Tacos Rapidos, the taco shack that doles out California-style Mexican crack grub 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to drunken warriors not quite drunk enough to cave to Taco Hell from a drive-thru window at 2800 East Evans Avenue, is opening a second outpost at 2345 West Alameda…
Clint Hurdle, Mark Huebner (the bacherlor who opened Denver Pizza Company), the G-Man, Troy Guard, Matt Selby and Molly Hughes are only a handful of the celebrity waiters who’ll be serving at this year’s Concerts for Kids Celebrity Waiter Event at Elway’s in Cherry Creek. The local stars will be…
Look, I love wings as much as the next guy. Matter of fact, I probably love wings as much as the next three guys. I lived for some time in the chicken wing capital of America, after all–a city where doctors have to warn people that chicken wings should not…
The restaurant where the above pic was snapped is still one of my favorite spots in Denver, which is saying a lot, considering that it’s been feeding the faithful for nearly 20 years — 19 years longer than it takes most joints to fall off the radar and into the…
Back in February, we culled our nightlife photos for some of the hottest service employees in the city. We’ve updated it a couple of times since, including today. But we want to add more. Email photos or nominations to hottest@westword.com…
Lori already wrote the official wrap of the Whatever-the Annual Westword Menu Affair earlier this morning, but I had a few thoughts of my own that I wanted to share. First, kudos to the two competitors — Jay Spickelmier and Sergio Romero. It ain’t easy being up there under those…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
The voting was close, really close. But after the judges — Jason Sheehan, Tyler Nemkov, Nancy Levine, Ben Davison from Tony’s Market and yours truly — taste-tested eight courses, all of which involved Colorado lamb, and then tabulated the results, Jay Spickelmier, the exec chef at Jing, edged out Argyll…
Chocolate Cubed Cupes from D Bar Desserts Photographer Taylor Boylston battled the lines of Westword’s Dish Menu Affair to get photos of some of the dishes that put Denver into a massive food coma last night. Also: See photos of the people who ate all that food at westword.com/slideshow…
This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Elise Wiggins, the executive chef of Panzano. You can read the first part of Midson’s interview with Wiggins here. Best food city in America: Yikes. That’s hard, but I love Atlanta because of the farm mecca that surrounds it — and…
Because I am never one to let a good idea die, here I am, back again with another installment of the best of our 1st Annual Cafe Society Poll about Food and Chefs and Stuff. What do you mean you’ve never heard of the 1st Annual CSPAFCS? What, do you…
The blandest of foods can be instantly enlivened with the right sauce — but which eatery has the most stellar sauce in the city? Tonight some of Denver’s best restaurants — including 1515, Beatrice & Woodsley, Elway’s (in Cherry Creek), Root Down, Table 6 and, natch, Vesta Dipping Grill –…
I’d been on and off planes for six hours, not always heading west. The first, a little commuter, had let us off on the tarmac. I’d spent time in a smoking lounge trying to negotiate a cigarette-and-lighter transaction with a Russian man who looked, in profile, exactly like John Hamm…
When Cliff Young’s opened back in 1984, it was the hottest restaurant in town — a beautiful space on East 17th Avenue that was full of beautiful people eating beautiful food. (That space later became Dante Bichette’s and then Hamburger Mary’s, which Drew Bixby writes about on page 38.) After…
I want people’s eyes to roll into the back of their heads when they eat my food,” says Elise Wiggins, the über-talented executive chef of Panzano, a Northern Italian restaurant in the Hotel Monaco. Food, like sex, should always be sensual, she explains. The lovely Louisiana native would put her…
I’ve always thought of Hamburger Mary’s as a place for burgers rather than beers. This is partially because I’m a breeder (and a married one at that), and Mary’s is a gay bar with a packed calendar of drag-show and Cycle Sluts Bingo entertainment. Not that there’s anything wrong with…
Nate Windham, cocktail and spirits specialist, created the bar program at Paragon Culinary School in Colorado Springs in 2003. He’s currently the head bartender at The Office@Blondies and a proud member of the Colorado Bartenders Guild. Earlier this month, he left his office at the Office to join his CoBG colleagues…
“So, I don’t know what the protocol is here. Am I supposed to pretend like I don’t recognize you?” I looked up from my beer at the waitress standing beside my table at the Irish Hound. “No,” I said. “You don’t have to pretend. It doesn’t much matter anymore these…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
The sandwich: Three Sisters Club What’s on it: Roasted turkey, shaved ham, smoked bacon, red onions, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and mayo on a Bavarian roll. Where to get it: Three Sisters Café & Catering (1717 Stout Street, 303-991-8772) How much: $5.95 I’m not a big fan of standing in line…
Jay Spickelmier, executive chef at Jing, will face off against Sergio Romero, executive chef at Argyll Gastropub, in the Mile High Chef Competition at Dish-the Westword Menu Affair at the Fillmore tonight. Before the cooking competition gets too heated, we asked both chefs to dish out some thoughts on Denver’s…
Sergio Romero, executive chef at Argyll Gastropub, will face off against Jay Spickelmier, executive chef at Jing, in the Mile High Chef Competition at Dish-the Westword Menu Affair at the Fillmore tonight. Before the cooking competition gets too heated, we asked both chefs to dish out some thoughts on Denver’s…
