It is never too late to learn how to cook, and Dan Witherspoon — executive chef and director of the Gourmet Spoon and the Seasoned Chef Cooking School — will show you the ropes in his two-part class, Basic Skills Every Cook Should Know, that starts today at the Seasoned…
We’ve spent the past few months looking for the best of the local web — and seen plenty of your Instagram food photos (please, just stop with those). And now, it’s time to celebrate. This Thursday, December 5, Westword is throwing a party in honor of the coolest chefs, diners,…
Upper Larimer is experiencing a serious case of sugar shock now that Sugarmill, a new dessert bar and lounge from Noah French, pastry chef of TAG, is teasing everyone who walks through the door with extravagant display cases of cookies and cupcakes, French macarons and fat muffins, cakes and croissants,…
Westminster’s fourteen-story city hall building and bell tower was designed in 1988 to resemble London’s famous Big Ben, located in the Palace of Westminster, and the owners of Westminster Brewing, which opened last weekend, liked the tie-in so much that they incorporated the tower into their logo — and specialize…
On Wednesday, after showing off the space to friends and family tonight and tomorrow night, chef and restaurateur Troy Guard, who owns TAG, TAG Raw Bar, Tag Burger Bar and Sugarmill, will open Los Chingones on Upper Larimer, directly next door to Sugarmill, a dessert bar. Los Chingones, a whimsical,…
Weary holiday shoppers got a break at Brewery Rickoli’s Black Friday Relief Party on November 29. The get-together featured beer specials and a Thanksgiving leftover sandwich competition. We were there to take photos of the post-thanksgiving festivities…
Dessert is rarely in the cards when my family eats at Indian restaurants. On occasion, I’ll get the carrot pudding known as gajar halwa, but without something chocolatey to tempt my spouse and kids, they usually pass and I content myself with another bite of saag and cup of chai…
Anytime you use kale — or any other green, for that matter, from collard to mustard — you’re left with stems that most people throw away. But you can saute these, much like the leafy parts of the plant, with some very simple ingredients for a fiber-rich (and nutrient-laden) side…
Back in 2011, when Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant critic, reviewed Mama Sannino’s, an old-school Italian restaurant tucked behind an Arvada strip mall, she wrote that although the joint had been open for just six years, the romp of regulars, all of whom seemed to know one another by name,…
Masterpiece Deli, whose original location in Highland has been such a hit, opened a second spot this morning in Uptown at 1710 Sherman Street. And if you hurry over there before 11 a.m., you can get a free small coffee from Novo Coffee as part of the grand-opening celebration. See…
Love it, or loathe it, green chile is a Denver table staple, and while we all have our undisputed favorite places to get our green fix (El Taco de Mexico is mine), the restaurant squad from Food & Wine magazine just unleashed their own picks for the “Best Chili in…
Cafe Society dished up three Guess Where contest posts last week, ranging from a kinky cocktail that goes by the name of the Rick James Sexual Chocolate Edible Tower of Desire (you can find that cocktail at Two Guns Distillery), to a platter of Cajun-spiced shrimp from Teller’s Taproom, to…
Booze was news in November as several long-awaited bars opened, including Ste. Ellie, the cocktail spot downstairs from the owners of Colt & Gray; the tequila-heavy Matador in Highland; Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery downtown and the Atomic Cowboy on South Broadway. Meanwhile, the suburbs lost multiple locations of the Chammps…
Just in time for holiday hangovers, we posted our updated list of the ten hippest bars in Denver, which includes several new entries, including Our Mutual Friend. But some readers regarded the list not as a roster of must-go spots, but places to avoid. See also: Denver’s ten hippest bars…
According to an annual survey by the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, over 11,167 people in Denver are homeless, with a whopping 43 percent of them women and 85 percent of that total reporting an income of less than $800 per month. The Denver Voice, a grassroots newspaper created by the…
You’ve made a dent in those Thanksgiving leftovers — it’s time to get out and about again and enjoy the wine and beer battles, cooking lessons, vegan dinners and more on this week’s culinary calendar. For starters, tonight the various filmmakers and artists involved with the Bolder Life Festival will…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz visited Namaste India, run by two young men from Nepal, that serves good — if Americanized — Indian fare, for her weekly review. Mark Antonation, continuing his trek up Federal Boulevard, grabbed a taste of summer at the surf-themed El Camaron Loco. For…
If you’re tired of bars where the primary activities are drinking and chatting, we have the perfect solution: Upstairs Circus, which just opened right above Squeaky Bean. In the center ring at Upstairs Circus? Crafts. The bar is craft-themed, offering people and their friends a place (and supplies) to do…
Heading downtown for the holidays? The Denver Christkindl Market opened last weekend, and the gluhwein will be flowing and the scent of weiner schnitzel filling the air at the annual holiday market through December 21. We were there for the kickoff; keep reading to get a taste of the event…
Thanksgiving is over, and maybe you had enough turkey and stuffing to last you until next November. Or maybe you haven’t, and even worse, you got screwed out of the leftovers by your drunken uncle, who loaded everything into one of your mom’s nice Tupperware pieces and took off –…
Copper Kettle Brewing bottled its first beer last June, the GABF-award-winning Mexican Chocolate Stout, but just because it hasn’t released another bottled beer since then doesn’t mean the three-year old brewery has been resting. Rather, Copper Kettle has been aging beers in barrels and plans to release the first two…
Amy Sayles Panzano 909 17th Street 303-296-3525 panzano-denver.com What do you enjoy most about your craft? I get to be imaginative by creating art with food, and I get to create new and exciting flavors for people who might have never thought to try X and Y together. This is…
