There were major developments on the local dining scene last month, including the openings of ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro and EDGE, the reopening of Frasca Food & Wine — and the closing of Zona’s Tamales after forty years. Our restaurant roll call for October:…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still-unidentified squash salad to a cup of hot chocolate at the Corner Bar at the Boulderado to a bowl of mac and cheese. For correctly identifying that cheesy, creamy mac as coming from Tom’s Home Cookin’,…
Think this campaign season has been messy? The all-mail August primary created an unprecedented amount of confusion with voters who assumed a November 2 ballot would arrive in their mailbox. Get a clue: If a ballot hasn’t been delivered, it’s not coming. But you can still vote. And in this…
I was at Lotus of Siam, one of Lori Midson’s favorite restaurants in the world (and she’s right — too bad it’s in Las Vegas), eating and catching up on my Westword reading, when I found this report by Michael Roberts on a Thai restaurant group much closer to home:…
The Aguirre family was not having a good month. They’d temporarily closed the 25-year-old Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe — once the only restaurant in what’s now a hot-hot area of Highland — on September 20, hoping to do a week or so of much needed mechanical updates. But at the…
Jeff Peckman, who spoke to Westword last week about a rash of recent UFO sightings, waited a long time to get his proposal for Denver to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission on the ballot — but the time might finally be right for Initiative 300. Because in this crazy Colorado…
Oh, brother! The battle between My Brother’s Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants — one of which is the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, at 2376 15th Street, the other a link in a Wisconsin-based chain that took over the former…
A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens this morning at 5260 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood (the building was previously a Black-Eyed Pea), but the line started forming yesterday. That’s because for the past seven years, the Atlanta-based company has celebrated every store opening with the First 100 Celebration, giving the first…
Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Hickenlooper has kept to his vow to keep his campaign positive. Had he decided to go negative on Tom Tancredo, though, he would have found no shortage of material on the American Constitution Party candidate: Google “Tancredo” and “controversy” and your computer starts smoking…
Channel 7 recently stopped by the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, to talk to Jill Warner and Erick Roorda, the owners of Mod Livin’, about the neighborhood dispute that’s gone “ballistic,” as Roorda says, since they opened Deluxe Burger with restaurateur Dylan Moore, then launched the Little Orange Rocket…
After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue — a giant maimed chicken — near the McDonald’s on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. City officials should be lovin’ it. The…
The battle between My Brother’s Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants — one the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, the other a link in a Wisconsin-based chain — met with a magistrate last Friday and arrived at a deal…
The scene last Friday was off-the-planet crazy — appropriate enough for a city considering a proposal to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission. But Initiative 300 is far from the wackiest item on next week’s ballot. After all, there’s also the election of the next governor of Colorado. The Denver Botanic…
Politics makes strange truck-bed fellows. Four years ago, Helen Thorpe, a veteran Texas political reporter who’d married John Hickenlooper and moved to Denver in 2002, was a passenger in Tom Tancredo’s tan Chevrolet pickup, touring the part of northwest Denver he called Tancredoland, where he’d grown up — and where…
Steele Platt is back in the Denver restaurant business. The 1982 graduate of the University of Denver opened several restaurants/clubs in the Tivoli — including Kahlua, EFEX and the Boiler Room — back in the ’80s, before the old brewery became the student union for the three colleges on the…
Judging from the comments posted after Friday’s update on the neighborhood campaign against Mod Livin’, the mediation session Thursday night only heightened hostilities. Erick Roorda and Jill Warner — owners of Mod Livin’ and partners with Dylan Moore in Deluxe Burger, the retro restaurant that opened in a corner of…
After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue — a giant maimed chicken — near the McDonald’s on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking and wing-flapping, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. The city should be lovin’…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still unidentified duck dish to green chile at Little Anita’s to this Italian grinder found at a surprising spot. For correctly identifying it as coming from Kaos, EJ wins an EatDenver deck…
The truck stops here: The mediation session last Thursday was supposed to calm tensions around the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, a stretch of asphalt that’s only improved since Erich Roorda and Jill Warner opened Mod Livin’ nine years ago. But that was before the Little Orange Rocket threw…
Last night, the owners of Mod Livin’, the hip retail store that has slowly transformed a grimy stretch of Colfax since it opened nine years ago, met with cranky neighbors at a city-sponsored mediation session. The neighbors weren’t there to praise all that Erick Roorda and Jill Warner, who own…
The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, at 1881 Curtis Street, hosted a gathering in the lounge of Elway’s Downtown last night to celebrate the hotel’s AAA five-diamond rating — the first Denver hotel to achieve that status in the 37 years of the awards. The timing was also sparkling: The Ritz got the…
The horrors that Kristen Stillman has endured in her short life are beyond imagining: abandoned at the age of eight by her mother, raped repeatedly by the man she was left with, bearing four children fathered by her rapist before she was twenty. And then the final injury, one far…
