Stout Month at Mountain Sun and Southern Sun brewpubs up in Boulder is always a fabulous time — and sometimes those of us residing to the southeast of the People’s Republic can feel kinda left out. Well, since Vine Street Pub opened, there’s no need to feel slighted, especially because…
The monthly meeting of the Society for the Pursuit of Hoppiness will convene at 6 p.m. this evening at the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder. The members will be gearing up for the inaugural Boulder Sour Fest, which will take place this Saturday and sold out weeks…
Blue Ice Martini Lounge just hired a new executive chef — and with the hire, got a new feature: South American food. “We do food from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia,” says chef Jose Santiago. “We have comfort food, and every weekend we are going to try to do a dish…
We hope you’ve already eaten lunch, because you won’t be hungry after this: Seems that California’s Olivera Egg Farm is facing six violations for permit violations stemming from local complaints about their reported daily pumping of chicken excrement into a 16.5 acre pond near the facility. The waste of more…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Rumors are flying that the forever vacant Il Fornaio space at 1631 Wazee Street is finally getting fresh blood, specifically from TurnTable Restaurant Group trio Jeffrey Chodorow, his son Zach and Dan Smith, the former president of Jillian’s restaurant and entertainment complexes. Smith, along with the Chodorows, who are also…
“The kitchen closes in five minutes,” warned the bartender, glancing anxiously at the clock. I quickly scanned the long menu before ordering a pair of fish tacos and the piquant shrimp cocktail paired with cold chips that had obviously been made long, long before they landed on my plate. But…
Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs will celebrate its fourth anniversary at 3535 East Colfax Avenue by giving customers the presents — free Hostess Twinkies and Cupcakes all weekend (or until the supply runs out). Steve’s also hands out Twinkies and ice cream on birthdays and anniversaries — and if you sign up…
The traffic jam that resulted from Barack Obama’s visit to Denver yesterday proved a good time to check out developments along Santa Fe Boulevard — including the fact that the former Taco Bell at 14th Avenue is going to become a real Mexican restaurant. Although it looks like the “coming…
For many, many months, things have looked dim for the two dim sum institutions at Alameda Square. Endless construction has made it difficult to even see that Super Star Asian and King’s Land Seafood Restaurant are still open, and if you could manage the turn off Alameda, you still needed…
Monday was a happy day at Happy, the noodle house at 835 Walnut Street in Boulder that Dave Query’s Big Red F group opened a year ago as Happy Noodle House. Over the months, Query and company have made a number of adjustments at the restaurant — starting but not…
Bid on mountain retreats, city escapes, spa treatments, a five-day stay in Hawaii, trips to Arizona or Beverly Hills, basketball shoes, a 2010 Road King Classic Touring Motorcycle from Harley Davidson and more while you munch on samples from twenty food stations at tonight’s Delightful Dishes and Dreamy Getaways auction…
If you’re looking for an excuse to party, you could hardly find a better one than tonight’s official release of Great Divide Brewing Company’s 2010 brews: Hoss Rye Lager, Claymore Scotch Ale, Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout and Colette Farmhouse Ale…
Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard — but the brothers who’ve taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partners behind Brooklyn’s (both the original and the one by the Pepsi Center),…
No, these aren’t strips of cactus from Rosa Linda’s vegetarian menu for Lent. They’re slices of green chile, flash-fried and served hot. Very, very hot. Can you guess where I’m eating?…
Ordering a fish sammich from a place that specializes in fresh-pressed, flame-broiled moo meat might not be the smartest choice, but you still shouldn’t need a painkiller to make your meal go down easy. But that’s what a customer discovered in his fish sandwich at a Burger King in Jacksonville,…
In this week’s Westword, Lori Midson writes about the unveiling of Panzano’s delicious new digs and executive chef Elise Wiggins’s own evolution. See photos by Mark Manger on the slideshow page…
As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com…
Restaurant and chef semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards were released this morning, which gives all the nominees exactly 32 days to chew on their success before the five finalists in each category are announced on Monday, March 22. The winners will be revealed on Monday, May 3…
This is part two of Sergio Romero’s Chef and Tell interview. To read part one, click here…
Just when it looked like the turbulence — a menu revamp just three weeks after opening and a relocation to Redskins territory for the former Denver Broncos football coach for whom the restaurant is named — at Shanahan’s, the multi-million dollar steakery and seafood house at 5085 South Syracuse Street,…
The inaugural Boulder Sour Fest has been sold out for a while now, but give thanks to the gods of pucker-inducing beer: Additional tickets are going on sale today at 8 a.m. at www.ticketalternative.com/events/9351.aspx. (The address won’t work until 8 a.m.) Tickets are extremely limited, so get on board fast…
