Before Coors Field opened in 1995, a group of hearty baseball/bar fans took a field trip to the neighborhood around the ballpark, drinking in one of the oldest parts of town, an area that would inevitably change. We started at the bar at the Nisei post on Market, which later…
Decades ago, when marketers started touting “the television family,” they were talking about all the network people who’d show up in your living room every day…
In New York, people are yelping over Yelp’s Elite Squad, “the most passionate Yelpers that makes our community so funny, useful and cool.” And poorly behaved, according to recent reports on the bad behavior of Elite Squad members. Those reports inspired Jenn Wohletz to write about the “Top five most…
The Ale House at Amato’s was all lit up last night, displaying its new neon sign to the neighbors while wining (or beering) and dining some friends inside. But while the place looks ready to go, there are a few details to work out — and so the official opening…
Gordo Loco is fast gaining a reputation for its fast, filling 98-cent breakfast burrito, which it starts making at 6 a.m. every morning. But Gordo Loco offers many other burritos, including the monstrous El Diablo that was featured at its grand-opening celebration last Sunday, a month after Gordo Loco opened…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a still-unidentified (and superlative) mac and cheese to soba noodles at Bones to the huge dessert plate pictured above. For correctly identifying it as coming from Virgilio’s Pizzeria and Wine Bar, KM wins an EatDenver deck…
Hush founder Michael Olsen’s attempt to get a liquor license for 250 Steele Street — where he’d like to open a more adult version of Hush, geared to the Cherry Creek crowd, in the former home of Tambien — has met with some opposition, leading to a many-hour-long hearing last…
Tom Tancredo is busy these days. He just wrote the April Fools’ edition of Ask a Mexican. He has a real new job, as a marketing exec with a local investment company, so that others won’t lose their nest eggs to a Bernie Madoff character, as he did. He’s repairing…
Restaurants have a tough time making a go of basement space, and the 250 Steele Street address has been a particularly black hole. Although Bistro Adde Brewster had a long run there, the spot has since swallowed up French 250 and a couple of Mexican joints on one side (Ondo’s…
Five restaurants debuted in as many days this week (and is that a record?): Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern, TAG|Raw Bar, Row 14, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dog’s and Hideaway Steakhouse. And while all of them are welcome additions to the Denver dining scene, Hideaway, which chef Chris Cina opened Wednesday in…
This was not going to be the year that the legislature poured its time and energy into fixing this state’s arcane liquor laws. These old laws still have big brewers making watered-down beer for sale in convenience and grocery stores in Colorado — one of only five states that still…
As mayor, John Hickenlooper frequented the gourmet food trucks that parked outside City Hall for Civic Center Eats. Now Denver City Council representative Carla Madison, as head of the city’s truck task force, is overseeing a study of the rules governing the operations of those trucks. She hopes to have…
Sean Kenyon is back from one of his many trips as this state’s premier alcohol ambassador, pulling together the final details of the Colorado Cocktail Contest and offering some advice about making margaritas — just in time for the warmer weather. Who makes a great margarita in Denver? Here’s Mantanot’s…
The mayoral race is finally heating up, not because of TV ads, but because robocalls are burning up the phone lines — of those Denver residents who still have land lines, at least. I heard a recent message from James Mejia too late for “Denver-made” breakfast at his headquarters, but…
Journalist Tamara Banks has made four trips to South Sudan; she returned from the latest just twelve days ago. And at 8 p.m. tonight on “Sudan: The World’s Newest Country,” a special episode of Studio 12, Banks will lead a panel discussion on recent events in Sudan, as well as…
With the warm weather rolling into Denver, can a fleet of gourmet food trucks be far behind? Last year, the truck trend took the town by storm — but by the end of 2010, things were looking stormy, with Sean and Denon Moore complaining that their Denver Cupcake Trucks had…
The pot-for-food campaign seemed like such a smart idea to do some good and get some attention: Urban Cannabis, a medical marijuana dispensary on South Downing Street, would give away pre-rolled joints in exchange for customers donating canned goods to local food banks. Between March 1 and April 20 (a…
A couple of restaurants in town are now listing items that diners can order for the back-of-the-house, including a six-pack for the kitchen crew, in order to further enhance their meal. In a post about these new drink-list requests yesterday, Laura Shunk wondered if this trend was charming — or…
In the years that Westword has published Savage Love, author Dan Savage’s savagely funny, very smart weekly sex column, I’ve been fascinated by the seemingly buttoned-up Denverites who always turn to his page first to see what he might be saying about butt plugs, for example, or who ask me…
Over the past week, Ototo Food and Wine Bar, Izakaya Den and Sushi Den have raised over $50,000 for the Japanese Red Cross. Each of the restaurants will have donation buckets out for the rest of the month, so that diners can make direct contributions to relief efforts. But from…
Two very new, very different restaurants are winning raves. The first? Troy Guard’s TAG|Raw Bar, which opened yesterday in the newly remodeled Walkway at Larimer Square — a few months behind schedule, but definitely worth the wait. Here’s one assessment of the debut lunch: it was sooooooooo good. felt super…
Denver parking enforcement never sleeps — as those who take advantage of the new overnight parking option downtown will soon know all too well. I have the evidence: a ticket issued at 4:24 a.m. last Monday. The violation? Parking on the curb. On about six inches of the curb, judging…
