The telephone at the Brown Barrel Tavern is ringing, but owner Bob Lyons pays it no mind. He’s mid-conversation with the only guy at the bar under forty, something about sub-floors and plastic sheeting and mold. He finishes filling two mugs of $2.25 Budweiser and eventually gets around to picking…
Art Cormier’s name has popped up plenty of times in Westword — in our stories about the Regency Hotel ,and most recently in a post about Amazing Jake’s, the funplex in Aurora where Cormier tried to revive the scene he had going in northwest Denver. Complaints from neighbors helped end…
Roland Mesnier, a French-American pastry chef, spent a quarter of a century in the White House, baking cakes and tarts for everyone from the Queen of England to Chelsea Clinton. He got the presidential gig on the basis of his work with low-calorie, fruit-based desserts. Although Mesnier is now retired,…
The Place: Zengo, 1610 Little Raven Street, 720-904-0965. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Deal: $5 specialty cocktails, happy hour wines by the glass and large bottles of Kirin and Sapporo; $3 beers; small plates range from $5-$7…
This week at westword.com/restaurants, Andy Thomas introduces former DJ Adriana Aguilar, aka Miss Audry, who joined her mother, Maria Gibson, in taking over Melita’s Greek Cafe & Market at 1035 Lincoln. Photos by Mark Manger at westword.com/slideshow…
Denver’s Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), the group responsible for Harvest Week and A Saucy Affair, is asking its member restaurants to spread the love…through their liquid assets as part of DINR’s Valentine’s Day Cocktail Contest. The competition, which has already kicked off, continues through Wednesday, February 10, at which…
Pesce Fresco, a longtime favorite at 6600 South Quebec in Centennial, has new owners, a new chef, a new menu and, as of February 2, new hours that include lunch. Joel and Merilee Diner, who’ve run the restaurant for the last ten years, have passed it on to another married…
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…
Virgilio Urbano, the pie-slinger behind his namesake pizzeria in Lakewood, tosses his hands up in the air — an automatic reflex, no doubt, from spinning pizza dough for the past four years — and shakes his head. “Look, I can’t make everyone happy. God knows I try, but some people?…
El Bulli, the Spanish restaurant widely considered the best in the world, at least by people who have never eaten drunk at Jack in the Box at three in the morning, will close for two years starting in 2012 — and may not ever return, chef Ferran Adria announced today…
There are dozens of reasons to brave the chaos that ensues here every weekend, but the best reason of all may be the pork chops adovada, three chops, tender as a whisper, smothered in green chile and served with rice, beans and a blistered jalapeno. Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone…
Panzano is slated to reopen for dinner on Thursday, January 28, after a major renovation of the eleven-year-old space tucked into the Hotel Monaco. The remodeling project was designed by the Puccini Group, an award-winning restaurant design firm out of San Francisco, and done over the past two weeks. “When…
Photo by Kim Allen from denverphotoarchives.com There’s no doubt that the Historic Elitch Theatre has an important place in Denver history; after opening in 1897, the venue hosted such venerable names as Patty Duke, Grace Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Vincent Price, Dick Van Patten…the list goes on, and so could we…
“Creating good food is a little like rocking out a good set on the dance floor,” says Adriana Aguilar. “It’s about making people feel satisfied with their experience.” Last fall, after a dozen years of spinning around the country as DJ Miss Audrey, Aguilar gave up the music business in…
Two great tastes that go together got an Iowa tavern in trouble with the local police department. In Iowa City on January 31, 2009, the constables went out and did compliance checks at local watering holes with a couple of underage volunteers. When they got to the Union Bar, a…
Munchies were the best invention ever. You know — the snack bags stuffed with a combination of Doritos, Sun Chips, Rold Gold pretzels and Cheetos. Eating an entire bag of any singular item is so mundane, but Munchies offered variety: They added texture to an otherwise monotonous crunch. A greatest…
I haven’t been loving the food coming from the kitchen where the above pic was snapped, but a marvelous plate of pork has a way of dulling bad memories. And this pig platter parading pork three ways, and paired with a glass of cabernet franc, went a long way in…
Your bologna has a first name, and a second name. This is common knowledge. But it also has an opinion about you — one that it shares with the rest of the world, freely and without reservation. And bologna isn’t the only lunchmeat that does this. They all do it…
Denver’s Independent Network of Restaurants (DINR), the group responsible for Harvest Week and A Saucy Affair, is asking its member restaurants to spread the love…through their liquid assets as part of DINR’s Valentine’s Day Cocktail Contest. The competition, which has already kicked off, continues through Wednesday, February 10, at which…
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…
Although New Year’s resolutions are usually made in bulk, why not make things easier for yourself this year? Simply resolve to drink more wine. Research abounds as to the health benefits of resveratrol, that nerdy-sounding compound found in red wine that’s been purported to do everything from lowering your blood…
Survived another 365 days? May as well turn the party into a week-long celebration with all the goodies you can scoop up during your birthday week. After cashing in on a few big-ticket food items to mark my big day, I thought, “What better way to pay it forward then…
