Lotus Concepts is raising the roof — literally — on the Victorian building at 2015 Market Street that for decades held Mori Japanese Restaurant. But Mori closed abruptly four years ago, and club king Francois Safieddine bought the spot from the Nisei Veterans Heritage Foundation for a reported $900,000 in…
Chef/owner Ryan Leinonen says that a rare flower, the blue trillium, was the inspiration for the restaurant that he opened last year in the Ballpark neighborhood, Trillium. But a flawless meal here is also a rare thing, as Gretchen Kurtz discovered when she reviewed the place this week. See also:…
Developer Mickey Zeppelin bought the old Victorian building at 1434 Blake Street back in the early ’80s, moving his office upstairs, putting an architectural bookstore in the basement, and then opening the iconic City Spirit Cafe with his wife, artist Susan Wick, on the first floor. After the closed City…
To mark the transition of the former Bender’s space to the new home of Quixote’s True Blue, which opens tonight, the Johnny Cash mural on the eastern wall was replaced with one of Jerry Garcia — which was then painted over while the artist came up with a replacement Garcia,…
Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink opens this weekend with a diner/coffeeshop up front, eight bowling lanes, a lounge with a marbles table, three ping-pong tables, a pool table, two big bars…and 85 parking places in front, with another lot that will hold over forty cars half a block…
Denver City Council President Mary Beth Susman, who represents District 5 covering eastern Denver, will hold a town hall meeting tonight. But one of the big agenda issues has been dropped: Because developer Jeff Fuqua has not submitted a new plan for the Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District, with a list…
Bob Blair went to City Spirit, a legendary restaurant that will be the focus of Friday’s City Spirit Reunion, just once — “back in the day,” he remembers. But he knows all about the place, since he opened Fuel five years ago come December 31 in the Taxi development, right…
Every generation of hipsters has its hangout, and from 1984 until 1997 in Denver, that place was City Spirit, an eclectic cafe that opened at 1434 Blake Street four years before the Lower Downtown Historic District was formally established, and long before LoDo became the mainstream mainstay it is today…
Girls Gone Wild will land in Denver on Sunday, when the Back to School Tour 2012 stops at PT’s Showclub at 1601 West Evans Avenue at 9 p.m. But Joe Francis, the founder of Girls Gone Wild, isn’t that wild himself these days — or so his company would like…
After getting a taste of ekte gjetost, a cheese made of caramelized goat’s-milk whey, at Trillium, the restaurant she’s reviewing this week, Gretchen Kurtz tried to track it down in town. She had no luck at the usual suspects: The Truffle, Marczyk Fine Foods, the Continental Deli. But she did…
Ski season is under way, with Winter Park opening today and Vail opening on Friday, marking its fiftieth birthday. Aspen/Snowmass will be opening on November 22, but in the meantime, Denver-based Icelantic Skis yesterday honored one of Aspen’s adopted sons, John Denver, by unveiling a limited edition John Denver signature…
The restaurant business has not been too friendly to Vance Johnson, one of the legendary Three Amigos who helped get the Denver Broncos to the Super Bowl in 1989. (The other two Amigos were Ricky Nattiel and Mark Jackson.) After some rocky years, Johnson moved to the Western Slope, where…
With Democrats controlling both houses of the Colorado Legislature, Governor John Hickenlooper should have lots of common ground with lawmakers. But one topic is already creating cracks in any consensus: fracking. Hickenlooper has asked for a single set of state regulations that would govern the state’s oil and gas industry,…
Although Denver diners are obsessed with green chile, red chile has its fans, too. As Gretchen Kurtz notes, “Red chile has an even deeper, more intriguing flavor, as fruits and vegetables left to reach their fully ripe potential tend to do.” She couldn’t get the Curtis Park Creamery, which she…
Hint: If you’re going to a movie in Boulder, do not wear a “Joker” mask in the theater. Officials with the Boulder Police Department reported Sunday night that they had arrested a seventeen-year-old male (he’s a part-time University of Colorado student whose name is not being released because he’s a…
While Governor John Hickenlooper had a conference call with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to talk about the federal response to the passage Amendment 64, and Mason Tvert, the architect of that victory, was chatting with Bill Maher, hundreds of people gathered in Denver for the National Marijuana Business Conference…
Three Colorado chefs started out on the season premiere ofTop Chef Seattle last week, and two moved on. But Euclid Hall’s Jorel Pierce was out, booted by Tom Colicchio. And how did that feel? “While the pressure was intense and intimidating,” Pierce says, “I know now that I learned a…
Denver lost two institutions last week: Bender’s went dark after an eight-year run — Quixote’s True Blue is moving into the space — and the mural of Johnny Cash that graced the side of the building, painted by Tommy Nahulu, is also history. Johnny is being replaced by Jerry Garcia,…
The election may be over, but the campaigns continue. While pot proponents celebrate the passage of Amendment 64 at a national marijuana convention in Denver, backers of another successful initiative, Amendment 65, will also be gathering in town for a 2012 Grassroots Democracy Convergence to push for getting money out…
Could there really be any confusion between Strange Brewing Company, a two-year-old microbrewery in Denver, and Strange Brew Beer & Wine Making Supplies, a shop in Marlboro, Massachusetts? That’s what the shop’s attorneys think, and they recently sent a letter to Strange Brewing warning that “your continued operation of a…
MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany Street, is hosting its second Art Meets Beast festival, honoring the history of the bison. The two-day celebration begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. with a workshop led by Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods, who will carve an entire bison; the vegetarian option is a film…
Colorado has an official State Dance (square), an official State Fossil (stegosaurus) and not one, but two official State Songs (“Where the Columbines Grow” and “Rocky Mountain High”). It has no official food — but Governor John Hickenlooper’s reference to favorite munchie snacks could soon change that. See also: -…
