JOSH RADINWith Laura Jansen and Cary BrothersBoulder Theater | February 28, 2011 “The Radin audience is an audience that loves music,” said Laura Jansen in the middle of her opening set. And, I would add, chick flicks, even if, like me, they’d vehemently deny that under oath. But only the…
While I nursed a glass of cheap house red at the Gaetano’s bar, I watched neighbors cycle in to pick up their to-go orders. First came a couple in running gear, talking with a little too much enthusiasm about how great their workout was. They were replaced by a young…
By the time our entrees arrived at Carmine’s on Penn, I had a nearly irrepressible urge to turn to the next table — a gaggle of beefy men who’d just sat down — and explain that we three relatively normal-sized women had not come in to eat like pigs. We’d…
It’s that time of year again: Russian River is shipping out small batches of Pliny the Younger, the rare triple IPA with ridiculous ratings and a fervent cult following, to the handful of lucky establishments. Westword’s Beer Man will have the full scoop on that tomorrow — and details on…
After being sued for false advertising on the grounds that its taco filling didn’t contain enough beef to be called “beef,” Taco Bell filed a countersuit, gave away ten million free tacos to Facebook fans and took out full page ads all over the country to explain that the beef…
The legal side of the business is not the romantic part of running a restaurant, but it’s also unavoidable. And because Messner& Reeves LLC deals with those issues on a daily basis, the Denver-based law firm is now dishing up its insight on Restaurant Law Blog, helping Colorado restaurateurs (and…
Get ready, Denver, because a blizzard of frozen yogurt places are about to hit the market. According to Jen West at Foothill Commercial Builders, her company alone is currently building more than a dozen. Two of those are slated to become outposts of Nella’s Frozen Yogurt, a brand-new, Colorado-based brand…
Need a quick pick-me-up? Skip the Red Bull; how about a shot of stallion semen instead?…
Here’s a quick way to earn free food: watch a 90 second ad for NBC’s America’s Next Great Restaurant on Facebook, and get a coupon for a buy-one-get-one burrito at Chipotle…
While Boulder is experiencing an explosion of wood-fired pizzerias — Pizzeria da Lupo and Pizzeria Locale opened within a few weeks of each other, in December and January — Kelly Whitaker was here first. He’s been hawking Napolitano-style pies, with a focus on seasonal toppings, at Pizzeria Basta in the…
I’ve been in a carnivorous mood, so after eating my fill of Louisiana-style ‘cue at Jabo’s Bar-Be-Q and trying the suburban outpost of Yazoo, which takes its inspiration from Memphis, I headed to Five Points to visit a barbecue legend in this city: M & D’s Cafe…
It’s full speed ahead for Leonard Cordova and Bubba Chinos. The restaurateur has four or five more locations in the pipeline for spring, and two new stores just opened today. One is at 88th and York in Thornton. The other is in the University Hill food court in Boulder, a…
In 2000, brothers Abe and Pierre Dagher closed Cedars, a Lebanese joint on Federal Boulevard they’d owned for fourteen years, and went their separate ways, exiting the restaurant industry for other trades. But now they’re back together — and back in the business: In mid-January, they opened Shawarma Mediterranean Grill…
Sauce is a condiment. In my opinion, it’s optional.” So says Don Hines, who owns Yazoo Barbeque Company, located in a strip mall across Arapahoe Road from the barbecue joint where Jabo Lawson makes 125 varieties of sauce. Though the two restaurants are just yards from each other, they’re on…
I played a lot of hooky in high school. Especially during sixth period, an unpalatable world geography lesson that started, somewhat inconveniently, right around noon. So I frequently used this 47-minute time slot for an entirely different kind of geographical education: exploring the culinary landscape of the Denver Tech Center…
I used to frequent Jabo’s Bar-Be-Q back when it was a three-day-a-week cart operation, feeding hordes of Tech Center lunchers and hooky-playing high-schoolers in a vacant lot off I-25. And I loved the joint, both for the food coming off the mobile smoker and for Jabo Lawson, the jovial man…
In June 2008, Richard Betts, one of the handful of Master Sommeliers in the state of Colorado, ended his eight-year run at the Little Nell, saying he was retiring from restaurants forever. Since then, he’s moved his base to Boulder, where he’s gotten into both wine production, with Betts &…
Fun fact: Today is National Margarita Day. And while February seems like a strange month to celebrate tequila mixed with lime (the margarita tastes like summer to us), we’ll happily use this as an excuse to suck down one (or three) of the cocktails, especially since today’s weather is almost…
Michelle Obama spent her Presidents’ Weekend without the president and with her daughters in Vail, where she skied, dined and managed to get the conservative media so riled up they called her fat. We know that the First Lady has made battling childhood obesity her personal cause — but we…
On Saturday night, the building at Eighteenth and Pearl in Boulder that now houses both Frasca Food & Wine and Pizzeria Locale was a frenzy of gastronomic activity: Both restaurants seem to have hit their post-expansion stride. And when we stopped by for a little Barbera, we also got a…
When we compiled our list of restaurants that have been in business, and run by the same family, for forty years or more, we missed one of the longest-standing Italian venues in the city: Pagliacci’s Italian Restaurant. Although it’s a baby by the standards of the Blue Parrot, that’s still…
We were sitting at Pizzeria Basta’s bar today, sipping the very first glass poured from the restaurant’s very first keg of the Infinite Monkey Theorem Sauvignon Blanc — a wine we didn’t need a score guide to tell us was taut, citrusy and perfect for spring — when we had…
