You know you’re back in Denver when you hear that bossy voice admonish you for “delaying the departure of this train” at DIA. It belongs to 9News’ Adele Arakawa, who replaced original admonisher Reynelda Muse. Likewise, the cheery “hold on” now comes from Alan Roach rather than the late Pete…
The space at 753 Santa Fe Drive — most recently occupied by Club 753 — is once again dark. But the address deserves some time in the spotlight for one very good reason: It was here that the Mexican hamburger, a major Colorado contribution to the world’s culinary scene, was…
Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican and a former food critic in Orange County, California, is in town this week for a visiting professorship at Metro and his debate tonight with Tom Tancredo. But really, he’s here to eat — a mission that has so far taken him to…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, including everything from fried pickles at Madison Street to bone marrow at Euclid Hall to the box of baked goods above. For correctly identifying its source as Buffalo Doughboy Bakery, SAxcuy wins an EatDenver deck…
“What we eat is an expression of who we are,” said Adam Lerner, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, by way of introducing the first session in the three-day Art Meets Beast project. “Food is our most immediate introduction to culture.” And there was plenty of food for…
At 6 p.m. tonight at the Mercury Cafe, still-Mayor John Hickenlooper will hand out Denver’s 2010 Mayor’s Design Awards, honoring eleven neighborhood projects that combine form and function in remarkable ways. Several of the winners are restaurants, including the Mercury, the eatery/community center that Marilyn Megenity opened at 2199 California…
When Adam Lerner moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he brought with him the fabulous Mixed Taste program he’d started at Belmar, which pairs lectures on two very different topics in a delicious culture clash. Tonight’s double dip, which starts with drinks at 6 p.m. and the event…
By inching over 10 percent of the vote last Tuesday, Dan Maes saved the Colorado Republican Party from the humiliation of falling to minor-party status. But while Tom Tancredo didn’t win the race, his 30 percent-plus of the vote elevated the American Constitution Party to a major Colorado party…
Lakeview Lounge, a classic dive at 2375 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, is a great place to drink any time of the day or night, as Drew Bixby reported in this recent Drunk of the Week. But the best time of all might have been this past Saturday morning, the last…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week (as well as a Guess Which Food Celebrity Drives These Hot Wheels query after Guy Fieri’s car was sighted in town), covering everything from nachos at Stoney’s to the new TV dinners at Squeaky Bean to a muffaletta at Mangiamo…
Even as John Hickenlooper was heading to the Capitol the day after the election to discuss his plans for the state, city employees were reading this e-mail from the governor-elect: “Many of you have already asked what happens now. As excited as I am for my new role, we want…
Open Tap Bar & Grill has turned off the tap. The space at 1446 South Broadway that once held Cafe Cero has gone dark, again; several restaurant groups are eying the spot, which has a great outdoor patio and a challenging, if charming, interior. Once a high-end Italian restaurant, Cafe…
Tom Tancredo didn’t win Colorado’s wacky gubernatorial race, but at least he went out in style: Not only did he concede graciously — and far more quickly than Dan Maes — on election night, but he did so while rocking a great Western shirt. Only one problem: Like the Wrangler…
Look for Den Deli, the sibling of Sushi Den and Izakaya Den that opened last fall at 1501 South Pearl Street, then closed last month for a remodel, to unveil its new look within the next few weeks. “Remodeling has been going well, and we expect to reopen by mid-November,”…
“I can’t keep saying I’m not a politician,” governor-elect and definite politician John Hickenlooper said yesterday as he stood the State Capitol, outlining his transition-team plans. From where he stood, he could see his mayoral office at the Denver City & County Building. But his political career really got his…
No sooner had we published our restaurant roll call for October, a roster of the places that had opened and closed that month, than updates started rolling in. For example, Colorado lost its only Claim Jumper, a link in a chain that got its start back in 1977, when the…
The McRib is back, available at the 200 McDonald’s restaurants across the state until November 22. The elusive sandwich, billed as “a boneless pork patty dressed with fresh-slivered onions, dill pickle slices, tangy barbeque sauce and served on a toasted, golden-brown home-style bun,” was first introduced almost three decades ago,…
Tom Tancredo was about to concede the gubernatorial race, but many more Colorado contests were up in the air when I walked into the ballroom of the downtown Marriott, site of the Colorado Democratic Party’s election party. And what was on the TVs? Not CNN, not local newscasts shunted off…
El Diablo is already full of incredible art, but the cantina at 101 Broadway got all decked out for Halloween, with giant spider webs reminiscent of what Jesse Morreale found when he took over the old First Avenue Hotel, spooky lights and hanging skulls. The partying went on all weekend…
Diners who’ve lived in Denver for more than a decade all have tales of some meal they had at the Wellshire Inn, the elegant restaurant that Leo Goto ran out an old Tudor-style building on the park/golf course owned by the City and County of Denver, at 3333 South Colorado…
Tired of the endless Ken Buck/Michael Bennet attack ads that have made it unsafe to turn on your television for the past month? Blame Barack Obama, who pulled Ken Salazar from his spot in the U.S. Senate and put him in the cabinet as the Secretary of the Interior. How’s…
There were major developments on the local dining scene last month, including the openings of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro and EDGE, the reopening of Frasca Food & Wine — and the closing of Zona’s Tamales after forty years. Our restaurant roll call for October:…
