Colorado has produced several successful Mexican chains — the Rio Grande group, for example, and Santiago’s, which seems to add another outlet every week. But one longtime chain is suffering from shrinking pains — and its employees are suffering, too. Last week, the Armadillo closed its restaurant in Littleton, and…
On Friday, the 300 (or so) restaurants participating in Denver Restaurant Week will be posting their $52.80 (for two) menus for the two-week eating orgy that starts on February 25; we’re offering $52.80 to both the diner and the restaurant employee who offer the best Denver Restaurant Week survival tip…
Late Friday, the Department of Fish and Wildlife referred queries about a proposed land swap (which would add a 617-acre parcel to the southwest side of Rocky Flats in exchange for a 300-foot right-of-way on the eastern border going to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority) to the Justice Department…
Phil Bender was a famous artist long before he won the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts this fall — even if he was the one who hung himself with the “Famous Artist” tag. So is it possible that the Piratical, tech-phobic Bender put up the Phill Bender Facebook…
Twenty-seven years ago today, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe opened its doors at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. The area has changed a lot since then — this part of Highland is now the best restaurant neighborhood in the city — but the Aguirre family still runs Rosa Linda’s. Here’s an e-mail…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a big $2 breakfast burrito to an order of goat curry to this cocktail in a plastic cup. For correctly linking the glassware to the Grizzly Rose, Dawn wins an EatDenver deck…
Although they may disagree with his definition of pasties, readers appreciated the Chef and Tell interview with Ryan Leinonen, the chef who opened Trillium, a Scandinavian restaurant, last month. And Leinonen appreciates chefs, particularly Escoffier. “Le Guide Culinaire was the first book I read when I decided to take my…
Last week, if all had gone according to plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have been finalizing the exchange of a 300-foot right-of-way comprising approximately 100 acres on the eastern border of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge for a 617-acre parcel on the southwestern corner of the…
Bento Japanese and Asian Cuisine, which opened just last fall, has closed at 890 South Monaco Parkway — an address that’s already swallowed up a Silver Mine Subs outpost, Grilled Skewer Vietnamese and a Famous Philly Cheesesteak. And Bento wasn’t the only restaurant to open and close in just a…
Tim Tebow has inspired more than sports fans. He’s inspired artists, too. And the folks at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, who produced two posters of the Broncos quarterback that borrowed the imagery and words used by artist Shepard Fairey in his now-iconic depiction of Barack Obama. Do you still hope…
Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that’s march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police…
Cafe Society is off celebrating Martin Luther King Day, and will be back on duty early tomorrow. If you’re hungry for food news in the meantime, try a second helping of some of these entrees from last week: — Denver Restaurant Week is less than six weeks away, and the…
Jason Sheehan is gone — he wrote his last review for Westword two years ago — but certainly not forgotten in this town. He’s mentioned in our Letters to the Editor column this week, and yesterday, his name popped up in an Eater Denver “The Gatekeeper” interview with Paul Attardi,…
John Hickenlooper might not like wearing a tie, but he has a thing about hats these days. He donned a giant cowboy hat for his speech at the Citizens of the West dinner Monday night (scary photo at right and below); he modeled a Denver Broncos cap during his State…
It’s all about suburbia today. After reviewing Street Kitchen Asian Bistro, Laura Shunk went on a hunt for the “Five best places for lunch near the Tech Center,” which inspired a number of suggestions — some of them ethnic joints, which she’d said were in short supply in the southern…
The Terminal Kings project is painting the town — or at least some massive murals destined for Denver International Airport — this week, with City Hall, 1144 Broadway, turned into a massive gallery through January 21. The fact that the three lead artists, all billed as “world-class,” are from out…
Last fall a load of pizza joints signed on to open in LoDo; now it looks like LoDo could soon be swimming in sushi. Blue Sushi Sake Grill, an Omaha-based chain, has signed on to take the space at 1616 16th Street that had once been half of Dixons. “We…
Denver International Airport has always been sadly lacking a real taste of Colorado cuisine (witness the cup of Nobel Sysco green chile I downed on Concourse A last Friday). And that makes the presentation before Denver City Council’s Business, Workforce and Sustainability Committee yesterday particularly heartening: Seven new vendors have…
The comments keep coming about Gabor’s, the classic neighborhood bar whose closure was the biggest bombshell of the new year; the space is slated to become Marion Street Tavern this summer. In the meantime, regulars keep pouring out their opinions. Here’s the latest from Boz:…
The signs started popping up late last fall: No high rises in West Highland. But the residents fighting a massive, three-building complex proposed for the heart of Highland Square didn’t stop at signs. They also pushed city officials, including Susan Shepherd, the new Denver City Council representative for District 1,…
Terminal Kings is taking off at City Hall, where three world-class street artists — Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff — are creating giant murals that will be displayed at Denver International Airport over the next five years, as the South Terminal project gets under way. Over the next ten…
There are no Dippin’ Dots vendors at the National Western Stock Show — the company that created the “ice cream of the future” filed for bankruptcy in November — and Biker Jim’s truck, one of several at the Stock Show this year, wasn’t manned until 4 p.m.yesterday afternoon. Still, we…
