It’s time for the 2012 edition of Westword’s Denver Web Awards, our annual celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. This time, we’re introducing new categories to recognize the area’s creative and forward-thinking app developers, but we’ve made sure to include a few favorites, like Best Shameless Self-Promoter and Most Viral…
Barack Obama may wish that he’d bitten off a bit more of Mitt Romney’s noggin last night during the first presidential debate, but while he ponders that, the rest of us who are still flummoxed by what exactly happened last night, can take solace in wrapping our jaws around an…
Some families farm together. Some sell insurance. Some are partners in a law firm. Samm White’s family sells cheese. Lots and lots of cheese. “It took a lot of work from the family to make [Cheese Importers] what it is today, but it’s our passion,” Samm says. “We love it…
Both locations of the Wine Loft, a New Orleans-based chain that occupied storefronts in LoDo and and the Landmark Project, closed last month, but yesterday, I spotted a new sign plastered on the LoDo space inked with the words “Classified: Coming soon November 2012.” See also: The Wine Loft dries…
Happy Taco Day! If you have a small amount of cash, are super-starving and in need of a seriously hefty caloric intake, Taco John’s is one of the best fast-food options out there. The menu emphasizes substantial meat and potatoes, as well as sugary, fatty desserts — and the portion…
Matt Lewis Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 www.bonesdenver.com Part one of my interview with Matt Lewis, exec chef of Bones, ran yesterday. This is part two of our conversation. Favorite restaurant in America: My experience at Bouchon was amazing, even more so because the chef de cuisine came out and…
Adrian Miller has a lot on his plate these days. The lawyer-turned-politico is running Stephen Ludwig’s re-election bid for University of Colorado regent, and he’s also finishing up a book for the University of North Carolina Press called Flavor: Soul Food History by the Plateful. In it, the Denver native…
An artist who lived in northwest Denver clued me in to the little storefront burrito joint that had just opened in his neighborhood in northwest Denver, a spot decades away from being tagged with the nickname “LoHi” or labeled a “hippest hipster neighborhood” by Forbes. I’ve been eating at Rosa…
After my first child was born, a friend brought over the best spaghetti Bolognese I’d ever eaten. When I asked for the recipe, she shyly admitted it contained Vegemite, the salty, dark-brown yeast paste that Australians adore. “Try it on toast,” she later urged, presenting me with a small, yellow-lidded…
Nine years ago, Barry Zadikoff took over the old Skylark Lounge space at 58 Broadway and transformed the address into Barry’s on Broadway. Now he plans to basically clone Barry’s in Highland. He’s taken over the former Arabian Bar, which had been in business since the ’20s at 3360 Navajo…
Claudia Folska, Westword cover girl and a candidate for the RTD Board of Directors, has a variety of interests. In college, she started a nonprofit called Eyecycle that pairs sighted people and blind people on tandem bicycles. After college, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she earned…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Taste of the Nation, a national nonprofit that has its own Colorado chapter, which was started 25 years ago by humanitarian Noel Cunningham, the former owner/chef of Strings, who passed away late last year. The annual event, which features a bounty of foodstuffs…
Moral of the story: Do not order tacos — at least these tacos — at a joint renowned for its burgers. Lesson learned. 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 –…
Matt Lewis Bones 701 Grant Street 303-860-2929 www.bonesdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Matt Lewis, exec chef of Bones. Part two of our conversation will run tomorrow. “Every time I walked through the door of my Italian grandmother’s house, even if it was after dinner, the first…
To Kristy Greenwood, the equation is simple: love + cookies = victory. Since she was a little girl, Greenwood has loved to bake cookies and share them with family and friends. But it took a bout with breast cancer for her to decide that she would turn her passion into…
Campaigning in Colorado yesterday in advance of his appearance at tonight’s debate at the University of Denver, Mitt Romney stopped at the Chipotle in Stapleton — where he ordered extra guac with his burrito. He also got a side of sarcasm from our readers. – See also: Photo: Mitt Romney…
Independent of his wife’s stance on healthy eating, here’s what we know about President Obama’s food preferences: He likes pizza, as evidenced by his recent jaunt to the Sink in Boulder; he has a special fondness for burgers, a fact that’s been documented in just about every city he’s graced,…
Y’all, Mitt Romney ate at Chipotle earlier today. According to hungry and expert sources, the GOP’s main man stopped by the Stapleton location of the Colorado staple and chowed down on a burrito with black beans, pork and pico de gallo. He even added guac — which, as you know,…
The kid wanted crab legs; my dad wanted somewhere quiet. We settled, mistakenly, on this shrine to shitty seafood and fish, which was definitely quiet, presumably because everyone but us realized how much it well and truly sucks. And those crab legs? $28 of sea garbage. #canihavemymoneyback? Can you guess…
This, says Robert Thompson, is the “most ambitious project I’ve seen in Denver in a long, long time, and I guarantee you that it’s going to be worth it.” “This” refers to Punch Bowl – Social Food & Drink, the 23,700-square-foot, 900-person-capacity gastro-diner, bowling alley, Ping-Pong hall, marbles arena, java…
We’re always happy to see another multi-course vegan dinner being offered — and we’ll be really happy if TAG|RAW BAR continues to host its weekly vegan omakase meal for a long time to come. Every Thursday, chef/owner Troy Guard puts together a four-course, $30 menu for plant-based gourmands. See also:…
President Barack Obama has been drinking beer on the campaign trail, trying to convince undecided voters that he’s a regular guy. In 2008 Obama got branded a wine-slurper, but he’s got a distinct alcoholic advantage in this year’s race against teetotaling Mormon Mitt Romney. But as Jonathan Shikes notes, Obama…
