In Best of Denver 2011, we served up many places to drink, including Best New Bar, Best Dive Bar and Best Tap House. But what if you’re looking for a drink and a smoke? Frank asks: Your last edition featuring “Best of” failed to mention best Cigar Bars. I would…
After pigging out on a lot of pork this past weekend at the Taste of Vail, I continued the streak when I get back to Denver, stopping at one of my favorite delis for an Italian sausage and roasted red pepper cannoli. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus:…
Here’s something we haven’t seen before:Former employees of restaurateur Antonio Race are opening a wine shop called Vino & Vino — and it’s attached to Pulcinella Pizzeria and Wine Bar (read my recent Pulcinella review here) /a>, by punching through a wall, allowing direct interaction between the shoppers and diners…
Last Friday, Denver District Court Judge Edward Bronfin stuck former Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang with a six-year prison sentence for the shooting death of Lloyd Running Bear, who’d come to the restaurant to collect a football gambling bet from Yang — who shot him five times. Convicted…
Westword staff writer Joel Warner recently had a big night out with his wife and three-year-old son — not at Chipotle, their regular family haunt, but at Frasca Food and Wine, which just won Best Front of the House in the Best of Denver 2011 (as it has several years…
Last week Cafe Society served up six Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the skull art at the revived El Charrito to the lamb tongue soup at House of Kabob to this colorful serving of chips and guac. For correctly identifying them as coming from Table Mountain Inn, the appropriately…
The cute-as-can-be Sam’s No. 3, whose spot at 1500 Curtis Street is very close to the original home of Sam’s almost eight decades ago, was recently visited by Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — and if you missed it on television, you’ve got a chance to see it on the big…
What’s Organic About Organic? will screen at the Denver FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue, at 7 p.m. tonight — with director Shelley Rogers in attendance to talk about the movie. Admission is $10 for members and $12 for the general public; call 303-595-FILM or go to www.denverfilm.org. For information on…
If you’re sick of online dating or tired of having your friends hook you up with their single friends, only to eventually question their judgment of your personality, here’s a suggestion: Why not go out and meet people the old-fashioned way? And we’re not talking about putting on the beer…
Smashburger is hoping that its milkshakes bring all the boys, and girls, to the yard. While Smashburger has had beer on its menu since the Denver-based chain got its start, the store that opened last fall in the Tabor Center also serves alcohol-spiked shakes and floats ($5.99) that are the…
The Masters Tournament starts this weekend, which is always a great excuse to invite the guys over for some grub and stogies, and trade stories about that pay-for-play night during that last golf outing in Vegas. If you’re lucky, your indentured servant, err, wife will make you a smorgasbord of…
Frasca Food and Wine scored “Best Front of the House” in this year’s Best of Denver, and with good reason. The employees are like epicurean Navy SEALs, making sure every guest’s needs are met instantly and unobtrusively. But what if that guest is just recently out of diapers? Does Frasca’s…
Happy Place: LoHi Steakbar, 3200 Tejon Street, 303-927-6334 The Hours: Daily from 4 to 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. to midnight. The Deals: $2 Budweiser drafts, PBR, and Coors bottles; $3 house margaritas and well drinks; $5 wines by the glass; $5 sliders. Were we happy? Flip the page to…
This city has many eateries where you can get stuffed for the price of a movie ticket, but a few really stand out. In fact, some of our favorite restaurants also happen to be those that serve up the most inexpensive meals in town. The very best of all is…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview with Pizza Republica’s Eric Chiappetta, the kitchen wizard offered insight about what it was like to work with Sean Kelly, his chance meeting with Julia Child and why he believes the cook at Griff’s Hamburgers is a culinary god. He also talked about…
While the rest of you are down in Denver doing whatever it is that you do on a Friday, I’m currently living the high life in Vail, wining and dining at some of my favorite restaurants, including this one, where the above photo — sweetbreads — was snapped during one…
As long as there are pigs and people alive on the earth, bacon will never be over. Food trends have come, gone, lingered past their usefulness and then been recycled every week on the Food Network, but bacon remains an emotive staple, and a timeless culinary reality. Bacon has been…
Bacon can be used as a weapon. I visited the Denny’s at 900 West Alameda Avenue last evening, and was promptly greeted, not by a hostess or server (c’mon, that would be expecting way too much), but by a gigantic sign perched by the ubiquitous claw machine full of poorly-sewn…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
The wait is over! Great Divide Brewing Co. is hosting a release party featuring Colette, Chocolate Oak Aged Yet and 17th Anniversary brews from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight. For all the details, call 303-296-9460 or go to www.greatdivide.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our…
After all of the drinking we did in order to pick our booze-related awards in the Best of Denver 2011 — like Best Martini, Best House Margarita, Best Dive Bar and Best New Bar — (coupled with, uh, our normal food and booze pairing habits), we began to think of…
Want to be the star of your very own reality show? If you have an ailing pizzeria, you could soon be a big cheese. Cafe Society just received news of a casting call from Chad Patterson of Beyond Around the Block Productions in Los Angeles (you can look him up…
