The news that Brown Dog Pizza has lost its bid for a liquor license and won’t be opening a joint at 1001 South Gaylord Street has people talking — not just about the Washington Park neighborhood, but what NIMBYism has done to other parts of town. First, a view from…
Olive Garden just announced that it would be kicking fries and milkshakes off of the children’s menu at all its restaurants, replacing them with smoothies and grapes. This move is designed to please parents who drag their squirming spawn into the post-popular Italian chain, but it’s tough breaks for servers,…
Beautiful Crested Butte is hosting its annual Crested Butte Land Trust Wine & Food Festival, showcasing amazing cuisine with wines from around the country, the Celebrity Chef Tour and more; events run through Sunday, July 24. For more information, go to www.crestedbuttewine.com. For information on dozens of culinary events around…
After I finished my last meal at Bittersweet, I didn’t want to leave. A friend and I had been eating on one of the restaurant’s narrow patios, meandering through course after course with the help of the friendly, attentive staff. And long after we’d scraped the last dish clean, we…
Another Denver monsoon was soaking the streets outside, and inside Bistro One, the dining room was almost empty. A few patrons were nursing drinks at the long bar that runs along one side of the room, basking in the blue glow of the lights, but most of the other diners…
I started to review Bittersweet three months ago. After dinner at the then-three-month-old restaurant, I learned from chef-owner Olav Peterson, who’s hyper-focused on seasonality and fresh local ingredients, that he was about to change the menu. And not just make a few tweaks — Peterson was getting ready to scrap…
Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, which I reviewed last week, is now my weekend haunt, and I regularly hang out at one of the tables in this small spot, digging into pastries baked in the open kitchen just behind the counter. I also love the breakfast and lunch sandwiches here,…
“Get ready for the fight of your lives.” That was the advice barked at Jeff Smokevitch and Giles Flanigan, the owners of Brown Dog Pizza, a Telluride-based pizzeria that had inked a lease on a vacant, build-out space on South Gaylord Street where they wanted to open a second Brown…
I’m the first one to bitch and moan about how all the great dives in Denver are disappearing — but then when someone like Frank Bonanno (Mizuna, Luca D’Italia, Osteria Marco, Bones and Green Russell) comes in and gentrifies the hell out of one of those dives, I can’t wait…
Breakfast, as most of us know, is ballyhooed as the most important meal of the day, but for Abby Aronsohn, an alum of Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, lunch matters most — and Lunch Matters just happens to be the name of her new fast-casual soup-and-sandwich cafe that recently…
BY KELLY KAOUDIS The only way to get one of New Belgium Brewing’s custom-made bicycles is if you work at the Fort Collins-based brewery for at least a year. For the rest of us, the only way is to win one. Last night, Denverites had their chance to do so…
A coalition of fourteen Colorado brewers are getting ready to release Buddha Nuvo, one of the most expensive, most unusual beers ever made in Colorado. A Belgian-style saison, the beer was designed around the brightly-colored and exotically-shaped Buddha’s Hand fruit, along with grains of paradise, 175 pounds of pumpkin and…
If you’re down and out and in search of a dirt-cheap breakfast of eggs, bacon and hash browns, you can pig out at this low-key bar that also pimps pool tables and tunes spanning every genre of music. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the…
Take a look at some of the restaurant ads we featured in the July 17-23, 1991, issue of Westword. While deals like $6 dinner buffets may not exist in 2011, and many of the restaurants that advertised that week no longer exist at all, we can savor cheaper — if…
In life, he was a 104-pound swordfish in the North Atlantic, a loner, with finite eyesight, swimming around and snapping up a good meal of tuna, mackerel or an octopus, if he could get it. But his species’ famed speed and agility did not save him from being harpooned off…
The hits keep coming on Cherry Creek North, which just lost Argyll and Toast, but will soon be gaining Wrap Dawgs, as Lori Midson reported yesterday. All the dish coming out of Cherry Creek prompted this from denveronaspit: First the Tattered Cover and then my beloved Roo Bar is forced…
El Diablo, 101 Broadway, will host a five-course Gemini in July tequila dinner. Guest chef Daniel Asher of Root Down will be working in the kitchen with Sean Yontz; guest mixologist Carrie Scroggins with be working with Gemini tequilas, alongside Gemini Brand Ambassador Tom Wagstaff. The event starts at 7…
Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, will host a Pesto Party from 6 to 8:30 p.m. tonight. The fun includes both a discussion of pesto preparation and a pesto-centric dinner. Tickets are $41; for more info, call 720-865-3580 or go to www.botanicgardens.org. For information on dozens of culinary events around…
It’s not all doom and gloom in Cherry Creek North if you’re a restaurant. Despite the fact that Argyll and Toast have both called it quits — Argyll closed on Sunday and will reopen next year in the Baker neighborhood and Toast shuttered three weeks ago — it’s clear that…
Cafe Berlin is now open in its new location at 1600 Champa Street — quite a switch from its original home on 17th Avenue, where Jason Sheehan reviewed the German restaurant (that spot is now occupied by Il Posto), and also from its last downtown address on 14th Street (now…
Georgia Boys BBQ started as a scheme between Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger to scrape together enough money to buy lift tickets for the slopes, and it quickly became a sprawling sack lunch delivery business and mobile operation, thanks to the pair’s popular ‘cue. Recently, the men had an opportunity…
I’ve always fantasized about living in a neighborhood that had everything within walking distance that I needed to be happy: a stroll away from a nice cup of coffee, a comfortable place to wet my whistle and, most important, a quality marketplace. It’s part of my ongoing and typically American…
