Two very different wine-tastings tonight.The Fort, at 19192 Highway 8 in Morrison, features more than forty wines from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight; admission is $37, and includes the Fort’s appetizers. For reservations, call 303-697-4771.And down in Denver, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…
At Il Posto tonight, “A Slow Evening” will feature chef/owner Andrea Frizzi preparing a seasonal menu in honor of Slow Food Denver. Dinner is $65 per person (members of Slow Food Denver and/or Denver Independent Network of Restaurants), $75 others, and includes wine, tax and gratuity. For reservations, e-mail rsvp@slowfooddenver.org…
In this corner — weighing in at seven pounds (if you’re going for the official Big Burrito challenge, as Adam Richman did on a recent episode of Man v. Food), or a more reasonable pound or so, if you just want to grab a breakfast burrito when the place opens…
I’m looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the “Travel by Train” sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years. And some day there will be a lot more of them, if current plans for the revelopment…
Big Papa’s BBQ is about to get bigger. Andrew Besemer’s homegrown chain — which Jason Sheehan raved about a few years ago, earning himself a “This I Believe” slot raving about barbecue on National Public Radio — is about to get another link. Big Papa’s, which already has a store…
Tonight at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, winemaker Etienne Hugel will present the wines of Hugel & Fils at a Monday Night Wine Dinner devoted to the flavors of Alsace. Dinner is $45 per person, with optional wine pairings extra; for reservations, call 303-442-6966. Osteria Marco, 1453 Larimer Street,…
When Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant at 2257 West 32nd Avenue, closed right after the start of the year, its phone message promised to announce a new location within a couple of weeks. Cebiche’s Sergio Iraola says he’s still looking for the perfect spot — and in the meantime, there’s some…
When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that’s moving into 3200 Tejon Street — the old home of North Star Brewery — would be open in June. He just didn’t know when in June. “We…
This morning, the 2009 class of North High School will rehearse for tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies at the Colorado Convention Center. The entire graduating class. That’s because on Tuesday, Denver Public Schools put a halt to North principal Ed Salem’s plan to prohibit about 50 out of 180 graduating seniors from…
Don’t order in from the Denver Pizza Company tonight. Although that’s the purported business of The Bachelorette competitor Mark Huebner, described as a “pizza entrepreneur” from Denver in advance publicity for the show that kicks off Monday, there’s no such joint in town. Not yet. But then, it would be…
Go hog wild on Friday, May 15, when the Culinary School of the Rockies, 637 South Broadway in Boulder, offers “Pork on Pork: The Wide World of Bacon” from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The price for all the pig is $95; for more information, call 303-494-7988 or go to www.culinaryschoolrockies.com…
All aboard! Over the past few months a crew of chefs — “a band of misfits,” as Jamey Fader describes them, as remarkable for their appreciation of each other’s work as for their own considerable talents — have hosted a series of underground dinners for their biggest fans. The third…
Jesse Morreale and his crew have close to a hundred positions to fill in their group of restaurants/bars — Mezcal, Tambien, Rockbar, La Rumba, Sketch and a “new location,” which we’re guessing is that big front room at the First Avenue Hotel, right in front of Sketch. So in the…
Ken Gordon was term-limited out of the Colorado Senate in 2008 — but he’s not going quietly. In fact, he’s started a new blog, where he offers this thesis: “I believe that the American people fundamentally misunderstand their form of government and their place in it.” As proof, he offers…
Four Mile Historic Park will host the sixth annual “Colorado Corks and Cuisine” from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today, May 14 in Grant Hall at the park at 715 South Forest Street. Tickets are $30, $25 for Four Mile members, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to the…
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, May 9, all state employees received this e-mail from Julie Postlethwait in the Department of Personnel & Administration: “This past Wednesday, Governor Ritter took time out of the last week of a busy legislative session to acknowledge all you do for our State; he officially…
School Daze Against all odds, Michael Ballez will be graduating from North High School this year. Those odds include: the classmates who’ve dropped out, one by one, until only a handful of the kids he started with as a freshman remain in school. The pressures he’s faced — and fought…
World Cocktail Week ends today. So let’s raise a glass to Jared Boller, the award-winning mixologist who represented Denver in a recent article in USA Today that profiled a handful of alcohol alchemists around the country. Boller will be behind the bar at TAG, Troy Guard’s restaurant that opens in…
At 12:34 a.m. on May 9, an e-mail from Julie Postlethwait, PIO for the Colorado Department of Personnel Administration, arrived in the in-boxes of all state employees: This past Wednesday, Governor Ritter took time out of the last week of a busy legislative session to acknowledge all you do for…
“Happy on the Hill,” a monthly celebration of the stretch of Colfax that heads east from the Capitol, will convene at the Irish Snug, 1201 East Colfax Avenue, at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13. The Snug will have snacks and drink specials available; for details, call 303-839-1394. Across town in…
Timing is everything. Early on, as president-elect Barack Obama started filling his Cabinet, Ken Salazar’s name kept surfacing — but so did word that what the first-term senator and former Colorado Attorney General ultimately wanted was a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the meantime, he was perfectly…
Did you miss this weekend’s Cinco de Mayo festivities in Civic Center Park? You can still get a taste of them by picking up a bottle of Coyote Gold Premium Margarita — the margarita that former U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer’s wife, Maureen, is marketing along with her Fort Collins…
