The sandwich: Italian Sub What’s on it: Mortadella, capocollo, Genoa salami, tomatoes, olives, banana peppers, red onion, lettuce, provolone and Parmesan on a demi baguette with Italian vinaigrette. Where to get it: Tony’s Market (950 Broadway, 720-880-4501) How much: $7.99 with chips and cookies; less without Tony’s Market opened to…
Far be it for me to question to the message of Denver Water — “Use Only What You Need” — or its toilet mascot, who attends events around town, flushing that message down. But it seemed a little excessive when the toilet, fresh (so to speak) off a visit to…
The Blues & Brews festival on Old South Pearl Street was one hell of an outdoor party Saturday, with blues bands jammin’ from noon to 10 p.m. and the stumble-close residents of the Wash Park and Platte Park neighborhoods tripping — or riding the abundant pedicabs — from bar to…
Silos. The word brings to mind grain. Grain and nuclear warheads (at least if you lived through the Cold War). But in booze-happy Colorado, silos will soon mean something else. In Longmont, the Oskar Blues Brewery is getting ready to debut its second restaurant, Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids & Solids,…
It’s not about winning. It’s about fun. Especially when you get your ass handed to you both by Denver’s monthly lifestyle magazine, 5280, and by the Tambien Beer Pong girls, who use every asset to their advantage. If Westword had won, it would have been about winning and fun. But…
The sandwich: Invesco Park What’s on it: Chicken breast, caramelized onions, melted pepper jack cheese, lettuce and tomato, homemade red pepper mayo on oven-roasted focaccia. Where to get it: Intermission Café (444 17th Street, 303-825-0515) How much: $5.49 Having a bad day? Take a break. Boss yelling at you? Pause…
I saw this bumper sticker affixed to a light pole outside a brewery in a little mountain town last week, but the brewery wasn’t Rosie’s Brewpub and the town wasn’t Leadville. Instead, someone had decided to celebrate Rosie’s, which closed May 30, just a few feet from the front door…
Cans of Breckenridge Brewery’s Avalanche Ale began rolling out of the plant this week and into liquor stores, just in time to catch the heart of the summer season. Breckenridge, which is borrowing its canning line from Ska Brewing Company in Durango, will also supply concert venues, golf courses and…
Denver will get a new tap house later this summer when Eric Warner opens the Rackhouse Pub in the building recently purchased by Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. Warner, the former head of Flying Dog Brewery (which moved from Denver to Maryland in 2008), says the place will have fifty beer handles…
After two months of moving – and twelve- to fifteen-hour work days – Jess Graber, Jake Norris and the rest of the Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey crew are just about up and running in their new digs inside the former Heavenly Daze Brewery at 200 South Kalamath Street. And they’ve leased…
Colorado has plenty of homegrown fast-food and fast-casual chains to keep locals happy. There’s Chipotle, Qdoba, Smashburger, Einstein Bagels and Quiznos just to name a few. But Coloradoans also love their California fast food, and we’ve made some gains in the past few years, including a couple of new Del…
If you think it’s time-consuming to maintain your own Facebook page, imagine how Mayor John Hickenlooper must feel. The guy’s got nearly 5,000 “friends” — or at least he will until the end of the day Tuesday, when they will all become simply “fans.” “I am deleting this personal profile…
Spotted: The BroncosBus in a strange, off-season hideout on shady Fairfax Street near Eighth Avenue across from Christ the King Church. The glorious orange and blue BroncosBus (“the product of a few friends’ collective love for Denver Broncos football,” according to the website, www.BroncosBus.com) can be seen at every home…
Prickly Pete’s, which bills itself as Denver’s “newest outdoor sports bar,” opened June 16 at 5151 Leetsdale Drive, in the space formerly occupied by Oli’s Café. And what is an outdoor sports bar? The main qualifier appears to be a massive patio that seats about a hundred people. That patio…
As the sun dives toward the mountains west of Denver, the critters emerge from their shady hiding places at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge and pose for pictures. Well, they don’t pose, exactly, but there are certainly plenty of deer, coyotes, bison, prairie dogs, hawks and owls around to…
The sandwich: Cee-Lo What’s on it: Country ham, turkey, bacon and Swiss on French toast-battered, waffle-grilled potato bread Where to get it: Lakeside Waffles (4335 West 44th Avenue) How much: $7 I’ve got two words for you: guilty pleasure. Or how about: hangover cure. Either one fits the Cee-Lo, a…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new-urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their…
What better place to enjoy two of the greatest fruits of our earth — grapes and hops — than in a garden? And while you won’t find either crop growing at the Denver Botanic Gardens, you can celebrate them anyway at tonight’s Garden Grapes & Hops — a party featuring…
The sandwich: Hawaiian Express What’s on it: Ham, pineapple ring, cheddar, lettuce, tomato and mayo on choice of bread Where to get it: Katherine’s French Bakery, Café and Catering (728 South University Boulevard, 303-282-5888) How much: $7.95 If you don’t do it Hawaiian style, you’ve never done it Hawaiian style,…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby,…
The Beer Clothing Company, the Central City firm that graced the world with its (patent-pending) Beer Buckle, has landed a contract with Boston Beer (the maker of Sam Adams) to manufacture Beer Buckles branded with the Twisted Tea logo. The Beer Buckle is a genius creation: a belt buckle that…
No, it’s not a mirage. What you’re seeing really is a small, grassy island on the west side of Washington Park’s Smith Lake. Installed earlier today, the man-made floating isle is part of pilot program that the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Denver Parks and Recreation hopes will help restore…
