For anyone who was born and raised in Denver, especially all you westsiders, the above snap should be instantly recognizable. It’s been at least twenty years since I stepped foot inside this Mexican compound that still commands thirty-minute waits on a Saturday night and still squiggles its frozen margaritas with…
Wild Ginger, the excellent Thai restaurant at 399 West Littleton Boulevard in Littleton, is on hiatus until August 28, an extended holiday of sorts, while owner Somsak Damrongsang hangs out in his native Thailand and the kitchen gets a makeover. “We remodeled the dining room four years ago, but we…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from World Cup drinks at the Irish Snug to some very fresh mozzarella. For correctly tracing that cheese to Luca D’Italia, the Real Joe pegging wins a DINR deck. Real Joe, send your contact info to…
There’s a big beer party brewing in Boulder tonight, and there will be nary a keg stand or frat boy in sight. Instead, revelers will be treated to a served five-course dinner, paired with beer, in the swank lounge that is the Kitchen [Upstairs]. Ray Decker, general manager at the…
Things are looking up on Colfax, the longest, wickedest street in America. And tonight, the Colfax Avenue FAX Partnership is serving up the fifth annual Feast on the Fax, a celebration of food on everyone’s favorite street. Serving up samples will be eleven restaurants on East Colfax, including Cork House,…
Our favorite table scraps of the week from the Cafe Society blog: 1. The fact that Coors Field made PETA”s list of the country’s most vegetarian-friendly ballparks, coming in at number five on its annual list, made the rest of us darksiders swear to eat steaks, cheeseburgers, bratwursts and as…
In case you missed it, Esquire magazine just released its globe-groping list of the “15 Bars Every Many Should Drink In Before He Dies.” Much to our disappointment, there’s not a single Colorado watering hole on the roster, which does, however, ballyhoo bars in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,…
The British Bulldog may have had the crowds on the opening day of World Cup soccer, but there were a few other spots around town to get your soccer hooligan on — especially if you like Irish whiskey. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
The line that snaked around Larimer Square last night was a mix of old men and young women, all trying to get into Suite 200, site of the Ms. Colorado Hooters pageant. And inside, it seemed like everyone who ever was or still is connected to Hooters was in the…
It’s not the same as $10,000, but Diego Zhang’s, the burger-centric joint with two locations in Centennial, will certainly make do with $2,500, the third place prize awarded in the finals of a local business plan competition sponsored by the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at…
With cocktail culture exploding in this town, it’s only a matter of time before a crop of speakeasies infiltrates the drinking scene, using storefronts and mundane delis to disguise hidden, dimly lit caverns of revelers imbibing pre-Prohibition libations long into the wee hours. Hush Denver, the not-so-secret supper club that…
It’s BrewGrass time on Old South Pearl Street, the kick-ass bluegrass block party that combines energetic guitar picking with dirty dancing, feasting and imbibing. The annual celebration, which rocks the 1200 block of South Pearl, kicks off at noon tomorrow with suds from 15 breweries, many of them local, numerous…
Indian food is always a feast, and here, where the above snap was flashed, dinner is a parade of delicious dishes that always ends with lugging home my kid’s leftovers, because, according to him, Indian food is “gross,” except, he contends, for the naan, which in this case is pelted…
Asylum.com has declared Fat Tire Amber Ale America’s Next Top Beer. The web page – a New York City-based AOL men’s interest site – had held a voter-driven contest to determine what beer should be in coolers from coast to coast. Fat Tire won in a landslide, beating out second…
Westword — thirty-plus years your weekly, ink-stained guide to Denver — now lives in your iPhone. The Westword iPhone app went live last night and is stocked with much of the same content you get here at westword.com. More specifically, you’ll find:…
By year’s end, Broomfield-based Noodles & Company will have brought its total number of Colorado locations to 43. And with the opening of a store this August in Republic Plaza, there will be two Noodles & Co outposts on the 16th Street Mall alone, one at 303 16th Street; the…
After more than a year of planning and construction, Cellar Wine Bar is now officially open at 2556 15th Street. It’s a great corner location, right at the turn where 15th becomes 29th Avenue — or it would be a great corner location, if not for the fact that the…
Every year, Boulder kitchens throw open their doors for Kitchens on Fire, a fundraiser for the Dairy Center for the Arts. And who doesn’t enjoy peeking inside someone else’s cooking space? Tour kitchens at the The Walnut, Happy, Radda Trattoria and more restaurants, as well as get a look at…
First came an appearance on Oprah. Now Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, is a panelist on America’s Next Great Restaurant, joining chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone (The Biggest Loser) and Lorena Garcia. They’ll be the judges as potential restaurateurs vie for what’s being billed by Magic Elves, the production team,…
“I’ve been doing raw food for six years and was shocked when I moved from meat-and-potatoes Chicago to healthy Boulder and saw that there was such a big gap in raw food restaurants,” says Daniel Asher, chef of Root Down and the former chef of Organic Orbit, a vegetable-focused Boulder…
A surplus of lobster last week inspired the Fresh Fish Co. to unload the beasts onto dinner plates at a pauper’s price that would crush a poor lobster’s claw. Still, the move was such a hit that the fish house is offering the $15 fresh-from-the-tank Maine lobsters every Thursday night…
It’s the night I’ve been waiting for: the Ms. Hooters Colorado Pageant Tonight at Suite 200, 1427 Larimer Street, eighty beautiful women will vie for the title of Ms. Colorado Hooters, competing in three areas: beauty and stage presence; the Hooters handmade outfit; and swimwear. The winner will be whisked…
