Smashburger offers many opportunities for delicious deviation

You know when you sincerely promise yourself you’ll try something different the next time you eat at a restaurant, but then don’t because you just love that one thing so much? That’s me with the Truffle Mushroom Swiss burger at Smashburger. Every single time I’ve eaten at a Smashburger, I’ve…

Guess where I’m drinking a Bud?

This old bar in Globeville is getting new life with a change in ownership. And if a cabaret license comes through, yes, there will be dancing. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a Guess Where post is entered into a…

Katie Mullen’s crew takes over former Rockstar Bar

The folks behind Katie Mullen’s have taken over the former Rockstar Bar location at 3358 Mariposa in Highland, a space that couldn’t be more of a contrast to the big, swank Irish bar (four bars, actually) that Paul Maye opened downtown almost four years ago. But construction has already started…

Westword is partnering with FourSquare: Bring on the badges!

If you’ve got FourSquare, the location-centric app that allows you to check into (and check out) new spots on your smartphone, you already know that Michael Hancock isn’t the only mayor in town. For more than a year, we’ve hosted a custom Westword FourSquare badge that users can earn when…

Vegetarian palates get jazzed over Dazzle’s happy hour

The happy hour at Dazzle has always been a thing of beauty: $3 craft beers, $4 glasses of wine and an array of foods ranging in price from $3.75 to $6.75, catering to both carnivorous and plant-based palates. There’s often live music in the lounge, and all the shaken cocktails…

Skillet cornbread for a hearty side dish on Meatless Monday

Cornbread is right up there with potato salad and grits as a good, old-fashioned, home-style side. And yes, it can be vegan — making it a great pairing with a bean-based soup (last week’s Southwestern-style stew, for example). Adapted for altitude from Veganomicon, this version is a country-flavored favorite. See…

Have you eaten at Early Bird? Serve up your own review!

Too busy to get to everything on Cafe Society’s plate this week? Here’s another helping of some of our entrees: Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Early Bird Restaurant in Westminster. Here’s the capsule version of her full review: It might seem easy to make an omelet, but it isn’t — as the…

Local Bar @ Highland now open in former Arabian Bar space

After decades as the Arabian Bar, one of Denver’s classic dives, the LoHi address got a major facelift –everything in it is new — and opened yesterday as Local Bar @ Highland. While we’d reported last October that Barry Zadikoff, owner of Barry’s on Broadway, had plans to essentially turn…

Guess where I’m drinking Colorado Native?

There were plenty of Colorado natives — two- and four-legged — around when we stopped by this bar for a glass of Colorado Native, a creation of AC Golden Brewing, a Coors subsidiary. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to a…

Five fast-food chains that should NOT serve breakfast

Customers are very fortunate to have fast-food chains that offer adequate — if not 100 percent nutritious or gourmet — breakfast menus for those days when flipping pancakes or cracking eggs at home isn’t time-efficient. And fast-food patrons are also fortunate that not every chain offers breakfast items, since more…

Governor Hickenlooper grills lamb and eats crow

The final tally from last weekend’s NFL playoff game goes beyond the scoreboard for Colorado: Colorado also lost twelve prime lamb chops that Governor John Hickenlooper shipped across the country to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to pay off a bet debt. But first, he ate a little crow on the…

Reader: Uber Sausage brings fast casual to LoHi

Sweet! Although LoHi has lost Living the Sweet Life, that space at 1535 Central Street won’t be empty long. Über Sausage is taking it over, and will open a second spot — twice as big as the original on Colfax — this spring. “I love this neighborhood, I love the…