Purple Door Coffee opened yesterday at 2962 Welton Street in Five Points. In addition to serving beverages with locally-roasted beans, the nonprofit coffee shop also serves as an employment opportunity for troubled and homeless youth. Owners Madison Chandler and Mark Smesrud started the venture in order to provide faith-based guidance…
The Oreo turned 100 last year, which means that the cookie has had its lovers and haters for a century. Count Jenn Wohletz among the latter; she included Oreos on her list of five terrible foods. Although many readers love the cookie, one says it’s even worse than it used…
Every Tuesday, Cured, a cheese/specialty shop at 1825 Pearl Street in Boulder, hosts a free wine sampling. See also: – Best New Cheese Shop 2012 Cured – Cured cheese shop opens The Larder, a new micro-grocery in Boulder – Cured celebrates its first birthday by opening seven days a week…
The Boulder Farmers’ Market on Saturday, April 13, is one of those variable Colorado days when you’re not sure whether to wear a coat, a jacket or a heavy sweater — and you find yourself peeling off layers as the morning advances. JJ in his wheelchair and Raelene wearing her…
For the fourth year in a row, the Govnr’s Park Beer Fest matched local beer aficionados with more than 100 craft beers over the weekend. With brews from across the state and country, the event raised funds for both the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Big Nose Beer…
Red Claw Seafood & Wings was part of a small wave of seafood-cum-Cajun-cum-Asian joints that washed up in Denver a few years ago. Now the spot at 472 South Federal Boulevard has changed hands — and names. Although the new owners say they’ve kept the same concept, the name has…
Last night’s “Good vs. Evil” throwdown of jabs between Eric Ripert and Tony Bourdain solidified three things that most of us already know: Bourdain’s favorite noun is “motherfucker,” his adjective of choice is “motherfucking,” and Paula Deen, according to Bourdain, is a motherfucking motherfucker who doesn’t know fuck about Southern…
My teenager is currently on a Thai food kick, which couldn’t make me happier, because next week, when we’re in California on vacation, it’s going to be all In-N-Out, all the time, at least if he has his way. In the meantime, we Thai-d one on at this iconic Denver…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a crock of macaroni and cheese topped with Chex Mix from ViewHouse, to a huge mound of green chile-smothered carne asada fries from El Alamo Mexican Bakery, a taqueria and panaderia at 3165 West 38th Avenue, to a…
Six months after Fero’s Bar & Grill was the site of a crime night that left five people dead, the space is for lease…with little sign left of its previous occupant, or of the murders committed there. See also: – Young Suk Fero, owner of Fero’s, killed in robbery/arson -…
It’s early Monday morning, so you can count on two things: People are already lining up to eat breakfast at the original Snooze in the Ballpark neighborhood, and outside the restaurant, the homeless are already lining up to wait until the shelters open their doors again tonight. It’s a scene…
Ace our Best New Bar at 501 East 17th Avenue, will introduce another great feature this morning: a juice bar featuring six juice varieties. The ping pong hall/restaurant will also be offering a raw breakfast menu: nuts, dried fruits, flax and chia seeds, almond butter and honey. The juice bar…
Here’s a second helping of some of what we served on Cafe Society this past week: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, and found a lot to like…even if she’s not in love with the place. Mark Antonat continued his travels up Federal Boulevard, and stopped…
Suffice it to say that I eat out more than the general population, unless, of course, the general population can catalogue more than 450 restaurant meals in a year — which is about the number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners that I stomached in 2012. Pathetic, isn’t it? But all…
Hungry for new dining options this weekend? Pho Nam recently opened at 13736 East Quincy Avenue in Aurora, and Westword’s Danielle Lirette stopped by for a look at the space. Keep reading for her photos. See also: – China Jade reopens in Aurora after a remodel and expansion – From…
You can sink a cheap drink at just about every watering hole in Denver, a city that’s indisputably obsessed with the ritual of happy hour. The bar at Interstate Kitchen & Bar features a late-night happy hour, wherein a cooler of cold beers in cans — barkeep’s choice — are…
Downtown Denver will soak up another brewery this fall when Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery opens at 20th and Lawrence streets, next to the 20th Street Café and just blocks from Great Divide Brewing and several other breweries. Two years in the planning, Jagged Mountain (named for a peak in the…
I have a simple rule when it comes to making macaroni and cheese: Somewhere, in the mix, there needs to be a processed cheese, a rule that makes a lot of chefs cringe in disgust. Whatever. It’s the white trash in me — and the fact that I like my…
There are some foods that are so vile that it defies belief that they ever got created — let alone stuck around through always-changing markets and tastes. Necessity is the mother of invention, in some cases with shortages and substitutions, but imitation can be flattery, or just cooked up to…
People often ask why Westword’s policy is to wait three months after a restaurant opens before going in for a review, rather than jumping in while the paint’s still fresh. I’m sympathetic to the argument that if a restaurant is charging full price for food, it’s fair game. But if…
Readers are still digesting our hefty Best of Denver issue, which included more than a hundred editorial picks in the Food & Drink section alone. One of the most hotly contested categories is Best Burger; this year, our choice was Highland Tap & Burger. And at least one reader heartily…
