What are the best cocktail bars in America? Well, according to Travel + Leisure, Brooklyn’s Clover Club, New Orleans’s Cure … and Denver’s Green Russell, among a handful of others. In celebration of the “golden age of cocktails” currently upon us, the magazine rounded up ten spots making a splash…
Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part two of my interview with Jenna Johansen. Part one of this interview ran yesterday. Greatest accomplishment as a chef: Opening my restaurant. I’ve done a lot of work to get to where I am, and I’ve planned…
Hugh O’Neill, who owns St. Kilian’s Cheese Shop with his wife, Ionah, always has interesting things to say, not just about food and drink (about which he knows plenty), but about life and beauty. In fact, I’d consider him both a cheesemonger and a philosopher — a natural pairing, I…
Yes, I’m a liver lover. And although I risked the wrath of my dining companions when I ordered this dish, it contained enough iron to stiffen my resolve. Can you guess where I’m eating? Follow @CafeWestword on Twitter…
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource Program. You can…
Hungry for a taste of true Spanish tapas, which I’d enjoyed so much on the Iberian peninsula, I hurried to Tapas de España, which recently opened in El Señor Sol, a Mexican restaurant that occupies the Victorian building that was once the Zang Brewing Company. There’s actually no distinction between…
Downtown Denver may finally get a grocery store, as our Latest Word blog reported yesterday afternoon. But don’t grab your reusable shopping bags yet: Although ground could be broken late this year, the 42,000-square-foot store by Union Station wouldn’t open before 2013. “We are responding to market demand,” Dan Schuetz,…
The news of a pair of surprise closures — the two Mirch Indian Grill restaurants in the south suburbs and Walk-In Burgers in Edgewater– has readers serving up their own theories. Here’s how davebarnes summed up the problems at Walk-in Burger: Reasons for closing: 1. Fishy smell from Sloan’s Lake…
Project Angel Heart’s mission is to deliver healthy, nutritious and tasty meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses. So it’s entirely appropriate that one of the organization’s biggest annual fundraisers would incorporate food: Dining Out for Life takes place today, with more than 300 restaurants donating a portion of their…
This is one of my favorite spots to grab a classic cocktail — largely because this venue has been serving up those cocktails since shortly after they were invented. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I…
Chipotle Mexican Grill, our homegrown burrito chain, is about to make the big leagues: It will replace Novell in the S&P 500 sometime soon. But amid last week’s celebrations over that milestone came less happy news: The company is now under criminal investigation by the U.S. government, which is trying…
There are lots of good veggie burgers in this city, but many of them are problematic for vegan eaters: They almost always contain some form of egg or dairy to help bind the veggie patties together. But vegan burger-lovers need not bend or break their dietary rules to get their…
Want to own a slightly used swingers’ club? The building that houses Sugar House, the restaurant/bar/(very) short-time hotel, is now for sale for $1,200,000, according to this ad on Loopnet. “This is a freestanding building with a fully equiped Restaurant/Bar on the first floor,” the listing notes. “The second floor…
Walk-In Burgers opened on the edge of Sloan’s Lake in February 2010, at the height of the city’s gourmet-burger craze: It was one of four such concepts to open that month alone. But now, just over a year later, the place is closed, with the furniture stacked inside, the signs…
Jenna Johansen dish 56 Edwards Village Boulevard, Edwards 970-926-3433 www.eatdrinkdish.com This is part one of my interview with Jenna Johansen, co-owner/chef of dish restaurant in Edwards. Part two of this interview will run in this space tomorrow. “I can talk about an apple for an hour,” insists Jenna Johansen. “No,…
As Gandalf says in The Return of the King, “It’s the deep breath before the plunge.” Colorado Beer Week, Denver Beer Fest, American Craft Beer Week, the Great American Beer Festival. For some, it’s hard to keep them all straight. But for the state’s brewers and their loyal followers, too…
Has the the Best of Denver curse struck again? Every year, soon after the issue comes out (and sometimes while it’s still on the press!), we hear that one of our picks has closed. Already gone is our Best Breakfast Under $2 in the Best of Denver 2011; Gordo Loco…
From the street, this seems like another quiet Tuesday on Colfax Avenue — but there’s plenty of action inside Mezcal, which is hosting its third tri-annual street taco-eating contest. Wiry, muscular, bald-headed Andrew “A-Bomb” Lane — winner of the last two taco-eating contests — is again the heavy favorite, even…
After the finishing touches are made to those reclaimed-cypress walls, the latest addition to the Larkburger family will open at 11 a.m. today at 340 East Alameda Avenue. If you’ve been to any of the other Larkburger locations — in Greenwood Village, Boulder, Fort Collins or the original in Edwards…
Doubters! Although anyone who lives and eats in Denver quickly recognizes that Colorado cuisine includes a particular variation of green chile — goopy, soupy and porkorific — there are still those who doubt that there’s a particular green native to this state. Blixco for example; New Mexico invented the stuff…
Two wine events are bound to wet your whistle tonight, one way or another. First up: The Museo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, will host the Wine of the Americas fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. Executive director Maruca Salazar will discuss the art of the Americas while…
A couple of weeks back, I was feeling particularly nostalgic for the Iberian peninsula, where I once wandered winding streets, ambling from tapas bar to tapas bar until I’d eaten enough to make a full dinner. It was a perfect way to dine — and a perfect way to taste…
