After reviewing Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli , Laura Shunk rounded up four more of the town’s superlative sandwiches for “Denver’s five best spots for sandwiches.” Readers served up their own favorite shops, including Snarf’s (a Boulder institution now open in the Spire), Udi’s, the Old-Fashioned Italian Deli, Marczyk’s Fine Foods…
The fight over the current urban homesteading movement can sometimes seem as heated as the battles between homesteaders and cattle ranchers on the frontier 130 years ago. And the feathers will be flying tonight at Denver City Council chambers, as members consider putting a chicken in every plot…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, featuring everything from a sidewalk bloody Mary at Gallop Cafe to a great bowl of Pueblo green chile at Diego’s Mexican Food and Cantina. And in between, we stopped off at a new food temple for this dish of mussels,…
It was a little too early to dive into the vats of margaritas that this new Mexican joint mixes every day, but it’s never too early to dive into a bowl of green chile, especially one that’s pungent with Pueblo chiles. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone…
Dry with an unexpected splash of everything else! That’s what Lori Gray thinks Colorado tastes like, and that entry in our Cocktail Cocktail contest just won her two tickets to the two-day Colorado Cocktail Project, which will be pouring out wisdom — and drinks — at the Museum of Contemporary…
As a teenager, Michael Hancock told Channel 4 that one day he wanted to be Denver’s first black mayor. Wellington Webb beat him to that title, but still, Hancock made history with one of the strangest-ever starts to a mayoral term. He was elected to the office by a huge…
Every week in Chef and Tell, Lori Midson serves up a heaping helping of wit and wisdom from a local chef. Some work for big national outfits, some are struggling in their own tiny kitchens, but they all share a love of food — and serving that food to Denver…
It started with a simple question: New York has the Manhattan, Kentucky the Mint Julep. But does Colorado have a defining cocktail? (Besides craft beer, that is.) Months later, our mission to determine what this state tastes like is about to culminate in the Colorado Cocktail Project. On June 26,…
For this week’s reviews, Laura Shunk visited two old standbys in Denver’s hottest new restaurant neighborhood: Carbone’s Italian Sausage Deli and Lechuga’s. The description of the area prompted this from Steve065: You called it northwest Denver instead of Highlands! For those of us who grew up here, it was always…
When I picked up the Denver Post yesterday, with the big headline “Nothing incriminating in Hancock cell records” across the top of the front page, I was quickly transported back to the first edition of the Cornell Daily Sun I helped edit, when the night editor insisted the headline on…
“Can I quit now?” Michael D. Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, e-mailed an aide as the waters were rising around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit. “Can I go home?” Soon enough, he did – but not before President George W. Bush made Brown a permanent punchline…
It was 25 years ago today that Pat McGaughran and twin brothers Andre and Stephen Mouton opened their first Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant in Fort Collins. Since then, the chain has grown to six stores along the Front Range, all serving those killer margaritas whose recipe is still a secret…
Today is the deadline to vote for the next pick in the One Book, One Denver program. Your options: Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Jef Otte wasn’t thrilled by the choices, following in…
While East Washington Park is in a tizzy over the Brown Dog Pizza liquor-license application (the very long, very big hearing was Tuesday night; the city has not yet made its decision), West Washington Park is debating what Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub might do to that bucolic stretch…
How did Colorado’s “Second Largest Industry” perform in 2010? We’re guessing pretty well, since that’s the header regarding the latest Longwoods Report, an industry analysis of Denver and Colorado tourism. But then, this industry has a secret weapon: Governor John Hickenlooper…
The Upper Larimer area may be hot today, but for pure aesthetics, it’s hard to beat a time in the ’80s when the area at 31st and Larimer streets was home to CORE New Art Space, the Sullivan-Bisenius Gallery and, right upstairs, three studios occupied by Dinnie Sherman, longtime Westword…
Beer here! A recent transplant from Portland, Oregon, found Colorado Beer Man’s comparison of the Denver beer scene to that of Portland. And in this newcomer’s view, Denver’s not the winner. Here’s the bad beer news from Smtidongaoryboo: Just moved here from Portland, completely disagree with this article on the…
The city has removed the porta-potties from Sunken Gardens Park — but the smelly temporary toilets weren’t the reason that neighbors were raising a stink. Over the last month, there’s been an influx of heroin dealers in the area…
Brown Dog Pizza, an outfit out of Telluride, wants to put a pizzeria into a former auto-repair shop at 1001 South Gaylord Street — and supporters and opponents alike have their engines running for today’s liquor-license hearing. It’s set for 6 p.m. at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building, 201…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from tacos al pastor at Toluca to a big burger at the Trinity Grille to this great bar in a historic mountain town. For correctly identifying it as the Gold Hill Inn, BigBoy325 wins an EatDenver deck. Follow…
Local boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone made good — very, very good — last night when the former University of Colorado students won nine Tony awards, including Best Musical, for The Book of Mormon. But while they were embraced by the traditional theater community, they showed some of the…
Our post on a bar tab for the “dirtiest slut you have ever seen” quickly veered into a discussion of whether automatically adding a tip — as Trios Enoteca did on a three-drink check — is a dirty, slutty practice. Here’s the take from anon: I’ve worked in the service…
