If you think you have the ingredients to make food hustler Tony Bourdain a memorable dinner, then Tony’s Market wants to hear from you. Bourdain, as you may recall, is cruising around the country, stupefying audiences with his real-life tales of eating warthog ass, fermented shark and lutefisk. And he’s…
“With an egg on top.” Ooh. You just stepped up your food game. You uttered those five words to the server, and suddenly everyone at your table perks up. It’s not just a sign that you’re starving. It shows you’re a risk-taker. Someone who has had enough of diets and…
Chad Clevenger, exec chef/owner of Mel’s Bar and Grill, 5960 South Holly Street, is hosting a five-course winemaker dinner tonight with Daryl Groom, the former chief winemaker of Penfolds and Geyser Peak, who’s now representing and making his signature private label, Groom. Groom focuses on three main varietals: sauvignon blanc,…
Vince Martinez of Maloney’s Tavern nabbed first place at the Hpnotiq bartender competition at Suite Two Hundred in September, beating out eight other local bartenders. Each had to create a drink that featured Hpnotiq, a liqueur made from a blend of vodka, cognac and tropical fruit juices. Martinez got top…
Mojitos Cuban Bistro, which opened last year at 1120 East Sixth Avenue (in the former home of Mel’s, and Montecito, and Piscos, and Chives, and Dudley’s…), has poured its last mojito. The restaurant is locked up tight, and a sign on the door announces, “We are closed…sorry for the inconvenience.”…
Drew Bixby, Westword Drunk of the Week columnist, has dedicated countless hours — and his liver — to researching the town’s true dives.The result is a new book, Denver’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking & Diving in the Mile High City, which will be toasted at a series of events this…
I headed out to one of usual hangs on Sunday to watch the Donkeys get dicked over my daily dose of football, but there were apparently far fewer hangovers from the night before than I had envisioned, because my choice bar was ridiculously, impossibly busy. I ended up less than…
The lights are on and the Open sign still hangs by the door at 1630 Welton Street, but that door is locked tight and the phone, which no one answered last week, is now disconnected. Looks like Chopsticks & Sushi is officially closed. But then, owner Yan De Yang is…
Brad Brallier gave it a good shot with BB O’Reilley’s Bar & Grille, which took over the space formerly occupied by Your Neighborhood Grille at 1500 West Littleton Boulevard in the Woodlawn Shopping Center. But the neighborhood watering hole dried up in less than six months…
While Jason Sheehan is busy building a dream team staff for Ondo’s, the tapas restaurant taking over the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street, owner Curt Steinbecker, who trained with his wife, Deicy, at the Escuela de Cocina Luis Irizar, is just trying to get his restaurant open. With any…
I spent the weekend in Austin, much of it arguing the politics of food with very intelligent writers who fall everywhere along the eating spectrum — from Jonathan Safran Foer, who is a born-again vegetarian, and James McWilliams, who also goes the green route, to Novella Carpenter, who raises and…
Just got off the phone with Jon Edwards, one of the owners of Kaos, a new take-out pizzeria that was skedded to open months ago at 1439 South Pearl Street, just a block or so from Gaia Bistro. That’s the excellent breakfast and lunch cafe that Edwards runs with Patrick…
Vine Street Pub’s Paul Nashak plans to raise a toast to Denver tonight if the city council approves his request for a zoning variance that would allow the brewery to make beer on-site. A part of the Boulder-based Mountain Sun string of pubs, Vine Street has been open in Denver…
There wasn’t a Balloon Boy in sight, but Ugly Betty would no doubt have blown away any Heene outfit at Saturday’s Halloween costume contest at Lola. Perhaps in deference to the site of the contest, the coastal Mexican restaurant located at 1575 Boulder Street, the contestants included several food-related get-ups…
For the past fifteen years, the original Jax Fish House, at 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, has been feeding fish heads to the finicky (and spawning a Top Chef victor, but you already know all about that), a feat that’s being marked through the week as part of a fifteenth…
Denver has about a million places where a man of little means can find himself a big-ass burrito swimming in some sort of chile. I wouldn’t say that Denver was necessarily built on big burritos (because, as everyone knows, Denver was really built on moonshine, whores and the good fortune…
RESTAURANTS OPENING IN OCTOBER: CY Steak, 1222 Glenarm Place Illegal Pete’s, 1744 East Evans Avenue Jack-N-Grill, 2630 West Belleview Avenue, Littleton Mangiamo Pronto!, 1601 17th Street Noodles & Company, 1737 East Evans Avenue Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 South Hover Street, Longmont Patsy’s Pizza, 3651 Navajo Street…
Our online Food & Drink listings include dozens of culinary events around Colorado this week, with benefits for March of Dimes and Project Angel Heart, as well as the University of Denver’s inaugural DU Vin Festival. A taste of what’s ahead: Through November 5: Jax Fish House in Boulder, 928…
Yes, it was a party party weekend, but the festivities aren’t over yet. Tambien, at 250 Steele Street, will host an official Dia de Los Muertos celebration tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. complete with a silent auction of sugar skulls hand-painted by tattoo artists from around the country, with…
Jason Sheehan enjoyed the food at Organixx — and now the natural eatery is making its food even more enjoyable, with an economic stimulus deal starting today and running through November. This month, you can get a salad, sandwich or combination lunch for only $7.95 — more than a buck…
What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were counting the minutes to Zolo Southwestern Grill’s 105 days of tequila. While we locals aren’t pleased that the Rockies blew another season of baseball, we understand that not everyone is a fan of the purple and black…
The World Series is in full swing, and although the Rockies didn’t make it this year, just about every TV in every sports bar in town has been tuned to the match-up between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Fans of those two teams — and there are…
