From fleas to food-rescue rides, this weekend is brimming with tasty events — including the first Tacolandia, our celebration of street tacos. Keep reading for all the delicious details. Friday, August 12 The resurrected Tivoli Brewing Company will be celebrating its first anniversary with a festival of music and beer from…
What do you get when you mix a restaurant owner, and two event company owners? Well, we don’t really know either because it’s a secret. This Saturday, Delores Tronco of Work & Class is teaming up with Josh Sampson of the Big Wonderful and Kevin Earle of MC Presents to…
Empanadas are coming to the Denver Tech Center. Lorena Cantarovici, chef/owner of Maria Empanada at 1298 South Broadway, is opening a second location of her Argentinian bakery/cafe at 8000 East Belleview Avenue, in the Belleview Promenade shopping center. Cantarovici says she plans to open the first week of September in…
Just over a decade ago, we were so enamored of the happy hour burger at McCormick’s Fish House & Bar downtown that we gave it an award for Best Burger in a Fish House. For $1.95, you could load up on the tasty (if not very big) burgers before settling…
No 72: The Tuna Poke Bowl at Ohana Island Kitchen The owners of Ohana Island Kitchen are onto something with their little lunch window that welcomes the lunchtime crowd on the side of the Truffle Table in LoHi. Louie Colburn is a native Hawaiian who has a sweet, decadent and…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks, including one Denver favorite that’s more known for…
Opened and crewed by service industry experts, The Way Back is a polished, accomplished bar that stands out on well-trod 38th Avenue. Given the talent behind the place — alumni of Williams & Graham, Linger and twelve, for starters — little wonder that it landed with feet firmly planted. The…
If you haven’t headed to Jefferson Park for your last supper at La Loma, you have yet another reprieve: It’s staying put through September. Since 1981, the massive Mexican restaurant has been perched at 2527 West 26th Avenue — just down the hill from the little bungalow where Savina Mendoza…
John Carlson, who has led the Colorado Brewers Guild for two decades, has taken a “leave of absence” from the organization while the state’s craft breweries try to sort out what direction they are heading next. The move comes two months after fourteen craft breweries — including the state’s four…
Colorado’s biggest mega-brewery may own the naming rights to one of the state’s largest sporting venues — Coors Field — but our largest craft brewer is getting in on the action, too. Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing said late last week that it would donate $4.3 million to Colorado State…
The Halcyon Hotel opened on Monday in Cherry Creek North, joining the Curtis downtown and the Crawford at Union Station in Sage Hospitality Group’s Denver lineup. And last night, Departure Restaurant & Lounge launched dinner service on the ground floor of the Halcyon at 249 Columbine Street. Already a big…
No. 73: The Alfred Packer Salad at MAD Greens While many eateries tout their use of seasonal ingredients, it’s not often that you can find a dish that truly represents what’s coming out of Colorado farms right now — especially at a quick-service restaurant. Never fear; with the special Alfred…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks. Joining the fun will be the family-owned La…
While there was plenty of action in Rio this weekend, hometown heroes competed in the fifth annual Denver Beer Olympics at Civic Center Park on Saturday, August 6. And the competitors poured it on, because the first-place prize was tickets to the Great American Beer Festival. But everyone came out…
Steamboat Springs is lovely in high summer, but it’s even lovelier when you’re holding a glass of wine. The Steamboat Wine Festival brings it all together with five glorious days of wine tastings, seminars and wine dinners, as well as other activities that offer a chance to savor the mountain…
In a city searching for authenticity and identity amid the constant barrage of shiny condo buildings springing up out of the skeletons of old hospitals and storefronts, new breweries opening on a seemingly daily basis, and a plethora of hipster restaurants opening in old warehouses, neighborhood bars are comforting reminders…
Andrea Davis, a weather-worn forty-year-old ex-library clerk turned farmer, has rescued abused and doomed-to-die animals for most of her life. Davis’s goals for her Broken Shovels Farm in Henderson are to create an oasis of health in a food desert that is more than two miles from the nearest grocery…
Raquelita’s Tortillas has been making corn and flour tortillas for Denver restaurants since 1960 and is dedicated to wind-generated energy and traditional tortilla-making methods. Join us live on Facebook at 1:45 p.m. today as we talk to Rich Schneider, whose father started the business more than fifty years ago. If…
On Sunday, August 14, Westword will host Tacolandia, a celebration of the city’s street tacos in all their tortilla-wrapped glory. Join us at Sports Authority Field to enjoy unlimited samples from many of Denver’s top taquerias, cantinas, Mexican restaurants and food trucks. Joining the fun will be Antojitos La Poblanita,…
When Ryan Witcher set out on the increasingly well-beaten path that leads from the coasts to Colorado, he did so for the same reasons that I’m here, and maybe why you’re here, too: work and quality of life. “The offer to partner with one of the best chefs in one…
One of the greatest challenges facing museums today is getting people to come in the door, and then keep them coming back for more. So the History Colorado Center is testing a concept this summer that could be just the ticket: History Buffs & Brews, a libations-centric opportunity to learn…
If you’re like many Americans introduced to Mexican cuisine in the 1980s and ’90s, you grew up with hard-shell tacos hiding miserly amounts of ground beef and shredded lettuce. Then came grilled chicken swaddled in soft flour tortillas and the revelatory steak tacos — sometimes bearing the seemingly exotic moniker…
