Tabor Center

Smoking at Paramount Cafe and 86'd from Coyote Ugly: happy birthday, 16th Street Mall

Being the inappropriately dramatic individual I am, it would be appropriate to say I have a love-hate relationship with the 16th Street Mall. But both love and hate are words that are too strong for my feelings about the mall. Although I'm inclined to admire anything built around the activity of sho ... More >>

Reader: Photos of Ambria's dishes look good enough to eat!

Lori MidsonVeal sweetbreads at Ambria.​The space at the Tabor Center that's now home to Ambria, chef/owner Jeremy Kittelson's restaurant that opens today, was a Ling & Louie's just two weeks ago...but it's undergone an amazing transformation. Still, it's hard to focus on the surroundings when ... More >>

Smashburger downtown offers very adult milkshakes

​Smashburger is hoping that its milkshakes bring all the boys, and girls, to the yard. While Smashburger has had beer on its menu since the Denver-based chain got its start, the store that opened last fall in the Tabor Center also serves alcohol-spiked shakes and floats ($5.99) that are the ... More >>

Smashburger opens first location in downtown Denver

Dylan BurkhardtThe new Smashburger in the Tabor Center​ After a brief delay because of a thirteen-inch construction snafu, Smashburger finally has a downtown location, in the Tabor Center. This is the eleventh Smashburger in the metro area -- but the homegrown chain, which got its start three year ... More >>

Win two tickets to the Smashburger VIP party tomorrow

​Smashburger will finally smash into downtown this week, when it opens a restaurant in the Tabor Center, at 1203 16th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. But two Cafe Society readers (and their companions) will be able to enjoy a sneak preview at a VIP party from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, September ... More >>

These winners will be VIPs at the Smashburger party tomorrow

​Smashburger will finally smash into downtown this week, when it opens a restaurant in the Tabor Center at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Earlier today, we offered Cafe Society readers a chance to win a pair of tickets to the VIP party at this Smashburger tomorrow; to enter, they just had to tell us in te ... More >>

Smashburger smashing into downtown next week

​After a slight delay created by a thirteen-inch problem with a neighboring wall, Smashburger is ready to smash into downtown Denver, where it will unveil a new store in the Tabor Center, at 1203 16th Street, on Wednesday, September 22. Since the chain opened its very first Smashburger just ... More >>

The last Purple Martini dries up, leaving a vacant spot in the Tabor Center

​Back in May, we reported that the Purple Martini, the cocktail lounge in the Tabor Center, had been seized by the city for failing to pay taxes. The place reopened for a few weeks, but early this month, it went dark for good.

No magic mushrooms at Mellow Mushroom, but the drink specials are (mostly) solid

​A funny thing happened the other day on an exploratory trip to the new Mellow Mushroom , which just opened at 1201 Sixteenth Street, in the Tabor Center. Tempted by the sweet allure of lunchtime pizza, we were actually more impressed by the drink specials than the pizzas.

Restaurant roll call for July

Johnny MolfettaMellow Mushroom's Tabor Center location opened to huge crowds.​ RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JULY * Applebee's (re-opening after remodel), 410 South Colorado Boulevard, Glendale Aviano Coffee, 3031 East Second Avenue Bites, 2796 South Broadway Boston Fish Shack (formerly Gelm ... More >>

Mellow Mushroom opens to crazy crowds at the Tabor Center

Brian GreenOpening day on the patio of Mellow Mushroom​When I got the hostess on the horn earlier today, she hung up on me. An immediate call-back was a short, pointed, one-sided conversation that went something like this: "We're crazy, crazy busy; please call back later." Click. Apparently ... More >>

Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers opening second Colorado location in the Tabor Center

​The Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers first brought stone-baked Southern-style pizza to the Colorado via the suburbs, opening a restaurant at the Streets at SouthGlenn in Centennial last August. And soon, on Monday, July 12, the franchise will open a second location downtown at the Tabor Center ... More >>

Pay up: Purple Martini at the Tabor Center is seized for unpaid taxes

​Purple, apparently, is not the color of success, at least not when it comes to the Purple Martini, the Tabor Center watering hole that's now under the lock and key of the city for non-payment of taxes. ​On May 26, the city handily collaged the front door with seizure notices, warrants ... More >>

