Don’t put on your dancing shoes yet, Creekers. After an epic, hours-long liquor-license hearing March 25 at the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, Michael Olsen’s plans to put a version of his Hush nightclub into the subterranean space at 250 Steele Street seem doomed. Olsen has until the close…
Wes McKinley has always done his civic duty — even if those in power might quibble with how he defines it. Twenty years ago, the rancher/teacher from Walsh was the foreman of the federal grand jury that wanted to indict eight individuals for environmental crimes at Rocky Flats — but…
Readers are using their noodles when dishing up alternatives to our list of the “Five best dishes of mac and cheese in Denver” — a category in which Tom’s Home Cookin’ took top honors in the Best of Denver 2011. What about Rackhouse? What about Delite? And, above, all, what…
Curses collide! No sooner does the Best of Denver hit the street every year than, almost inevitably, one of our picks meets with disaster. This year, the apparent victim is our Best Breakfast Under $2 — which we gave to Gordo Loco, a burrito/burger joint that opened early this year…
For decades, Westword readers have voted for McDonald’s as the spot where you can find the Best French Fries. That’s just one of the many reasons why the annual Best of Denver issues always emphasize our editorial picks. Another reason: The readers generally pick Taco Bell for Best Taco. Democracy…
Ted Conover isn’t a Denver native — but he’s as close as an Evil Companion has come. Born in Okinawa, he moved here with his family when he was four, graduated from Manual High School, and “I still think of Denver as home in many ways,” says the author, who…
A new Marco’s Pizza is about to open in Northfield Stapleton. No, not a branch of Osteria Marco, Frank Bonanno’s restaurant in Larimer Square. And not another Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria. Next month, Nick Costanzo will open a Marco’s Pizza at 8286 Northfield Boulevard; it will be the sixth Marco’s Pizza…
No matter who becomes Denver’s next mayor, it looks like the winning candidate will inherit a tidier, if more pissed-off police department — and he or she will have interim mayor Bill Vidal to thank. Vidal might have had second thoughts about his decision not to run for mayor himself,…
Want to run a restaurant in Five Points? Here’s an ad from Craigslist: Newly renovated and ready-to-go restaurant/bar facility is looking for an owner/operator to run an upscale TACO BAR concept. Located in the heart of Denver’s up-and-coming Five Points/Whittier/Curtis Park neighborhood. Facility already has existing liquor license in place,…
People love looking at food. Food they might possibly make for dinner, food they’ll never get close to — like this “Altitude-high food porn from the Taste of Vail.” That’s why pictures of food are often labeled “porn,” as in Laura Shunk’s “Food Porn: Pizzeria Basta” post that accompanied her…
At their meeting last night, Denver City Council members wore orange in honor of their colleague, Carla Madison, who died last week. But Madison was not just in their hearts and thoughts: She was on the agenda, because people are lining up to run for her seat — even as…
People have already forgotten,” Shirley Garcia says. “They can’t forget what’s there.” Garcia never will. When she and her husband moved from Texas to Jefferson County thirty years ago, they bought a house in the Countryside development – and the realtor handed them some papers to sign acknowledging that they…
The history hunters gathered under the giant statue of Yogi Bear, armed with maps and metal detectors, in what had to be one of the strangest mash-ups ever: Hanna-Barbera meets barbarism. The crew had convened on April 2 at Jellystone Park Camp-Resort, a franchise of the national chain located just…
Last Friday, Denver District Court Judge Edward Bronfin stuck former Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang with a six-year prison sentence for the shooting death of Lloyd Running Bear, who’d come to the restaurant to collect a football gambling bet from Yang — who shot him five times. Convicted…
Westword staff writer Joel Warner recently had a big night out with his wife and three-year-old son — not at Chipotle, their regular family haunt, but at Frasca Food and Wine, which just won Best Front of the House in the Best of Denver 2011 (as it has several years…
Last week Cafe Society served up six Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the skull art at the revived El Charrito to the lamb tongue soup at House of Kabob to this colorful serving of chips and guac. For correctly identifying them as coming from Table Mountain Inn, the appropriately…
Across town this weekend, people were mourning the loss of Denver City Councilwoman Carla Madison, not just the council’s most colorful representative, but also one of its active and involved, always appearing at community events, even as her cancer advanced. And now there will be an event in her honor…
Here’s your chief’s hat, what’s your hurry? With many of the mayoral candidates saying that Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman should go — and Whitman himself saying he would resign if asked — some people, including the author of today’s Denver Post editorial, are calling for the next mayor to…
Dive right in, the water — and beer — is fine! Our list of the town’s Five Best Dive Bars — starting with the Kentucky Inn, winner of the Best Dive Bar in the Best of Denver 2011 — has fans of dive bars and definitions alike plunging into the…
Let the good times roll! Lucile’s Creole Cafe has now brought a taste of the bayou to Littleton. The fifth link in a chain that started in 1980 in Boulder, then added Fort Collins and Longmont, and stretched to Denver in 2005, is now in the south suburbs, too, occupying…
The comments about Denver’s Five Best Burgers are still sizzling, and now people are getting hot about our Six Best Pizzas, adding five of our favorites to Pizzeria Basta, winner of the Best Pizza in the Best of Denver 2011. No Enzo’s? No Oven? At least Lipster was polite about…
Carla Madison, who died on Tuesday, wasn’t just Denver City Council’s most colorful member. She wasn’t just the most likable, someone who’s inspired an outpouring of heartfelt comments and fond memories. She might also have been its hardest-working, the go-to choice when there was a special job that needed to…
