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Former Frasca Food and Wine pros will open Lower48 restaurant in Ballpark this fall

After prowling for more than a year to find the perfect space to open his first restaurant, Mario Nocifera, a former Frasca Food & Wine alum who commanded the front of the house at the nationally recognized Boulder restaurant for two years, finally dried the ink on a space last week at 2020 Lawrence ... More >>

Cochon 555 -- the sultan showdown of swine -- returns to Colorado on Sunday

Here's where the pig puns start: Two years ago, at the Ritz-Carlton in Denver, five Colorado chefs -- Alex Seidel (Fruition and Fruition Farms); Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson (Frasca Food & Wine); Kelly Liken (Restaurant Kelly Liken); Frank Bonanno (Bonanno Concepts); and Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euc ... More >>

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Photos: John Elway helps dedicate the new patio at Elway's Downtown

Elway's Downtown dedicated its new outdoor patio yesterday, and guess who showed up for the celebration? Yep, that's right: John Elway himself. The "outdoor expansion" is on the wide sidewalk in front of the Ritz-Carlton, with the bridge across Curtis Street providing handy cover from both sun and r ... More >>

Stay with me, bra: Finding a home for the girls

"You need to throw that thing away as soon as you get home," says Tracy. "You see how it's riding up in the back?" I do see. I'm standing in the bathroom of a suite at the Ritz-Carlton with Tracy, a woman I just met, and she's appalled -- appalled -- by my undergarments. Well, undergarment.

Sneak peek foodography from Ryan Leinonen's Trillium, opening tonight in the Ballpark neighbohood

Lori Midson​Ryan Leinonen isn't shy about his goals: "I want to have one of the top five restaurants in Denver," he says, while hunched over a plate of steelhead trout, one of the Scandinavian-inspired dishes on his menu at Trilllium, which opens tonight in the Ballpark neighborhood. "There's ... More >>

Thanksgiving meals, beer dinners and more on this week's culinary calendar

Have somewhere to spend Thanksgiving? Don't worry: Check out our Thursday page for a list of every feast we know about in the metro area. And that's not all; there are also cooking classes, beer dinners and more on this week's culinary calendar. See what's on the menu:

Denver's five best hotel restaurants

The digs at Panzano.​Sitting at Edge in the Four Seasons for this week's review, I contemplated the notion that you can visit a city and never see anything but your international luxury hotel's version of it. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of hotel restaurants bank on -- that you'll be stuck ... More >>

Ritz-Carlton introduces the newest way to consume beer: poured on your body!

Flickr photoBath time?​You've drunk beer. Maybe you've made bread out of it, or even cooked up some beer-battered onion rings. Now the Ritz-Carlton is offering a higher-brow -- and way more expensive -- way to get your hops on: a full-body spa treatment. The Mile High Malt Scrub and Microbrew ... More >>

The Cars at the Fillmore Auditorium, 05/15/11

AN EVENING WITH THE CARS 05.15.11 | Fillmore Auditorium Within the pantheon of rock and roll, there are relics, and there living legends. Last night at the Fillmore, on the fourth show of its current tour, the Cars proved that they are far from antiquity. In fact, the quartet blew a packed house ... More >>

The Daily Meal rounds up the ten best athlete-owned restaurants across the country... and includes Elway's

​Acknowledging the fact that many athlete-owned restaurants have the name to pull in the patrons but very rarely have the menu to support the buzz, The Daily Meal set out to separate the strike-outs from the home runs. The blog rounded up the ten best eateries owned by sports stars, including ... More >>

Pig porn from Cochon 555, aka the Super Bowl of Swine

Lori MidsonCochon 555 chefs Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson, Kelly Liken, Alex Seidel, Frank Bonanno and Jennifer Jasinski ​ Lard, have mercy on my soul. To say that I pigged out this weekend is the understatement of the year, and if I was porky before, you should see me now. In fact, I'm fairly ... More >>

