From the bluffs of Highland, looking down over the Platte Valley and downtown, there’s a new feature on the horizon: the temporary tents housing Cavalia, now in the Pepsi Center parking lot. But rather than bringing up thoughts of circuses, the silhouette is a reminder of Denver International Airport, and…
While food trucks are still on a roll in Denver, several brick-and-mortar restaurants opened in September — with many more slated to open in October. But the Denver dining scene also lost some notable spots, too. Our restaurant roll call for September:…
“Newt is the New World Order!” cried a persistent protester who’d positioned himself in the middle of the balcony at the start of last night’s talk by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in Denver last night. The protester and a few of his pals were quickly ejected, and…
Finally heard from the Counter — not from an official for the California-based company, where I’d left my message early Tuesday morning, but from a PR representative who’d read my post on the quick closure of the Park Meadows store. “They’ve closed the location, and don’t have any plans to…
If you have a hankering for the food cooked up by chef/owner Jeff Osaka at the almost-two-year-old twelve, head there tonight — because tomorrow, the restaurant at 2233 Larimer Street will close for an eleven-day “break to rejuvenate.” Until twelve reopens, appropriately enough, on October 12, you can get a…
Karl Rove has spent much of the last week in Colorado: stumping for candidates, pontificating in Aspen — “Moscow in the Colorado Rockies” — and addressing the Colorado Committee for Heritage last night, where, in assessing the current campaign season for the conservative crowd, he called this state’s gubernatorial race…
The Counter, part of a California-based chain, may not have been able to cut it in Colorado, but the homegrown Smashburger continues to smash the competition. Since it got its start at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard in June 2007, the company has grown to eighty stores, with hundreds more on…
“There’s a sucker born every minute,” P.T. Barnum supposedly said That includes all those suckers who still believe the stories about how Barnum, the founder of the Greatest Show on Earth, which rolled into town yesterday, called Denver home over a century ago…
Tavern Hospitality Group just broke ground on the project that will debut as Tavern Littleton in April 2011. Last year, THG owners Frank Schultz and Terry and Al Papay purchased a building and lot at 2589 West Main Street in the heart of the historic district, where they plan to…
Another one bites the dust: Arapahoe Junction, a longtime breakfast/lunch/happy-hour/cheap dinner hangout at 1805 Arapahoe Street, has gone dark, and its phone is disconnected. No word yet on what will happen with this ground-floor space, which also has a spacious patio…
The Counter created a big buzz when it opened two years ago in the new Vistas at Park Meadows development. But now it has apparently closed very, very quietly. Although the restaurant is still listed as a dining option on the Park Meadows website, the Colorado location has been wiped…
The week started with Tom Tancredo wiping out on his motorcycle. It ended with him effectively wiping Dan Maes off the political map with a September 26 fundraiser that attracted more than a thousand people to the Grizzly Rose — among them Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Duane Chapman,…
Last week, Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests (not including our seasonal green chile category), featuring everything from this still-unidentified sea urchin roe (sorry, not Long John Silver’s) to a champagne cocktail at Capital Grille to some unexpected tacos. For correctly identifying them as coming from the new…
Now, in the center ring, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper is about to get a chance to show mercy to elephants — even if, as the Democratic candidate for governor, Hickenlooper has Republicans on the run in Colorado (with a major assist from the sideshow of Tom Tancredo’s candidacy)…
The already-extended Civic Center Eats will hold its last Tuesday event of the year next week — but the fun isn’t over yet. “Starting in October, we will be shifting to a much smaller-scale version, but on a daily basis,” explains Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, director of the Civic Center Conservancy…
The first six weeks at Euclid Hall were one wild ride, culminating in chef/owner Jennifer Jasinski being named Denver Magazine’s Chef of the Year — and then the restaurant doing 600 covers last Saturday, as Great American Beer Festers left the convention center and headed down to 1317 14th Street…
Scott McInnis collected $300,000 for his “Musings on Water,” but this one is free. Denver may be a landlocked city, but a river still runs through it — and the transformation of the South Platte River from a stinky stream to a true urban amenity is one of this city’s…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
Kristen Stillman does not cry. The tears were beaten out of her early on — as was any hope that someone might listen to her, rescue her, during those twelve hellacious years she was held prisoner at the house in northwest Denver where her mother had left Kristen and her…
Some people want to give money to Kristen Stillman. Others want to set up a nursery for the child she’s expecting, or write letters to the governor asking for her child-support bill to be forgiven. And a few past and present residents of the 2500 block of Irving Street would…
Cafe Society is off to Dish, Westword’s annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, which debuts tonight in its new location at the Exdo Events Center, 1399 35th Street. We hear there are a few general admission tickets left; they’re $40 at the door, with a portion of the proceeds…
The outpouring of support for Kristen Stillman, the survivor of horrific abuse who first told her story in the September 9 issue of Westword, has been amazing. Many, many people want to know how they can help her, and I thought a follow-up that will be published here today would…