Smashburger set to smash the Tabor Center at the end of June

​Smashburger, the homegrown burger barn that's multiplying like calculators, will open its eleventh Colorado location in June at 1203 16th Street in the lower level of the Tabor Center. The burger chain, which began building its beef empire back in 2007, isn't skedded to build any more outlet ... More >>

Mellow Mushroom to open at Tabor Center

​Mellow Mushroom outlets are popping up like, well, mushrooms. Another outlet of the Georgia-based pizza chain is slated to open next June in the Tabor Center, joining a line-up that already includes the Cheesecake Factory, Green Fine Salad, Corner Bakery and Ling & Louie's. There are over a ... More >>

Emily's Gourmet-to-Go is gone

​After two owners, two locations -- first at 1555 Champa Street, then at 1543 Champa, in the circa 1889 Odd Fellows Hall (right) -- and one Best of Denver award, Emily's Gourmet-to-Go is finally a no-go. Chef/owner Victor Miller, whose soups had snagged the Best Soup award in the Best of Denv ... More >>

Tilted Kilt set to flip its skirt the week of November 2

​ The Tilted Kilt, a sports-bar chain popular enough to publish its own calendar, will start a new page the first week of November in Denver, when its latest location -- in the former ESPN Zone in the Tabor Center -- is now slated to open.

Tilted Kilt goes for a liquor license

​The Tilted Kilt has been called a Celtic Hooters -- a label that its Arizona-based owners don't appreciate, we hear. They prefer "The Best Looking Sports Pub You've Ever Seen," the slogan on the web site. A sports pub with waitresses who wear naughty school-girl skirts. There are already 22 ... More >>

A real perk for downtown workers: free coffee tomorrow

The three downtown Ink! Coffee outlets -- at 618 16th (in the Sage Building at Welton Street), at 1590 Little Raven (Riverfront) and 1200 17th Street (Tabor Center) - will host a free coffee break for downtown workers from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. It's a real perk of working downtown. The ... More >>

Jet South takes off in the DTC with something for everyone

The last food court on 16th Street

Kiernan Maletsky After stopping by the Tabor Center to stare at what had been the third-floor food court, I headed down the 16th Street Mall to visit the last surviving food court: Republic Plaza. "At last," I thought, when I saw the neon and smelled the grease as I neared Court Pl.

The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 1 edition

Photo by Kiernan MaletskyYou'll love these Meeses to pieces. Hotter than July? Or exactly as hot as July? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night's Show: Meese at Twist & Shout. • DJ Vajra announces new project, offers free mix for download. • Flier of the Week: Get Down at Beta Friday, July ... More >>

The demise of the Tabor Center's food court

Kiernan MaletskyWhat's left of the Panda Express, the only reminder of Tabor's food court. There's no shortage of places to get food along the 16th Street Mall. But if you're after a grab bag of mediocre grub served from metal basins behind glass barriers -- a food court, in other words -- things ... More >>

Cracking the Egg Shell on Blake Street

The Jet Entertainment Group may be the busiest boys in chow business. They picked up Nine75 (975 Lincoln Street) right after Jim Sullivan closed it this fall, and reopened it in a matter of days. They're finishing up a project at the Jet Hotel, at 1612 Wazee Street, to make room for XO, a noodle ba ... More >>

Jet Entertainment Group is taking off

Best of Denver Winners from 1995

Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new. Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.

Best of Westword 1991 Winners

The Best of Westword 1990

Best of Westword Winners From 1988

Best of Westword Winners From 1987

The Best of Denver Winners from 1985

Day Three: Wherein I Learn Way Too Much About Your Mom

Gorging on Good Deeds

Day-by-Day Picks

For the week of November 24

Best Gym Deal

Dumbbells: A Fitness Club

Best Downtown Service

Tabor Center parking garage

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bite Me

Coming In Under the Wire

Clothes Call

Style is in the eye of the beholder -- and you can finally behold some again at the Tabor Center.

Best Place to Buy a Flag

Flagworld

Against the Grain

Architecturally speaking, Denver is getting uglier by the minute.

Won’t Be Home for Christmas

Spending the holidays on the 16th Street Mall.

Factory Reject

Mouthing Off

Mouthing Off

A Tall Order

Out of Africa

A Tabor Center store owner claims mall owners are giving her import shop the business.

MOUTHING OFF

THRILLS

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