Chef/owner Ryan Leinonen says that a rare flower, the blue trillium, was the inspiration for the restaurant that he opened last year in the Ballpark neighborhood, Trillium. But a flawless meal here is also a rare thing, as Gretchen Kurtz discovered when she reviewed the place this week. See also:…
We came. We saw. We tweeted. Last night, Westword hosted the third annual Denver Web Awards, our celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. In September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects, and a team at Westword spent more than a month…
Taxi, 3455 Ringsby Court, is hosting a City Spirit Cafe reunion tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. The one-night party will feature the bar and booths from the original City Spirit — a popular hangout for artists and other hipsters in LoDo that closed in 1997. And fans of the…
Developer Mickey Zeppelin bought the old Victorian building at 1434 Blake Street back in the early ’80s, moving his office upstairs, putting an architectural bookstore in the basement, and then opening the iconic City Spirit Cafe with his wife, artist Susan Wick, on the first floor. After the closed City…
We’ve all heard (or made up our own) the pejorative nicknames for Taco Bell. Taco Hell, Taco Fail, Toxic Hell, Taco Smell, Tizzle Bizzle, Baco Tell, Think Inside Your Buns, and Get The Runs From the Border are just a few off the top. It might seem like all of…
It’s been a busy six weeks at Denver’s Strange Brewing Company. Between a major brewery expansion project, the threat of trademark infringement lawsuit and the Great American Beer Festival, where Strange won a medal for the second year in a row, owners Tim Myers and John Fletcher have had their…
Yesterday afternoon, just hours before Ben Parsons would unveil his new wine lab, part of the 30,000 square-foot plot he leased last year in RiNo that’s now the quarters of the Infinite Monkey Theorem manufacturing facility and tasting/taproom (Parsons refers to it as a wine lab), the British-born winemaker was…
As the daughter of a master gardener, I appreciate cool quirks of nature, even if I don’t have a green thumb myself. So when Ryan Leinonen, chef-owner of Trillium, explained that his restaurant was named for a rare blue wildflower that blooms every few years, and only when conditions are…
Kevin Morrison Pinche Taqueria 1514 York Street 720-475-1337 pinchetacos.com Part one of my interview with Kevin Morrison, exec chef-owner of Pinche Taqueria, ran yesterday; this is part two of our chat. What do you enjoy most about your craft? It’s always changing, so it fits my personality. I get bored…
Unless you’re a movie buff, you probably don’t remember The Doctor, a touching early-’90s film about a surgeon diagnosed with cancer. Having seen life through a patient’s lens, the doctor, played by Oscar winner William Hurt, learns to practice a different, more empathetic kind of medicine after his recovery. Ryan…
The sandwich — a Reuben-like creation with housemade Thousand Island dressing — was good, but it was the conversation between a straight man and a bisexual woman, who was discussing whether her sex is better with men or women that kept me lingering at the one table that doubles as…
McDonald’s is trying to kill us with 1830 milligrams of sodium at a time, most of which may be in the form of some seriously over-applied sauce. I was eager to try the new CBO — Cheddar, bacon and onion — Angus burger and chicken sandwiches, because I’m enthusiastic about…
Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink opens this weekend with a diner/coffeeshop up front, eight bowling lanes, a lounge with a marbles table, three ping-pong tables, a pool table, two big bars…and 85 parking places in front, with another lot that will hold over forty cars half a block…
The Rocky Mountain French American Chamber of Commerce will host the fourteenth annual Beaujolais and Beyond Food & Wine Festival at Infinity Park Event Center, 4400 East Kentucky Avenue, tonight from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The fundraiser features more than twenty local restaurants, and participating chefs will take part in…
Unless you’re a movie buff, you probably don’t remember The Doctor, a touching early-’90s film about a surgeon diagnosed with cancer. Having seen life through a patient’s lens, the doctor, played by Oscar winner William Hurt, learns to practice a different, more empathetic kind of medicine after his recovery. Ryan…
There’s a certain cadre of wine drinkers who anxiously await the arrival of a very special Thursday in November for their chance to eat and drink (wine, natch) until they fall into a pleasure-induced stupor. If you’re reading this and thinking to yourself, “Yeah, that’s called Thanksgiving,” then think again…
Winner update: Congrats to evamarie.perron, who came the closest with her guess of 1,500 pints. The actual answer is 1,571 pints. Craft brews were the big draw at last month’s Great American Beer Festival, but a portion of the beer bonanza was also devoted to beer-and-food pairings, which, in the…
Bob Blair went to City Spirit, a legendary restaurant that will be the focus of Friday’s City Spirit Reunion, just once — “back in the day,” he remembers. But he knows all about the place, since he opened Fuel five years ago come December 31 in the Taxi development, right…
Every generation of hipsters has its hangout, and from 1984 until 1997 in Denver, that place was City Spirit, an eclectic cafe that opened at 1434 Blake Street four years before the Lower Downtown Historic District was formally established, and long before LoDo became the mainstream mainstay it is today…
After months — hell, years! — of waiting and watching, Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, Robert Thompson’s 24,000-square-foot gastro-diner, coffee bar, lounge, bowling alley, ping-pong powerhouse, pool hall, marbles mecca, throwback video arcade and game hang (deck-shuffle, shuffleboard, darts, pinball, Foosball and board games round out the amusements),…
There are a lot of ways to open a bottle of beer. There are keychains and iPod cases with bottle openers embedded in them. There are openers on flip-flops and baseball cap bills, wall-mounted openers, countertops, knives and even a beer bottle stick. But a Denver photographer and part-time inventor,…
Oskar Blues and Ska Brewing finally released some details about the collaboration beer they made to celebrate the Longmont brewery’s tenth canning anniversary. The smoked IPA is called oSKAr the G’Rauch because: 1) you can’t spell Oskar without Ska, and 2) it was made in the smoked rauschbier style. It’s…
