Reader: Palace Arms should be embraced over Inverness

After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…

Westboro Baptist Church to take on the East High Angels?

Sadly, it’s too late to block the border. By now the professional picketers from Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps’s “god-hates-fags” group, have likely made their way from Kansas to Colorado, where they’ve announced plans to picket two Jewish General Assembly meetings downtown today. They’re also threatening to show up at…

Reader: Peanut butter is best enjoyed at home, like this…

The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…

Reader: Naming the best Chipotle is an intriguing idea

What’s your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. “When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food,” Ells told Gold. “They have to cook. At…

Initiative 300 goes down; local restaurateurs savor their victory

Initiative 300, the paid sick-leave proposal on yesterday’s ballot, would have affected just about every business in Denver — but restaurants became the real poster child of the campaign, on both the pro and con sides. The Yes on 300 campaign used scare tactics — including pictures of cantaloupes on…

Reader: City, O’ City’s new menu is a winner

After a month-long renovation and expansion project, City, O’ City reopened in September to both raves and rants from fans of what had been a casual hipster hangout, and is now twice as big and much more polished. Veggie Girl had loved the original City, so she was a little…

Harold Camping to end end-of-the-world predictions?

Harold Camping has predicted the end of the world three times — and each time, the ninetysomething Boulder native has struck out. Most recently, Doomsday did not arrive on October 21. Five months earlier, the Rapture did not occur on May 21. And there were earlier botched Camping forecasts, which…

Reader: Curt Fentress wasn’t horsing around when he built the big top

Suspicions confirmed! At last night’s town hall meeting on the art program at Denver International Airport, consultants who’d interviewed hundreds of DIA travelers, and studied 1,600 online surveys, revealed that the most loved — and loathed — piece of art at DIA is Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang.” But they also documented…

Aspen’s Winterskol slogan falls flat, contest is resurrected

There’s no business like snow business. Aspen has been celebrating Winterskol, its “toast to winter,” since 1951, as a way to perk up the dull weeks after Christmas. But while the 2012 Winterskol is still months away (it runs from January 12-15), discussion of the upcoming event has been anything…

Hey, lady! Dia de los Muertos Procession tonight

Now that Halloween’s over, we can get on with the real holiday: Dia de los Muertos. The official day is November 2, but the festivities kick off at 5:30 p.m. tonight when the Dia de Los Muertos Procession y Danza will take off from Columbus Park at West 38th Avenue…

Reader: Scary airport artwork won’t fly!

Love “Mustang,” the blue horse that stands guard outside of Denver International Airport? Loathe it? Tell DIA officials all about it tonight, when the airport and Arts & Venues Denver host a DIA Art Master Plan town-hall meeting at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, from 5 to 7 p.m…

Just say neigh! Town hall on airport art master plan tomorrow

Quit horsing around! It’s time to come clean about how you feel about the public art at Denver International Airport, a collection that includes everything from Gary Sweeney’s beloved “America, Why I Love Her” to the loved, and loathed, “Mustang,” aka Blucifer, the devil horse. From 5 to 7 p.m…

Guess where you’re eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you’re

Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, ranging from a meaty Friday night dinner at Frasca to a still-unidentified avocado margarita to clam linguine at a relatively new strip-mall Italian joint. For correctly identifying the dish as coming from La Scala Trattoria , Erinlstilwell wins an EatDenver…