At 6 p.m. tonight, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, is hosting an all-American food and wine event featuring the wines of California and the Pacific Northwest paired with a menu prepared by Flovor Catering, which includes house-smoked salmon with green goddess aioli; miniature chicken-in-a-biscuit sandwiches with watermelon relish; braised…

Just got word that ESPN Zone, the 23,000-square-foot sports-centric playground and game center (and the only Denver link in the company’s national chain) at 1187 16th Street, went dark today, exactly one day after Greg Goldfogel pulled the plug on Alto, the Northern Italian restaurant and live jazz venue at…

The rumors were rampant over the weekend that Alto, Greg Goldfogel’s northern Italian restaurant at 1320 15th Street, had shuttered. Turns out it wasn’t a rumor: Alto’s web site, which was still accepting reservations yesterday, is now entirely devoid of content, except for a mere seven words that admit defeat…

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…

For the past several weeks, we’ve been following the progress of Colore Pizzeria Moderna, the new pizza and pasta emporium at 2700 South Broadway. And, now, we just got word from co-owner Caroline Momo-Torres, that on Saturday, June 27, the kitchen will start slinging pizzas, pastas, sandwiches and salads seven…

Just got off the phone with Enrique Guerrero, co-owner and chef at Mangiamo Pronto — which means “Let’s Eat Now!” — a fast-casual Italian joint in Santa Fe, New Mexico that’s coming to downtown Denver in early September, specifically to 1601 17th Street, in the former Common Grounds space. Guerrero,…

Just in case you missed Hosea Rosenberg, the exec chef at Jax Fish House, Boulder (928 Pearl Street), drop his jaw in disbelief when he was crowned top cooker on the season 5 finale of Top Chef, or at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen last weekend, when he…

Earlier today, while walking out the door of the Icehouse Tavern (only a mere seven hours old at the time of this writing), Highway to Hell, the 1979 cult ACDC album title and hit of the same name, was blaring over the speakers. And in the kitchen, the crew, headed…

Tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., TrueChild, a national organization that works to abolish child stereotyping, is hosting a reception, silent auction and the “True Flavors Celebrity Cook-off” at Mise En Place, 1801 Wynkoop Street. The match-up features two culinary teams, one led by Top Chef’s Melissa Harrison, who cooks…

We’ve just gotten word that LoHi SteakBar, the new restaurant spearheaded by Joe Vostrejs and chef-partner Sean Kelly, is opening tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. in the former home of North Star Brewery at 3200 Tejon Street, which is exactly seven hours (that would be 11 a.m.) after James Mazzio…

First, Vesta Dipping Grill brought back a modicum of cheer to all the bummed out businesses in Denver suffering from the economy; then Vesta’s staff, otherwise known as the bearers of all things happy, initiated, for the first time in the restaurant’s history, a happy hour for the people –…

On Saturday, June 27, Northglenn residents will come to understand why the rest of us, including Jason Sheehan, are truly, madly, deeply in lust with Smashburger, the homegrown hamburger chain that’s multiplying faster than a calculator — here and throughout the United States. And when Colorado’s eleventh Smashburger opens at…

Luca D’Italia, Frank Bonanno’s Italian restaurant at 711 Grant Street, celebrates six years in the Capitol Hill ‘hood this month with a parade of visiting Colorado chefs, including Mark Fischer, exec at Carbondale’s Six89 and Phat Thai, who joins Bonanno tonight in the kitchen. The five-course dinner, paired with wines,…

Come August, Rob McColgan and Anthony Pigliacamto will open Modmarket at 1700 28th Street in Boulder’s flailing Twenty Ninth Street mall, a risky move that is nothing short of roulette, considering the succession of restaurants that have opened, and subsequently shuttered, in that wasteland of chains. But the 2,500-square-foot Modmarket…

T-WA Inn, which opened on January 1, 1984 as Denver’s first Vietnamese joint, is celebrating 25 years at 555 South Federal Boulevard by offering a four-course dinner for $25 per couple. The deal, which continues through Sunday, June 28, includes your choice of soup (chicken Thai, hot and sour or…

Great Divide Brewing Company and City, O’ City, the bohemian vegetarian restaurant, bar and bakery at 206 East 13th Avenue, are hosting Boozenfüd (useless trivia: “boozenfüd” has exactly six Google entries, all of which are related to this dinner), a multi-course meal featuring four Great Divide brews paired with four…

By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I’d already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted to pork belly; Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg locking arms with knifed…

At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Table 6, 609 Corona Street, welcomes Slovenian winemaker Aleks Simcic and master sommelier Laura Williamson for a four-course dinner paired with the rare wines of Edi Sincic from Goriska Brda. Not impressed? Ray Isle, Food & Wine magazine’s wine editor, called these wines the “darlings of…

See more photos at westword.com/slideshow.As expected, the first night of the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen was a culinary red carpet of celebrity chefs and the giggling, starstruck fans who couldn’t stop pawing them. And then there were the blowout parties, like the charity event hosted by Mario Batali,…