The Vieux Carré was invented in 1938 by Walter Bergeron at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans. It’s one of my favorite classic cocktails, a mix of rye, cognac, sweet vermouth, Benedictine and Peychaud’s and Angostura bitters. When made well, it’s a fantastic drink — when made poorly, it’s undrinkable…
This experience probably would’ve been a lot more informative after an inappropriate amount of drinking the night before. The team behind a product called the Hangover Recovery Shot stopped in Denver yesterday to schmooze with potential investors at a business conference, and invited Westword to swing by and try their…
The thirteenth annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival will fill the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse next month. In addition to the usual tea-related workshops and seminars, a special tea dinner and tea parties for the kids, this year adults will be able to enjoy a different kind of tea party: a “Tea…
Happy Place: Café|Bar, 295 South Pennsylvania Street, 303-362-0227. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $3 draft beer and well cocktails; $5 wines by the glass; $5-$8 food specials. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…
Super heroes aren’t real. Sorry. But you can drown that sad truth this weekend with a superhero beer — a collaboration between Breckenridge Brewery and Denver Comic Con, which kicked off yesterday at the Colorado Convention Center. The Fantastic Pour, a riff on the Fantastic Four, was settled on after…
For this week’s Westword review, Laura Shunk visited Karl’s Deli in Centennial, which specializes in German and Austrian food, including a wurst platter. “The fat, fennel-infused pork sausage exploded out of its casing when cut, oozing juices into a bed of sauerkraut,” she writes. “Although the wurst needed nothing to…
Qdoba Mexican Grill, which got its start in Colorado in 1995, has a present for its hometown fans: an unlimited $6 entrée coupon. The coupon reads: “Buy any entree for only $6 — use as many times as you’d like between now and July 8th.”…
If New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed ban on sugary drinks is enacted, it will give the health department the authority to slap fines on restaurants, movie theaters, food carts and sandwich shops that try to sell sodas larger than 16 ounces. Bad idea? Maybe on the surface –…
“Not a fan of what Cherry Creek has become.” That’s how chef Chris Cina greeted the news that Bisque had closed. Originally known as Cafe Bisque when it opened in Lakewood a decade ago, Bisque left that ‘burb and moved to Cherry Creek last November. And now it’s in the…
SAME Cafe, 2023 East Colfax Avenue, is teaming up with Community Building Partnership for Youth in Transition to host an art show from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight. The artwork was created by fostered youths in the program, some of whom volunteer at the nonprofit pay-what-you-want cafe. To raise additional…
As a service-industry lifer/professional, I loved Lori Midson’s list of the “Ten rudest things things customers do to make servers wish you’d never come to their restaurants.” Over the course of my 27-year career in service, I’ve seen examples of all of her top ten…and more. But what really gets…
Update: Clown Question, Bro will be tapped at 4 p.m. on Monday; clown costumes encouraged. The beer also has a logo — at right. Nineteen-year-old Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper didn’t take kindly to a question from a Toronto sports reporter about what kind of beer he planned to drink…
There’s something about the crack of a can of beer being opened that says summer: The sound is loud, proud and promises refreshment. In the past, that crack was reserved for cans of mass-market beers, but now there are dozens of choices available from Colorado’s favorite craft breweries. Here are…
When I ordered a Manhattan, I didn’t expect a great Manhattan, since this spot is more of a “watch soccer and drink beers” kinda bar. But how hard is it to pour bourbon (since the bar didn’t have rye, which I prefer), some sweet vermouth and a splash of bitters…
The fourth annual Hot Rocks Griller Challenge at Elway’s Cherry Creek last night, a benefit for the Denver Health Foundation, was hot in more ways than one: hot in temperature, with the the late spring sun beating down during the first hour or so; hot in hotties who stripped down…
Tres Jolie Tea & Champagne Lounge won Best Ladies’ Lunch in the Best of Denver 2012, as well as an earlier rave review from Laura Shunk. But those weren’t enough to keep this sweet spot in Littleton open…
Prost Brewing has pushed back its opening to late July or early August, even though the German-themed taproom plans to begin making beer next week…
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is the second-largest chicken-focused fast-food restaurant chain in the U.S. — and I have no idea why. Its fried chicken is moist, flavorful and has a warm, spicy bite. Its side dishes, while mass-produced, are actually good for what they are. And unlike its major competitor, Popeyes…
Last month we asked which Denver restaurant would make the best use of forty pounds of cherries from Washington, and Cafe Society readers served up some juicy suggestions for places that could use the fruit to make cherry pie and cherry beer . Now we know the cherry-picked winner of…
Pete Marczyk Marczyk Fine Foods 770 East 17th Avenue, 303-894-9499 5100 East Colfax Avenue, 303-243-3355 www.marczykfinefoods.com This is part two of my interview with Pete Marczyk; read part one of Pete Marczyk’s interview Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Show up; try hard; think; keep making it better; and no…
Ever have a hankering for a dozen chocolate-iced Bismarks and an iced latte from Dunkin’ Donuts — and then realize that because you live in Denver, you can’t have them? Watching the occasional Dunkin’ Donuts advertisement on the telly just rubs sprinkles in the stummy wound. Right now, there are…
It was just two years ago that Steuben’s Food Service became the very first food truck to roll into Civic Center Park, a ground-breaking, if not turf-smashing, development that rated a cover story in Westword. Today, of course, mobile food vendors are all over the city — and Civic Center…
