I’m almost never in a hurry to get drunk. Drunk is somewhere I often end up, yeah, but whenever I rush to get there, I miss all the great stops along the way — stops like More Talkative Than Usual, Can’t Stop Smiling and So Happy to Be Here (regardless…
Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and cougars are on the prowl for cubs to nip on the nape and nuzzle into doing a cougar’s bidding. Any mellow young fellow looking for the love of a cougar should easily be able to achieve hot-tub bliss if he keeps…
Marty Meitus , former food editor at the Rocky Mountain News, writes this week about the Tasting Cafe, a pilot project she started that gives low-income children — and their parents — a taste of healthy, economical foods. See more photos by Ellen Jaskol on the slideshow page…
Two very different restaurant fundraisers this week bought a literal boatload of help for Haiti. First up: The $125-a-head, six-course meal at Rioja on Monday night wound up raising $21,518 for Project C.U.R.E., which the Denver-based non-profit will leverage into a forty-foot container of medical relief for Haiti with a…
Wen Chocolates owner William Poole is keeping busy these last few days of business. The beloved Platte Street shop is closing its doors on Sunday and Poole says he’ll be taking a month off to reevaluate the company and product. “I have a milk crate in a dark closet all…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. “I know it…
The Place: Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street, 303-831-7310. The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. The Deal: Coors Light and Corona go for $3; glasses of 2007 Painter chardonnay and red zinfandel are $4; well drinks and specialty martinis ring in at $5; food specials are also $5…
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…
You’ll either know exactly where this dish — buttered Malaysian flatbread with a boldly spiced and brothy curry sauce — comes from, or you won’t. But knowing this crowd, my bets are on sooner, rather than later. Ready, set, guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first…
James Mazzio sneaks a look at his ticker. He’s doing a dinner for a hundred people in less than three hours and his cooks need him on the line. It’s the final hurrah in his three-month stint at Le Chateau, the French restaurant where he’s been cooking since last October…
Back in 1986, when Paris on the Platte opened at 1553 Platte Street, in the no man’s land between LoDo and Highland, there was no Sushi Sasa, no Colt & Gray — just My Brother’s Bar over on the corner of 15th Street. But the little coffeehouse hung on, adding…
Things are going swimmingly at Sushi Sasa, the ambitious sushi restaurant in the no-longer no-man’s land between downtown and Highland. They’re going so well, in fact, that Sushi Sasa is doubling the size of its dining room. The expansion was made possible when the Wilderness Exchange moved to the corner…
Hungry for another taste of Jason Sheehan? Here’s how he officially introduced himself to Seattle, the city where he’s now the restaurant reviewer for the Seattle Weekly, our partner paper, which has already netted this response: “Welcome to Seattle you condescending fuck.” His first review hits the street this week…
Aaron Kennedy, founder of the Denver-based Noodles & Co., is the keynote speaker at the annual Cherry Creek Chamber luncheon that starts at noon today at the JW Marriott, 150 Clayton Lane. Kennedy will no doubt discuss the “Eureka” moment he experienced in 1993, when he decided to start a…
Marty Meitus’s longtime job as food editor disappeared with the Rocky Mountain News last February. But she’s been putting her down-time to very good use: She created a pilot program for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant and Children (WIC), which offers nutrition education and counseling for low-income parents…
Denver’s gained Saucy, a new restaurant that just opened at 2200 Market Street, but it’s lost Sauce Pizza & Wine, whose former space at 5322 Denver Tech Center Boulevard in now empty. Sauce had been brought to Denver by Fox Restaurant Concepts, which still has Sauce outposts stirring in Arizona…
The South is rising again at Saucy, which opened for business on January 25 at 2200 Market Street (the former home of Otto’s Grill and, before that, the downtown Brix). But Saucy wants to do more than serve up traditional Southern cuisine, according to Isaac Torres, part-owner of the restaurant…
“You are what you eat” — we’ve all heard that one before. But writers and activists such as Michael Pollan have brought the issue of conscious eating into the forefront. And tonight, the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, will serve up “Conscious Eating: Food Choices and the Natural World,” a…
Valentine’s Day. The holiday perhaps most feared in the hearts of…well, everyone. How can one silly, Hallmark greeting-dominated day be so over-hyped, yet so continuously underwhelming, at least in terms of delivering that rapturous, romantic haze we all want to be caught up in? One sure-fire way to make sure…
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…
If zipping off to Canada for some bathroom sex doesn’t say “Happy Valentine’s Day” to you, how about a fast trip to Scandinavia, where Valentine is one of the most popular saints? Consider these charming Scandinavian customs:…
There’s nothing that beats the gravy fries at Steuben’s or the cheese fries at Jonsey’s EatBar, but these French fries, pelted with bacon and ribbons of scallions, drizzled with mild cheese sauce and served with a side of housemade ranch dressing, certainly do justice to the lowly tuber. At which…
