Denver is awash in beer — and in opinions about beer, about Jonathan Shikes’s suggestion of five ways to freshen up the Great American Beer Festival, and about Laura Shunk’s list of the area’s five best tap rooms. No Liquids and Solids? No Amato’s Ale House? And what’s Denver Beer…
We’ll always have Paris. Paris on the Platte will be celebrating its 25th anniversary all weekend, with two days of music and memories starting at 8:30 p.m. tonight, and continuing tomorrow. In anticipation of the celebration, DT has already shared his memory of learning to smoke at Paris, right before…
Denver is blessed with many great restaurants — some modest, some considerably more ambitious — and yesterday, Kendra Anderson served up six moderately-priced restaurants that happen to have very impressive wine lists. Their wine lists night be “super cool,” but the rest of the post’s headline was not…
And the verdict is in: Justice may occasionally be blind, but it is not deaf. Called up for jury duty this week at Denver District Court, I got a quick canned lesson — via a video narrated by Ed Sardella — of our civic duty, backed by a real lesson…
The tables are tall, the Wrangler-wearing drinkers taller, and the tales taller still at this classic dive. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday, we…
The stretch of Platte Street that heads up from 15th Street is one of the hottest restaurant areas in town, with Sushi Sasa swimming in business since it opened six years ago, Colt & Gray packing in the crowds since it joined the scene in August 2009 and Denver Beer…
Pity the poor Rocky Ford cantaloupe, vilified across the country even though the listeria-inducing culprit actually came from Jensen Farms, a third-generation family operation in Holly, almost a hundred miles away from Rocky Ford. But those farmers of southeastern Colorado have little recourse. Even though Colorado is the only state…
Conspiracy or coincidence? President Barack Obama will be returning to Denver on Tuesday, September 27 — just four days after a major Homeland Security terrorism-emergency exercise in this city. And already, the web is running wild with conspiracy theories that Obama is coming here to 1) avoid Comet Elenin, or…
The gang’s all beer, now that the town is filling up with hops-heavy events in honor of the Great American Beer Festival, just a week away. But while the GABF is popular, does it need a makeover? That’s what Jonathan Shikes suggests in “Five ways to freshen up the Great…
Lori Midson is off on a mouth-watering mission: She’s winging her way to New York City, where she’ll attend tonight’s dinner at the James Beard House being prepared by the Five — which now comprises ten local chefs. The Five concept got its start in 2008, when Leigh Sullivan decided…
First, Denver places thirteenth on Travel + Leisure’s list of the best American cities for foodies, then LivingSocial ranks it as the eleventh-best dining city overall. When you drill down in the results of that survey, which queried 4,000 people in twenty top cities, you find some interesting observations –…
Talk about a veiled threat! On Saturday, a bride emerged from a LoDo salon hours before her scheduled nuptials in the mountains, only to find a Denver boot on the Range Rover that a friend had borrowed so that they could arrive at the ceremony in style. Now we’ve got…
Did you miss the chance to get in on the ground floor of Chipotle, back when Steve Ells opened his first fast-casual burrito shop on East Evans Avenue? You’ve got another chance with ShopHouse, the Asian fast-casual concept that Chipotle rolled out last Thursday in Washington, D.C. Here’s the take…
Last September, I told the story of Kristen Stillman. She’d survived incredible horrors while imprisoned in a home in northwest Denver, where her mother had left Kristen and Will, her twin, when they were just eight. Eric Torrez, the head of that household, tortured the twins, raping Kristen and fathering…
Oinks! advertised itself as “American style BBQ,” but its ribs smacked of St. Louis. And that’s where you may have to go to get ribs as authentic as those served at Oinks, not to mention barbecued tofu. Because this East Colfax Avenue barbecue joint closed up after the end of…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, including a great breakfast at Hash, another great breakfast at the Local, and one of Lori Midson’s worst meals ever. For identifying the offending plate shown above as coming from Kiki’s, KB wins an EatDenver deck…
Does the City of Denver boot vehicles on weekends? For years, scofflaw drivers felt safe parking their too-many-ticket cars all over town on Saturday and Sunday. But we recently learned from the Department of Public Works that the city will indeed boot cars on Saturdays. And this weekend, a booted…
Travel + Leisure just released its 2011 roster of this country’s best American cities for “foodies” — and New Orleans came out on top of the 35 major metropolitan areas considered in the annual America’s Favorite Cities survey. (New Orleans also ranks as an endangered Food Heritage site; read more…
Local restaurateurs are feeling sick about Initiative 300, the Paid Sick and Safe Time proposal that will be on the Denver ballot arriving in mailboxes next month. At an EatDenver meeting Wednesday, independent restaurateurs talked about how many of them already offer paid time off for their employees — but…
Last year, billionaire William Koch bought Buckskin Joe for $3.1 million, and moved the buildings to his private ranch outside Gunnison. But now you’ve got another chance to buy an old-timey Colorado town… if Koch, who also dropped $2 million on a Billy the Kid tintype, isn’t there with his…
After almost fifteen years, Dixons Downtown Grill shut its doors at 1610 16th Street on Labor Day, leaving a 9,200 square-foot gap on the 16th Street Mall. But it also left behind some good memories: of employees dancing on the bar at closing on that last Saturday night (“and no…
Tom Colicchio — or a reasonable facsimile — will guest star on The Simpsons later this month, which inspired our look back at some of the great Simpsons food scenes. Wonders Wratha: How could you not include any scenes from the episode where Homer is a food critic? The “low…
