Moe’s Original Bar B Que expands in Colorado

Even though its lineage is pure Southern barbecue, the origins of Moe’s Original Bar B Cue lie in the mountains of Colorado, where three friends from the University of Alabama who were fans of barbecue set up a carry-out shop at Lionshead, at the base of Vail Mountain, in 2002…

Guess where I’m eating?

While sinners were out celebrating Fat Tuesday yesterday, we were sampling one restaurant’s Lent menu, trying the soup with cactus and shrimp patties, one of the items that will be featured for the next six weeks. Can you guess where we were eating?…

Today: Eat out for the Boulder County AIDS Project

Eat out for a good cause today, when both Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant, 2010 16th Street in Boulder, and Aji Latin American Restaurant, 1601 Pearl Street in Boulder, will donate 15 percent of the day’s sales to the Boulder County AIDS Project…

Bartending Olympics includes two hometown heroes

The Nightclub and Bar Convention & Trade Show (NCB) in Las Vegas in March is the one event that everyone in the industry feels they need to attend — or wishes they could. The show includes a cocktail contest called the Shake It Up Competition, in which 25 mixologists, who…

Guess where I’m eating?

I have no recollection as to why I allowed anyone to talk me into ordering sushi — bad sushi — in the shape of a heart, but I can assure you that it’ll never, ever happen again. At which raw fish house did I lose perspective? Special bonus: Anyone who…

Have a Rocky Mountain Caipirinha for Carnival

Tonight is the last night of Carnival, and if you’re looking for a way to join in the celebration without leaving the state, Jared Boller at TAG (1441 Larimer Street) has crafted a Rocky Mountain Caipirinha made with Cabana Cachaça, Colorado wildflower honey, Palisade peaches and lemon juice. “Inspired by…

Wild Bangkok taking over the former wild site of Chopsticks & Sushi

Back in October, Yan de Yang, the owner of Chopsticks & Sushi at 1630 Welton Street, shot and killed Lloyd Running Bear, allegedly in self defense. While that’s all being sorted out behind bars and closed doors, Yang’s former restaurant is showing new signs of life with bright signage announcing…

Food, Ink: Five notably bad food tattoos

Tattoos have risen in popularity over the years as a permanent form of self-expression — a branding of time and history — but devotion and proclamation no longer stop at inking the name of your betrothed on your bicep. And just in case you haven’t noticed, the food industry is…

Swirl Girl: Upgrade your wine drinking habit, part deux

Remember all that talk about how to break up with the same boring white wines you’ve been holding onto for years? Now it’s time to dig out of the red wine relationship ruts you’ve been stuck in. If you’ve been obsessively buying Pinot Noir ever since you saw the movie…

Mark Dym to open four restaurants at Vallagio at Inverness

Rachel Ray, the painfully annoying non-chef that everyone loves to loathe, just announced her top pick for pizza dominance — and she didn’t choose Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, Mark Dym’s pie palace at 2129 Larimer Street. Instead, she awarded the title of Best Pizza in America to Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix,…

Tarbell’s is now home at the Streets of Southglenn

Mark Tarbell’s new restaurant opened last fall in the Streets of Southglenn, at 6955 South York Street, but tonight it will finally celebrate its grand opening with a charity fundraiser. And it will do so under a new name: What had been Home is now Tarbell’s…

Western Beverage — and the beer warehouse — dry up

For years, the Saturday morning sales at the Western Beverage distribution center, aka Beer Warehouse, were the greatest deal in town — if you could find the warehouse in north Denver. “It was amazing. It was like that scene in Indiana Jones where they open the vault on the Holy…

Starbucks at the Grand Hyatt Denver will be pouring out history today

The expanded, full-service Starbucks in the Grand Hyatt Denver, 1750 Welton Street, reopens today — and 100 percent of the day’s sales will benefit the Denver Public Library. Which is appropriate, because among the new amenities at this Starbucks include a collection of historic Denver photos, culled from images available…

Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs hops on the wiener wagon

Billy’s Gourmet Hot Dogs, the brainchild of owner Bill Feid, a wiener-loving Chicagoan who says he couldn’t find a noble Chicago-style dog when he first moved to Denver, opened last week at 2445 Larimer Street. The menu, a catchall of eight different Vienna beef, Polser and salmon hot dogs and…

Guess where I’m eating?

Late last Valentine’s night, I stopped by one of Denver’s better bars to meet a friend for a drink and, as it turned out, nachos, which well and truly sucked. I love pretty much everything about this joint — the staff, the tunes, the stiff pours, the crowd — but…

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Fat Tuesday, brews and tequila

There’s plenty going on this week for Fat Tuesday, but if you don’t feel like abstaining for six weeks until Easter, don’t fret; we’ve got all the indulgent food-and-drink events to keep the debauchery going for as long as you please, including Wynkoop’s 2010 Beerdrinker of the Year brew. Here’s…

Nv Lounge to take over One-Eyed Jack’s

Nv Lounge has a date with the Denver Department of Excise and License this morning for its liquor license application at 475 Santa Fe Drive. Does the address sound familiar? It should. For a brief, shining moment, it was the Continental Club, the hippest new bar in town — until…

Larimer Hot House goes cold

Larimer Hot House has gone cold, less than six months after it opened at 2810 Larimer Street, in the former home of Espo Gelato. Most of the contents have been removed, and the few that remain are tagged with a “sold” sign. And when you dial Larimer Hot House, you…

Syrup soon to pour over Cherry Creek

First, Cherry Creek got Toast — a second outpost of the popular Littleton cafe that moved into the old Village Inn space at 222 Columbine Street last summer. Now, it’s apparently going to get Syrup. A new sign is up at 300 Josephine Street, in the spot that the Egg…