Argyll Gastropub, the subterranean grub-and-ale house at 2700 East Third Avenue, is about to get bigger — much bigger. That’s because Argyll owner Robert Thompson just snatched up the Plush space directly next door, which closed following New Year’s Eve. Thompson’s first priority is to expand the patio before St…
If I were to give you any clues, this would be much too easy. Let’s just say that it’s an awesome drink that you’ll continue to think about long into the night. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to…
The National Western Stock Show has doubled your drinking pleasure this year. Not only has the Cowboy Bar — the temporary saloon set up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where bulls are groomed — expanded, adding more than a dozen seats and space…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
You have exactly 14 days left in which to order the salmon in the above snap, because come February 1, it’ll disappear along with the majority of other dishes on the ever-changing board. Can you guess whose fish I netted? Cast your guesses in the comment section below. Special bonus:…
If you count on Cafe Colorado, the storefront that opened last year at 287 Columbine Street, for your morning joint of java, you may need to look elsewhere this morning. The sign above is posted on the door; more ominous is a full voicemail box (at 303-377-8902) and another sign…
Anyone who buys a DINR deck is a winner: For $50, you get 52 cards, each offering a $10 discount at a local, independent restaurant. You can buy the decks at any Tattered Cover location or at www.eatdenver.com — but you can also win one right here. Every Friday for…
Need some help with your food-related New Year’s resolutions? Elizabeth Somer, author of Eat Your Way to Happiness: 10 Diet Secrets to Improve Your Mood, Curb Your Cravings and Keep the Pounds Off, will discuss her book at the Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch, 9315 Dorchester Street, at 7:30 p.m. tonight;…
At 7 p.m. tonight, Opus Restaurant, 2575 West Main Street in Littleton, will offer a dinner for its Adventurous Eaters Club; $40 buys a three-course meal that includes sea urchin “pho” and tempura Asian tripe with chili pepper noodles; pan-fried sweetbreads, mustard-roasted lamb kidney salsify and syrah oxtail juice; and…
The mixologists at the Bitter Bar, in Happy at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder, are offering a series of cocktail classes titled “Shake, Swizzle, Stir.” Get a jump on what you’ll be pouring out for your lover on Valentine’s Day at El Amor Cocktails, which runs from 2 to 3…
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were getting your morning groove on at the new Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, which opened right around the same time as the Denver Biscuit Company. Cupcakes: out; biscuits: in. After hyping and hyping and hyping…
The trailer for Jamie Oliver’s new television show, Food Revolution, has been released. According to ABC, Oliver will attempt to transform the eating habits of a bunch of rednecks in Huntington, West Virginia, and rumor has it that he bawls when he realizes what he’s gotten himself into. We don’t…
It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also got the…
Have you ever watched one of Gordon Ramsay’s shows — he’s the temperamental chef who owns a string of restaurants and throws tantrums on such television tirades as Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares — and thought, “I’d really love to see him try that shtick with me”? Well, here’s an…
Oh, ick. In one of the worst mouth picks of the week, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, a national trade organization representing the wholesale tier of the wine and spirits industry, plucked Sarah Palin, the former beauty pageant bimbo, governor of Russia Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential…
I thought I’d had the worst margarita ever — until I took a sip of this one. I don’t know why bars insist on using crappy sweet and sour mix. Hey, 1965 is calling and wants their shitty mixers back. That said, I do like their televisions for watching football…
The delicate, crisp little cookie is technically a tuile, but not to Minney Beasley’s founder Harmon Canon. “I just never use that word,” he confesses. To Canon, they are simply almond lace cookies, made from a recipe handed down from his great aunt Minnie Beasley. What makes them tuiles is…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Shanahan’s just opened on Christmas Eve at 5085 South Syracuse Street, and there was a one-hour wait for a table in the 130-seat dining room, even with a reservation on Saturday night. But if you were waiting for the duck or osso bucco on the opening menu, you could wait…
Yes, we Westworders love our charcuterie. And this plate, stripped down to the quintessential French style (the proprietor of this establishment would have it no other way), comes courtesy of a charcutier who graduated from Johnson and Wales. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who…
If you’ve turned on the tube lately, you’re aware that some psychopath almost blew up Detroit with his underwear on Christmas, you’ve watched certain talking heads make complete idiots of themselves regarding the devastation in Haiti, and you’ve seen Kim Karsdashian’s new soft porn commercial for Carl’s Jr…
Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, releases its Black Tot Imperial Oatmeal Stout (aged in Gosling Rum barrels) today; the limited, one-time release will be celebrated with Black Tot Day: Then and Now. Visit the tap room between 5 and 8 p.m. for a taster ($3 a piece)…
