Back in 1985, when the Aguirre family opened Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe at 33rd and Tejon, the neighborhood was looking a little run-down (to be kind). But just as the restaurant has grown, and the Aguirre kids have grown up, so has the neighborhood — and today, it’s the hottest…
Restaurants were filling up before six yesterday as Denverites got out in the good weather and into the good deals at Denver Restaurant Week. We’re collecting diners’ stories about Denver Restaurant Week here, and after it ends on March 11, we’ll award EatDenver decks to the two people who share…
A week ago, I was watching the sun rise at the Garden of the Gods — a stunning experience that, if marketed right, could start a tourism stampede to Colorado…
While you’ll find many of the meatier comments on our ongoing Denver Restaurant Week post (best DRW story wins an EatDenver deck), people are still talking about the beef (or lack thereof) at Taco Bell, which now has an ad with employees touting the 88 cent Crunchwrap Supreme. “The only…
While Denver has been enjoying unseasonably warm days, punctuated by the occasional plunge far below zero, snow keeps piling up on the East Coast. Faced with mounds of white stuff, my sister and her school-break kids booked a trip to escape winter — where else but Colorado?…
When John Hickenlooper moved from the Denver City & County Building across Civic Center Park to the State Capitol, he found a message from his office’s previous occupant posted on a painting by the governor’s desk. “I will be easy to find,” said the note from Bill Ritter, who’d drawn…
Image isn’t everything — but appearances count when you’re trying to market a state. Colorado already has a head start with its scenery and a colorful governor who’s a walking sound bite; here are three other ideas guaranteed to raise this state’s profile, if not its revenues. 1) A state…
Local eateries have learned to expect the unexpected during Denver Restaurant Week — but the surprise hit Ototo Food and Wine Bar Friday night, even before DRW got under way: The kitchen crew noticed smoke coming from a duct. The fire department was called, and eventually, they traced the source…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests, featuring everything from the new cold bar at Lola to a still-unidentified new suburban sushi bar to a can of Strongbow at a local watering hole. For correctly identifying the bar as the Kentucky Inn, Jeff wins an EatDenver deck…
John Hickenlooper’s appearance on ABC’s This Week yesterday wasn’t nearly as warm and fuzzy as his holiday gig on the same network’s Good Morning America two years ago. This time, he was part of a em>roundtable of four “top” governors taking on the country’s budget crisis and big labor pains…
After Amber Taufen penned her “open letter to cranky carnivores”, the flip side of her “open letter to militant vegans,” Steve put things in perspective: If you think being Vegan is hard, try having kids allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and sesame and also trying to give them healthy non-animal…
Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened the first Mi Cocina in northwest Denver. Three years later, he sold that location and opened Mi Cocina Mexican Restaurant in Littleton; he added Mi Cocina Express in 2007. And last March, 25 years after Sierra registered Mi…
The ink was barely dry on Carmelo Anthony’s $65 million deal to play for the New York Knicks when NYC’s iconic Carnegie Deli added a sky-high sandwich devoted to Melo to its menu. “We put bacon on there, because we hope that Melo will bring the bacon back to New…
The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers — a good…
When the Colorado Press Association was in town for its annual convention this past weekend, Visit Denver, the convention and visitors’ bureau, took advantage of the concentration of journalists to host a cocktail party featuring Colorado beer, Colorado wine and Colorado spirits. And while press folk have the reputation of…
Pinnacol Assurance, the quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance fund, dodged a bullet last year when the legislature backed off on a proposed $500 million raid of its reserves to help fill budget gaps. But now Governor John Hickenlooper has nominated a critic to the Pinnacol board who’ll be the proverbial fox…
While comments continue to fly over Rush Limbaugh’s response to Michelle Obama’s visit to Vail and Amber Taufen’s open letter to militant vegans (148 comments and counting), some readers are fed up with controversy. If you can’t stand the heat, get back in the kitchen. That’s what Scubasteve did, getting…
The holiday decorations at the Denver City and County Building weren’t always such an orgy of bad taste. Back in 1935, just three years after the grand building was completed, the city hired muralist Louise Emerson Ronnebeck to create a 76-foot-long Christmas painting — a Nativity scene that fit into…
Although Denver Restaurant Week has signed up 295 participants, the Wynkoop group of restaurants — which includes Cherry Cricket, Gaetano’s and Wazee Supper Club — are all sitting this round out. As Marty Jones, spokesman for the flagship Wynkoop Brewing Co., points out, the $52.80-for-two deal that’s the hallmark of…
Should Rush Limbaugh have commented at all on Michelle Obama’s visit to Vail — much less suggest that the First Lady, who has made childhood obesity her major cause, had no business eating short ribs? And did Cafe Society have any business getting into this political food fight? The answer…
Attorney/urban-homesteading activist James Bertini didn’t even get the cease-and-desist letter the Dervaes Institute sent to other urban-homesteading groups, bloggers and publishers. Instead, he found out on February 14 that Facebook had disabled the page for his year-round, indoor farmers’ market (Westword’s Best Farmers’ Market in 2010) because its name, Denver…
The news this past weekend was shocking: The owners of the Rocky Mountain Diner, a fixture in downtown Denver for two decades, had been unable to come to a lease agreement with the space’s owner, attorney Frances Konciljia, and on Friday had gotten an eviction notice: The restaurant had to…
