Michelle Obama spent her Presidents’ Weekend without the president and with her daughters in Vail, where she skied, dined and managed to get the conservative media so riled up they called her fat. We know that the First Lady has made battling childhood obesity her personal cause — but we…
The news this past weekend was shocking: The owners of the Rocky Mountain Diner, a fixture in downtown Denver for two decades, had been unable to come to a lease agreement with the space’s owner, attorney Frances Konciljia, and on Friday had gotten an eviction notice: The restaurant had to…
Mark Dym isn’t a big proponent of hoopla or fanfare, and today’s opening of Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at Vallagio at Inverness, Peter Kudla’s “Midtown” retail, resident and restaurant development just off Dry Creek and I-25, was soft and quiet. By 2:30 p.m., fifty people, several of them families, had wandered…
Job market got you down? Sick of begging for jobs for which you’re overqualified? Well, perk up: You could be earning $50,000 as the Vice President of Pop Culture for popchips. The chip company recently launched a campaign to find a sidekick for Ashton Kutcher, the popchips President of Pop…
On Saturday night, the building at Eighteenth and Pearl in Boulder that now houses both Frasca Food & Wine and Pizzeria Locale was a frenzy of gastronomic activity: Both restaurants seem to have hit their post-expansion stride. And when we stopped by for a little Barbera, we also got a…
It might be winter (not that today is a good representation of that), but the cold bar at this convivial restaurant that pulsates with energy and verve is a hot new addition that will provide even more cold comfort when the sun’s summer shine makes us sweat into our margaritas…
While Denver lays claim to dozens of pho joints, Pho Bowl is the first to reside in a Conoco station. Yes, that’s correct: Inside the Conoco station at 3298 South Broadway, there sits a tiny cafeteria-like parlor of pho, just adjacent to where you can cash your paycheck, send a…
When we compiled our list of restaurants that have been in business, and run by the same family, for forty years or more, we missed one of the longest-standing Italian venues in the city: Pagliacci’s Italian Restaurant. Although it’s a baby by the standards of the Blue Parrot, that’s still…
At 4 p.m. yesterday, the Rocky Mountain Diner, an authentic slice of Americana that’s resided in the Ghost building at 800 18th Street for the past twenty years, was supposed to shut its doors, but when the clock struck four, the bar and dining room was still packed with lingering…
There have been so many restaurants at 26377 West 26th Avenue, the historic bungalow that once housed the original La Loma. So many, in fact, that when I stopped by the newly opened Gordo Loco last week and spoke to the building’s landlord who’s also a partner in this latest…
Why did it take Veggie Girl Amber Taufen so long to go from vegetarian to vegan? Partly the vehement vegans she encountered along the way, as she revealed in her “Open Letter to Militant Vegans”. That letter inspired dozens of responses — some mild, many militant. “Please don’t fight blame…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from a still unidentified bouillabaisse to a bowl of chili with a grilled cheese side that fell flat at LoHi SteakBar to some ho-hum dim sum. For correctly divining that these dumplings are from Palace Chinese Restaurant, Fletch…
I have yet to show the video on the following page to my eleven-year-old kid, but when I do, I can absolutely guarantee you that he’s going to want to know why the hell he has to wait until he’s 21 to have a margarita. Give your ADD-addled kid a…
We were sitting at Pizzeria Basta’s bar today, sipping the very first glass poured from the restaurant’s very first keg of the Infinite Monkey Theorem Sauvignon Blanc — a wine we didn’t need a score guide to tell us was taut, citrusy and perfect for spring — when we had…
Dear militant vegans: Please, please, for the love of all things holy, do a favor for everyone — non-militant vegans, vegetarians and carnivores alike — and shut the fuck up already…
Every weekend, rain, sleet, snow, or sun, this Mexican joint pimps coastal creations from a makeshift ceviche bar outside its front door. And the tostadas de camarones, juiced with lime, laden with onions, cucumbers, cilantro leaves and tomatoes, and topped with slices of avocado, are two-for-one. Can you guess where…
Rich Grant, the communications director for Visit Denver, the convention and visitors bureau that started Denver Restaurant Week, insists that the Mile High City’s two-week marathon of meals, which kicks into high gear on February 26, is the largest in the country — and, according to the LA Times, it’s…
If you’re planning on really making a night of your Denver Restaurant Week reservation, either because it’s a romantic evening away from the kids, or because you’re taking what you’re saving on dinner and plunking it down on copious amounts of alcohol, it might be a good idea to look…
Rage, befuddlement, shock and a man who one poster described as a “total and complete loon.” If you’ve read the fifty comments following my post earlier this week in which I interviewed Ton Phairatphibon, the owner of Skew, which closed abruptly last Sunday night in the wake of what Phairatphibon…
I tend not to like contrived and cutesy challenges, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching the chefs putting together cookies for Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster and his friends Elmo and Telly when they visited the set of Wednesday night’s Top Chef, seeing everyone’s expression lighten suddenly as the Quickfire was explained,…
Tart, pretentious, with a touch of bitterness. Comments have been pouring in regarding Laura Shunk’s post about wine scores — hooked to the Infinite Monkey Theorem’s recent 88 from Wine Spectator. Comments about wine scores, about Colorado wines in general, about Infinite Monkey in particular, about Laura Shunk — including…
Thirty years ago this month, Peggy Anderson and Diane Williams opened Annie’s Cafe in a storefront attached to a drug store at Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. “About ten people came that first day,” Anderson remembers. But those ten customers turned into a crowd of regulars and today, the women…
