The Mestizos food truck will be showcasing its street-style fusion cuisine at this year’s Dish — Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival taking place in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex next Thursday, September 6. Here’s what to expect from the truck’s unique menu:…
Update, September 19: The beer will be a “hopped up brown” and in a brown can, so the Deuce references continue. Oskar Blues and Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing are whipping up their second collaboration beer today in Longmont under a shroud of secrecy. “We’re keeping some suspense about style of…
In advance of Gretchen Kurtz’s debut next week as the new Cafe critic, we asked some of our previous restaurant reviewers to weigh in — and given their jobs, we do mean weigh in — with advice for our newest critic. Kyle Wagner, now the travel editor at the Denver…
Striking out is a lot less painful when you have a green chile breakfast burrito and bloody Mary by your side. At least, that’s the thinking behind the “Breakfast-n-Bowl” special at Crown Lanes Bowling Center and Sports Bar, a good option for those still laboring to find Labor Day fun…
Winner announcement: blogs.westword.com/cafesociety/2012/08/winner_pool_party_justice_league.php With the mercury continuing to hover in high double digits — and a three-day weekend upon us — most of us will be picnicking and boozing it up in a park, or splashing around in the pool, diving for beer cans. And on Sunday, you can knock…
Two new restaurants hope to soar to new heights in the former home of Twisted Olive. And while Hoot and Howl and Sal’s Street Food and Sushi will be sharing the space at 8270 East Northfield Boulevard in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton, each will offer a different dining experience…
Green chile season is now upon us, and this means the pervading aroma of burning chiles will soon fill the air as parking lots fill up with eager chile-philes waiting patiently, burlap bags in hand, for their turn to watch the roasters work their rolling, smoking magic. This season also…
We asked several of Westword’s previous restaurant reviewers to offer advice for Gretchen Kurtz, our new Cafe critic, whose first review will be published next week. Laura Shunk, who left the job for a move to New York in June, came up with ten tips, including this one: 9. If…
This three-day weekend will see two food truck gatherings: one in celebration of the Blue Moon (the second full moon in a month) tonight and another poolside at the Taxi development in RiNo this Sunday…
Ken Kodys is a beast — and I mean that in the most complimentary way. No, I’m not referring to his size, although he is a large man at 6’6″. I mean that creatively he is a beast, and a stone-cold killer in cocktail competitions. Ken is also one of…
Goats are some the strangest animals on the farm, and after recently having an excruciatingly hot (albeit exceptionally good) goat vindaloo, my tongue was flopping around my mouth much like the goat in the video below. If only I could echo the noises. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special…
City, O’ City, Denver’s go-to-meatless hipster hang-out, will be dishing eats at Dish — Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink event taking place in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex next Thursday, September 6. Here’s the dish on what City, O’ City will be dishing that night:…
In advance of Gretchen Kurtz’s debut next week as the new Cafe critic, we asked some of our previous restaurant reviewers to weigh in — and given their jobs, we do mean weigh in — with advice for our new newest critic. Kyle Wagner, our reviewer for close to a…
The Great American Beer Festival doesn’t change much from year to year. It is always a massive draw, a tourism magnet and the place to be seen for breweries and beer lovers alike. But the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which hosts the festival, October 11-13, does like to keep it relevant,…
Josh Barhaug Fired Up 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 www.gtfiredup.com Part one of my chef interview with Josh Barhaug, who mans the line — and pizza oven — at Fired Up, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What you’d like to see more of in Denver/Boulder from a…
The food truck row at Dish — Westword’s eighteenth annual food-and-drink event taking place in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex next Thursday, September 6 — is full of stars this year: Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs, Comida, Mestizo’s, Waffle Brothers, Hey PB&J, Basic Kneads… And Crock Spot –…
Colorado is a key swing state in the upcoming presidential election. In polls, Colorado looks like a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with leads shifting back and forth by the day — and which way the vote ultimately goes could decide the national outcome. By the numbers, though,…
How quickly we forget! Laura Shunk took a beating when she debuted as our restaurant reviewer two years ago, and some of those comments featured prominently in the advice that Shunk offered the next Westword critic, Gretchen Kurtz, in a piece posted yesterday. A piece that’s winning raves…
The last of this summer’s Jazz Nights takes the stage at Little Man Ice Cream, 2620 16th Street, tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. Enjoy the shop’s ever-changing roster of ice cream flavors (and at least six sorbets) with a side of tunes — while you can…
Why Tip? By Josiah Hesse Last May, I was sitting in a bar in Spain, wondering why I was so relaxed. Beyond the typical high of travel — augmented by the Mediterranean lifestyle of beaches, naps and midday wine — I felt an ambiguous sense of peace in every bar…
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be another day dedicated to the celebration of…well, anything, oenophiles around the country will raise filled-to-the-brim glasses to toast National Cabernet Day on Thursday. While it’s easy to dismiss these booze-filled events as just another excuse to tie one on, in truth they’re…
Denver’s football stadium doesn’t just have a new name and signage. Sometime soon after next week’s regular season home opener, it will also have its own Tavern: The Tavern Hospitality Group is in the process of creating Tavern Mile High at Sports Authority Field. “We met with the Broncos earlier…
