If your company has canceled its holiday party because of the economy, there’s still hope! Loews Denver Hotel will be giving away a full holiday party to a local small business. To enter, a business manager must create a DVD or YouTube video explaining why his or her company should…
Don’t feel like mashing potatoes, thickening gravy and overcooking a turkey this year? There are a few restaurants in the Denver area that will be doing the hard work for you. We’ll be updating this category — and another with places serving the needy. If you know of others,…
Tough times have hit the Denver location of the Santa Fe Tequila Company. The restaurant, at 901 West 10th Avenue, has closed temporarily, according to its website, just about a year after opening and just five months after a review in Westword. But a manager at the restaurant’s…
Seriously, dude? Canned crab? What the fuck was Hosea Rosenberg thinking? For those of you who missed the most recent episode of Top Chef: New York, let me catch you up. The chef-testants had to cook New American for fifty. The catch? They had to do it from the kitchen…
Incredible Berry Crunch! Disney Magic Selections Rating: Two spoons out of four Cereal description: Yellowish, puffy corn and oat squares accompanied by rough orbs that appear in four different colors more typically associated with ink than food: blue, purple, red and green. There’s a name for this kind of stuff:…
For the not-so-thrifty holiday shopper, Marczyk Fine Foods has just the thing: black and white truffles. I just got word from Barbara Macfarlane that the store at 770 East 17th Avenue has taken in a shipment of white truffles from Alba and Burgundy blacks — right in time for the…
With fall upon us and turkey day fast approaching, I’ve started to think of some of my favorite, festive holiday treats. Candy canes? Sure. Pumpkin pie? Love it. Pecan pie? Yum. But none of them belong on the Candy Girls blog. Luckily, I found out that Godiva Chocolatier makes truffle…
Pay this forward. “You might think, only in a place called Loveland could generosity pour out in the form of a Vente café latte,” the TV news feature begins. Yup, just in time for the holidays, and to cheer everyone up during the recession doldrums, comes this story from KUSA…
Gobble this, turkey! Spinelli’s Market 4621 East 23rd Avenue 303-329-8143 Turkey Cranberry Gouda House turkey, cranberry sauce, smoked Gouda, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise on a croissant, and served with a pickle $7 Spinelli’s Market has to be one of the best, least known, most wonderful places in Denver. A family-owned…
The concept behind Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery sounds like a concept whose time has come. It’s designed to be almost a Native American Chipotle, with an emphasis on healthy, local fare. But while Tocabe sounds like a concept whose time has come, it’s also taking its time. The owners…
I’m a hopeless romantic and my one true love is food — so when it betrays me, I am especially hurt. On Monday I ambled into my local Whole Foods (which is the equivalent of a candy addict going into a candy store or a porn addict into a porn…
After work, I often need a drink. Since I’ve been working at Westword, my after-work watering hole of choice has been Dazzle (930 Lincoln Street) — which not only offers $4 specialty cocktails during happy hour, but great food options at $5 a pop. But what really makes Dazzle stand…
If you were the person you’d always wanted to be, would you look like this? Suddenly, Lowell Boulevard is becoming a very hot restaurant street. First, of course, there was the much ballyhooed transformation of the old Billy’s Inn at 4403 Lowell into the very cool, very hip Billy’s Inn…
Yesterday we took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to visit The Cooler, a bar/restaurant at 2045 Sheridan in Edgewater that not only has a great outdoor patio with a view of Sloan’s Lake, but an unbeatable gimmick: Every beer — and there are lots of them available — comes…
For photos from inside Beatrice and Woodsley, see the slideshow at westword.com/slideshow A room inspired by the story of two lovebirds: Beatrice, the life-loving daughter of a French wine-making family who relocated to California in the early 1800s to create a small vineyard. And Woodsley, the handsome and crafty son…
I know: Small plates are supposed to be dead, right? A fad. Last year’s news. And yet one of the most notable new restaurants in the city (Beatrice & Woodsley, reviewed this week) is doing small plates. And one of the best expansions of the year — Delite, which Dylan…
In this week’s Westword, Jason Sheehan reviews Beatrice & Woodsley, the new (and gorgeous) restaurant on South Braodway. To further whet your appetite, we’ve got two slide shows: one from inside the Beatrice & Woodsley kitchen and dining room, and one from South Broadway itself, where a growing collection of…
On Thursday, November 20, on Whole Foods Giving Day, 5 percent of all purchases made at the Capitol Hill store at 900 East 11th Avenue will benefit SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue. According to the Whole Foods website, that store “has been an integral part of the Denver…
Dwayne Clark just opened his third Davies Chuck Wagon Diner — this one inside a Howard Johnson’s at 12100 West 44th in Wheat Ridge. I remember the days when every HoJo’s had its own restaurant, but the chain has not fared particularly well through the ups and downs of this…
Chef Pete List welcomes you to Beatrice & Woodsley. After dark, Beatrice & Woodsley glows. The windows, tinted gold, show a dreamlike version of the interior. The interior shows a dreamlike version of a restaurant that’s supposed to be a cabin in the aspens that is really the fancy of…
Merle’s is holding its grand opening celebration tonight; the restaurant occupies the former home of Merle’s Alignment at 2609 West Main Street in Littleton. We hear the kitchen will be serving classic Americana dishes, and one of the owners came from Terracotta…
(Photo from izakayaden.net) In light of the recent departure of chef Gabe Stallone from Izakaya Den, I decided I’d better get back there and see whether the crew he left behind was capable of turning out food as fine as it had been under Stallone’s command back when I reviewed…
