Thanksgiving is a fly-over holiday. While other holidays, such as Valentine’s Day, have an entire month’s worth of ramp-up –and special heart-shaped candy to boot — year after year this noble-sounding, federally-approved holiday is relegated to a mere day’s worth of turkey-munching and football-watching, followed by a trail of stores…
Every day, Lori Midson serves up another entry in her Guess Where I’m Eating series, asking readers to identify the restaurant serving a particular dish — in yesterday’s case, enchiladas. But one reader declined to play along, citing a major problem with that dish. See also: – Guess where I’m…
The Fainting Goat — the go-to holiday escape for working Westworders — realized there was a need for official Thanksgiving hours early today, when they got a call from a group that wanted to make a reservation for thirty…at ten o’clock on Thanksgiving night. We’re sure that the Goat, which…
When the Colorado Convention Center created an urban farm on the piece of land between the complex and Speer Boulevard, it forgot about one minor detail — the winter. But when cold weather descended, the fragile plants at Blue Bear Farm had to be relocated — or die. Enter “Adopt-a-Pot,”…
Last Friday, the world as we know it nearly collapsed when Hostess Brands announced that it would shutter all of its distribution centers and bakeries and file for bankruptcy in light of a worker strike. This, we cried, was the day the Ding-Dong died. And before you could mutter “icing…
In this week’s Chef and Tell interview, which runs tomorrow, I chat with Drew Hardin, exec of Lola, and when I asked him which food trend he’d like to see fall by the wayside, he had this to say: “I don’t know if it’s the worst trend, but it’s definitely…
The space that once held Luciano’s Pizza & Wings has been vacant since the pizza place closed in March, seized for back taxes. But there are signs of life at 1043 Broadway. Specifically, a sign that Pizza Pizza has applied for a liquor license at the address. See also: -Luciano’s…
Vegetarian lunch specials are special indeed, because while restaurants around town offer meaty specials at the noon hour, vegetarian specials are usually only offered at vegetarian restaurants. Volcano is an unexpected exception to that rule. It’s one of a growing number of non-chain restaurants in the southeast Denver area, prime…
I’m not an advocate of the tacos at this taqueria, but the salsa bar has merit and the enchiladas, draped with a tomatillo green chile, aren’t bad, either. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is…
In terms of holidays, Christmas is the king of lists. Every December, I make so many lists, I need a master list to keep track of them all. There’s an address list for Christmas cards, a list of teachers to thank, a list of friends and neighbors to bake for,…
Were you at Chef & Brew, which paired some of the town’s top toques with some of its best brews? Lori Midson was; she helped judge the event. And so was Mantonat — which is why he was not at Westword’s Denver Web Awards, to pick up the prize for…
The weekly wine tasting at Cured, 1825 Pearl Street in Boulder, will feature samples of four affordable wines that the shop recommends for a Thanksgiving meal; the free wine-tasting runs from 4 to 7 p.m. today…
Last Thursday night at Infinity Park Event Center, the Rocky Mountain French-American Chamber of Commerce celebrated the arrival of the 2012 Beaujolais Nouveau by inviting local chefs to create French-inspired dishes and pair them with the grapey, fruity French wine as part of the annual event’s culinary competition. The battle,…
Years before the seedy side of downtown was officially named the Lower Downtown Historic District, artists and other hipsters recognized that it was the creative heart of Denver. And at its heart? City Spirit. Although the cafe closed fifteen years ago, it’s spirit lives on — and was much in…
Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink is now open — and judging from the crowd at Friday night’s debut party, a benefit for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, the place should be on a roll. Keep reading for a look at Punch Bowl. See also: – Slide show:…
Those of you who have had this cheeseburger will know exactly where I ate it. As for the rest of you, shame! Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where posts is entered into a pool — and…
Last week, I posted a letter from Christian Spinello, a guy who lives in Lyons and cures his own salumi at home. His missive, which is lengthy, inquisitive and pointed, was directed at Mark DeNittis, an owner of Il Mondo Vecchio, the artisan salumeria and manufacturing plant that he started…
If you needed (more) proof that Denverites are madly, wildly obsessed with craft beers, all you had to do was eyeball the packed Oriental Theater last Thursday night, the stage for the city’s first annual Chef & Brew event, which was sold out to the tune of 500 revelers downing…
Thick, rich and chocolately? Light, dry and roasty? Spicy, sweet…or just plain eccentric? Stout Month returns to the Mountain Sun, Southern Sun and the Vine Street Pub in February, and the company that owns all three is gearing up with its annual Stout Month homebrewing competition, in which the winner…
First thing’s first: Patxi’s is pronounced “pah-cheese” (‘t’ before ‘x’), and its name, which is Basque, also happens to be the first name of co-owner Patxi Azpiroz, who opens his namesake restaurant — a shrine to pizza — late this afternoon at Cherry Hills at Kent Place, a new mixed-use…
So far, much of the talk about the Pasquini’s Pizzeria that opened on East 17th Avenue in early November has focused on the new paint-job outside. Today, the discussion will move indoors, when Pasquini’s applies to the city for a cabaret license, which would allow the venue to offer live…
On Friday, Il Mondo Vecchio sold its final sausages. Since opening in 2009, the salumeria has garnered all kinds of praise for its cured meats, but in August the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it had a beef with the business’s salmonella testing procedures and issued an ultimatum that co-founder…
