I just got off the phone with Danny Rosacci, son of Tony Rosacci and the guy behind the brand spankin’ new Tony’s Market that was due to open today at 950 Broadway. But now it looks like Tony’s will not be opening today. “The fire department made us jump through…
Primebar, a restaurant “that proudly features local products, including produce and proteins from around the state, local spirits and wine and and all-Colorado draft beer list,” opens this evening at 1515 Arapahoe Street, in the space that formerly housed Palomino, which closed in January 2008. The menu, created by Max…
Many Whole Foods stores in the Rocky Mountain region are featuring a special kind of meat right now, a meat that has some meaning. Panorama Grass-Fed Meats Inc. and the Arapaho Ranch, a native American enterprise, have partnered to bring organic, grass-fed meat to you.At the Belmar Whole Foods yesterday,…
If you’re heading to the hills Memorial Day weekend, sustainability advocate Bill McKibben will be the keynote speaker at the Moving Mountains Symposium in Telluride today. It kicks off this weekend’s Mountainfilm festival. For details, go to http://mountainfilm.org. From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, brewmasters from Summit…
Brunch isn’t a very French meal, so William Wahl, chef/owner of Indulge French Bistro, the Best French Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2009, isn’t quite sure what to call the Sunday lunch that the restaurant started serving on May 10. “Let’s call it Sunday dejeuner,” he decides. Whatever it…
The good people of Boulder are mere hours away from contact with the Great Green One. Yes, Michael Pollan, the Godfather of sustainability, is coming to the green mecca for a reading and book-signing at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Unity Church, 2855 Folsom Street.You may have to watch from the…
The grape geeks at Murphy Goode Winery are offering one fellow wine nerd “A Really Goode Job.” Specifically, the winery is searching for a “Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine Country, and, of course, tell people what you’re learning about winemaking,”…
Put a little sprinkle in your step this Saturday, May 23, when D Bar Desserts, the magnificent bakery, sugar shack and savory foods shop at 1475 East 17th Avenue, celebrates its first anniversary with free cupcakes — just one of the attention-grabbers at the food-porn patisserie that chef (and Food…
Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-wide,…
Ice cream season is upon us, and we didn’t need to look too far down Broadway to find our cold indulgence for the summer. Sweet Action Ice Cream opened its doors in early March to the general enthusiasm of the entire Baker neighborhood. After moving from New York to Denver,…
See photos of The Q Worldly Barbeque, the subject this week’s restaurant review, at westword.com/slideshow…
Jax Fish House, which is part of the Big Red F Restaurant Group, has introduced its own wine — with the help of vintner Sineann, a small winemaker in Yamhill County, Oregon, run by Peter Rosback. That’s after Big Red F head honcho Dave Query traveled up and down the…
While Denver-born restaurant chain Chipotle is getting flak for its new ad campaign’s distinct lack of cojones, the marketing for Quiznos Sub Shop, another local restaurant chain done (sorta) good, still shows a lot of balls. Or, to be more accurate in this particular case, a lot of boobs. The…
It’s Eat Here Now! night at 910Arts event gallery, 910 Santa Fe Drive. From 6 to 9 p.m., you can look at the current exhibit on growing and eating locally, sample Colorado produce, and see the film Seeds of Community: Creating Sustainable Family Gardens. And it’s all free. For more…
I’ve gone back to The Q Worldly Barbeque a few times since my review meals — not for barbecue, but for the incredible corn fritters off the dessert menu. While I would like to see some corn bread up on that board as well, these are a good consolation prize:…
Barbecue has a history and a long association with blues music and jazz music and roof-shakin’, foot-stompin’, Southern-tinted rock-and-roll music. It has a sweet Sunday side — all gospel hymns and stately women in enormous hats — as well as a dark-and-dirty Saturday-night side. At church picnics and in shotgun…
I couldn’t wait for Olivea to open, because I’d always liked the feel of the space when it was Aix — cozy and intimate without being claustrophobic — and I thought that the foursome behind Duo who’d bought it (Stephanie Bonin, Keith Arnold, chef John Broening and pastry chef Yasmin Lozada-Hissom)…
Battle of the super drinks! Read a comparison of miracle juice supplements on the Latest Word blog. Sandy Greenberg likes to call his sales force a “volunteer army.” He steps to the podium and looks out over the hundred enlistees who have crammed into this hotel meeting room for the…
I love recycling. Not the go-green, be-nice-to-the-planet kind, or the separating-your-trash kind. Those are all well and good, but what I really love is restaurant recycling. Whole restaurant recycling. Like when some owner without much money takes on a hastily abandoned space and sets up shop without bothering to do…
I had lunch plans that were made weeks ago. I had a time and a date, a big group of friends, a table waiting out on the patio. What I didn’t have? Any idea that today was the day the Denver Post was going to drop the love on my new favorite…
This one could be tough — but the wall o’ tequila, tilework and beers on the tap-handles might be enough to give it away to regulars. For everyone else, here’s a clue: This plac used to be a serious dive bar. It was so dive-y, in fact, that someone had to buy…
Yesterday, I told you all about Max Mackissock’s sooner-than-expected departure from Primebar, the restaurant at 1515 Arapahoe Street that opens to the public on Friday night. What I didn’t tell you is this: Come May 28, Mackissock will be the new exec chef at The Squeaky Bean, which opens Monday…
