Just as traditional as its tackiness is the duration of the annual holiday display at the Denver City and County Building: Mary, Joseph, the Baby Jesus and that weird Santa Helper Hoedown always stick around through the Stock Show, to stun and amaze every visitor to town. But not this…
While Denver readers are busy recommending their 100 Favorite Dishes, Seattle is still slamming Jason Sheehan, the Cafe critic who left Westword a year ago, but just returned to one of our hometown heroes for his review of Chipotle in the Seattle Weekly. Seattle apparently doesn’t love Chipotle (or Sheehan,…
Alert! The winners of the contest will be revealed next week. In the meantime, Anika: Please contact me at patricia.calhoun@westword.com Happier new year! When the clock struck twelve, did you strike out? Time to enter our “My Worst New Year’s Eve” essay contest! Leave a comment with your miserable memories…
The second round of 100 Favorite Dishes really got readers’ engines running. Yesterday, Jonny Hamel raved about the mac & cheese from Walt’s Mobile Bistro: One fateful First Friday on Santa Fe, I ran into a fruitful dilemma. Which Denver mobile food truck should I try? Denver Biscuit Boys, Steubens,…
Denver’s holiday display wasn’t always such an orgy of bad taste. Back in 1935, just three years after the Denver City and County Building was completed, muralist Louise Emerson Ronnebeck created a 76-foot-long Nativity painting for its pediment — a painting that has since gone missing. What grinch stole this…
Lori Midson just started serving her second round of her 100 Favorite Dishes yesterday, but readers are already dishing up plenty of their own favorites. And then David stirred the pot by giving the Italian wedding soup at the Squeaky Bean, Midson’s first pick, a fail for including cheese…
A former bar owner will be moving into the governor’s office at the State Capitol — so it only makes sense that a bartender will be soon be serving as chief of staff of the House Democrats, now the minority party. Paul Weissmann has been both a state senator and…
Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act was revised to protect pit bulls as service dogs, critics have been snapping at Denver’s 1989 ordinance that bans the breed. But last night, Denver City Council brushed aside both the critics and the feds in upholding the ban. And that bites!…
Los Gallitos, a colorful taqueria at 2630 West Alameda Avenue, already serves some of the town’s most authentic — and cheapest — tacos. But they’re even better when enjoyed while watching kids get burro rides outside an inflated castle, the scene we snapped on Saturday…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, with dishes ranging from the pork al pastor at El Taco Velez to lobster at JJ Chinese Seafood to the fried chicken above, which you can find at Green Russell. For correctly identifying the the dish as coming from that…
A campaign to change the name of Commerce City fell flat back in 2007. Will the current back-to-the-future attempt to rebrand the town’s 917-acre Prairie Gateway — home of the Commerce City Civic Center as well as Dick’s Sporting Goods Park — as Victory Crossing even the score?…
Former Westword scribe Jared Jacang Maher has more good scoop on the city’s deal — or lack thereoff — with the Wellshire Inn, the facility at a city-owned golf course that isn’t bringing the city a penny. In fact, the concessionaries who have the contract on the Wellshire — a…
Man does not live by shred alone. As a public service, we’re sharing this query from a reader: Goin skiing in colorado next week stopin in denver to get some breakfast!! What is a good spot to get some gnarly breakfast??????????????? Laura Shunk came up with this list of five…
Bah humbug. On Wednesday, while I was inside the Denver Motor Vehicle office renewing my plates, my car parked outside on Welton Street was ticketed — for expired plates. Yesterday, I visited the parking referee — and here’s some free advice that will cost me $75: Do not expect mercy…
Yes, the Buckhorn Exchange boasts liquor license number 1 — but that’s because the venerable restaurant was first in line after Prohibition ended in 1933, when new liquor licenses were issued. The oldest saloon in town is My Brother’s Bar — city registries indicate that 2376 15th Street was a…
When I pulled up in front of the Denver Motor Vehicle office on Welton yesterday, the parking lot was full and the line was spilling out the front door. With what looked like a long wait ahead of me, I loaded the parking meter to the max. Good news: an…
Two weeks ago, the merger of local Rock Bottom Brewing with the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch brewpub chain formed one of the largest craft-beer-focused companies in the country: Craftworks Restaurants & Breweries. And now, as we reported earlier today, another big deal in the works: The Wynkoop Restaurant Group, which started…
An’s Lemongrass Grille on West 32nd Avenue is now dark.The An’s Lemongrass Grille in Highland has gone the way of its downtown counterpart, and is now closed — reportedly to be replaced by a third Park Burger. Read our roster of other restaurant openings and closings in November here…
Lori Midson’s post on the Yelp review of Lou’s — written more than a month before Lou’s scheduled opening — prompted this comment from frequent critic Carly: Westword’s Cafe Society is on the cutting edge of BREAKING NEWS once again!!! Because this blog is sorely in need of exciting content:…
There were many changes in the Denver dining scene last month, with two homegrown chains adding outlets, a couple of national chains entering the market — and some definite one-of-a-kind restaurants opening. Read on for our Restaurant roll call for November:…
The riot of shepherds and reindeer and snowmen and candy canes and an oddly large cow, not to mention Jesus, Mary and Joseph, appears on the steps of the City & County Building every November, and protests inevitably follow. But Scrooges miss the real question: Why is Denver’s Nativity scene…
The Mayan Theatre marks its eightieth birthday tonight — and the survival of the art deco theater is indeed something to celebrate. There were times when it didn’t seem like the Mayan would make it to the millennium, much less become the city’s premier arthouse — complete with a bar!…
