Even if you’re too busy to read books, there’s a good chance you’ve dog-eared the pages of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, or at least chatted with someone who has. Malcolm Gladwell’s book spent an incredible 193 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and its premise…
There are many stops along the road to adulthood: getting your driver’s license, going off to college, taking your first (legal) sip of beer. Before all those, however, there’s another: your first cup of coffee. I remember mine clearly. I was a teenager at an outdoor sporting event in Wisconsin…
Lost amid the avalanche of beer tappings during the Great American Beer Festival was a pumpkin beer that Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing made just for Old Chicago restaurants as part of its Halloween Mini Tour. The beer, 4 Foodies Ale (see the video above), was brewed in collaboration with Guerrilla…
Wine drinkers typically skew into two categories: those who love the taste of dirt, and those who are all about big fruit flavors. Put another way, the first group consists of peeps who worship at the altar of everything old world, including wines from across the pond (read: Europe), usually…
Leaf & Crumb, a bakery specializing in tea-infused cakes and cupcakes, just opened at 4416 East Eighth Avenue. Owner Jennifer Rocha, who gave up a career as a pharmacist to pursue her passion for baking, and her crew officially put the icing on the cake yesterday. Westword photographer Elyse Mitchell…
Breweries, big and small, have been opening at a dizzying pace over the past year along the Front Range, from Colorado Springs to Windsor and everywhere in between. Denver alone welcomed eight new breweries in the past twelve months, while Boulder County added at least eight, including four within the…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. Pete just celebrated…
Despite a name change, everything about this charming suburban pizzeria is the same, including the notable pizzas, smeared with red sauce, or slicked with olive oil and garlic, and served by the pie, the slice or Sicilian-style. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
Ed Kammerer Highland Pacific Restaurant & Oyster Bar 3934 West 32nd Avenue 303-477-6644 www.highlandpacific.net This is part one of my interview with Ed Kammerer, exec chef-owner of Highland Pacific Restaurant & Oyster Bar; part two of our chat will run tomorrow. If your kid is a picky eater, Ed Kammerer…
Restaurants aren’t just changing the way Denver eats; they’re changing the way this city looks. Last night Mayor Michael Hancock announced the winners of the annual Mayor’s Design Awards — twelve projects cited for excellence in architecture, design and place-creating. “Every great city has exciting, pioneering places like these that…
Remember Hardee’s — the fast-food stop with the oft-touted “Made from Scratch Biscuits?” It’s okay if you don’t, since Hardee’s restaurants have yet to penetrate Colorado or the states to the west of us, so we only have Hardee’s sloppy sibling, Carl’s Jr., to pimp out Hardee’s biscuits. And lucky…
Last Friday night, the Denver Police Department did an undercover operation, sending underage police cadets to liquor establishments across Denver where they tried to buy booze. And succeeded in the case of four bars (and numerous liquor stores), all of which were cited for selling to a minor. The bars…
Boulder Distillery, 2500 47th Street in Boulder, is hosting Souper Bowlder, a benefit for the Boulder County AIDS Projectm in its tasting room tonight from 7 to 10 p.m…
Jesse Morreale has decided he can’t fight city hall on two fronts. And so after last call on Saturday, October 27, he’ll close Rockbar, the hipster hangout he opened in the All-Inn, the motel at 3015 East Colfax Avenue that he bought almost seven years ago. Earlier this month, Tom…
Free stuff: there’s no better way to celebrate a grand opening. And starting at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 24, the brand-new Dazbog coffee shop on the Auraria Campus will give free travel mugs to the first 1,000 costumers. But since life is about more than just coffee, Dazbog will…
Oskar Blues, which was the first craft brewery in the nation to can its beers, has teamed up with Ska, the second canned craft beer maker, to celebrate ten years of aluminum success with a beer they brewed together in Longmont last week. Although the beers doesn’t have a name…
Crazy Asian Cafe, 290 South Downing Street, has been closed for weeks for what the restaurant’s voicemail message calls “a remodel.” But in reality, the space has been bought by the owners of Sweet Ginger in Cherry Creek, and will reopen as Spicy Ginger Asian Bistro. See also: -Sweet Ginger…
I’ve had better pho, but the staggeringly large Vietnamese noodle bowl, crowned with marinated meats and fresh vegetables, is a marvel to behold — and eat. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into…
Ever been to Pete’s Kitchen at 2 a.m.? Packed like Whole Foods on Thanksgiving. Breakfast King at 3 a.m.? Not an empty seat in the house. And given Denver’s love affair with late-night grubbing, you can bet your chicken-fried steak that when Tom’s Urban 24 opens on Larimer Square on…
The Denver Police Department’s Vice 50 team, working with the District 4 SCAT unit, conducted an underage-compliance operation last Friday, October 19. Out of 53 establishments visited by underage, undercover cadets, nine locations sold them alcohol — resulting in nine arrests for the sale of alcohol to a minor, and…
When you go to a restaurant you’ve never visited before, you never know quite what you’ll find. Even if you’ve pulled up the menu on Yelp during the drive over, you’re likely in for a surprise since those menus can be out of date. Middle Eastern restaurants are different, however…
When you’ve got a ton of people to feed and no one can agree on anything but a chain, Maggiano’s can be a good choice — even for those on a plant-based diet. If you know how to order, you can avoid the meat on the Maggiano’s menu and have…
