Back in April, a street sweeper almost wiped out the Famous Dave’s in Stapleton when it crashed into the front of the building. Although the dining room reopened the next day, the bar area had suffered more damage and has been shuttered since April 18. But today the bar will…
What doesn’t go well with chocolate? We haven’t figured that out yet, because every time we turn around, someone is pairing chocolate with yet another food or beverage. From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, Hammond’s Candies, 5735 Washington Street, will team up with Tea Talks to offer Tea…
Get your grape tonight at two wine events. Fleming’s Steakhouse, 191 Inverness Drive West in Englewood, will host An Evening With Wine Artist Thomas Arvid, a dinner with the artist, who creates photo-realistic paintings, with several courses paired with Arvid’s favorite Napa Valley wines. The event starts with a reception…
Here at Cafe Society, we like any excuse to gorge ourselves — and that means our favorite meal of the week is brunch, when we can stuff ourselves from breakfast through lunch. Denver has plenty of restaurants where we’re happy to make pigs of ourselves over platters of bacon, piles…
If you can’t make it to Paris, this sweet little wine bar will do in a pinch. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
Okay, I admit it: I’ve never heard of the The Vaccines, a British punk rock band that Rolling Stone magazine calls “Hopped-Up Romantics Ruling the U.K. Charts,” which is rather strange, since the music mag compares the group of four to Joy Division and the Jesus and Mary Chain, both…
Restaurants go dark all the time — even the best ones — but nonetheless, when I read the e-mail yesterday from Virgilio Urbano, announcing that he’d abruptly closed the original Virgilio’s in Lakewood, across the street from Belmar, I was stupefied. Frankly, I was beyond stupefied. The pizzeria is one…
Eight years ago, thanks to the money she was able to scrape together from refinancing her car, Annie Vick opened the first Pinocchios, a restaurant in Longmont that serves Italian classics like chicken marsala, spaghetti and meatballs, and manicotti. Since then, she’s been franchising, expanding into four privately owned locations…
A one-time Westword Best of Denver winner for its burger, this iconic restaurant and bar still draws a posse of politicos, power brokers and influential media types, but the majority of the wheeling and dealing takes place at lunch, while the dining room sits eerily barren during dinner. Can you…
Pam Read has owned Goddess Catering, a local catering business, for a few years — and when Satchel’s Market vacated its digs in Park Hill (the owners relocated to a spot next to Oliver’s market, where they created Satchel’s on 6th) — she jumped at the chance to expand into…
Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Zuni Cafe in San Francisco. I worked with Sean Kelly…
Dunkin’ Donuts is being sued again. Danielle Jordan, 47, a diabetic, alleges that the cup of coffee she ordered from her local DDs was laced with sugar instead of the artificial sweetener she’d asked for, and is seeking “unspecified damages” (code for a shload of coinage) after allegedly experiencing physical…
It was bun while it lasted: Eco-Burger has closed in Cherry Creek. David Pellegrin and his wife, Rebekah Donovan Pellegrin, who also owned the now-defunct Q Worldly Barbecue, opened the burger spot exactly a year ago in the former home of Soleil Mediterranean Grill, which they’d closed three months earlier…
The news that Brian Laird, who lasted a decade at Barolo, is out after just a few months at at Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern , the restaurant that Peter Kudla put in his Vallagio project, has generated lots of response, including this from Tico: Know the feeling, I once ran…
There’s an embarrassment of riches at tonight’s booze-and-food-filled events: Colorado Winefest, a sister event of the Colorado Mountain Winefest, lands at Northfield Stapleton today and continues through Saturday, June 11, with tastes from Colorado wineries and local restaurants, plus wine seminars and chef dinners. For more details, go to www.coloradowinefest.com…
In Greek mythology, Kaos is the universe and Gaia the earth — and the two are lovers, intertwined counterparts that create the existing world. Kaos Pizzeria, which opened two years ago, is the counterpart of Gaia Bistro, the five-year-old restaurant on South Pearl Street owned by Patrick Mangold-White and Jon…
The GrowHaus is a community garden, market and education center in Elyria-Swansea that’s encouraging healthy eating and creating local jobs in the process, too. It is also one of ten nonprofits contending for Maxwell House’s Drops of Good contest that will award five organizations $50,000 each. And the GrowHaus needs…
No one goes hungry at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation — and that’s the whole premise behind tomorrow night’s gastronomic blowout that showcases the mad skills of more than thirty Denver kitchens and their virtuosos, all of whom congregate under one roof to feed fervent foodniks in an…
I kicked off patio season this year with a review of Gaia Bistro, which is housed in an old bungalow on South Pearl, serves a seasonal board made from local ingredients — and produce it pulls from its own lush garden. I was as charmed by Gaia’s food as I…
Daniel Klein’s resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller’s Bouchon and Tom Colicchio’s Craft. Now he’s producing The Perennial Plate, a weekly web series about sustainable eating. While the first season focused on the kitchen,…
Last month top-notch bartender James Lee gave up his Salida gig to return to the Front Range, taking over as the beverage director at TAG, Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan-Guard’s flagship Larimer Square eatery. He’s spent the last few weeks getting his feet wet, learning the spirits list and board…
I stopped by Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, the stylish new restaurant in the Spire whose bar is stashed behind floor-to-ceiling, chain-link drapes, just before the Kentucky Derby — which was why the bartender’s suggestion of a Green Tea Mint Julep ($10) seemed like a sacrilege. Some things, like…
