After service tomorrow, Bliss Bar & Bistro — an oasis of good taste in Arvada — will close the doors at 7501 Grandview Avenue for good. “I think Arvada is just really hurting,” says general manager Andrea Marion, who opened the place four years ago. “We just don’t have that…
Rachael Ray’s world has a lot of layers. I know this because when I was sitting at Crook’s Palace in Black Hawk, munching on a surprisingly good burger with house-cured bacon and a homemade bun while researching this week’s cover story, I was watching one of her shows, $40 a…
Are you lovin’ it? Although many couples, including the happy pair pictured here, have made McDonald’s part of their nuptials, McDonald’s devotees now have a place where they can officially consummate their affection for the Clown: Hong Kong is the first city in the world to host weddings under the…
We knew when we posted the video of the live octopus hot pot at Sik Gaek in Queens that we’d stir some feelings of outrage. And we weren’t disappointed. Haterade poured in on Digg, Youtube and Cafe Society, decrying us for what we ate. We already gave special recognition to…
For a landlocked city, Denver is about to be swimming in seafood. At 5 p.m. today, Wyland’s Ocean Blue will open in the Shops at Northfield, close by Guy Harvey’s Perfect Spot, which opened earlier this month at 8336 Northfield Boulevard and will host a grand opening party on Friday,…
Last week, we unleashed the news that Civic Center EATS, a congregation of street-food trucks and carts that commingled each Tuesday during the summer at Civic Center Park, was extending its stay throughout the year. From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday (weather permitting) until December 31, up…
The very wealthy have played around with their food for centuries. Think of those crazy medieval dishes: real birds baked into pies, swans stuffed with edibles and brought to the table dressed in their original plumage and looking alive, a cock dressed as a knight — tiny spurs and all…
Westword writers headed up the hill last week for this week’s cover story, and around noon that day, I found myself having lunch at Crook’s Palace, 200 Gregory Street in Black Hawk, the only restaurant in town that’s free from the whir of slot machines or the flick of cards…
Next Tuesday, on October 19, at the stroke of noon, the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel will open at 1111 Fourteenth Street. EDGE Restaurant and Bar, the hotel’s on-site food temple, billed as a “progressive American steakhouse,” will also start turning out prime-grade bricks of beef, chops, seafood, soups, salads and…
As far as I know, there’s only one Asian joint in Denver that serves guò qiáo mĭxiàn, a soup from the Yunnan province otherwise known as “across the bridge rice noodles,” the name of which was allegedly inspired by a dutiful woman who trotted the dish of steaming broth, to…
Aaron Youngblood Executive Chef Dixons Downtown Grill 1610 16th Street 303-573-6100 www.dixonsrestaurant.com This is part two of Lori Midson’s interview with Aaron Youngblood, executive chef of Dixons Downtown Grill. Read part one of Midson’s interview with Youngblood. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Be on time; work clean; respect your…
What happens when you put a McDonald’s Happy Meal on hold? Two very different women in two very different towns decided to find out. Coloradan Joann Bruso, author of the blog Baby Bites, which is designed to help parents transform picky eaters into healthy eaters, came up with an experiment…
On Monday Colt & Gray, 1553 Platte Street, will roll out a weekly, three-course prix fixe dinner for $36. But there’s a twist: The menu for that deal won’t be constructed by chef-owner Nelson Perkins and chef de cuisine Brad Rowell. Instead, the heads of the kitchen will turn over…
The Fourmile Canyon fire inspired Boulder’s restaurant community to rally in support of those affected by the blaze, feeding firefighters and evacuated homeowners for free and throwing impromptu benefits to support organizations like the Red Cross. The inferno has been reduced to ashes, but fire departments are still dealing with…
One of the challenges of being a vegetarian is finding a place where you can kick back and relax with old friends, maybe make some new friends. Carnivorous folks take their hospitable hangouts for granted; we don’t have that option. While WaterCourse and City, O’ City are great spots for…
There’s already been plenty of noise about Madison Street — and the restaurant at 1222 Madison won’t officially open its doors until 3:30 p.m. today. Madison Street is the brainchild of Larimer Associates — the group that also created Ernie’s Bar and Pizza, LoHi SteakBar and Billy’s Inn — and…
A new Peet’s Coffee & Tea outlet opened today in the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, at 1550 Court Place — and from 1 to 3 p.m., the hotel will be giving 100 percent of the proceeds from all Peet’s sales to the Pink Tie Affair, a November 6 event benefiting…
Aaron Youngblood Executive Chef Dixons Downtown Grill 1610 16th Street 303-573-6100 www.dixonsrestaurant.com This is part one of Lori Midson’s Q&A with Aaron Youngblood, exec chef of Dixons Downtown Grill. Part two of the interview will run tomorrow. Aaron Youngblood needed a job. Any job would do, as long as it…
There have been some discordant notes over at Wild Ivories, the dueling piano bar that opened in June at 1400 Market Street, in the former home of Buca di Beppo. On the day the club opened, Tim Kirkland, one of the partners in the venture, says he got an anonymous…
My grandma Judy discovered Big Bill’s New York Pizza by sheer dumb luck. She was on an errand in the County Line strip mall that houses the pizza parlor and decided to take my mother a carry-out lunchtime calzone. This single act of generosity forever changed our family’s dining-out habits…
When Big Bill’s New York Pizza opened in 1995, it was a second outpost of Lil’ Ricci’s New York Pizza, then located in a strip mall off Hampden Avenue. Although Bill Ficke pulled out of the partnership and renamed his place within a year, Lil’ Ricci’s has continued to grow,…
Early in 2009, Alex Seidel, chef/owner of Fruition, 1313 East Sixth Avenue, bought a ten-acre parcel of earth that sits off a dirt road, just outside Larkspur, and named it Fruition Farms. From the beginning, Seidel, along with Verde Farms founder Josh Halder, cultivated herbs, greens and vegetables, the bounty…
