Oops! Hammond’s Candies Garage Sale starts today

Hammond’s Candies employees have been working overtime in the Oops Room, where they sell their mistakes. But there have been so many delicious blunders lately that they’ll spill out into the company’s fifth annual Hammond’s Candies Garage Sale, which runs today through Saturday in a tent in the parking lot…

Gold Hill celebrates fifty years in business this weekend

Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main Street in Gold Hill, is marking its fiftieth anniversary with a four-day celebration beginning today. Festivities include live music from Tim O’Brien at 7:30 p.m. today; view the full schedule here. There are also food deals, but as Laura Shunk notes in her review of…

Jason Patz will pour a masterpiece at MCA Denver tonight

Creating a great cocktail is a true art. And so the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver will be raising awareness of what makes a good drink — and raising the roof in general — at its rooftop bar all summer. But tonight kicks off a particularly important show: the Bartender…

Tavern Hospitality Group will put Taverns in LoHi, Platt Park

The Tavern could be coming to a neighborhood near you. Tavern Hospitality Group, the Colorado-born and -bred company headed by Frank Schultz and his mother and stepfather, Terry and Al Papay, has enough projects on its plate to stay busy well into 2014. And that’s the very earliest that construction…

Bloom will close in FlatIron Crossing this Saturday

Bloom Restaurant, at 1 West Flatiron Circle in Broomfield, will shutter this Saturday after dinner service. The new American restaurant — which is owned by Fox Restaurant Concepts, headquartered in Scottsdale — has been something of a culinary oasis in FlatIron Crossing since the mall opened over a decade ago…

Guess where I’m eating lasagna?

The new menu has moved far, far away from the decades-old menu of the past at this long-standing Italian restaurant, but you can still get the lasagna…for now. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…

Contest: Win two seats to the Celebrity Chef Tour at Linger

Next Wednesday night at Linger, local chefs Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones, Green Russell, Lou’s Food Bar and Russell’s Smokehouse), Eric Skokan (Black Cat Bistro and Bramble and Hare), Ann Cooper (the Renegade Lunch Lady), Daniel Asher, Samm Sherman and Justin Cucci (Root Down and Linger) will…

Makan Malaysian Cafe opens on South Pearl Street

Pearl Street Harbor, as one chef deemed it when South Pearl Street, once a destination restaurant row, had lost Pearl Street Grill, OTOTO and India’s Pearl within days of each other, has a new dining den, and after having dinner there on Monday night, I’m inclined to move in…

Photos: Civic Center Eats rolls into the heart of Denver

The seventh annual Civic Center Eats — a moveable feast in the heart of Denver — kicked off yesterday, with an assortment of Denver dignitaries, a record number of trucks…and no urban campers in sight. “We know we’ve had some challenges in the park,” said Lauri Dannemiller, head of the…

Atmosphere goes a long way at the Gold Hill Inn

My mom has only commanded a classroom since I was a teenager, but she’s always been a teacher at heart, and when I was a kid growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, she’d devise elaborate lessons for my brother and me to carry out over summer break, packing…

The Gold Hill Inn offers a taste of Colorado’s history

Colorado has a rich (no pun intended) mining history, and when I was a kid growing up in the southern suburbs of Denver, my mom would devise elaborate lessons for my brother and me to carry out over summer break, packing us into the minivan for day or weekend trips…

Colorado Convention Center digs in by starting Blue Bear Farm

Designed as spaces where huge numbers of people can get down to businesses, convention centers can be cold, hard buildings — each one very similar to the next. But the Colorado Convention Center and its caterer, Centerplate, are hoping to ground themselves a little more in Denver by starting a…

Mayor Hancock debuts new summertime food program for kids

A new program that will provide free meals for schoolchildren this summer starts this week, according to Mayor Michael Hancock. Hancock was at the Curtis Park pool yesterday to announce the Summer Food Service Program, and passed out free lunches to children in the area. “This collaborative program will help…