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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
It’s Fat Tuesday — which means the six weeks of abstinence heading into Easter start tomorrow. Make the deprivation worth your while by partying hearty tonight:…
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…
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…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
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 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 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…
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…
