Ever wonder what that über-cool barista is thinking while slinging your extra-foamy cappuccino – you know, the cute one who seems to really want to know how your day is going, but is actually just angling for a fiver slipped into the tip jar? Well, now you can find out…
Why, Buca? WHY?! What is this? Has someone created a little sidewalk memorial of flowers for the downtown Buca di Beppo? The restaurant closed its doors at 1400 Market Street a few weeks ago, but a sign remains in the window informing mourning patrons that they can still fill themselves…
My notes from my most recent meal at Il Posto are almost indecipherable — hasty scrawls on the back of an envelope I’d found in my car, on a credit-card receipt from my pocket. Moscato, they say. Fruit loops, Van CA, stale, bur-stuffed chix boob, peach salt, shirt cuffs and…
Jason Sheehan has said it before — right here, in fact — but we’ll say it again: 3 Sons Italian Restaurant is definitely open. Ignore the “for sale” sign on the building at 2915 West 44th Avenue, advises owner Michael Scarafiotti. Yes, he and his wife, Susan, plan to build…
Larimer Street is returning to its roots as the most respectable — or at least, easy — place in town to drink during the day. First came Snooze, at 2262 Larimer, with its breakfast menu and bar, and now there’s Euphoria Lounge and Coffee House, at 2048 Larimer. Euphoria opens…
Little Einsteins Fruity Stars General Mills Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Little Einsteins does indeed consist of fruity stars in a variety of shades: surprisingly bright yellow, light orange, watered-down green, aquamarine and a reddish hue that, for the sake of simplicity, I’ll call “red.” Clearly, Simpsons…
Hungry for more Jason Sheehan? You could either head over to Denvention, the annual sci fi confab now at the Colorado Convention Center, or just read the blogs that Sheehan, an avowed sci-fi geek, is writing here. They’re not food reviews, but they’re still mighty tasty…
It was only six short weeks ago that Candy Girls brought you the first of the LA-style frozen yogurt places to hit Denver, and now we have the second official opening in our fair city: Kuulture. Tucked away in Writers Square next to the American Apparel shop, it’s like our…
That crust is pretty chewy… Jared Jacang Maher’s August 2007 feature story about Denver International Airport conspiracy theories revolved around a lot of freeaakky phenomena. But even the looniest loons — make that “most knowing analysts” — alluded to in the article didn’t predict the appearance in Commerce City of…
For weeks now, we’ve been following the action — or lack thereof — at Moon Time, Westword’s nearby watering hole at 846 Broadway. When we stopped by almost three weeks ago, the joint was reportedly closed for HVAC work, and on August 2, a new sign on the door said…
For a decade, La Praviana served up authentic Salvadoran cooking — a rarity in this town — from a neat-as-a-pin storefront on South Broadway. Kyle Wagner reviewed it soon after it opened, and raved about the pupusas; six years later, Jason Sheehan was just as charmed, calling its menu “a…
Giant Statue of Liberty sculpture in the corner? Check. Blinged-up, chunky NY necklace covered in fake diamonds around said statue’s neck? Check. Sopranos memorabilia? Check. Shelf full of New York tchotchkes? Check. FDNY keepsakes on shelf? Check. Overtly patriotic pictures of the New York skyline, sans Twin Towers but full…
On another afternoon at Brooklyn M.C.’s Pizzeria (see review), I was sitting in the dining room waiting on a pizza, listening to the two cooks talk. An Andrea Bocelli song was playing, the blind tenor singing something pretty in Italian. Although the cooks seemed friendly enough, they hadn’t struck me…
When I was a teenager looking for trouble, my friends and I would head down to Larimer Square, then the only thing happening at night downtown, and sometimes even venture past the 1400 block of Larimer Street. A naïve suburbanite still in braces, I was always shaken at how quickly…
A favorite bar band of mine from the Midwest sings an audience-participation song about Leinenkugel’s beer that has just four lines: “I like my Leinenkugel’s beer (Woo-hoo!)/So does everybody here (Woo-hoo!)/If you don’t like it, you’re kind of queer (Woo-hoo!)/I like my Leinenkugel’s beer (Woo-hoo!).” I’m typically so drunk by…
I don’t get it. I hear people talk about this place, and they call it a dive. I see people write about it online, and they say they wouldn’t think of coming here because of the rattletrap exterior, the dimness of the windows. But the outside of this joint is…
Say so long to Wolfie’s Neighborhood Bistro, which never had a chance to grow long in the tooth. For a relatively brief time, it occupied the space at 1135 Bannock Street that had been home to Bambino’s, an Italian joint that many people remember fondly. Not so Wolfie’s. There’s a…
Another day, another dolour. We just learned that Isle of Singapore, which Jason Sheehan loved when he first reviewedit in 2002 (when the photo above was taken), and fell in love with again just last year, has floated away from its home at 2022 South University. In its place: Jason’s…
My heart goes out to multi-billion-dollar brewing giants MillerCoors (which recently completed its merger) and Anheuser-Busch (which is about to be taken over by Belgium’s InBev). No, really, it’s hard to look small when you are that big. Not that it has kept the beer companies from trying. The Coors…
Sad news in northwest Denver. On July 31, North Star Brewing Company, the restaurant, bar and microbrewery at 3200 Tejon Street, pulled its last pint. As of Friday morning, Kyle Carstens’s beer-and-tater-tot joint was dark, the shades pulled on all the windows, the neon off. I’d called the place twice…
This spot sets itself up as one of those straight-outta-the-boroughs New York pizza joints the minute you walk through the door, and even before that, the minute you hear the name: Brooklyn M.C.’s Pizzeria. Like a fat kid picked on his whole life, suddenly coming back, junior year of high…
When I first noticed the sign for Mile High Vienna Beef, painted on the red-brick side of a storefront at Third and Santa Fe, I almost inadvertently steered my car into the building. My love of Vienna Beef is storied and strong, and the notion of a purveyor of such…
