Vail (Colorado)

Happy Memorial Day! Here's where to eat over the holiday weekend

Hungry for fun over the holidays? Here's a rundown of culinary events over the three-day weekend. See also: - FEAST! Vail kicks off Memorial Day weekend with a slew of star chefs - 10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (6 free!), May 24-27 - Denver's ten best Memorial Day weekend shows

Edge is collaborating with its sister restaurant for a special wine dinner tonight

Edge Restaurant & Bar, 1111 14th Street, will welcome chef Jason Harrison, of the Four Season's Flame Restaurant in Vail, for a collaborative dinner with chef Simon Purvis this evening. See also: - EDGE Restaurant & Bar unveils its macaroon Christmas tree - Feast with the 1-percenters at Edge in th ... More >>

FEAST! Vail kicks off Memorial Day weekend with a slew of star chefs

Denver is knee-deep in food-and-drink events this Memorial Day weekend, what with the two-day South Gaylord Street Festival, EatDenver's Big Eat on Sunday and the Full Moon Street Carnival on Friday -- and there's plenty of culinary action in the altitude-high town of Vail this weekend, too. FEAST! ... More >>

Food trucks rev up in Longmont, a duel at Edge and a Feast in Vail on the culinary calendar

Prospect Park in Longmont now hosts a gathering of area food trucks every Monday night from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Prospect Eats also features live, local music; visit the website for the full schedule, and keep reading for more items on the culinary calendar this week. See also: - Ten food trucks you nee ... More >>

Spring snow brings extended ski season

Never mind those epic closing-day celebrations last weekend at Vail, Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, and Powderhorn: All four resorts have announced they'll be spinning the chairlifts again this weekend and reopening Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21, to make the most of massive dumps of late ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating a pork chop...in Vail?

I'll admit that I've never been terribly impressed with the restaurant climate in Vail, and let's face it: In a resort town like this, where a fickle public chews up their restaurants and then spits them out just as fast, you've got to be better than good to survive (unlike, apparently, our meteorol ... More >>

Schmoozing, boozing and pigging out on pork and lamb: Taste of Vail recap

The Taste of Vail, a multi-day food and wine festival that uncorks each year in Vail Village and on Vail Mountain, is still -- even after 23 years -- one of the state's most fantastic culinary spring flings. Herewith, a few observations and photos from the weekend revelry. See also: To see our comp ... More >>

Wine tastings, a mountaintop picnic and a lamb cook-off at the Taste of Vail

Every year in April, hundreds of food lovers and oenophiles gather (or huddle, if the weather dictates it) in Vail for the glitzy resort town's annual spring fling of food and wine, a four-day festival that kicks off this Wednesday and continues through Saturday with wine seminars, wine dinners and ... More >>

Burton Shreds at Vail

Vail celebrates 50th anniversary by projecting films and photos on the Logan Ice Theater

Icy objects are familiar sights in Vail, but a ten-foot-tall wall of ice used as a projection screen is definitely a first in this mountain town. The Logan Ice Theater will be unveiled tonight at the Sixth Annual Triumph Winterfest, coming alive with videos and images of the past fifty years of the ... More >>

Mountain Standard opens in Vail, near sibling Sweet Basil

While restaurateurs in Denver are scrambling to open new spots before the end of the year -- and the end of all that holiday business -- the founders of 35-year-old Sweet Basil in Vail just opened Mountain Standard today. Mountain Standard -- which is around the corner from Sweet Basil in a space o ... More >>

Vail’s Golden Age

Win tickets to the opening of Les Miserables!

One of the year's biggest Christmas movies might also be one of its biggest tear-jerkers. And then there's that cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe? Yes, please!Les Miserables promises to be a singing, crying, sniffling, smiling spectacle of epic holiday-release proportions, and than ... More >>

Win tickets to the opening weekend of The Hobbit in Denver!

During the last decade, few movies have inspired as much box-office awe (and costumed panic) as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or as many life lessons: Throughout the films' fifty hours of footage, we learned a little bit of Elvish, discovered the importance of man jewelry, and explored ... More >>

Get Snow Dazed in Vail

Vail and Burton Snowboards confirm rumors: Burton US Open is coming to Colorado

Vail Resorts and Burton Snowboards yesterday confirmed rumors -- first reported earlier this month by the Breckenridge-based Angry Snowboarder blog -- that the Burton US Open is moving to Vail after thirty years in Vermont -- 27 of them at Stratton Mountain. The 31st annual Burton US Open will be he ... More >>

Spectators' Spectacle

Don't let the door hit you on the way out: Vail to begin new gondola construction April 16

Closing day at Vail is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, and Vail Resorts will barely let the door hit this sad snow season on the ass before looking forward to next winter: The very next day, the company will begin construction on a new gondola from Vail Village to Mid-Vail, a pillar of the resort's ... More >>

Eat, drink and soak up the scenery at the Taste of Vail

The gather and huddle in the early afternoon, often under the threat of ominous skies threatening to dump buckets of snow in their champagne flutes and on their foie gras. But that doesn't stop the hearty oenophiles and gastronauts from making the airborne gondola pilgrimage to the mountaintop picni ... More >>

Reader: Theater is dead in this one-horse cowtown

Many of Denver's smaller companies got together last week to talk about recent developments on the local theater scene, and how they could work together better. The conversation was largely positive, attendees reported.

