A fourteenth hopeful has entered the Denver mayor’s race, and we’re disappointed we had to read about Gerald Styron’s candidacy somewhere else first. As Facethestate.comreports, when Styron was a write-in candidate for then-incumbent Rick Garcia’s District 1 City Council slot in 2007, he asked a Westword editor if he had…
The news that Brickyard BBQ has closed made more than one reader wonder if the Berkeley neighborhood now has more restaurants than it can support. Writes Claudia: Two BBQ restaurants was probably to much for the Berkeley neighborhood. It’s just to bad it had to be Brickyard that went and…
The town’s biggest business trend last year — the fleet of gourmet food trucks rolling into Denver — also gave rise to some of the biggest rumors: The city was trying to keep trucks out of downtown and cut off our cupcake supply, some whispered, and even worse, the city…
Two nearby spots in northwest Denver are offering diametrically opposed cold-weather deals. At Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe, 2005 West 33rd Avenue, Rosa Linda Aguirre has decided to fight the cold by making homemade chicken soup — and the rest of the family is volunteering to deliver your meal to you,…
We just published the Restaurant roll call for January, a compendium of new places that opened last month, as well as old places that closed. A few familiar names both closed and opened, after taking time in late December or early January for vacation or remodeling, or both. Among the…
I first stepped into Denver at Union Station. A group of families had taken the train out from Chicago for a ski vacation, and the kids had commandeered the dome car — where, early the next morning, we woke to our first glimpse of the mountains. By breakfast, we’d pulled…
Our “Ten beers to stop drinking by 30” project flowed from a thirsty, beer-thirty, Friday afternoon discussion in the office. The post has inspired numerous recommendations and comments, including several wondering why PBR, which became so hip a decade ago, did not make the list. To which Nate 5280 responded:…
Tomorrow we’ll post our monthly Restaurant Roll Call, chronicling the spots that opened and closed in January. Eleven months from now, we’ll compile all those Roll Calls into a comprehensive look at the past year, just as we did with our 2010 Restaurant Roll Call. To create these lists, we…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a pair of milk shakesat Park Burger to a pan of sizzling shrimp at Farro to this suburban meat and cheese platter. For correctly identifying Wine & Cheese Restaurant and Wine Bar, AM2011 wins an EatDenver deck…
In the fall of 2009, Denver City Council rep Charlie Brown realized that the city had to get a handle on the booming medical marijuana dispensary industry — and even as the Colorado Legislature was just starting to discuss MMJ, Denver was signing off on its ordinance. But now the…
An Alabama law firm has a beef with the amount of meat in Taco Bell’s tacos, which has set off a stampede of claims, counterclaims and an opportunistic campaign by Mercy for Animals,, which is suggesting that the chain solve its problems by going vegan. Which prompted this from sararoxyoursox:…
We were a little disappointed not to see John Hickenlooper in his ’80s-era red ski outfit when he welcomed the Snowsports Industries America show to town with cowbells yesterday. “What do you think of my new duds?” he asked, showing off his jacket. Frankly, it seemed a little sedate for…
“Let’s make sure we all understand what the rules are before we change them,” said Denver City Council president Chris Nevitt, after a council committee had been discussing the rules now regulating this city’s food trucks for over an hour. “Are you confident you know exactly what the rules are?”…
Gourmet food trucks were the surprise hit of 2010 — by December, over 150 mobile food vendors had been licensed in Denver, which almost put the movement on par with the medical-marijuana dispensary business. And like dispensaries, the food trucks have been causing some headaches for the city — and…
For over a decade, Little Anita’s — the Colorado outpost of a New Mexico group — was a go-to spot for vegetarians hungering for meat-free green chile. But sometime last year, the five Little Anita’s restaurants in the metro area started making both their red and green with beef stock…
Gourmet food trucks were the biggest trend of 2010. But by the end of last year, a few of these enterprises had run into roadblocks set up by the city’s confusing rules and regulations; a couple of the trucks had ground to a halt entirely. To untangle some of the…
Numerous food trucks report running into roadblocks set up by confusing and sometimes contradictory rules; a Denver City Council committee will discuss those rules at a meeting at 1:30 p.m. today. In the meantime, fans are hopping on the bandwagon to support the biggest trend of 2010, in hopes that…
The president was not the only Obama to make a speech yesterday. Michelle Obama was at the Library of Congress celebrating the tenth anniversary of National Mentoring Month. My father didn’t know it was Thank Your Mentor Day when he took his mentee, Byron, to his suburban Chicago Rotary meeting;…
On January 15, in the middle of National Mentoring Month, my 85-year-old father was looking for his mentee – a hunt that took him into the heart of Cook County, Illinois, and a jail system that makes Denver’s look like Club Med. Byron had been raised by a single mom…
A recent immigration-status audit in Minnesota resulted in the Chipotle operations there letting a number of employees go. “Let me be clear, if it were up to us, we would keep all these people,” Chris Arnold, director of public relations at the Denver-based Chipotle told Laura Shunk. “They’re dedicated, hardworking…
Colorado has incredible beauty, a colorful governor, and smart residents (and readers) who would prefer that tourists (especially Texans) stay home and wonder “Why do you need to spend money to advertise something that is timeless?” And although it doesn’t have an ocean, it will soon have an IKEA, down…
On a visit to the nearby Tony’s Market one day, we found a flier for a “meat bundle,” and were instantly intrigued by what that might be. So intrigued, in fact, that we decided to throw a little meat-bundle contest and let readers come up with their own definitions…
