Head for the hills! Creede will host its 21st annual Chocolate Festival from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. Admission is $8; for more info call 800-327-2012 or e-mail office@creede.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around town, visit our online Food & Drink listings…
We’re taking a mini-vacation on Thanksgiving — so all may eat, drink, sleep and reconcile with family members — but your regularly scheduled bloggery will be right back here on Friday. Enjoy the bloodbath break. Follow ” target=”_blank”>@CafeWestword on Twitter…
The Cafe Society blog will be closed tomorrow — but the following restaurants will be open and serving turkey, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and all the other traditional Thanksgiving favorites:…
Leonard Cordova, the grandson of the late and legendary Chubby’s founder Stella Cordova, plans to open his ninth Bubba Chino’s restaurant this spring at the corner of East Colfax and Franklin Street in the former Fanny’s Corner flower shop. The Mexican burrito place will bring the quickly growing chain’s distinctive…
Not every vegetarian and vegan in the city is going to be cooking his or her own Tofurkey tomorrow, and although there are several places with traditional buffets open for business, you never know what, exactly, goes into preparing those items. Rest assured, meat-shunners: Govinda’s Buffet, 1400 Cherry Street, is…
This week, we’re dishing up tips on how to eat at DIA during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Yesterday, we brought you breakfast spots. Today, we bring you something else. If you’re one of the over one million people passing through zoo-like Denver International Airport this…
There are many rumors about the pilgrims and beer. Some say they landed on Plymouth Rock because they ran out of the sudsy stuff. Others claim they drank it on the voyage over because it was safer than water. Whatever the truth, beer and pilgrims will always be tied to…
Being vegetarian does not mean restricting your diet to only a handful of cuisines — you can find dishes across every culture that accommodate non-meat-eating needs. Surprisingly, though, it’s not always easy to find a vegetarian dish at a French restaurant. The cuisine is so rich and relies on such…
We’re willing to bet you’ve got at least one salted and cured meat enthusiast on your gift list this season, and it was for them that food writer and former restaurant critic John Lehndorff and author-illustrator Kim Long created the American Salumi Calendar…
Denver is about to get its second bikini-barista coffee shop, and like the first, it takes its inspiration and has its roots in the bikini-barista trend in the Pacific Northwest. Twin Perks is scheduled to open sometime in December at 1628 Federal Boulevard near Invesco Field at Mile High, according…
There’s only one way to prepare for the food frenzy that’s Thanksgiving: eat tacos — specifically al pastor tacos tarted up with fresh cubes of pineapple, white onions and flecks of cilantro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s…
Clint Wangsnes Zengo 1610 Little Raven Street 720-904-0965 www.richardsandoval.com/zengodenver This is part one of Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Clint Wangsnes, chef of Zengo. To read part two of that Q&A, check back here on Friday. “I truly love food, and the high-stress, high-energy, crazy and chaotic environment…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. The Marczyks, not…
If a truck pulling a large barbecue smoker pulls up next to you on the street, you might be in for some free food. As part of its new social media campaign, Big Papa’s BBQ will be sending a mobile emissary to several locations around town, where it will dish…
El Diablo (101 Broadway, 303-954-0324) and its sibling Sketch (11 West First Avenue, 303-484-9305) will host the first annual Get Lit celebration at the the resurrected First Avenue Hotel at 7 p.m. tonight, a celebration and lighting of the building (with 24,000 lights!) featuring music, food and drink specials, a…
“This is taking fucking forever!” Those are the words that tumbled out of Biker Jim’s mouth thirty minutes ago, when he called to give me an update on the new brick-and-mortar joint he’s opening at 2148 Larimer Street — a joint that was initially slated to open last month. “I’m…
In the course of my professional life, I’ve spent way more time than any human should roaming the concourses and terminal of Denver International Airport…
The restaurant culture at the Streets at SouthGlenn is going gangbusters, but the busiest joints are the ones that pour liquor — something that Pho 95, 6879 South Vine Street, hasn’t had the green light to do since it opened in May…
Zona’s Tamales, the decades-old blue and orange building at 713 East 26th Street, went dark about a month ago, after owner Zona Moore pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft by receiving, buying and selling stolen cigarettes. The Latest Word reported today that Moore’s son, Saalim Muhammed, and another…
On Thursday, we’ll be fighting with our relatives, stuffing ourselves into a purple-hazed food coma and passing out on the couch while a football game drones on in the background. On Friday, we’ll scratch each others’ eyes out and throw adult temper tantrums in commercial establishments, all in the name…
Like every business owner, Marilyn Megenity has to make tough decisions. But one of her most recent ones was tougher than most. Earlier this month, she decided to switch all twelve taps at the Mercury Cafe from beer made by her neighbor, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, to beer made in…
The swamp of oily sun-dried tomatoes, shrimp that tasted of freezer burn, cheap feta and insipid sauce was just the beginning of a depressing meal that I’d give anything to take back. Never. Again. Will. I. Ever. Go. Back. Here. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who…
