The last time I was in Pulcinella, the downtown Denver outpost of a homegrown chain of Italian eateries, it was to try the special holiday cocktail — a concoction just as sweet as the restaurant’s cozy little bar area. But when I popped by last night, at prime dinner time,…
The Recovery Room, a longtime hole-in-the-wall bar at 819 Colorado Boulevard serving the east Congress Park neighborhood as well as the good doctors, nurses and health-care professionals from nearby hospitals and medical centers, has flatlined. The door is boarded up and a posted Colorado Department of Revenue sign reads: “Warning…
Yesterday, I noted that Aix’s website had gone dark — as its dining room was last Saturday night. But because 17th Avenue is such a solid restaurant neighborhood, I don’t think anyone out there thought the space would stay empty for long. I just got off the phone with Keith…
What is it about brunch that makes it the perfect meal? Sure, it’s a blending of two meals, so that means it should be twice as good as just breakfast or lunch — but that can’t completely explain brunch’s appeal. Maybe it’s the fact that brunch makes drinking before…
Marczyk Fine Foods, an acclaimed gourmet food store, offers a list of ten meals under $10 in this week’s e-mail from the market.Why is this important? Because most of the stuff at Marczyk’s is really, really, really good. And some of it is also cheap. Keeping these tough economic times in…
The harvest season for Texas Rio Star Grapefruit — a particularly red, juicy variety — is January and February, and to mark it, TexaSweet Citrus Marketing, Inc. and Taste of the South Magazine have created a grapefruit recipe challenge. As described on the contest website, you can enter in three…
Okay, I’m not saying that the place is dead for sure, but, once again, things are looking bad for Pizzeria Mundo at 1312 17th Street. I got a tip from yet another neighborhood cruiser that the space — which has been absolutely fucked by a web of construction scaffolding that…
Tosh’s Cantina has encountered some delays moving into Marina Square — but that’s nothing compared to the problems encountered by the occupants of 3090 Downing Street, the original home of Tosh’s.Blackberries Bar & Grill, an offshoot of the successful coffee shop a few blocks down on Welton Street, lasted only…
By last year, the vacant restaurant space at 410 East Seventh Avenue was beginning to take on an odor, an invisible miasma of failure that was blamed on everything from the economy to the parking situation to the weird little jog that Seventh Avenue takes coming off Broadway — but…
I don’t know what it is with me, but lately I’ve just been loving everything. Even places that I probably shouldn’t. Even joints that have nothing whatsoever going for them except that they were there when I was hungry and/or thirsty and/or badly in need of a little whiskey and…
There is almost nothing I can say about this that wouldn’t get me picketed. Direct from the PETA website at www.peta.org: People don’t seem to like fish. They’re slithery and slimy, and they have eyes on either side of their pointy little heads–which is weird, to say the least. Plus,…
Just got word from a sharp-eyed tipster in the 17th Avenue neighborhood that something appears to be going on at Aix. Or, more to the point, nothing seems to be going on at Aix. I hit this place, which won our Best Taste of Provence in 2007, a few weeks back…
Happy anniversary to Blue Ocean Asian Cafe! The restaurant, located at 8101 East Belleview Avenue in Greenwood Village, was purchased by current owner Guodong Hong in January 2008, but has managed to keep the same chef, Ji Gang Li, and the menu is relatively unchanged since Jason Sheehan’s review…
The sandwich: Lucky’s Pizza Sub What’s on it: Ham, pepperoni, provolone and parmesan, marinara, green peppers, black olives on a toasted roll Where to get it: Mr. Lucky’s Sandwiches (711 East Sixth Avenue, 303-861-5825) How much: $6.95 A pizza sub is a rare find, and I have been looking online…
Boulder-based Eco-Products, a company specializing in sustainable and environmentally friendly food-service ware, has unveiled its newest product: a biodegradable cup lid! Incredibly, it’s the first of its kind in North America, now making it possible to compost your entire coffee cup. Steve Kurowski, marketing manager of Eco-Products, has this to say about…
Bhakti Chai, a micro-brewed, fresh-pressed ginger masala chai tea company, has released a limited edition version of its chai: BARACKTI Chai, in honor of a certain someone who was just inaugurated. Brook Eddy, founder and owner of the Boulder-based company, simply added a shot of AA+ Kenyan coffee to the…
When a good friend returned from her semester abroad in Australia our junior year of college, she brought with her something that would forever change our lives: Arnott’s Tim Tam biscuits. They seemed simple enough in concept–a chocolate sandwich cookie, filled with chocolate cream, and enrobed in more chocolate–but there was something about…
Looks like the new year has claimed another casualty. There’s no answer when you call Maxwell’s — an American Brasserie, an ambitious, upscale eatery that occupied a stand-alone space at 7340 South Clinton Street in Englewood. If and when Maxwell’s reopens, the owners might want to do some fast proofreading…
It took me a minute to shake off the triple-vision I was experiencing, but once I did, I saw the wisdom in not screwing around too much with the bones. This space has been refined and re-refined a lot over the years. Doomed owners have dumped barrels full of money…
Fat Daddy’s — the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook — was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen + Bar, which was done in by — well, who knows what.But now the…
If — like more than one person here at Westword — you’re mildly obsessed with the slices of glory being shoveled from the oven of Sexy Pizza, some mildly good news: The small pizza joint, at 1018 East 11th (near the mini Whole Foods), has finally replaced its old Pizza…
Jason Sheehan wasn’t bowled over by Second Home, which opened last March in the old Mirepoix space in the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. And now Peter Karpinski, chief operating officer of Sage Restaurant Group, has announced that Jason Rogers is the new executive chef at Second Home, with Anton…
