No good deed goes unpunished. This summer, Chipotle sponsored 32 free screenings across the country of Food, Inc., the documentary that’s more frightening than any Friday the 13th movie. As thanks, this morning activists will deliver petitions with 16,000 signatures to Chipotle’s headquarters in LoDo, calling on the homegrown chain…
Most of the gardening operations I’ve been exploring as part of “Urbavore’s Dilemma,” my summer-long series on the local urban agriculture movement, are grassroots affairs: compost bins made from recycled plastic barrels, chicken coops built in old kids’ playhouses, garden fences born out of back-alley wood scraps. That’s why when…
From 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, you can join honorary hosts Mayor John Hickenlooper and his wife, Helen Thorpe, at the D & F Tower, 1601 Arapahoe Street, for the Platteforum wine and tequila event to benefit ArtLab, an after school youth development program for high school students. The benefit,…
Sitting in the comfortable, Colonial dining room at La Loma on a Saturday night and watching as the waitress floats through the milling crowds, bringing me a big order of mesquite-grilled shrimp fajitas, served atop a veritable mountain of steaming, soft white onions, that real first date comes back whole:…
What is the taste of Colorado? I have been asking this question–in various forms, in various places–almost since the day I started this job. One of my very first columns was about the way green chile changes as you trace it up from Southern New Mexico and into Denver –…
The happy-hour taco deals are enough to make anyone happy here. And on Mondays, the deals run all night…
Every week, Drink of the Week columnist Nancy Levine gets behind the bar with a local mixologist. Now serving: Mike Henderson, bar manager at TAG. How did you get into bartending? After college, I got a job as a doorman at a bar called Paul’s Club in Madison, Wisconsin. I…
So far, the month of August has seen more restaurant openings (Colt & Gray, Doghouse Tavern and Big Hoss, again) than closings. But the hottest month of the year has smoked at least one barbecue joint, namely Chapter Two BBQ and Grill, which was located at 2260 South Quebec Street. A…
Colt & Gray, the new gastropub from Nelson Perkins and his wife, Allison Stamper, will definitely open tonight at 1553 Platte Street. “There is a light at the end of the tunnel!” joked Perkins, referring to the construction and patio-permit delays that pushed his proposed Fourth of July opening back…
With the Great American Beer Festival (September 24-26) and the first ever Denver Beer Fest (September 18-27) both around the corner, the craft beer industry’s major trade group has released some mid-year statistics on what’s been brewing nationwide. The Brewers Association reports that craft brewers sold 4.2 million barrels of…
Colt & Gray, the city’s latest gastropub with an emphasis on ‘farm-to-plate” fare, promises to finally open today at 1553 Platte Street. The project met with several months of delays, but judging from the menu posted on the Colt & Gray website, this restaurant should be worth the wait…
Because of an office construction project, I had to clear off my desk — which meant moving seven years of accumulation. Every morning, I’ll share another uncovered item with you. Sometimes people ask me, “Sheehan? Why are you keeping all those boxes of carb-free muffin mix at your desk? Or…
A whole slew of downtown Denver restaurants – Organixx, Ice House Tavern, Bistro Vendome, Vesta Dipping Grill, Dixons, The Palm, Morton’s, Wazee Supper Club, McCormick’s Fish House & Bar, the Wine Loft and the Wynkoop Brewing Company (that’s the short list) — are participating in tonight’s LoDo Bites, a food…
Despite the sign posted in front of Brandon’s Pub last week, promising that “Bradon’s” would reopen last Friday “for real”, neither Bradon’s nor Brandon’s made an appearance. The doors were still locked up tight at 5 p.m. tonight, the room is dark, and the phone number just rings to voicemail…
If you’re like me, you could just sit there all day long ogling over this plate-spanning stack of flapjacks, griddled golden and just seconds away from being slicked with butter and maple syrup. These sublime pancakes were my breakfast on Sunday morning, the perfect pick-me-up after a night of crippling…
Last week’s review? All about a particularly good green and organic restaurant in Denver. The column? More about the green movement. I wrote blogs about green eateries, made lists of them, and basically spent a week obsessing over the buzzword-heavy culture that has invaded the modern restaurant marketplace.This week, my…
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how many reopening dates Hoss Orwat, boss of Big Hoss Barbecue, 3961 Tennyson Street, had projected since his smokin’ hot house of ‘cue suffered a kitchen fire back in June. We’ll call it a half dozen (more or less) and leave it…
“I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to put together a business and marketing plan,” says Sean Huggard, the former executive chef at Black Pearl and Encore. The business plan is for a new restaurant, but it won’t be for Newport’s, which was the LoDo restaurant Huggard had hoped…
Because of an office construction project, I had to clear off my desk — which meant moving seven years of accumulation. Every morning, I’ll share another uncovered item with you. Okay, so it’s fairly obvious what this is, right? A coconut. But where did said coconut come from? I don’t…
Total Cranberry Crunch General Mills Rating: Two-and-a-half spoons out of four Cereal description: Brown wheat flakes of the sort that are typically described as “hearty” (presumably because they’re supposed to prevent your aorta from exploding), supplemented by wads of oat bits typically described as “oat clusters” (because “wads of oat…
Tonight at 5:30 p.m., Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, welcomes Abe Schoener, a former Greek philosophy professor-turned-esoteric-winemaker who’s shocked more than his share of snobby critics with his wacky wine trials and errors. One of those includes fermenting his red wines at temperatures as high as…
I found four squeaky cheeseburger toys while cleaning out my desk, from at least three different restaurants. This is one of them. I will spare you pictures of the rest. So now, the question becomes, what does a man with no dogs do with four squeaky cheeseburger toys? I mean,…
