Denver Restaurant Week continues through Friday, March 8, and Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, is allowing diners to create their own $52.80 menu. Guests can choose any appetizer, entree and dessert for $26.40 in this DRW twist; the deal runs through Wednesday, March 6. Check the website for the…
Ole, a new Italian spot that boasts a “Brazilian” kick, opened yesterday at 1043 Broadway, in the former home of Luciano’s Pizza and Wings. Last fall a pizza joint was slated to go into the space, but instead it’s turned into a soccer-themed hang-out, with a menu that’s focused on…
Oskar Blues has made a few changes to one of its year-round offerings, Gubna, in anticipation of introducing a new seasonal beer in July. The Longmont-based brewery has tweaked the recipe for the massive 10 percent ABV, 100-plus IBU rye IPA — which debuted in a can in March 2010…
Update: Corner House will offer a special screening of A Place at the Table on Sunday, March 3; the film opens tonight at the Mayan. With appearances by Jeff Bridges and executive producer (and Westword favorite) Tom Colicchio, and music by T Bone Burnett and The Civil Wars, the documentary…
Great Divide Brewing will install five more massive, 300-barrel fermenting tanks in about ten days, filling out the final spaces in its tank farm. The addition means the nineteen-year-old brewery will be able to expand at its current rate for another three years before it has to find another location,…
Girl Scout cookie season is again upon us, and I haven’t seen so much as a single measly box of Thin Mints. Why am I not shoving fistfuls of Samoas into my mouth, or crunching down on Trefoils right now? Because those cookie-toting Girl Scouts never seem to be prepared…
¡Hola! It’s fun-day Friday, and with any luck, my weekend will include one of these: a gigantic michelada specked with salt and pepper, tart with lime, jolted with hot sauce and rimmed with salt. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to…
More than two dozen restaurants made their debut in February, including the long-anticipated Old Major. But Pig & Block Charcuterie wasn’t around to greet its new neighbor (or benefit from some of those customers); it closed last month. Keep reading for all the openings and closings on the Denver dining…
Later this morning we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene last month. One of those openings? Moontower Tacos, which opened a week ago in the former Thai Mango space at Sixth and Grant. Owner Brent Thrash…
Mutiny Now!, an institution on Broadway, was sold last month by Jack Jensen to Jim Norris, Joe Ramirez and Matt Megyesi, and officially reopens today as the Mutiny Information Cafe. One of of the first orders of business? Adding Pablo’s Coffee. “Its the best coffee in the world,” Norris says…
Beer! Boulder’s History on Tap opens today at the Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Avenue. The installation chronicles Boulder County’s brewing history from the late 1800s to the present. See also: – Beer calendar: Try spruce tips, sushi rice and malted milk in your beer this week – A dozen…
Denver International Airport is continuing to upgrade its food offerings. This week City Wok opened on the B concourse mezzanine, giving DIA travelers a healthy, made-to-order dining option. Although most of the restaurants that will open at the airport this year boast local owners, City Wok is based out of…
100% de Agave, a new Mexican joint created by one of the owners of Three Margaritas, will open tomorrow in the former home of Japoix (and, before that, Nine75) at 975 Lincoln Street in the Beauvallon. Westword’s Danielle Lirette stopped by for a sneak peak at the space. See also:…
Yesterday we caught up with Steve Progar, who’s moved from Abusci’s to the Hideaway Steakhouse, which opened two years ago next month in Westminster. That Hideaway is not to be confused with Hideaway Kitchen & Bar. But it often is, says Dante Tripi, now the chef at Hideway Kitchen &…
Bob and Rosario Van Diest take pride in serving a little-known but authentic Peruvian dish, pollo a la brasa, at La Polleria, which I review this week. Here’s another dish they are eager to tell people about: papas a la huancaina (potatoes huancaina style). Often served at parties with baby…
Odell Brewing’s next big beer will be very, very small. Loose Leaf American Session Ale, an extra pale ale, will weigh in at only 4.5 percent alcohol by volume, making it one of the lowest-alcohol Colorado craft beers available in liquor stores. It will also be hard to get. The…
Barrel-aged cocktails are here, there and everywhere, in bars, restaurants, wineries and tap houses. But this orange essence-rimmed barrel-aged drink, by virtue of its name alone — Satan’s (Curled) Whiskers — grabbed my attention…and was drained in seconds flat. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives…
Not every work environment has cocktails on-site, but if your office is at Galvanize, that’s one of the amenities. Galvanize, the startup-tech common workspace in the Golden Triangle, has Gather to thank for that. Gather, the on-site cafe overseen by ChoLon chef-owner Lon Symensma, is mixing up cocktails inspired by…
Patxi Azpiroz Patxi’s Pizza 3455 South University Boulevard, Englewood; 303-783-2000 185 Steele Street; 303-331-1000 www.patxispizza.com This is part two of my interview with Patxi Azpiroz, exec chef/owner of Patxi’s Pizza; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver restaurant(s) other than your own: I’m still exploring and trying all…
New restaurant and food concepts are conceived in all sorts of ways. Most owners and chefs spend months, years, even decades, slaving over the perfect idea, scribbling their dreams on napkins, their own bathroom walls, on coasters at the bar. But in the case of Chris Newell and his girlfriend…
When Patzi Azpiroz decided he wanted to introduce authentic deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza in California, he spent two years experimenting with recipes in his San Francisco kitchen. Today there are a half-dozen Patxi’s Pizza outlets in California, and this fall Azpiroz and his partner, Bill Freeman, opened the first Colorado Patxi’s…
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword’s Best of Denver, we’ve split the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the vote-getters and then voting again for your favorite bars, restaurants and foods in Denver and Boulder. And the…
