Feed Denver, a group that sets up urban farms around the Mile High City and trains neighbors to sustain them, had been chosen to participate in Bonterra’s Campaign for Urban Farming, an effort by the organic winemaker to educate communities about the benefits of urban farming while helping local organizations…
Brothers, where art thou? When Jim Karagas, owner of My Brother’s Bar, Denver’s oldest continually operating saloon and a joint he’s run for forty of its 120-odd years, heard that Brothers Bar & Grill, a Wisconsin-based chain, planned to open an outpost in town, he was concerned that it might…
Charles MacDonald Z Cuisine 2239 West 30th Avenue 303-477-1111 www.zcuisine.com It’s late Tuesday afternoon, and Charles MacDonald, wearing a baseball cap, T-shirt and jeans, is hunched over the bar at Z Cuisine, tasting a fleet of Infinite Monkey Theorem wines, which are lined up like dominoes behind a charcuterie plate…
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. David Bekkin, the…
Greetings from the Great White North, where the men are men and the women are wimps. Holly McDermott recently filed a $300,000 claim against the burger behemoth, complaining that a bathroom-stall door fell on her while she was doing what people usually do after consuming anything at McDonald’s. McDermott had…
It’s challenging to open a restaurant in Boulder, which already has so many good spots that Bon Appetit named it the foodiest town in America, but Bradford Heap, owner of the successful Niwot restaurant Colterra, was no amateur. And when the massive spot that had housed Tom’s Tavern became available,…
Upset by our video of the live octopus hot pot, PETA member Belinda Heinikey-Williamson threatened to protest at the Westword offices today at 11 a.m. That hour has come and gone, though, with not a single protester in sight. What happened? Was the circus back in town?…
ModMarket, the wedding-white fast-casual space that hawks healthy brick-oven pizzas, sandwiches, soups and salads at 1700 28th Street, in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street outdoor mall, is adding a second ModMarket location, but not in Boulder. The restaurant, owned by Rob McColgan and Anthony Pigliacamto, is coming to Denver — specifically,…
Westword’s staff trudged their way through many of the dining options in Black Hawk and Central City for last week’s cover story, wrapping their jaws around everything from a bargain-priced $2.99 prime rib to a burger and ice cream at Crook’s Palace, the only joint in town not located in…
Sunflower Farmers Market, the homegrown, all-natural and organic grocer started by Mike Gilliland in 2003, will open new stores in Lafayette and Thornton tomorrow. The new stores, which make it an even dozen outlets for Sunflower in this state, are at 555 West South Boulder Road in Lafayette and 1131…
At high noon today, EDGE Restaurant & Bar, the swanky food temple overseen by British exec chef Simon Purvis, opened at the Four Seasons, the ritzy, high-style slumbering pad at 1111 Fourteenth Street that’s been months in the making. The restaurant, accented with dark woods, marble, stacked ebony stone and…
The two guys pounding drinks at the bar all but demanded we order the dish in the above pic, Brussels sprouts paired with a fan of seared duck breast straddling a sunchoke puree. They didn’t steer us wrong. In fact, one wasn’t enough to satisfy our cravings, so we did…
Just in case you were wondering, we haven’t seen the last of Denver’s burger trend. Juicy Burgers & Dogs, a modern and minimalist, tiled, stark white space wedged into the corner of a small mall, opened last week at 6830 South Yosemite Street in Centennial, a few storefronts down from…
As Writer Square continues to rewrite its future, a few more businesses have disappeared from the block between Larimer and Lawrence streets and 15th Street and the 16th Street Mall. Last Friday, Chez Cheese Gourmet Market, the Evil Bean coffee shop and Jamaica Juice all closed their doors. The space…
When I first moved to Boulder, I’d get a little rush every time I was heading home on 36 and coasted over the hill that looked down on the town below. It was a picturesque reminder that I lived in a perfect community of happy people doing important things who…
While I might pass by Salt the next time I’m meeting friends in Boulder for dinner, I’d happily get in my car and drive twenty minutes in order to eat again at Colterra, Bradford Heap’s restaurant in Niwot that’s celebrating its fourth anniversary this month and is clearly well seasoned…
When Ricky and Anna Choi first announced plans to take over the former Maxwell’s space at 7340 South Clinton Street, they intended to call it Zi Cuisine, which, as we all know, is precariously close in spelling to Z Cuisine, Patrick DuPays’s remarkable French restaurant at 2239 West 30th Avenue…
A few weeks ago, we reported that Groupon had unveiled a special promotion called Grouspawn, a trust fund for babies born of couples who engaged in intercourse during a Groupon first date. That was rolled out in conjunction with a dating service, presumably so interested parties would have more chance…
Five months ago, ten months after Fresko, a short-lived Mexican joint at 5062 South Syracuse, shuttered, Ghugi Singh, the owner of India House in LoDo and Delhi Darbar in Louisville, signed a lease on the space, which he christened India Tavern. And he was ready then to open the doors,…
Chef-owner Kelly Whitaker knew when he opened Pizzeria Basta in Boulder, 3601 Arapahoe Avenue, that if he couldn’t find a strong presence for the front-of-the-house, he’d have trouble convincing diners to return, no matter how excellent his pizzas were. He soon hired Alan Henkin, formerly of Frasca Food & Wine,…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September and October, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from green chile at La Fogata (yes, we’re folding the green chile guesses into this contest) to a bowl of mystery pho to this plate of Syrian sausages. For correctly identifying it as coming from Damascus Grill, Jason…
