Four Colorado brews have made the top-25 list of the best new beers in America, according to the February issue of Maxim magazine — including one that takes the prize. And the winners are: New Belgium’s Hoptober golden ale-style beer ranks in the top 25. This Fort Collins brewery has…
Numerous restaurants are donating ten percent of their sales today and tonight as part of Road Home,Governor Mayor John Hickenlooper’s ten-year-plan to eradicate homelessness. The ambitious project, which relies on partnerships with local organizations, aims to provide long-term solutions, particularly housing, to Denver’s homeless community. Racines, 650 Sherman Street, which…
I remember drinking my first Negroni when I was in college. I hated it. But I was a typical “girl” and liked sweet, fruity drinks. Now, as a “woman,” I love the bitterness of a good Negroni. But I still love a good college town. Can you guess where I’m…
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…
This is part two of my interview with Virgilio Urbano, chef/owner of Virgilio’s. To read part one of the interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: My mama, who I’ve always called, “ma-MAH,” did all of the cooking for our family — that’s what she lives for — and I’ve learned pretty…
Denver-based Mad Greens is ready to conquer Fort Collins. On January 12, the company dropped $675,000 on a former Waffle House building at 616 South College Avenue, which will be its second location in that town. Mad Greens opened its first Fort Collins spot at 2120 East Harmony Road a…
Little Anita’s has slowed down its frenetic fast-food pace in two metro Denver locations, where it is now offering full-service, sit-down dining. “We have eleven restaurants in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and that’s how they do all of their restaurants down there,” says Mike Ponzio, Colorado general manager and part-owner of…
Beaver Creek might be best known for its sick powder stashes, but the culinary scene takes center stage this weekend, when the resort teams up with Bon Appetit magazine to present the annual Master Chef Classic…
Typically, seafood is paired with white wines, not reds — simply because the heavier wines can overpower the light, flaky meat. But if you’re ready to move beyond a basic pinot noir with your salmon, then you’ll want to attend tonight’s Red Wine and Seafood Dinner at the Oxford Hotel…
When you’re ready to start a different part of your life, you have to leave old things behind. That wasn’t the lifestyle I wanted to lead anymore,” says Adriana Aguilar, sitting at a table inside Melita’s Greek Cafe & Market, the restaurant that she and her mother, Maria Gibson, took…
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…