Dazed and Amused

This Weekend in Stoke: Vail, Eldora, Snowmass open, Copper presents Colorado Demo Days

Jack Affleck/Vail ResortsEverything's Hunky-Dory for opening day at Vail​Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a seas ... More >>

Skiers may scoff, but snowboarders are finally being accepted by the slopes' old guard

Colorado ski areas dominate Ski Magazine's 2011-2012 resort rankings

Photo by Jeff Cricco, via SkiNet.comVail makes #2 in Ski Magazine's annual Western U.S. Resort Rankings.​Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine's reader's choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ... More >>

Photos: Glorious October snow in the mountains

This afternoon marked the first real snow in the high country, which means the days of playing hooky to go skiing and snowboarding are just around the corner. To hold you over until then, enjoy these crowd-sourced photos from the mountains via the resorts.

Luke Irvin Chrisco, porta-potty creep: More charges for spying at DMV, Target (VIDEO)

Video below.​Update: Luke Irvin Chrisco, the man who became internationally famous for hiding in the tank of a porta-potty at a yoga festival in order to scope women's nether regions, cheerfully admits that peeping at females using toilets is practically a religion for him. And the details he' ... More >>

Elevation Olympics

Round two with dish's Jenna Johansen

​ Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I've done a lot of work to get to where I a ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Last-chance Spring lift ticket deals

​Beaver Creek, Silverton Mountain and Echo Mountain all called it quits for the season yesterday, but that doesn't mean there isn't still perfectly good skiing and snowboarding to be had: Copper Mountain, Vail, Winter Park, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass are all throwing rites of Spring bashes t ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Yes, ski season is two weeks longer this year. Go big!

​Rock out with your sunblock out! The Spring Back to Vail concert lineup kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. in Vail Village with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and The Chain Gang of 1974 at Solaris Plaza (Train and Saint Motel play tomorrow night at Ford Park and The Greyboy Allstars and Jonn Mogambo ... More >>

Taste of Vail

Today in Stoke: Pre-season Spring deals on 2011/2012 ski passes

$199 for a 2011/2012 season pass? Believe it.​Many Colorado ski areas announced pre-season discounts on 2011/2012 season passes this week. Yes, we know there are still three or four good weeks of Spring skiing and shredding ahead of us, and that Arapahoe Basin will be keeping the dream alive u ... More >>

Snowball Festival's organizers on how it came together and what inspired it

​This weekend's Snowball Festival in the Vail Valley has already surpassed expectations. Barely in its first year, and the festival has put together an impressive lineup that includes acts like Bassnectar, Pretty Lights, the Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Local Natives and D ... More >>

Snowball gives us a whimsical mountain scene and a crap load of content

​Sometimes all a flier needs to do to win our hearts is be as adorable as possible. This comes together amazingly for the Snowball Festival up in Vail this weekend, which is filled to the brim with an array of acts, local and national.

Reader: Keep those culinary-school graduates away from the stove!

While comments continue to fly over Rush Limbaugh's response to Michelle Obama's visit to Vail and Amber Taufen's open letter to militant vegans (148 comments and counting), some readers are fed up with controversy. If you can't stand the heat, get back in the kitchen. That's what Scubasteve did, ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Men's Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas

​Holiday shopping, Colorado-style: Tonight is the annual Men's Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas in Cherry Creek, 2717 East 3rd Avenue (or head to the Boulder store tomorrow night, 1133 Pearl Street), and these divas have us dudes all figured out: They'll be plying us with pizza and Oskar Blues ... More >>

Kelly Liken cooks up her winning Top Chef pork carnitas for a cause

Kelly Liken will serve up some winning recipes in Vail.​One of the most frustrating things for Top Chef fanatics is that we never get to taste -- or appraise -- the winning dishes. But now Vail's Kelly Liken, one of the past season's finalists, is making her winning braised pork carnitas for ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Vail opens new Chair 5 High Noon Express lift today

Photo courtesy Vail ResortsYour chariot awaits: Chair #5 opens today​The new High Noon Express Lift (Chair 5) at Vail opens a week from today, right after next week's Snow Daze events. The high-speed quad chair replaces the old fixed-grip triple, cutting the ride from twelve minutes down to ju ... More >>

Skiing for Dummies

Minturn Saloon rates as Colorado's best ski bar

​The Minturn Saloon has been named "best Colorado ski bar" by Outside magazine in the July issue -- and the venerable watering hole, which is just starting its 35th year and occupies a building in Minturn that dates back to 1901, deserves the honor. "On any winter day," Outside writes, "ever ... More >>

New season of Top Chef includes two Colorado mountain cookers, Kelly Liken and Kenny Gilbert, but no Denver or Boulder chefs

​Top Chef, the often unrealistic reality show that made Hosea Rosenberg, exec chef of Jax-Boulder, a hometown hero when he emerged the conquistador two seasons ago, just released its listage of contestants for season 7, which will be filmed in Washington DC and premier on June 16 on Bravo. ... More >>

A Flavor for Vail

Mountains of food and wine at the Taste of Vail

Taste of Vail​You know that spring has sprung when the crest of Vail Mountain morphs from a skier's powdered paradise into an al fresco grazing ground for foodniks and oenophiles, a transformation that takes place every year during the Taste of Vail, a three-day gastronomic romp that begins to ... More >>

Bottoms Up

Vail's Terra Bistro is so 17 years ago

Some things are better left in the past​ Terra Bistro, the restaurant inside Vail Mountain Resort & Spa, is celebrating its 17-year anniversary through Wednesday, December 16 with a special menu that features dishes from the past 17 years, including a "drunken" pork chop and sweet potato ravio ... More >>

So long, robbers, and thanks for all the dumbness

"Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!" ​The Snowboard Bandits, who we wrote about last year, terrorized Front Range banks in 2007 and 2008. They were clever enough to disguise themselves in full-body snowboar ... More >>

Today's featured event: Spring has sprung at Spring Back to Vail

Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla. But Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail to be one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado's high country, not to mention the entire nation. It's so chock-full of stuff to do before and af ... More >>

Spring Has Spring

High on the Hog