Last year, Steuben’s served over 2,000 burgers and sandwiches at the Mile High Music Festival, and it’s signed on again for this year’s fest July 18-19– partnering with the Colorado Restaurant Association Education Foundation to raise money for young adults wanting to join the food-service and hospitality industry. CRAEF volunteers…
At 8 a.m. today, Mayor John Hickenlooper will deliver his seventh, and certainly most challenging, State of the City speech. Last year, Denver’s biggest worry was making sure the Democratic National Convention ran smoothly (the controversy that would erupt over Renee Marie’s Star-Spangled bungle at Hickenlooper’s speech wouldn’t help). Today,…
Lawmakers will finally get some balls this week, when the Western Business Roundtable hosts its annual “Taste of the West” reception at the Rayburn Office Building on Thursday. complete with Rocky Mountain oysters, the official food of Colorado. “We’ve been doing a Taste of the West event in D.C. for…
Chipotle Mexican Grill is underwriting a screening of Food, Inc., the stomach-turning documentary now showing at Chez Artiste, 2800 South Colorado Boulevard. The free showing is 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15; the first 275 people in line get in gratis. To whet your film-going appetite, read Tyler Nemkov’s interview with…
Toshi and Yasu Kizaki, the owners of the beloved Sushi Den at 1487 South Pearl Street, weren’t content with putting a world-famous sushi restaurant in the heart of Denver’s South Pearl neighborhood. In August 2007, they expanded their empire by opening Izakaya Den across the street at 1518 South Pearl,…
Everywhere I go in Denver, in Colorado, I’m reminded of John Parr and Sandy Widener, the much-loved couple who did so much to change the psychic landscape of this state before they were killed in a car crash with their daughter, Chase, in December 2007. I think of them when…
In the current Shmuck of the Week, Joe Tone weighs in on Dan Kennedy, the University of Colorado sophomore who wants to open a topless coffee shop in a campus conference room that would only be open one day a week — but somehow could cover the costs of topless…
Gelman’s Restaurant & Bar, at 2911 West 38th Avenue, continues to evolve. What started as a market/deli a few years ago, then turned into a full-service restaurant last year, is now featuring BBQ and bluegrass on weekends. The action started last night but picks up again this afternoon, when chef…
There’s not a moment to lose: Any customer dressed as a cow will get a free Chick-fil-A meal on July 10, Cow Appreciation Day. Which happens to be today, so grab your cow-hide jacket and hoof it to Park Meadows or any other Colorado Chick-fil-A® restaurant for a free meal…
Several readers have commented on Jason Sheehan’s recent review of Sketch, particularly his confession that he’s just not that into wine: I used to think it was me — that I didn’t have the taste for it, that there was something magical about wine, some secret I had yet to…
Colorado, New Mexico and Texas officials announced yesterday that they’ve joined in an effort to secure the country’s eleventh high-speed rail corridor — and the billions in federal dollars that would go to such an enterprise. The concept of a high-speed train zooming up from the border has promise. But…
While some people count out-of-state license plates on their road trips, we look for out-of-place green chile offerings. It’s not hard to find Denver’s favorite dish if you’re staying in-state; just about every town in Colorado has a Mexican restaurant that offers its own version of green chile. And if…
Chris Loffelmacher serves up plenty of food for thought at Fresh City Life, his cultural/social series that’s turned the Denver Public Library into the hottest ticket in town. Now, in celebration of summer and this hot, hot weather, Fresh City Life is teaming up with Whole Foods Market, Dazzle Restaurant…
“You put me out in Denver because I wouldn’t suck your dick.” That’s what Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, a lobbyist hired last year by former D.C. mayor and current councilmember Marion Barry to be his driver and personal assistant, shouted at Barry in June — shortly before he was arrested and jailed…
My nephew Johnny loves meat — despite the fact (or maybe partly because of the fact) that his parents don’t eat red meat. “I don’t exactly get that,” the eleven-year-old says. “It has a lot of flavor and it can come from many different animals for many different tastes.” And…
Denver District Judge Larry Naves’s ruling yesterday that Ward Churchill should not get his job back at the University of Colorado — and, in fact, should not get any more compensation than the dollar a jury awarded him back in March — should be the last word on Ward. It…
Chris Cina’s had some bad luck lately, with his last gig at Twig’s Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy’s, a gigantic liquor store in Littleton, drying up fast last fall. And that was after an absolutely disastrous attempt to open T. Kelly’s at 1361 Court Place. Still, Cina’s got…
The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota’s civil…
It’s 1959 all over again tonight on KBDI, the public television station that airs Colorado Inside Out, a roundtable devoted to covering current events every week — except the week of July 4. That’s when the talented crew moves the show to a historic period and then prays the panelists…
Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo’s, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall…
Mark Huebner didn’t get the girl — he was eliminated from The Bachelorette two weeks ago — but he got a pizza joint instead. His Denver Pizza Company, at 309 West 11th Avenue, opens tomorrow at 11 a.m.; it will be selling medium pies for $5 (one topping) and large…
As reported here — a lot — Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan had a book-signing at Katie Mullen’s last evening. And that just happened to be the bar where Ward Churchill and attorney David Lane went after their day in court, where they’d told Judge Larry Naves why Churchill deserves…
