Key of gee whiz! Merton hits the mall tonight

The artist-outfitted pianos that the Downtown Denver Partnership placed on the 16th Street Mall last November were such a hit that ten of them returned this summer for a command performance. And while they were initially supposed to stay there just through June, the gig kept getting extended, and extended…

DINR cooks up a new brand as EatDenver

Colorado produce is continuing to pour into local farmers’ markets, but EatDenver is already reaping the benefits of the recent Harvest Week, when its 55 members offered special deals and meals to celebrate this state’s homegrown products. And EatDenver definitely qualifies as one of those — even though for the…

Restaurant roll call for August

While gourmet trucks and other mobile food outfits continued to roll out in August, a number of brick-and-mortar establishments opened their doors, too. Keep reading for our list:…

Food Wars gets sloppers in Pueblo tonight

Gray’s Coors Tavern and the Sunset Inn go head to head — make that slopper to slopper — tonight on Food Wars on the Travel Channel. A slopper is a messy delicacy unique to Pueblo: an open-face cheeseburger served in a soup bowl, and covered with red or green chile…

What’s the smallest joint in Denver? A reader needs a little help

A little help, please! A reader just made this fascinating request: “I’m organizing a night with my wife involving all things tiny. We are renting a Smart car and hopefully trying some of Denver’s smallest food and drink establishments. Unfortunately, a Google search has yielded very little information, so I…

Garbanzo opens its eleventh restaurant tomorrow, parties tonight

Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a homegrown chain founded by Alon Mor in 2007, will open its eleventh Front Range restaurant tomorrow at 2466 South Colorado Boulevard. And today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Garbanzo is partnering with the National Sports Center for the Disabled on a private, pre-opening fundraiser at the…

Panzano dinner reaps an EatDenver deck for Harvest Week diner

Harvest Week is over, but the eating will continue for Tom Ward, who won an EatDenver deck for his mouth-watering description of a Harvest Week dinner at Panzano, which you can read here. Tom, send your address to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send you the deck, with $520 worth of discounts…

Harvest an EatDenver deck for Harvest Week

Although EatDenver’s Harvest Week — a cornucopia of special menus featuring Colorado’s produce and products at Denver’s independent restaurants — just ended, there’s still one last course to serve up: a DINR deck, which gives you $520 in discounts at members of Eat Denver (formerly known as Denver’s Independent Network…

Guess where you’re eating? At an EatDenver restaurant, if you’re VB

Cafe Society served up just three Guess where contests this past week (our apologies for the hellish computer glitches that affected the comments functionality), ranging from this late summer salad to some still-unidentified carne asada fries to these barbecue sauces. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jabo’s, VB wins…

The Cabin on Broadway is back on the block

The building at 2479 South Broadway that briefly housed the Cabin on Broadway — and Old Tyme Dawgs & Drafts before that, and the Blue Walleye before that, and Mike’s Great Divide before that — is back on the block, locked up tight with a broker’s sign in the window…

Second Street Art Market and Wine Bar drying up

Heather and Doug Buchman are closing down their Second Street Art Market and Wine Bar in Monument. “The time has come for us to move forward from this experience and do more of what we do best,” they report. The wine bar will remain open through Saturday; after that, they’ll…