Jimmy "the butcher" Cross vs. Chris Fuller in the Cochon 555 butchery battle

Cochon 555​When Cochon 555, the nationwide, heritage breed pig-off, trots into town on Sunday, April 3, it won't be just five Colorado chefs battling it out for the "Prince or Princess of Porc" title. In addition to Jennifer Jasinski (Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bisto Vendome); Kelly Liken (Restaur ... More >>

Elway's Downtown makes sushi a catch of the day

Elway's Downtown features a sushi bar as well as steaks.​Allyson Fredeen isn't a big fan of fish -- her aversion dates back to some squeamish incident in her childhood -- so it was ironic that when Elway's Downtown first opened in the Ritz-Carlton, it installed a raw bar at the front of the ba ... More >>

A sneak peek at 20:12 and Spoke In Wordz' "Por Aqui Por Alla"

​Oh and speaking of local hip-hop videos: We just got a sneak peek of the new 20:12/Spoke In Wordz video for "Por Aqui, Por Alla." Premiering tonight at Casselman's, the clip is directed by esteemed director Eric Heights, from a track from 20:12's self-titled album, which carries a timely mess ... More >>

Frasca Food and Wine's expansion to include pizza and panini

​Since master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan MacKinnon-Patterson left the French Laundry to open a neighborhood restaurant in Boulder six years ago, Frasca Food and Wine has been in the business of changing the nature of the Front Range dining scene, winning national accolades, attra ... More >>

J.R. Smith's home robbed: Losses include $15,000 in "gambling money"

An unhappy J.R.​Update, 3:33 p.m.: Read it below the original 11:47 a.m. item. The Nuggets' J.R. Smith had a rough season, spending more time in the doghouse than outside it. But the doghouse may have been safer than the Cherry Hills Country Club mansion he's been renting. Burglars messed wit ... More >>

John Elway celebrates the big 5-0 in June -- and so will both of his namesake steakhouses

Elway's Cherry Creek exec chef Tyler Wiard with Super Bowl champion John Elway​Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is celebrating 50 years of banged up knees, turf toe, head-to-head helmet collisions, and, oh yeah ... a couple of Super Bowl trophies and rings on Monday, June 28, the d ... More >>

Jay Spickelmier out at Jing

Lori MidsonJay Spickelmier​Back in September, during the Mile High Chef Competition at Dish-the Westword menu affair, Jay Spickelmier went knife-to-knife against Argyll GastroPub chef Sergio Romero in a spirited battle to see who would saunter away with the Pillsbury Doughboy-esque statue of d ... More >>

Mel's owner Chad Clevenger has bigger pescado to fry

Wake-Up Call: Churchill loses a job, kids look for them

When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn't until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the th ... More >>

Denver Post editor Greg Moore knocks down rumors about move to USA Today

Ever since the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale, John Temple, the tabloid's editor, publisher and president, has been the focus of much attention. Not so Greg Moore, editor of the Denver Post (seen here in a photo from several years back), who's stayed in the background even as reports surf ... More >>

Elway's Downtown is seriously lacking in fun

Elway's -- the original Elway's -- spawned this second location, which opened in January. The Ritz management, its F&B people and chef de cuisine Ben Davison all spent time poking around the kitchen and dining room of the Cherry Creek restaurant. In one of those quirks of synchronicity that I have ... More >>

From the week of October 30, 2008

D Bar Desserts

Star Power

Sunshine Megatron to Move From T-Shirt Hell

Should millionaire T-shirt mogul Sunshine Megatron make Denver his new neighborhood? You be the judge.

Meat of the Matter

There’s good reason to call Denver a cow town.

Bite Me

Trading Spaces

After M*A*S*H

Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

The Bite

Give us our Daily Bread.

Downhill to Disneyland

The slopes are crowded, so why aren't Colorado resorts rolling in cold cash?

Timber!

Tempestuous political winds are blowing through Colorado's busiest forest.

A Rare Bird

Elegant dining defines The Swan.

Star Search

Think Big

The Larry David Show