When this place decided to introduce its first happy hour this summer, it dove right in. So now, seven days a week from 3 to 6 p.m., you can dive right into a bucket of six Coronas for just $15. Where am I drinking? (First correct answer gets a free…
Every year, a friend and I make jalapeno jelly that we give to other friends (what they do with it, we have no idea), and we thought we’d perfected our formula. But this recipe for Rocky Mountain Jalapeno Jelly, created by Jason Morse, chef at Valley Country Club in Aurora…
Tennyson Street north of 38th Avenue is one of the city’s five Denver Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative corridors, part of a Denver Office of Economic Development pilot program pushing business in these areas. And from 5 to 7:30 p.m. tonight, the OED will hold a reception at House, 4363 Tennyson Street,…
On Friday night, staffers from over a dozen street newspapers — papers created by and for not just the poor and homeless, but the public that should care about the poor and homeless — gathered for the North American Street Newspaper Association Awards ceremony. The event was downtown at Marlowe’s,…
Jason Rogers has signed on as head chef of Oskar Blues, where he’s overseeing a complete kitchen renovation of the Oskar Blues Grill & Brew brewpub in Lyons, and will then run the kitchen at the soon-to-open Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids in Longmont. “The moment I met Jason…
Dan and Michelle Landes, owners of WaterCourse Foods and City, O’ City, Denver’s award-winning vegetarian restaurants, have a new venture in the works — and this one will actually be on the water. Along with partner Dave Paco, they’re opening an international hostel in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, named Osa Mariposa…
The sky’s the limit this week. Or is it? From a discussion of the view at Coors Field to consideration of a proposed DIA expansion to conventions including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the fortieth annual international UFO Symposium, things are looking up — way up –…
Great balls of fire! Angela’s Meatballs, the winning entry in an all-firefighter meatball contest cooked up by North Metro Fire Rescue District’s Lieutenant Don Wiercinksi and Matthew Gintzler, will be added to added to the menu at both Denver Maggiano’s restaurants as of today. And anytime a customer orders the…
This triple-threat flight of margaritas — one Coin-style, one watermelon, one caliente — are just the thing to get your weekend off to a very happy start. If you can find them, that is. Where am I drinking?…
Two local restaurant ventures will expand today. Snooze is slated to officially unveil its second location, at 700 Colorado Boulevard, this morning; like the original in the Ballpark neighborhood, it will be open for breakfast and lunch. And at 10:30 a.m., Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Denver-based fast-casual chain focusing on…
It’s been a bad year for newspapers, with cities acorss the country losing important institutions like the Rocky Mountain News. But it’s been a very good year for homeless newspapers, judging from the entries in the first annual North American Street Newspaper Association Newspaper Awards. I was lucky enough to…
Hoss Orwat had hoped to get Big Hoss reopened a few days after a kitchen fire in late June, then hoped for anytime in July. But now it looks like it will be August 14 before Big Hoss, his barbecue joint at 3961 Tennyson Street, finally is back in business…
By now, the Antiques Roadshow crew that came to town last week to film a show at the Colorado Convention Center has gladdened a few hearts – having identified unexpected treasures in the approximately 10,000 items brought in for appraisal – and broken many more, revealing that all those pampered…
After many unanticipated delays, Mary Jane’s Pizza, the first outpost of a joint that got its start in Tulsa back in 2002 , will open tonight at 2013 West 32nd Avenue. And open late, since the hours here will be from 11 p.m. to 4:20 a.m. (get it?), take-out and…
Sometime this morning, right after the full House votes on the Food Safety Enhancement Act (the discussion starts at 8:30 a.m. MST), Representative Diana DeGette and other members of the working group that pushed the measure will hold a press conference to discuss its ramifications. In anticipation of this day,…
On January 22, new President Barack Obama signed an executive order promising that Guantanamo would go — within a year. But closing the prison in Cuba — and figuring out where to put the 229 suspected terrorists now held there — has proved complicated. Moving at least some of them…
No boss could refuse you a coffee break this morning — not when dozens of downtown establishments will be offering all comers a free cup of joe between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Who’ll be pouring it on (and out)? The three homegrown Ink! outposts, as well as the thirteen Starbucks…
The three downtown Ink! Coffee outlets — at 618 16th (in the Sage Building at Welton Street), at 1590 Little Raven (Riverfront) and 1200 17th Street (Tabor Center) – will host a free coffee break for downtown workers from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. It’s a real perk of…
On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in…
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission took its show on the road last night, hosting an evening forum at the Blair-Caldwell Library. And if the conversation didn’t seem to go exactly where Colorado Civil Rights Division director Steve Chavez wanted it to go — after an active initial discussion of racial…
Nation’s Restaurant News, the bible of the food-industry world, has just named Smashburger, a homegrown burger joint that rated our Best Local Chain in the Best of Denver 2008, a 2009 Hot Concept. “We are both honored and humbled to receive this prestigious award from Nation’s Restaurant News,” Tom Ryan,…
