There’s more going on in Baker than the drama between the city and El Diablo and Sketch, the two restaurants owned by Jesse Morreale that are indefinitely shuttered after the city walloped the building with notice-to-vacate signs, citing safety issues. Just a few blocks way, at 300 Elati Street, Tamara…
The best alambres I’ve found in Denver hail from Los Carbincitos, which is not where I ate this pineapple, ham and al pastor alambre that definitely doesn’t rival Los Carboncitos. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Guess Where…
Last week we ruffled a few feathers (and piqued some serious ire for not naming names) with our post on a recent spate of rather unfortunate Denver restaurant-based wine service fails. And while that handful of experiences ran the gamut from mildly annoying to straight-up shitshow, we can confidently report…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them and cook up a feast. For this week’s…
The Great American Beer Festival is coming a little late this year, October 11-13, but tickets go on sale August 2, and the GABF buzz is already beginning as breweries in Colorado and around the country get ready to wow the crowds — the big crowds. As usual, Westword will…
You know you’ve picked a good restaurant for lunch when it’s already filling up at 11 a.m. That’s what we found when we stepped inside Sahara. Like many restaurants in the Denver Tech Center area, Sahara is tucked inside a strip mall, but the attention paid to the decor makes…
Bentley Folse Finley’s Pub 375 South Pearl Street 303-282-4790 www.finleysdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley’s Pub. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. I suppose my parents liked the car,” muses Bentley Folse, whose first name conjures images of a…
Jack in the Box just introduced its new Breakfast Waffle Sandwich, which is a fried egg, sausage patty and American cheese smushed between two maple-infused waffles — and not to be confused with the McGriddle breakfast sandwich from McDonald’s, which is a fried egg, bacon or sausage and American cheese…
El Diablo and Sketch remained dark yesterday — and as the comments and rumors fly, some people feel they’re still in the dark about why the city closed the First Avenue Hotel building when it did. After all, the restaurants had been operating for two years in that space; why…
Work Options for Women will hold a cooking class tonight at Cafe Options, 1650 Curtis Street — and this month’s curriculum is for children ages eight to twelve. The class will focus on food and kitchen safety, nutrition and skills, all while pushing the theme of breakfast for dinner…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company has taken issue with a recent story I wrote about the future of Breckenridge Brewery. In it, I called the Wynkoop Colorado’s “second-oldest” brewpub, believing Durango’s Carver Brewing to be slightly older. But that wasn’t the only accusation made on Facebook by the ancient brewing company…
When Boulderites say “Meet you at the teahouse,” no one ever asks which or where. The Dushanbe Teahouse is an integral part of the Boulder scene, a fantastically decorated, Persian-Islamic themed place that features hand-painted tiles, intricately carved wooden pillars, an inside fish pool and rows of fragrant roses outside…
After hearing that Consumer Capital Partners — the Denver-based investment company that owns Smashburger — plans to open Tom’s Urban 24 Diner at 1460 Larimer Street this fall, Tom Messina, who’s owned and operated Tom’s Diner at 601 East Colfax Avenue for the past thirteen years, was “a little flattered…
“I’m bursting at the seams, I’m so excited,” says Comida Cantina owner Rayme Rossello, who just inked a deal to open a second Comida in a 2,700-square-foot restaurant space inside the Source, a behemoth indoor artisan European market, conceived and undertaken by urban developer Kyle Zeppelin, that will open early…
The big question isn’t why El Olvido closed, but how this Jaliscan eatery stayed open as long as it did. No sooner had it taken over the former home of Hades at 2200 South Broadway in the spring of 2011 than the city started a massive street project outside. And…
It’s been a two-year project in the making, but the Grand Hyatt Denver now trumpets a restaurant and bar that just might lure locals, in conjunction with the hordes of tourists that bunk here on their visits to the Mile High City. Pub 17, which replaces 1876, the hotel’s former…
The remains of Brandon’s Pub, the oddly named Mexican joint that got its start in the Beauvallon in 2008, just when the building was about to go under wraps for repairs, then reappeared in the former home of Chez Jose in Cherry Creek North in May 2010, will be auctioned…
Wood-fired pizza is the primary lure at this neighborhood joint, but the salads, assembled with tomatoes just plucked from the vine, are a big draw, too. 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…
The comments continue to pour in regarding the imminent closing of Pagliacci’s, which Lori Midson reported here Saturday, and have inspired an outpouring of memories of the restaurant overseen by the sad, neon clown for more than six decades…and more discussion of the changes in northwest Denver…
Beats on the Creek, outside Coohills tonight, isn’t the only live music coming to LoDo this summer. The Market Street Summerfest, a free event, is coming to 20th and Market streets on Saturday, August 11. That’s a corner that’s home to El Chapultepec, the city’s oldest jazz club and one…
Coohills, 1400 Wewatta Street, has launched a new summer concert series: Beats on the Creek will take place every Tuesday on the restaurant’s patio — and the adjacent bridge over Cherry Creek — from 5 to 8:15 p.m. “We’re thrilled to be offering lower downtown a concert series in an…
A stormy night in Boulder, rain lashing down, flood warning in effect, and four of us sitting in a comfortable corner of the Dushanbe Teahouse. Looking out, we can see the swollen creek rushing by, and we speculate on just how high it might rise. There’s no one on the…
