The folks behind the Cellar Wine Bar, slated for the former home of the Red Door at 2556 15th Street, have applied with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses for a beer and wine liquor license. They’ll meet with neighbors and the board of Highland United Neighbors tonight at…
The long-delayed Squeaky Bean finally made its debut Monday — and no one was happier to see the open doors than the folks at Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe, right next door at at 2005 West 33rd Avenue. “It has been a rough road for all involved, but it’s now open…
Lucy, the restaurant that made its debut last fall when Comedy Works South opened at 5345 Landmark Place in Greenwood Village, has made some changes for spring. Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend monsoons, it opened its patio. And also last week, chef Jeff Stoneking introduced a new…
Farewell, Diamond Shamrock: Tony’s has opened at 950 Broadway, and we may have eaten our last convenience-store burrito. That’s because Tony’s stocks homemade breakfast burritos, as well as dozens of other ready-to-go food items — and, of course, many more prepared dishes and packaged ingredients that just need a little…
It wasn’t just the decisive win that made last night’s Nuggets victory so gratifying. And it wasn’t the fact that Denver looked so good — if very, very wet — on national TV. What was particularly sweet about this chapter in the Cinderella story is that the Nuggets were never…
Cafe Scientifique, the knock-out nerdfest that explores assorted scientific topics, devotes May’s monthly meeting to the mystery of beer. Brewmaster Alan Simon will review the process of brewing beer, and provide some samples, at 7 p.m. tonight at Backcountry Brewery, 720 Main Street in Frisco.For information, call 970-453-2685 or go…
Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-side,…
Argyll might bill itself as “a gastroPub,” but it doesn’t see itself as a neighborhood pub — not unless you consider all of Denver just one big neighborhood. I live several miles and fifteen minutes from Cherry Creek (and that’s if the lights on Speer are synchronized), and last night…
“Do you believe in waterboarding?” The question was not from President Barack Obama or former vice president Dick Cheney, who are all over the news today for their comments on torture and terrorism yesterday. It was posed by former senator Gary Hart, who long before 9/11 was warning of the…
If you’re heading to the hills Memorial Day weekend, sustainability advocate Bill McKibben will be the keynote speaker at the Moving Mountains Symposium in Telluride today. It kicks off this weekend’s Mountainfilm festival. For details, go to http://mountainfilm.org. From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, brewmasters from Summit…
Brunch isn’t a very French meal, so William Wahl, chef/owner of Indulge French Bistro, the Best French Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, isn’t quite sure what to call the Sunday lunch that the restaurant started serving on May 10. “Let’s call it Sunday dejeuner,” he decides. Whatever it…
Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-wide,…
“Denver Stories” is a genius marketing move: Every May, Curious Theatre Company picks four local celebs (or what passes for a celeb in this town), has a local playwright create a short play about them, and then produces all four on one evening that turns into a giant fundraising event…
It’s Eat Here Now! night at 910Arts event gallery, 910 Santa Fe Drive. From 6 to 9 p.m., you can look at the current exhibit on growing and eating locally, sample Colorado produce, and see the film Seeds of Community: Creating Sustainable Family Gardens. And it’s all free. For more…
John Hickenlooper didn’t even know he had a cousin named George until one day in 1991, when a fellow in town for the Denver International Film Festival went over to the Wynkoop Brewing Company for a beer. Hickenlooper isn’t a very common name, and those who carry it tend to…
Steve Horner, please go back to your corner. Or at least give the besieged Colorado Civil Rights Commission a break and concentrate on alleged injustices in Minnesota, where you’re now living. You know where to file in that state: Back in 1993, you made your first complaint to the Minnesota…
It’s too late to grab the free pizza that Zpizza was handing out last night, but you can buy a pie today, when Zpizza officially opens for business at 4940 South Yosemite in Greenwood Village. Lori Midson got a taste of the chain when she was in California a couple…
The tipster poured her story into my ear, a long, involved tale of bureaucrats behaving badly. “I’ll talk to the writers and see if we can get that in the paper,” I told her. “Oh, I don’t care about the paper,” she said. “I want it on TV.” Since I…
Parisi, at 4401 Tennyson Street, hosts a wine-tasting and seminar on the wines of Biondi Santi, led by winemaker Luca Belingardi, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. The price is $50 per person (and includes imported Tuscan salumi, cheeses and bread), and reservations are definitely required; call 303-561-0234. Cook Street,…
On Saturday, El Camino could have been Swimclub 32 all over again when a parade in honor of Seamen on Hooker — an annual, nautically themed neighborhood party on the 2900-3100 blocks of Hooker Street — parked in front of the restaurant at 3628 West 32nd Avenue for a refreshing…
You can’t get Cheli’s chili in Chicago anymore — the Cheli’s Chili Bar there closed when Chris Chelios was traded to the Detroit Red Wings. You can get it in Michigan, of course; the hockey player has three Cheli’s Chili Bar restaurants around Detroit. And now you can get it…
George Hickenlooper has spent the last several months with Jack Abramoff, the jailed influence-peddler who’ll be the focus of his next film, which stars Kevin Spacey. For his last effort, the filmmaker used a much less experienced crew of actors: the staff of Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, who just happens…
