​Popsicles are a summer staple for any family with kids -- and you can learn to make your own using fresh produce (and taste the results) today at Sunflower Farmers' Market, 8601 West Cross Drive in Littleton. The free "Homemade Popsicle Tasting" class will run from 1 to 2 p.m; ... More >>

Littleton residents are for civil unions, bovine winter wear and MMJ expiration dates

Littleton residents come out in favor of civil unions.​For this Friday, we've got three news stories to talk about over drinks tonight at Happy Hour. Be the informed drinker. Littleton residents are showing some tolerance -- that's what one could infer from statements made by Republican state ... More >>

Lucile's is now serving in Littleton

​Let the good times roll! Lucile's Creole Cafe has now brought a taste of the bayou to Littleton. The fifth link in a chain that started in 1980 in Boulder, then added Fort Collins and Longmont, and stretched to Denver in 2005, is now in the south suburbs, too, occupying part of the vast River ... More >>

The Tavern Littleton is now open on West Main Street

Littleton is the sixth Tavern location.​The Tavern Hospitality Group, which owns the six Tavern locations, the Soiled Dove Underground and Cowboy Lounge, has expanded its empire to Littleton. Yesterday, the Tavern Littleton opened its doors at 2589 West Main Street. This is a smaller version ... More >>

Talk about a meat market! Scarlet Ranch swingers' club moves into the Northwoods Inn

​Here's the start of our capsule review of the Northwoods Inn, a Colorado institution that opened on South Santa Fe Drive back in 1961, then moved to 8109 Blakeland Drive in Littleton a decade ago: "Not surprisingly, the menu at this veteran steakhouse is mostly meat." And how! Turns out that ... More >>

Restaurant roll call for June

Linger brought a building dedicated to the dead back to life.​Linger topped the action last month, with a stunning space that takes Highland to new heights. Chinook Tavern also blew back onto the scene, almost three years after it left its home in Cherry Creek. Gone for good? The old Northwood ... More >>

Toast burns out in Cherry Creek

Lori Midson​Robert Thompson's Argyll isn't the only restaurant that's bolted from Cherry Creek North, a tony neighborhood dotted with blinged-out boutiques and swank art galleries, but has a losing streak when it comes to dining dens, several of which have shuttered over the past few years (a ... More >>

Abstinence-only funding was refused, but that didn't stop a state school-board member

Lori Midson​Robert Thompson's Argyll isn't the only restaurant that's bolted from Cherry Creek North, a tony neighborhood dotted with blinged-out boutiques and swank art galleries, but has a losing streak when it comes to dining dens, several of which have shuttered over the past few years (a ... More >>

Two Angry Moms screens at Nature's Table Cooking School

​Nature's Table Cooking School, the latest cooking school to open in the area (it's located at 6657 West Ottawa Avenue Unit D-3 in Littleton), will host a screening of Two Angry Moms, which follows two moms trying to improve school lunches. After the movie, chef Penni will lead a discussion. T ... More >>

Relish It, a gourmet burger joint, opens in Littleton with a former Park Burger chef at the helm

Lori Midson​It was a trip to the bank, followed by a jaunt to a burger shack in San Diego, that convinced Terry Sandrin to open his own meat emporium. "I was at our local bank in Littleton last fall, and there was a couple who was grilling burgers outside in the parking lot with a line that w ... More >>

Littleton's Economic Gardening, up for an award from Harvard, helps jobs out-number residents

Downtown Littleton.​In 1987, Chris Gibbons was charged with revitalizing a Littleton economy that just saw it's largest employer, construction aggregate supplier Martin Marietta, lay off about 7,000 employees amid a recession. And despite long odds, his Economic Gardening program was such a s ... More >>

Armadillo closes its Littleton restaurant -- and stiffs employees?

​Colorado has produced several successful Mexican chains -- the Rio Grande group, for example, and Santiago's, which seems to add another outlet every week. But one long-time chain is suffering from shrinking pains -- and its employees are suffering, too. Last week the Armadillo closed its re ... More >>

Occupy Littleton launched with five-person general assembly

​On Sunday, at 2 p.m. in the Bemis Public Library, five people gathered to launch the first general assembly of Occupy Littleton. If the idea that democracy takes time ever needed proof, this would be it. One person shy of a round half-dozen, the group appeared dwarfed in the city library's la ... More >>